home+is+wherever+i'm+with+you

Above is my inspiration for this piece. One day I was perusing Pinterest and came across the jewel above. I immediately fell in love with it because of the black and white contrast and the fact that it was a big zentangle. I presented to my teacher that I make an outline of North Carolina and do zentangles on the inside of it as the design. I went a step further and said that once I was done with the piece I wanted to cut it out and place it on black paper. It took about two weeks to design the inside of the state. I tried really hard not to get frustrated or lazy with the intricate detail of the design, something that was easier said than done. When I was finished designing, Litz said that I should leave an eighth of an inch of white paper around the piece so it didn't become too washed out. Next she suggested that it would be fun to cut out a second North Carolina, in the same size as the piece i colored. She thought it'd be nice to mirror image the state, however I wasn't happy with that particular idea. In the end, I'm very happy that I ended up cutting out the second state. Once I had the states laying the way I wanted on the black matte board, I noticed that there was a lot of black space that wasn't activated, and having had four years of art class, I knew that if those spaces weren't activated, Litz wouldn't accept it. So, Logan and I google searched "Songs about North Carolina" and made a list, listened to them, and finally settled on "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. I chose the line "Home is wherever I'm with you" and used that to activate the piece. This is definitely one of my favorite pieces that I've done. I'm very proud of the way it turned out.

