Color pencil on bristol board
Taylor's abstract drawing depicts a smudged pastel background of green, purple and pink colors. The drawing is a small square, approximately 8X8 inches. In the vertical center of the drawing there are top boxes. A top with a black center and the bottom with a red center. The boxes are both surrounded by black blurred outlines that encompass the shapes in the chaotic background. Both squares seem to sitting in a birds nest safely nestled in their black boarders. The top box, a bluish blackish color, could represent the blueness of the moon, while the red box represents the sun.
The emotions tied in with the colors boarding the boxes show chaos and wild color. The background displays bright colors that contrast with the two black boxes. The red could also represent a passion and love for something, but the bluish blackish is darker and more menacing. The two boxes could also represent life and death. Red, the color of blood could represent life, while black, the color of decaying flesh, can represent death. Life and death are both encompassed by boarders. I now notice the boarder surrounding the "death" box is somewhat distant to the box, while the red boarder closely encompasses the red box. The boarder's could be protectors for the beings in the chaos of the real world. I see the red box as a representation of life and life being closely connected to its conscious (the black) boarder and its ability to shield itself from the outside world. The "death" box's black boarder is farther from the black box. Death cannot shield itself from the outside world and has to face natural decomposition without a close shield; thus it's shield is more distant from the box and more precise because death does not have to incorporate itself in the real world, but it is still there.
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