Sweet Nineteen
In this piece titled Sweet Nineteen, Jozef is questioning his experience with maturing into young adulthood, and losing a lot of young innocence. With extensive research in gratitude, Jozef has come to the understanding that toddlers are often the most free and uncaring people. As Jozef has gotten older, He’s noticed that frame of mind would help a lot in daily struggles young adults go through. So with that, in this piece he is using different elements from his childhood in which he is trying to question how these innocent, free feelings can often be killed as you age and yet cannot be reversed. Jozef studied his childhood drawings, fish and messy poems were a repeating subject, he wanted to explore this relationship of childhood drawings compared to his new matured style.
This piece was featured in the Stamps Undergraduate juried shoe linked here: https://stamps.umich.edu/work/102691
Unused
As a freshman here at University of Michigan Stamps Jozef has had a few in person classes and it's a very weird experience getting acclimated to college. Jozef decided to show the emptiness of these spaces that we are seeing daily. This is a mixture of an interior study and imagined space as I wanted to exemplify these indifferent feelings right now (fall 2020). This is a good representation of these confusing times that all of us are going through.
This piece was featured in the 2020 Stamps undergraduate Juried show, linked here: https://stamps.umich.edu/work/23979
Frank Lloyd Wright Palmer House
This was a video- portrait of the FLW Palmer House in Ann, Arbor, Mi. This home is immersed in the forests of the arboretum, a frequent part of this architects home. Jozef wanted to portray the intricate beauties of the home and how it is so immersed in nature.
Charcoal Exploration
These Pieces were created int he Fall of 2020 when Jozef was first starting in Stamps, and he was new to using charcoal, and drawing realistically. These three examples were various charcoal exercises he did throughout the fall. This work was challenging because most of his work is more stylized and abstract, but laying this foundation was essential for the work he would later do.