Melissa Pugh2021-06-222021-06-222021-05http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11989/9807Author's thesis statement: Through watercolor and colored pencil, I will be exploring the concepts of time, mortality, and emotions through the cycles of nature. Continuing with motifs of plants, bones, and animals, I want to express and celebrate the brevity of life and illuminate how death is necessary in that process. Throughout my life, I have had a spiritual appreciation for death, understanding is as part of the cycle of reincarnation, as a part of living, and as the peace before the next life’s journey. I want the forms I render to reflect the complex and wonderous pattern we all follow as we experience our lives and the peace that comes with embracing death as a part of living.