Erica Lampe created several digital drawings exploring different themes. Her initials drawing used rotated letters to represent figure and ground reversal simply. Her "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" interpretation used the standard Times New Roman font in an unconventional context. Her mandala incorporated elements of water and air, drawing inspiration from Hurricane Sandy.

1. erica l. lampe
drawing with type
beauty of culture - modified

2. exquisite corps
mandala of water and air
13 ways of looking at a blackbird

3. plié In this exercise I wanted
simplicity; with my initials
From culture to culture
the image of beauty varies.
“E” and “L”, I found it dif- When I first began my image
ficult to represent figure search I was solely think-
ground reversal without ing about very “primitive”
the drawing looking as tribes’ view of beauty in
if I creatively placed the modifying their bodies, but
letters. My solution to as I went further, I came to
this problem was to use a question our culture. We’re
rotated lower case “e”. closer than you think.
In interpreting “13 ways of I wanted to incorporate
looking at a blackbird”, I the elements of water
used only Times New Roman and air into my mandala.
font because I thought With hurricane Sandy as
since it is generally a stan- a prominent current event
dard font for papers, it while working on this
would be interesting to see project, I used aspects of
the font used in a different the hurricane as inspira-
context. tion for both water and air
elements.
relevé
for the variations project, this image is an autobio-
I repeated the same image graphical representation
in a grid of 3 x 3 images that portrays a sense of
then I placed the original tension and delicacy at the
image over the grid layers same time. It is successful
and changed the opacity; in the illusion of seeing a
in doing so I attempted to pigure before or after see-
combine the idea of varia- ing the image as feet.
tions of one image with a
collage of many images to
make a whole.