Final Project Proposal

For my final project I plan on making a series of tiles inspired by Islamic tile design. I plan to relate this to my overall body of work, which is an attempt to represent music through painting. In my more recent painting projects I have been exploring the concept of breaking the canvas up into different pieces and using small canvases placed together to form a larger painting. I feel the tile design project would be a natural extension of this idea, and would give me the opportunity to explore these concerns through ceramic design and help further my experience in dealing with the depiction of music through visual art. I plan on focusing much of my attention on the carved lines in the tiles as well as colors in glazing to achieve a musical quality yet still adhere to a symmetrical design.