My recent work has been a study of objects that come of some importance to me, and how those objects are translated through the shadows they cast onto surfaces. Through tracing the shadows of these objects, I am able to create an entirely new composition that is virtually unrecognizable from what it is in reality. These compositions have allowed me to explore not only the shapes that these objects can make, but how my body interacts with them, and in the end creating a portrait of myself in a new way.



Joy Blazofsky is a fine arts, drawing, and painting major with a minor in psychology. In her free time, she is an active volunteer for THON. In the future, she hopes to become an art therapist and help kids like the ones involved in THON fight their battles and know they are not alone. She places herself and her own items in all of the art she does to create an unique abstract self portrait every time.