van gogh, self-portrait dedicated to paul gauguin, 1888
"Van Gogh and Gauguin: Finding Religious Fulfillment," December 2011
this paper was under the tutelage of dr. harvey hamburgh, who taught me more about writing and advocacy than any other professor
as a young academic, i wrote about the religious struggles of van gogh during his final years in arles, contrasting them to gauguin's discovery of religious fulfillment in what he called the "primitive," eventually culminating to their meeting in the south of france
it would come as no surprise in graduate school that i would stay somewhere in the 19th century, but tackling a much different subject matter
fun fact: i switched my major three times in undergrad, like most teens do. i started in graphic design, then metalsmithing, and finally found myself in art history