Process and Development
Chloe’s works often begin with observation, memory, or a question about human experience. Through studies, material experiments, and revision, ideas develop from drawings and images into paintings, reliefs, and mixed-media objects. The selected process views below reveal how these works changed through making.
What the Box Carried
This work began with a damaged package sent from Fiji by a missionary and dental-outreach leader Chloe came to know through humanitarian service.
The box contained cacao and other gifts, but after it was left outside her home, squirrels tore into it before she could open it.
Soon afterward, the sender died unexpectedly.
Using photographs of the damaged box as reference, Chloe transformed an ordinary object into a memorial—one that carries the memory of generosity, friendship, sudden loss, and the process of finding closure through drawing.
FINISHED WORK
Anatomy of Growth
Anatomy of Growth began with Chloe’s close observation of her own body during adolescence—a period shaped by physical change, self-consciousness, and uncertainty about how to see herself.
Rather than treating the body as something to correct or conceal, she opened the drawn figure and built outward with wire, fabric, paper, a spine image, and found materials.
The exposed interior suggests that growth is both physical and emotional: layered, vulnerable, unfinished, and continually changing.
Through the work, Chloe transforms insecurity into a more compassionate way of understanding the body as a place of development, complexity, and possibility.
FINISHED WORK
Unraveling Together
To create Unraveling Together, Chloe used photographs of hands holding and navigating string to study gesture, tension, and the physical language of connection.
She translated these observations into a painting of hands working through a tangled web, then twisted and glued strips of newspaper to extend the painted strings into a three-dimensional mass beyond the canvas.
The knots represent the complicated challenges people face and the ways those challenges can become impossible to manage alone.
Because newspaper carries fragments of everyday stories, it also suggests that struggle—and the support needed to move through it—is part of shared human experience.
Through the work, Chloe reflects on her reliance on family and friends and explores how asking for help and working together can make life’s knots more manageable.
FINISHED WORK
FINISHED WORK
Pain(t)
The title Pain(t) combines the difficulty of creating art with the act of painting itself.
The work began with a photograph of Chloe squeezing paint from a tube, followed by a sketch and progressive studies of her studio materials.
As the composition developed, a face emerged from the palette, suggesting that the labor, uncertainty, and emotional strain of making art become part of the artwork itself.
Through this process, painting becomes both the work Chloe creates and a reflection of the pain she moves through to create it.