CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART GRADUATE DREGREE EXHIBITION 2025  
GRADUATES \\ WORK \\ ABOUT \\
SOPHIA
LARSEN
DEPARTMENT
PRINT MEDIA

ORIGIN
CALIFORNIA





I find the place where it hurts and touch it again and again. I’m searching for the future I imagined in the past. I’m playing and I'm being serious. I’m trusting my gut. I’m looking for protection from what I know. I’m building a callus around memory. I’m excited to unravel.

I re-contextualize my understanding of time and connection. Tethered to the experience of a swiftly deteriorating parent, I explore childhood, play, intimacy, and mortality. In this ongoing moment I consider relationships, view memories, understand grief, pain, love, and joy in one breath. As my father’s mind unravels, I grapple with the weight of my practice. The more I expand, the more he contracts, the more that I learn, the more he forgets. Sometimes the loss of the self comes far before the loss of the body.

I wonder how I can reconcile my knowledge of immense pain with my desire to create beautiful objects. Finely rendered drawings on stained, torn, and worn substrates, I explore what it means to create something precious on a discarded and unwanted material.

My veins run with rainwater, my heart is made of dirt.

All I have is now.




Squirrel am Crow pm (unfolded)
2024
Squirrel am Crow pm
2024, Ballpoint pen, colored pencil, acrylic paint, and beeswax on found cotton drop cloth, 65" x 50"
No. 4 Steel Trap
2024, Monotype, color pencil and ballpoint pen on paper coated in beeswax, 22" x 30" x 18"

Osprey Rain
2025, Ballpoint pen, graphite, and monotype on BFK coated in beeswax, 22 " x 30"