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Senior Kelly Latham is a student artist and cancer survivor. She works primarily with watercolor. She made these illustrations while studying abroad in Rome.
LATHAM FROM PAGE 5
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Latham's current project is an animated storyboard of a female treasure hunter who works on commission for a museum — a twist on the Indiana Jones story, Fitzgerald said. On her current mission, the heroine is aided by fairies as she tries to get past a skeletal monster guarding a hoard of treasure.
Even though the story is a fantasy, Latham tries to incorporate real-life elements to give a sense of familiarity. For example, she researched Aztlan, the ancient home of the Aztec tribe, when designing the fairies' costumes. The monster's design was inspired by pictures of crocodiles and iguanas. The aim is for 30 percent fantasy, 70 percent reality, which is a ratio used by Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli, another one of Latham's inspirations.
Since going into remission, Latham has more than made up for the artistic dry spell. In spring of 2015, Latham spent a semester abroad in Rome. Through the American University of Rome, Latham took classes in baroque and classical art. The classes were held in different parts of the city to expose students to as much Roman art and architecture as possible.
While in Italy, Latham lived mostly unplugged from her life back home. She left her tablet, which she used for most of her projects, back in America, unsubscribed from Photoshop and only took her pencils and watercolors. She had limited Wi-Fi access and used a map to get around the city.
Having passed the twoyear mark in her remission, Latham didn't feel like she had to worry about her health while abroad. Art and
- sightseeing occupied her to the extent that she didn't have much time to dwell on her illness.
"I was too busy — just traveling and seeing new things and drawing people and eating funny shaped pastries and whatnot — to really worry," she said.
Latham said her time abroad helped her get out of
I was too busy — just traveling and seeing new things and drawing people and eating funny shaped pastries and whatnot — to really worry."
Kelly Latham Illustration Student
her "illustration bubble" by actually going outside and sketching the world around her, which she hadn't done since high school.
"There's like 20 of us in my class, give or take, and you get stuck behind the computer screen," she said. "And you are only looking at other people's work and being like 'Oh, they're successful. I need to be like them,' and so you modify yourself to be like them, and that's not necessarily a good thing to do."
"It's just interesting to sit there and look and see all the differences and all the similarities and you incorporate real elements into an imaginative land, which is what concept art is — it's taking real-world elements and incorporating it into an imaginative land or world." Latham said.
But Latham still had a semester she wanted to fill. Because working in a Disney animation studio would be a dream come true for her, she applied for the Disney College Program while in Rome. The program allows students to familiarize themselves with the animation and theme park industries by taking classes in a variety of subjects while working as employees in the park.
Having just returned from Europe, Latham was struck by the similarity between the Disney Parks and classical architecture. For example, several medieval castles throughout Europe inspired the famous Cinderella Castle.
Latham was accepted and was off to Disney World the following fall. She spent the subsequent semester taking classes in "creativity and innovation," working in a resort restaurant and enjoying daily free admission to the park.
In the last semester of her senior year, Latham's cancer seems like a distant memory.
"It was a big part of her life, and our life — our whole family," Michael said. "It's something that we've also
moved on from."
Latamn said she's dealt with enough death and negativity for a lifetime. She's ready to move on - a sentiment reflected in her optimistic art.
"I know in reality there are bad things like cancer and war and death — and even just things like having to go to work — and things like that," she said. "Whereas in my art, she's a treasure hunter doing whatever she wants to. If someone can escape their not-as-fun reality and kind of get lost in the color and shape and excitement of my work, then I think that's a really cool thing, and I try to make it that."
-Edited by G.J. Melia
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