Leslie and I have been working on the collaborative skull and our particular theme or inspiration is death, and while this is a very vague thing to choose we were personally inspired by the scene where Ophelia's burial is being questioned because she killed herself which is a sin as well as the most obvious, the death of Hamlet's father. While death is something all humans share every experience of witnessing death and coping with it always differs. Through Hamlet we get to see how his particular situation of mourning evolves and a questionable madness. Leslie and I don't have much experience with interpreting ideas into a canvas, its been interesting trying to put together the colors and designs we feel are right in order to bring our ideas to life. We've added smaller skulls within our skull piece to represent the grave yard and the skulls Horatio and Hamlet see, as well as flowers to represent Ophelia and dark colors to go along with death. We plan to add more shading to set a darker mood as well as more skulls within the piece.-Erika Mollinedo-Pinon
