This mixed media series uses acrylic paint and torn magazine paper to depict a story about growing up. The bright colored organic shapes of paper mixed with the smile of a child conveys a feeling of nostalgia from childhood where life as we remember it was always filled with joy. The next image uses dark values and collaged paper images of clocks to invoke a sense of fleeting time and lost joy during your teenage years. Finally, the last image is meant to depict the future and the hope of reaching that nostalgic happiness from childhood using the same colored paper and a smile, but older.