Bear soap sculpture
Abstracted Bear
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Sunday, September 28, 2014
The Token and Quotes Responses
The Tokens Response
My experience reading Christopher Turner’s The Tokens was gloomy and eye-opening. Though I assumed the number of abandoned children would have been high, seeing the four and five digit numbers plainly in front of my eyes made me really think about the enormous amount of work that went into the hospital and how many young lives were bettered or saved. Despite the impact of this information, the numbers are much less saddening than the description of the individual tokens. Up until the token descriptions, I was thinking of the program as one whole piece of history. The depictions of the specific trinkets got me really thinking about how each one of those children had a life that was as significant to them as my life is to me. Each had parents that they missed the opportunity to love, like I love my parents. Each had memories special to them and each a token to represent the family memories that were absent. My back and forth thought process between the individual and the whole is something that happens often in my brain and can make me very emotional because it applies today as much as it applies to London in the 1700’s. It is brain-wracking to me, to think that simple things such as thimbles, brooches, and even the word filled papers that I have just read, can represent that idea.
Quote Responses
I am naturally a very nostalgic person and I easily relate to most of the quotes, though sometimes it is not in my best interest. I often times become too attached to essentially unimportant things and I try to tell myself that everything is temporary, in order to more easily deal with loss. This relates to the quote, “Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.” The statement brings me such a bitter-sweet feeling that I have felt so many times in the past. I also feel a connection to the quote, “The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into a miniature that can be enveloped by the body.” To me, it explains how a souvenir can take every sensory investigation from a particular time, cut out the superficial or stereotypical aspects, and represent one persons uniquely specific experience.
Sunday, September 7, 2014
A Few of My Favorite Things
1. My first favorite is more of a who than a thing but he my roommates dog Mylo that I absolutely love.
2. My mom taught me to sew when I was very young so my sewing machine is important to me. Sewing is a skill that has helped me tremendously and has been a great creative outlet for me through out my life.
3. My Vans Surfsiders are my favorite pair of shoes. You can see by how worn they are that I wear them often. I even have two of those exact same pairs because I knew I would destroy them.
4. Craft beer is one of my favorite things,especially IPAs, and don't worry, I'm 22 and fully legal. My brother and dad brew their own beer and I have always loved being there for the process. It's about much more than throwing back some drinks. It's about creating complex and original tastes through an age old process, with the bonus of helping people relax.
5. Also on my list of favorite things is my garden so I have included one of my succulents. I really enjoy watching my plants grow with the care I have given them and My garden gives me the sense that I am doing a little something nice for Mother Nature.
Relief Sculpture
Modern Architecture
Rococo Architecture
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Rococo Architecture
The architectural periods I chose for the assignment are Rococo and Modern art because they contrast one another. Rococo architecture is quite ornate with intricate detail and plenty of it. The Modern architecture that inspired me focuses on large, simple movements and shapes. I though that combining the two styles would be a compelling challenge because that are so different from each other. My first thoughts on the design of the sculpture were to use the organic Rococo shapes and simplify them into just a few large flowing forms. Though I though this was an accurate representation of the two styles, the piece itself as a design was boring to me. Next I thought of using Modern art inspiration for the core structure of the piece, and then decorating it in the style of Rococo. This is how I arrived at the ideas of carving into the foam board. I figured using the intricate shapes from Rococo in the form of the subtle imprints of the carving would give the piece a balanced representation of the styles. Though I am pleased with my design, I wish the executed was better. I would have liked to do more carvings and use different materials. The foam board became an obsticle because it came off in small crumbly pieces rather than clean pieces. This created some rough edges that were difficult to smooth out.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Searching For Elements and Priciples
Geometric Shape
Asymmetry
Organic Line
Organic Shape
Rectilinear
Repetition
Scale
Simulated Texture
Symmetry
Actual Texture
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