3D Materials and Concepts
This blog will contain research, process pictures, statements, and images of final work from projects.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
The Hand
I decided to draw this for the chapter, "The Hand," because the hand was the main focus of the chapter. So essentially, I felt as two people shaking hands would be a good meaning that could exemplify the chapter. When meeting people for the first time whether it be seeing a palm reader like mentioned in this chapter or even being introduced to someone at a social gathering, the first instinct is to shake the persons hand saying hello.
Body Sculpture: Happenings
Link to video
Going into this project, I definitely had some trouble with what wanted to create to go onto my body. First, I decided I wanted to make something that was going to on my head and then came to the idea that it would involve my hair. I had then went out and bought a light fabric and was going to braid it into my hair and then keep extending the fabric down into one long braid. Once I had braided one fabric into my hair, I continued the braid down with different colors and different fabric materials. After I got it all braided together and laid out on the ground, my next step was figuring out what kind of movement I wanted it to do. First, I was testing it out by throwing it off the second floor of the art building to the ground, but had trouble deciding what to do once it was thrown off. I began messing around with the long braid and came up with the idea of rapping it completely around my head. For my recording, I started out with having the fabric already being rapped around my head and then began slowly unwinding it off. Once the fabric was completely off my head I sat down on my knees and started to wind it up in a circular motion around my arm to exemplify the length of it more. Overall, I was very happy with my decision on using this idea for my body movement project.
The Skin Has Eyes
Why I decided to draw this picture is because in the chapter, "The Skin Has Eyes," it talks about how when you see something it can make you remember something and a specific touch that along with it. So I wanted to draw this eye and have the reflection of a city in it as if the person is reflecting a memory through the city.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Memento
One memory I can remember perfectly is the day my nephew was born. He was born in 2013 and I chose this memory for this project because he is one of the most important people in my life and always makes me happy. We were only allowed to use three materials for this and our memory had to reflect through the objects. I used the glass jar to represent how fragile he was when he was born and just like when handling glass, having to be very careful. The stuffing in the glass jar symbolizes how babies adore toys and with my nephew especially, he loves stuffed animals. I also have the stuffing coming out of the glass jar to exemplify the amount of love I have for my nephew, which to me is an overflowing feeling. On the bottom of the jar is blue ink that represents my nephew from a physical appearance being that he is a boy. I wanted to add some color to my memento and felt as if blue was an appropriate color that would stand out and represent my memory still.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Architect Design
When creating my design I wanted to have roman, modern, and
gothic architecture be the influence for my piece. Even
though I had time periods to help influence my work, I still had difficulty
with the starting point with my design. I knew I wanted to involve strings with
what I was going to create, so I started to attach strings to two pieces of foam
board, going in a cross over pattern. After, I extended the bottom with a piece
of balsa wood going horizontal to give it more balance. From there, I wanted to
start working on the underneath so I created two sets of stairs out of foam
board that reflected each other. I ended up extending it more horizontally with
another piece of foam board and from there I placed two pieces of foam board
vertically behind it. Although, if I had left it how it was then it would have
still looked unfinished and empty on those two sides compared to the middle of
the design. I went back to what I did in the beginning and created more string
work, but used white string instead to establish a contrast. To let the string
stick out more I painted the bottom and top foam boards black. Even though I
had difficulty in the beginning with my design I was extremely pleased with how
it turned out in the end.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Changed Soap
Take away: Cut up the soap
Take away: Put into the microwave
Add: Blue Ink
Add: Liquid Gesso
Add: Nail Polish
Add: Tacks
Take Away: Put into the freezer
Take away: Dropped on the floor
Final changed soap with base
While doing the changes to the soap, I went in with a very open mind with the type of alterations I was going to do to it. I picked the changes as I went along, instead of making a list and doing them in order because I felt as if it would make for more of an interesting outcome. In the end, after the changes had been made I then had to think of base to create that would work with it. A basic base is what I ended up going with since the soap itself was interesting enough to not have anything else added to the base to take away from it. So I just stuck with two pieces of wood that I painted white and stacked on top of each other. I then placed the two big pieces of the changed soap on each piece of wood and balanced some of the broken off smaller pieces on needles.
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