3D to 2D Image

For the 3D to 2D image project I took my stacked paper banana, and wanted to make it appear to be at an enormous scale. I overlaid it on top of an image of Sedona, Arizona so that is looked as though it was resting on the rock formation. I created a shadow on the rocks so that the banana became more believable. I then took the image of my soap carving dinosaur and changed the colors to look as though the environment surrounding it were being reflected on the surface. The dinosaur is smaller to exaggerate the size of the banana.  

Drawings of Work

These are the drawings I did of my pieces. I decided to do them all in the experimental way we did in class using wood glue in each drawing and completing each one in 15 minutes.

3D Expressive Forms

 

 Hopeful

Dangerous

 Angry

Sad

Memento

Colonel Mustard Box 

Poetic Metamorphosis

Bug Bed

Paper Stacking

Banana

Memento Mori

 

Sound Confessions

For this assignment we had to come up with a confession, either our own or one from someone else and put it onto a recording device. Then we had to create some sort of container to put the device in that expressed the confession visually.

The confession I chose to use is one that I created based on the story of David and Bathsheba from the Bible. It goes like this:

I went to the balcony of my palace

I saw a woman bathing on her rooftop

I sent for her

I got her pregnant

I sent her husband to the front lines

He died in battle

The box that I created I made from balsa wood, and the top of the box is made from paper. These were two of the materials I enjoyed using most during the semester. I made holes in the surface of the lid so that the sound device speaker and play button are visible. I then wanted to make the lid resemble a topographical landscape with the different levels of elevation shown. I made a structure to represent King David's palace on one end and then on another hill I put a small structure representing Bathsheba's house.  

Masked Identity

The assignment here was to create a mask using wire, tracing paper and gel medium that expresses who we are in some way or another. The end product would be a video or series of pictures of us wearing the mask we created. The mask was not supposed to have eye holes or a face necessarily. I really enjoyed making the mask. It came very naturally building with the wire and I liked watching it take shape.

I made my mask to be symmetrical, smooth, and streamline. I wanted it to seem well balanced and yet kind of awkward. I feel like that could describe me a lot of the time.

Here is the video that I made for the piece:

The video I decided to make at my new house that I just moved into and had not had time or money to buy furniture for it or anything really so it is completely empty except for my bedroom. I wanted to use the Creature from the Black Lagoon in it some way because a friend of mine got me really into the Creature and I feel like he can relate to the masked identity concept.

It wasn't until after I began editing the video that I realized I had made it surprising similar to a video we had watched in Art History III the week prior. The film is by Maya Deren from 1943 and titled Meshes of the Afternoon. Here is a link to that video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S03Aw5HULU

 

Here are the pictures to go along with the video I created:

It's About Time!

This was the project that I struggled the most with. It took me a long time to get comfortable with carving the soap, so I put off doing the project for a long time.  I chose a dinosaur that I had since I was a little kid to base my carvings off of.

Once all the carving was done I did enjoy doing the additive and subtractive processes to the one piece. I set up the eight different processes in order before I began performing them to give the whole thing some sort of structure. Here is the action:

1) Soaked in Pepsi for 5 minutes, Subtractive -

2) Coated in Modeling Paste, Additive +

3) "Tossed" in soap shavings, Additive +

4) Sawed into thirds, Subtractive -

5) Crushed 30 times with wooden mallet, Subtractive -

6) 30 paper scraps added, Additive +

7) Burned, Subtractive -

8) Spray painted, Additive +

The finished products I am pleased with. The representative dinosaur I feel could be a little better but I am too afraid to make the limbs too thin, so he will just remain a chubby dinosaur. I feel like the "processed dinosaur" turned out well, I feel like it is an interesting piece.

Paper Stacking

For this project we had to create a fruit from life and then make our own invented form. We had to do both of these creations using stacked paper and wood glue. For my fruit I chose a banana and it ended up being a pretty challenging undertaking but I am happy with my end result.

By the time I had finished my banana I used as a model had gotten EXTRA ripe!

For my invented form I created a type of memento mori. I made a skull from the stacked paper then built a paper cave around it. I am really please with the way it turned out.