Memento

My memento comes from the time when I was on stage performing the Copacabana and slipped on a pile of glitter and fell in the middle of the performance. However I did not let this stop me, I got up and continued performing. My three materials used were black EVA foam to represent the black stage, silver glitter to represent the glitter on the stage and orange fabric to represent my orange dress I was wearing.

Soap Carving

This was one of the hardest projects I had to do all semester. I took a large pice of soap and carved it into a lion. I started out with an elephant but decided there were too many smaller parts to pull it off. I did two carvings of the lion, one to keep pristine and the other to destroy later on.

Final product.

3D to 2D

For this assignment I took pieces from 3 different projects and made them into one piece. This is comprised of my Black Pearl and Flying Dutchman sails to create the dress, my masking tape shoes on her feet and the template for the gothic window I used on my clock tower face.  All together it creates this runway style image.

Reading assignment

Diane Akerman

Touch is a very important part of our lives each and every day, without touch we would have very little direct connection to the world around us. Without touch everything would seem distant and isolated, we would feel no emotion, no sense of possession, nor love. Art needs to be touched. When you look at a painting or a work of art from behind bullet proof glass you get no real connection with it, but when you can touch and feel and fully experience a piece of art it becomes real to you, you become immediately connected with it. We get a whole new direction and view of art if we can reach out and feel it. Touch is the eyes of our hands, what ever we touch our brain responds to, this gives a whole new layer and meaning to an art piece if it can be touched. 

Christoper Turner

We all have things that mean something special to us, a token, a coin, necklace, etc. These are tangible things that we keep with us to remember something, someone, a place, an event, or something similar. These things are important to us and play a large roll in our lives. Mementos can play a huge part in an artist's work. It can bring about a memory or something significant to the artist that can play a large roll in the type and quality of art they produce. Like with these orphans and the mementoes their birth mothers left them, we, as artists, need to take our own mementos and remember what they are there to represent and incorporate those things into our art. 

Masking Tape Shoes

In process

Paper Shoe

Final product

In this project I took my roommates mary jane high heels and recreated them out of  masking tape. The details in the shoes were the hardest part to make. The whole process took around 20 hours to complete when added up. The thing i could have worked on the most is the negative space between the high heel and the flat part of the shoe.

Paper City

Hogwarts

In this project I recreated the famous fictional castle, Hogwarts, from paper. Each of the sculptures had to include a part that moved. In this piece the doors of the hall open and the pendulum in the clock tower swings.

Ferris Wheel

My second piece for paper city came in the form of a ferris wheel. The whole body of the wheel spins like a common ferris wheel would but the chairs swing as well. The only thing I wish I had done differently is the base. 

Final soap mount

Everything i did with changes to the soap were based on the horrific act of poaching, my final mount keeps up the idea with the blood filled plate covered with the various pieces of the lion.

Foam core structure

In process.

Based off of Medieval Castles and Gothic Churches, I created my own take of a clock tower. The clock tower motif in the inside is a tip of the hat to one of my favorite movies, Amazing Spiderman 2. The clock face is in the style of a gothic church widow and the turrets on either side of the clock tower come from a medieval castle. The hands of the clock are at 1:21, which was on purpose, that was the issue of the comic where Gwen Stacy died in spiderman from being thrown a clock tower, the premise of the movie I based the clock tower off.

3D Final Project: Pirate Sails

The three sails chosen for this assignment came from three different ships. (From left to right) The Black Pearl, The Empress, and the Flying Dutchman. Each piece of paper (even on the Dutchman) was individually dyed with ink and put in place. The Dutchman sails have over two thousand individual pieces of paper that have been individually dyed and glued onto the main form.

Sentence Evaluation

1) "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."

Each body has its own unique form. Learning to draw the human body is key for artists because of each unique form and shape. No matter how you look at the body it will be different.

2) "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experiences."

Pictures are windows into our experiences. This is a picture of my family on a hovercraft in Halifax Canada, this picture is one of my favorites of my entire family. It shows a moment of our trip that could not be captured or even remembered perfectly without this object (picture). Pictures serve as mini windows into memories.

3) The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3D into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."

Souvenirs serve as mini memories that can be held on to forever. Something that can be touched and held to remind the holder of a specific memory and time in their life.

4) Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss.

 Memories can be painful, and nostalgia comes from loss, whether it be moving, losing a family or friend, or a painful event, we can not look back on happier times without being in pain from loss.

5) To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy.

This shell is from the Philippines, i have one very similar from when i lived there. Not only does it remind me of my time living in the Philippines but it is also a shell from the Philippines itself that i got while scuba diving and one of the locals painted for me, so not only is it a specimen from the Philippines but also a trophy of what i found on my first scuba trip.

Themes for Final Project

1: The Winter Soldier

(costumes)

2: Pirates of the Caribbean
(ships)

3: Star Wars
(Star Ships)