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)

Additive and Subtractive Soap Art

Additive

Subtractive

All of the changes and alterations that I made to my soap carving came from the horrific idea of poaching. I started with my soap lion and the first thing i did was cover it in red paint to represent the blood of all the innocent animals who have been poached for centuries. I then added the spears to represent the poachers of an older time them moved to the holes to represent the gunshot wounds of a modern time. I then proceeded to skin the lion completely and then cut him up into pieces. I then cut up a few pieces further and melted them. I then shaped them into different types of food and painted them to resemble said food. I then put the spear back in the lions head and prepared it to be mounted. 

All of these things are related to the horrific art of poaching and a cry for us to stop hunting and killing these endangered animals for sport.