Architecture Relief

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Artist Statement:
          For this assignment we were asked to bring  architecture elements together from two different time periods. I chose to bring together elements from the Gothic period and the Modern period. I was inspired by the Gothic era's stain glass windows as well as the foundation used to help maintain the building's strong structure to hold it all together. I also wanted to bring in the element of light into the piece to resemble how the sun shines through the stain glass windows to illuminate the gorgeous illustration seen inside the cathedrals.  I brought in the elements seen in Modern architect because of the use of symmetry and equality. Most of the time used in this piece was based on trial and error but in the end it was worth it, I pretty proud of this piece.

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Gothic -
Notre Dame Cathedral  http://www.destination360.com/europe/france/images/s/france-notre-dame-cathedral.jpg
Chartres Cathedral https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Chartres_1.jpg
Modernist Style -
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Personal Response - Cut Piece

While watching this video, the only questions going through my mind were how can Yoko Ono be so calm when she is having her clothes cut off of her? And why subtraction rather than addition? At least adding items such as flowers or cloth to her body would be more humane than having strangers come up to her with scissors with a possibility of being stabbed or having her skin cut off. It was disgusting to watch a majority of male members of the audience would cut off cloth in private areas of her body or take more than enough clothing than necessary. Especially revolting were the ones who were trying to be funny when circling around her as if she were prey and her bra being cut away. This makes me infuriated because it shows whenever society is giving the chance to discriminate someone, they do not hesitate to do so in order to make themselves proud.

Link: http://foundations3ddesign.blogspot.com/2015/08/yoko-one-artist.html

Memento

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Artist Statement:

          The purpose of this project was to relive a moment in my life, either good or bad, and use only three materials in explaining what had happened in that memory. In this particular memory marks the worst week I had ever experienced in my life. This memory happened when I was in high school, it was senior year and I was on the tennis team about to go to regionals and an officer in art club. Every year the art department is given the opportunity to participate in the Vans shoe contest and I had been looking forward to doing the contest ever since I had heard about it during freshman year. I had finished the pair of shoes I had been assigned to do the night before it was due around 10:30 PM. I worked on the shoes in the dining room and had turned off the lights in the house before heading to bed, which was a huge mistake. Due to the lack of vision, I misjudge the distance between myself and a corner of a wall and then ended up with a collision which had given me an open gap on the top left corner of my lips. Upon arriving to the emergency, my mom and I had just gotten there in time before it had closed but unfortunately for me the anesthetics didn’t work well and I felt the needle every time it had enter my skin to create the stitches. Then I remember it had gotten worse after that: I ended up missing the tennis regionals game because of the wound could not go out into the sun for too long, inherited the stomach flu, and spent the Easter holiday in bed.

·         Tennis Ball: The tennis ball is used to represent my last year and game of playing tennis in high school. At the time I felt like I let my whole team down because at the beginning of the year we were already have a hard time finding more players for the team and only had a total of five girls on the team, you need five girls in order to compete in tennis. I figured it would be a sturdy base as well as fitting the size criteria for this project.

·         String: Original my idea was to use shoe lace to represent the Vans shoes contest and have it look like the shoe lace had been stitched into the shoes. Due to the thickness of the shoe lace and difficulty of puncturing holes into the tennis ball, I replace the shoe lace with white string. The string still worked for the concept of stitches and was more easier to work with than the white shoe lace.  

·         Red Paint: This material was used to represent the large amount of blood I had lost after I collided into the wall. Who knew such a small wound would gave out so much blood.

Writing Response (On Longing) - Link: http://art4life3d.blogspot.com/2015/11/on-longing-response-images.html

Body Happening

 

 

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This project was inspired by:

 

 

Rebecca Horn, "Cocoon"

 

 

"Batman: Arkham City" video game - Azrael's Cape

 

 

Disney's Pocahontas - "Colors of the Wind"



Artist Statement:

           For this project we were asked to create something that had to be worn be a person and have a certain 'happening' to display the piece. I choose to use paper, string, a headband and clear tape and have the 'happening' be moves with the wind. The reason why I choose this 'happening' was to express how one feels in the state of calmness and gracefulness one has when moving against the wind.  This piece was inspired mostly by Disney's Pocahontas during the scenes when she is one with nature and I wanted to express it my own way on how I feel towards the wind. I choose have an all white clothing as well as background to emphasize the lines and shadows seen in the video. I also thought that having too much color would distract from those line and shadows.Special thanks to my model, Amiana Adler, for being super cooperative and helpful through this crazy piece and as well as the suggestions for movements with the wind.

 

Writing Response (Cut Piece) - Link: http://art4life3d.blogspot.com/2015/12/personal-response-cut-piece.html

"On Longing" Response Images

"The body is our primary mode of perceiving scale."

-Graphic I know but this picture reminds me of the time I accident ran into a wall, in the pitch black at night, and cutting open the left side of my upper lip. I never understood how one little cut could hurt so badly, before and after the stitches.-

 

"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."

-Pin trading at Disney World is like an adventure, seeking out rare pins from the cast members throughout the parks and collecting them as you go through the years. I have learned over time, almost ten years, where the best and worst places are for pin trading. -

 

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."

 

-The whole purpose of a souvenir is to remember a place you have been or experienced in your lifetime, the most common souvenirs are shirts or sweatshirts. I bought this sweatshirt on a Washington DC field trip in the eighth-grade for two other reason besides a memento: it was freezing in the month of March and everyone else on the field trip bought one too.-

 

"Nostalgia can not be stained without loss."

- There was a time in Magic Kingdom where my father and I could take a restful ride called Skyway to get to Tomorrowland, through Fantasyland, and into Liberty Square. Unfortunately this ride is no longer there anymore but it was a favorite pastime of mine in the Magic Kingdom.-

 

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

-Around age five or six, I was in a dance class where we studied tap dancing and it's origins from Ireland. It was also the same year when I received my first dance trophy.-

Soap Carving Changes

 

Subtractive: Using a plastic knife I cut the soap carving into different pieces.

 

Subtractive: I place the cut pieces of soap onto wax paper and placed it in the microwave for two minutes.

 

Additive: Once they cooled off, I molded the soaps into different organic shapes and placed tooth picks in the center of the soap.

 

 

Additive: I added food coloring to the tips of the tooth pick and the areas that had interesting textures.

 

Subtractive: I used a hammer to flatten out a few places on the soap pieces.

 

Additive: I added and wrapped string around each individual piece.

 

Additive: Using the left over shavings of the soap carving project, I coated each individual piece with those shavings.

 

 

Subtractive: I left the pieces in the freezer over night, for almost twelve hours.

 

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