Shoes Masking Tape

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          This was the very first project assigned in 3D materials and concepts art class: build a pair of shoes entirely out of masking tape. These shoes were based on the cheap five dollar pair found in Walmart and materials used were various sizes of masking tape. At the beginning of this project I took measurements of different areas of the shoe, recorded them, and build a paper mock up to understand the form and measurements better. Most of the shapes seen in the process photos have been created by layers of masking tape to form a sheet (around four layers) and then a template was traced out to be cut by an exacto knife. One thing tricky about this project was the toe kick being transformed, the tape used was not to hold the toe kick up for long and is seen flat in the images. This project helped in comprehending the shoe's texture, shape and form through different variations of trail and error.

Soap Carving

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           I knew in the beginning of this project I was going to have a struggle because I have never carved before and had to enlarge the sculpture from the animal figurine modeled after. Surprisingly, olive oil soap works the best when carving something out for the first time, its easy to carve into and if you make a mistake it can be fixed with water. However the soap shavings would be found everywhere once this project was finished. I found the turned head to be difficult to carve out because the rest of the body was symmetrical to carve out except for the head and there is very awkward shape underneath the chin area to the front feet. The ears had to be molded separately due to not enough soap around the head area, as well as one of the sculptures tails. I know a few areas are out of proportion and wished to add more detail but it's not bad for a first timer.

Soap Carving Changes - Link: http://art4life3d.blogspot.com/2015/11/soap-carving-changes.html

Writing Response (Janine Antoni) - Link: http://art4life3d.blogspot.com/2015_09_01_archive.html

Architecture Relief

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          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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          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