Paper Sculpture

My three theme for this sculpture were flowers, space, and optical illusions. What these three themes have in common is that they all I an elliptical motion to them. So I decided to make 3-demsenisonal circles with a spiral that laid on top of each circle. I added glitter give a cosmic effect and a red glitter rose for a pop of color.

 

 

3D to 2D

One student in my class said that my soaps reminded him of the Rainbow Fish and as I looked at it, I noticed the soaps really do have a similar appearance to the Rainbow fish! I used Photoshop to create an underwater background and pasted the fish to swim along the top and pasted the soaps to give the look of underwater rainbow boulders. 

Momento

The first materials I came up with:

 

 

Final results:

 

 

Three materials: Burnt balsa wood, green glitter paint, and purple glitter paint.

 

My memory was when I was just recently at a music festival last March called Aura, located in Live Oak, in the Suannee campgrounds. The overall experience was amazing as I met new and interesting people in such a beautiful environment while listening to fantastic music at the same time. I will never forget the memories of dancing my heart out at the near front of the performance stage, with the glowing purple and green laser beam lights shining on mine and everybody's faces. I could smell the campfire scent throughout the whole time I was there at Aura. The burnt wood represent the campfires, and the glitter paints represent the intense laser beam lights that I will never forget.

 

 

Architecture Relief

The two architectural time periods I picked out were Prehistoric and Modern.

 

 

These three images inspired me to create two separate concepts from each time period: natural/imperfect shapes, and linear lines.

 

 

 

In Pre-historic times, cavemen did not care about proportions, exactness, or straight lines. All they needed and desired was shelter, in which one popular method was simply stacking up wood or stones to create a home.

 

I then applied a concept from Modern Times: straight lines and exactness.

 

 

Final results:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Paper City

This was the kind of project that seemed very intimating to me at first, just to think of creating pieces of card stock that must have some kinetic energy to them. But as I began developing ideas and gathering materials, I experienced a variety of different ways I could go about this project.

 

My first idea was something very simple:

 

(I posted this on Snapchat )

 

 

Hanging bananas. This was not at all creative and abstract enough, but helped me get a head start on what I could do. I took the bananas away to see what I could do with a weaving method.

 

I created a little creature with the "basket" and using the weaving method, I was able to make its eyeballs pop in and out, as well as its tongue.

 

 

The sea-saw was just a random idea that seemed interesting to me, but went so well together with the little creature! How cute is that?

 



Shoes Masking Tape

Creating just plain tennis shoes out of duct tape seemed to be too predicable and somewhat boring to me, so I decided to instead create a pair of heels with laces.

 

 

I started out with the base of the shoe first, and then stuck on a heel part to continue working with its implicated height.

 

Final Results:

 

 

Though they came out quite a bit uneven, the process itself was quite interesting and gave me a feel for actual shoemaking. This was a great first project because it helped me become familiar in working with 3D planes, measurements, the Exacto Knife, etc.

"On Longing" by Susan Stewart

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

-The body is the root of our understanding when it comes to size/proportion. The body has symmetry, balance, and proportions that take part in understanding scale.

2) "Capacity of objects serve as traces of authentic experience."

-It does not matter what the souvenir looks like, but what the objects significantly mean, and the memory imposed on them. The meaning of the objects themseleves serve as the most pure understanding.

3) "The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-demensional into the miniture, that which can be enveloped by the body."

-As Stewart says before, "..what is being done here is the transformation of exterior into interior." In other words, everything is being reduced in size, but not by importance. The body is able to depict everything reduced in size since it is the primary mode of percieving scale.

4) "Nostalgia cannot be substained without loss."

-A longing for the past cannot be strengthened without loss. The cause of longing for the past is the loss itself in that moment in history, and it is symbolic because of that loss. A memory is not a memory without a missing someone or something.

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

-To have a souvenir of the extotic is to have it coming from something bizarre, strange, and unusual. This exoticness of the souvenir is what makes the individual become the whole.