Drawings

It's About Time:

Masking Tape Shoes:

In Momento:

Human Body Required:

3D to 2D Image

This is a photo of my final soap carving with all the changes. The wire made it look like it was orbiting through space or something so I incorporated the milky way galaxy.

A Few of my Favorite Things

To pick a few of my favorite things was a difficult thing to do. I wanted the things I chose to be pretty but mean a lot in the photograph. 

I first chose my journal. My partner and I have shared this journal since high school. When we weren't able to see each other we'd write in it and keep it for a week and then give it back to the other to read. It is very special to me because it helped me grow as a person and better communicate with people.

I chose my favorite perfume next because of it's beautiful scent and the bottle. It is so expensive that it will take me a while to be able to save up and get the bigger bottle of it. For now, I put it on on special occasions. 

I then chose a tea bag that my mother always brewed for me when I was sick. Every time I smell it I think of being with her - I drink it at night time if I can sleep because it is so comforting.

I also have a lipstick tube in my favorite things. It has been my most recent purchase. I wasn't going to spend $25 for lipstick, but I was able to go to the grand opening of the store that carries it and my best friend won $15 a purchase and she let me use it. It is a blue tinted lipstick but comes on sheer and it is gorgeous. The first time I saw it in the store I swear I dreamt about it every night afterwards. It was taunting!

I love sweets - cookies brownies and cakes. If I didn't have control I'd be 300 lbs. I had made gingerbread cookies for me and my roommate the night before and had to include them here. They made out apartment smell so good like the holidays.

Finally, I included crayons. For some reason, I love them so much that I will wind up in the kids sections at the grocery store and be tempted to buy anything and everything crayola. Even though I end up breaking the crayons in half because of my grip, I just love seeing them in the box. 

Human Body Required Assignment

The Switcheroo - This American Life

The gentlemen talking about their experience with Cindy Sherman was very interesting. She was not only a celebrity to them but she was a character that they misunderstood. She was very mysterious to them. It was almost as if they were children at a dinosaur exhibit at a museum and an actual dinosaur approached them. They were timid yet intrigued. Baffled.
However I didn't quite understand Edgar's comment about never knowing Cindy Sherman as if he would have preferred if she didn't approach the guests at her show. He said if he were her, he would have been embarrassed. After all, she is an artist and probably wants to know how people accept her work (if they even do). To not allow her to celebrate the reactions of her pieces is unfair I think. It was as if they wanted her identity to stay hidden forever.
The Cindy Sherman impersonator is definitely an interesting social experiment that I would like to be apart of. I think in most photography, you have the opportunity to become someone you're not - even if it is unintentional. There is always an element of mystery in photographs. The viewer asks themselves who is this person? what are they doing? why? Even if the photograph is a typical man on the street, the audience will always relish in the actual identity of the man.




                                                                 Inspiration:


I was inspired by landscape: large leaves and the petals of flowers. Not only do they have a lot of surface area to cover the 90% of the body that is required, but the form they create is delicate and whismsical too. I want this to be tribal yet open for interpretation.

This is a drawing of a model holding arms above the head. I will try to photograph the final product this way to create as much height as possible. I want the model to become the "plant". There will be layers of stems and leaves, starting from the wrists to cover the face, then at the biceps to cover most of the torso area. I will then either add more to the knees to cover the shins or stop there. If I stop there, the composition and pose of the model will differ. I want the piece to look raw, yet put together on the human body. It needs to excentuate length and how the body acts as a sturdy trunk for the leaves to rely on.
I will also most likely shoot the model topless so the skin is the only thing showing behind the piece. I want the wirey veins and the crinkles of the paper to be the centerpiece.

Option 1:

Option 2:

This is an elementary photo, but is has the correct proportions I'd like to demonstrate. Large, firm leaves with stems that can withstand it's weight it creates.



Here are some photos from your Pinterest that further inspired me to create my piece.

"Leaf Man"

In process photo:

4/10/14 Progress

4/21/14 - Completed

The final piece is much more layered than I intended. The more pieces I made, the more variety they had from each other. I kept the idea of elongating the body by having the model's outreached hands up in the air and a long piece from the waist. The forms ended up dripping off the body so it flowed from the head all the way to the feet.
I wanted the sculpture to act as a single organic form with the human body included. I designed many more small accent pieces than I intended which I am not sure adds to the piece altogether. I made an ear piece and a necklace with the wire and paper.

I photographed the model wearing the piece in nature because it was nature that inspired me. The forms, the textures etc. I made sure the scene was secluded enough so the focus would undoubtedly remain on my subject. The first few photos the model stands near rocks - I thought my leaf-like pieces hanging from the model were similar to the rocks (size, shape and color). I also took photos with the model off-centered and the pond taking up most of the photograph. I did this to illustrate the contrast between the two visually - smooth, sleek water and my crinkled, bubbly and alive form.

It's About Time

Lick and Lather Video Response:

Janine Antoni's work was very interesting - not only to see her work as an independent viewer, but to also listen to her explain her thought process and just how meaningful each object was to her. I felt very attached to her rope/umbilical cord piece because she combined so many personal things into it. I don't know if I could've made a piece similar because of the intimacy involved.

Her other pieces really demonstrate how much she puts herself into her art. When describing her process through her piece "2038" with the drinking cow, I really caught on to her words when she said, "biological machine." It really made me think about art not just as something to look at, but something to be a part of and to understand in different ways. Instead of looking at it as a piece of art in a creative way, I started thinking about science and biology - it was so much closer to nature then I ever could have imagined.

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I chose an owl figure for the project. I carved 2 figurines out of bars of olive oil and rose soap. The first carving I did of the owl turned out to be the best and have the best proportions.

For the transformations, I started by putting the sculpture in the oven at 350 degrees. I didn't see much of a change so I turned it to 450 degrees. 

I then added granulated sugar and stuck it back in the oven. (Addition)

I then added pink gel food coloring for a second change.  (Addition)

I then added corn syrup for texture and put it back in the oven. (Addition)

I then used a big shoe and pressed it down to further flatten it and give it some marks.

 Afterwards, I rinsed as much coloring off if it as I could. (Subtraction)

 I then decided to wash a dirty pan with the soap so it lost some of it's mass and got soapy. (Subtraction)

I then crumbled it up into small pieces to change the form. It was really sticky from the sugar.

I then went outside and scooped a piece of dirt and molded it into it a sphere with the remaining pieces of soap. (Addition)

I rinsed some loose dirt off with water. (Subtraction)

I then used a thick wire to wrap around the sphere and hung it from the ceiling. 

Finished product:

I am pretty happy with the final product. It went through enough changes that it completely transformed. The ball of soap and dirt became this beautiful textured object with so much dimension. The wire really helped me present it better and gave it more dimension. The wire helped give the ball more line and direction too. 

Final Changes:

Addition (5) --> granulated sugar, corn syrup, gel food coloring, dirt, sculpting wire

Subtraction (4) --> rinsed away food coloring, rinsed away dirt, washed pans (lost lots of mass), took away crumbled pieces