Its About Time

The objective of It's About Time was to create life forms out of bars of soap through means of subtraction. The next step in the process was to make 8 changes of addition and subtraction. 

Ficticious Dishes

For this assignment, inspired directly from the work of Dinah Fried and her book Fictitious Dishes, I chose the short story The Lottery Ticket by Anton Pavlovich Chekhovs. 

The Lottery Ticket by Anton Pavlovich Chekhovs

Materials:

newspaper 

Elements from the story:

Lime

Numbers

Newspaper

Noose

Fish

Mushrooms

Paper Stacking: Fruit Inventive

FRUIT

The objective of this assignment was to stack paper in a fashion that would resemble the fruit of choice. I chose a coconut for its wood like texture and its ability to keep good for a while. The process involved stacking cut circles, wood gluing, and sanding. The biggest challenge was, to keep the original texture of stacked paper or to sand down to the approximate size, shape, and atrributes of the chosen coconut. 

Materials:

Rives Gray Paper

Wood Glue 

INVENTIVE

The process of my inventive paper stacking involved using the scraps from the cut circles of the coconut stacking. I wanted to somehow use the excess paper to create an object that would oppose the shape of the coconut yet still have an organic origin. Creating two organic shapes that are visually opposing yet made from the same paper and bezier curve was fascinating to me.

Materials:

Rives Gray Paper

Wood Glue 

MEMENTO: Hurrican Mesa

For my memento piece I reflected upon my traveling adventures in northwestern Wyoming in the Absarokas. Using three materials this memento represents Hurricane Mesa, a mountainous "table" my group and I had traversed towards the summit. The hike consisted of walking over fallen boulders which conglomerated directly over a stream of glacial melt. Every couple of steps you could see the rushing water peering through the gaps of the grassy covered boulders. At the summit there was a plac documenting the coordinants, altitude, and name. 

Elements + Materials

I used a flat chip of a concrete cinderblock to represent the mountain rock and the flat attributes of a mesa. 

The head of a rusty nail was cut off and used to represent the plac found at the summit of Hurrican Mesa.

A cut piece of glass was shaped to the concrete and sanded on the edges then placed underneath so just the edges were revealed. This was representational of the glacial melt run off that flowed below the boulders.

HUMAN WRAPPED BODY

In this assignment I covered my body with a surf sock. The aim of my pictures were to portray organic shapes with as little resemblence to the human body. My main focus was to capture postures that would prompt the viewer to ask, "what is that" or "how did he do that". With slight wrinkles and shadows the viewer can infer the figure of a human body.