This was my favorite of the summer projects I made. I used the wood from a tree my dad had cut and chopped up earlier than made a tree from it and burnt it. I was trying to make a project based around that irony of creating and image of a tree we destroyed than destroying it again. Visually the art element is form, and texture. However the color of the finalized burnt project is also part of the art element. Overall this was the project I spent the most time on and it was the most fun to make.
With this project I was trying to go along with the theme of thinking with your heart. So I used a foam head and cut out a circle in the area the brain is supposed to be. I than molded and painted a heart and inserted it into the hole using wire. There is juxtaposition between the white head and the heart, drawing your eyes to the heart. I also worked in the negative space around the heart to highlight shape and make it stand out more inside the head. The overall message of this work is too not use your heart while make decisions and use your head instead, however as with the sculpture we too often travel around with or heart in our head and our brain nowhere too be found.
This was an experimental project I thought up the design for. Basically I completely covered a hula hoop with black duct tape and cut out an inverse design in the screen to create a picture with the shadow. As this was an experimental piece I used the two faces design on the screen as I thought the juxtaposition of light and dark would emphasize the optical illusion of the original picture. Overall this project is completely biased around negative space as it is the negative space that creates the light parts in the shadow picture.
With this sculpture I was trying to capture the essence of childhood. The lamp is surrounded by many of the figurines and toys I used when I was a kid and stands as a symbol of innocence and to remind me and others of a time where we still had it in great amounts. The art element side of the project is harmony and rhythm. Although not completely evident in the pictures, the objects are balanced around the lamp shade in such a way that no piece has a larger gap of space from it to another object, while still retaining the apparent sporadic feeling of placement.
These four pots are fairly standard ceramic wheel projects done during exhibition in the railroad days fair. I tried to make the form of the projects all circular with a skinny top and bottom. Almost similar to the Japanese made Moon pots. As such the art element in this project is from. The design element is texture in these projects. I tried hard to use my finger marks as part of the project to emphasize the form rather than take away from it.
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