Wood

This wood is so delicate and smooth it worked perfectly as a traditional drawing surface. I wanted to highlight the graceful, light tones and lines of the wood while mimicing the rigid peeling nature of bark on a tree.  I did eight little drawings within the spaces that I drew, as a reaction to compact space. I wanted the colors to reference spray paint/street art but still show the formal qualities of the wood through the light wash of pastels and water.

Erasing

Diminishing- a drawing of how things can gradually fade way, concrete can become faint. ( I erased the inside shapes totally and lines of center shapes to show a process of fading)

Losing Ground- I partly filled in a crossword puzzle, some of the words were fit but not the "right" one. Erasing them showed what it's like to see progress undone.

Starting Over- I wrote a letter to a friend that I want to reconnect with who hurt me, but is far way.  Instead of writing about things in the past , I erased those things representing a new point of time.

Cheating-tweaking the truth, covering it up.

 Erasing by overcompensation- I signed my signature over and over itself to show the way that I tend to try to define myself and in doing so, I "try" to be myself and lose my real identity.

Transparent

These are abstractions and tracings of the borders of places that are significant to me. They are stretched out and shriveled and repeated according to the way that I understand them to interact with each other in my life. Sometimes I wish they were all closer to this scale of size so I could strattle the environments of all of these places, in order to experience them all at once. Sometimes I am aware of the way a place may be changing in my absence. or how one place may be replacing the significance of another place, and I have mixed feelings about that. The transparency layers allow the "places' to interact in away that I did not have planned which, illustrates the emotional quandry that I just described. It also allows them to function as a whole, which represents my entire life story.

Wrapped

These are samples from "wrapped" Unfortunately, I left the pieces in the classroom too long and they probably got trashed. It originally consisted of: a whip shaped branch, wrapped in colored thread in stripes one sidewrapped very tightly, handle-like and the other tied and wrapped progressively looser, labeled: grip and losing grip. I also made a cocoon out of wax paper and acrylic paint that i attached to a little stubby branch " cocoon". The ones pictured here "in layers" a box made of stiff paper covered in painted magazine pages, revealing what is underneath. "individually wrapped"-newspaper strips rolled and contained by a tin, but each separate with the potential of rolling away and never coming back. "lost"- a box with magazine strips that wrap around a little handmade scrabble piece, it is easy to get lost, wrapped in clutter and unnecessary information, inhibitions, we all want to be found.

DIagrams

The first connection that I made with the word "diagrams" was the image of diagrams in a textbook especially science subjects. They usually show a movement or a process with simplified imagery( use of line) and a concise explanation of what is "happening" in the diagram. I decided that it would be fun to experiment with how to illustrate intangible phenomena, how line and space seemed to instantly connect to a feeling, has connotation.  In some instances I wrote the explanation first and then drew, but I also enjoyed the surprise finding/ defining what the  drawing  illustrates after I had drawn it. HTe simple action of scanning and printing the images distanced them from a tactile look, so that they would come across in a more scientifically "proven" way.

Final Project reseach

Kevin Calisto

Leslie Shellow

Rosemary Powelsom

 

 

 

Giligan Gezler

Marie LaCure

Maps