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

Masking Tape

Cardboard Collection

Final ( in progress)

 

 

 

Caught up

The concept behind this project is based on the old practice of tying a string around one's finger as a reminder of something that needs to be done. I often get frustrated with the student life, cramming as much data into a given amount of time as possible. I wanted to express the idea of living with our hands (represntative of our minds) constantly tied up with things to remember, so I connected Deborah's fingers on her right hand with one piece of string.  It is meant to look natural, because we have had to accept this lifestyle of constantly storing up data, being preoccupied with many things at one time. I tried to photograph my model, Deborah in a way that portrayed her going about daily activites oblivious to the fact that her hand is slightly dibiltated.

Process- Getting Connected

Walk the Line

thought Process: I was thinking of how routine and somehwhat boring walking can be, and then i was thinking of ways to put new interest into something i do everyday. I realized that walking backwards is a way of walking blindly and seeing/ feeling new things at the same time. It requires a certain amount of trust and letting go of control. I chose the toilet paper as line, because it mimics the white painted lines of the road in the color and width and because it's fluidity represents freedom. i see freedom and trust going pretty much hand in hand.

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I Found You!

Each of these items were found while I was walking either to or from my house, either along A1A or on Flagler Blvd. They all appealed to me in the way that they seem to purposely have a visual appeal. Most of them are  containers for popularized consumer items, that are consumed within a short period of time, yet there was such care taken to make them look like they contained something extaordianary. I thought that it is ironic that the container outlives the product and that in a the environment where they are sold they would probably just register to me as visual noise, but in discarded contrast against organic surroundings they register as bling, as something that is "pretty" just for the sake of being pretty. The beads and the leaf obviously are not packaging items but they were a couple of the initial items that I collected  and it was their formal qualities that sparked my interest in the consumer items.