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.

Water Drawings



The texture of the stairs with the combination of water, and blazing sunlight gave them a very bling effect. I originally wanted to have the water trail down the corners of the steps until it reached the bottom. But i discovered that the way that the water was acting with it's environment was more interesting while it was standing still.



I decided to elaborate on the idea of the way that water ripples a small drop in a body of water affects water that is meters away, yet the original point of contact loses it's importance because it smooths out very quickily. I started out with marks that imitated the ripple and as parts of it disappeared the remaining shapes determined the next.

10 Foot Draw

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As the prompt for "Ten  Foot Draw" was "make your mark" I realized that a way to create visual/literal impression upon the viewer  is to use paint to make textures and tones. I accredit a lot of who I am to, the places I have been and the visual textures and colors of these places affect me. I chose to string up 2 inch squares across a wall and around a corner to show the continuity of time, yet the way that memory sometimes conceals certain aspects of memory. The squares resembled paint swatches and quilt patches, both lend to the idea of visual representation of memory.