Module progress

The progress on my water bottle sculpture, I decided to stick with the ribbed bottles only, not using any of the Fiji or blue or green bottles I had. I saw that the bottles i had been using had their caps on, which helped the piece, but the ones i got more recently from the recycling center don't have caps, which might be distracting, but I cant get the caps off without taking the whole thing apart. I really like the shape of it overall, it has a great curve to it, and it has great synergy with the bottles themselves.

Word as Image progress

The beginning of my word as image pieces, both are scans of the newspaper pieces here. The first one is rather obvious in its meaning, being the one that is supposed to be synchronous with the image. The second one, which doesn't have the bars added here (which is what really makes it what its supposed to be),  is meant to be the one opposite in meaning and image. With the bars going across the page, blocking off parts of the words, creating an image of no freedom.

Cardboard bone final

Final piece for the cardboard project. I really liked the simplicity of the whole thing and the detail pieces, i think they really caught the main feeling of the bone without being overly complicated. i would have liked to add more detail to the "wings" but it would have weighted them down too much, they're already sagging significantly. I had initially planned on covering the bottom part of it with the brown paper, but i don't think that would have worked too well, and it pulls off what its does well enough without it. I missed a couple spots where the cardboard had print that i could have covered or not used, but i didn't really see them initially as they were kind of out of the way. Overall I like the piece, and wish I could have followed through with my initial layering plan, but that would have taken much too long.

Texture photo safari

Here we were to go out and take pictures of various patterns in our environment, and classify them under rhythm/pattern/texture and under formal/informal-structured/erratic.

Stained glass. Very informal pattern, maybe some slight texture. Taken at my fathers workshop.

Piece of wood. Linear pattern, slightly informal, but almost seems formal. Fathers workshop.

Driveway  in my neighborhood. Definitely a texture, also very informal.

Drapes. Depending on where you look there's either a pattern or rhythm. The folds create a rhythm, but the print is a pattern. Both are very formal. Room of my house.

Bag of marshmallows. Pattern, rotation and translation. I see it as mostly formal. Kroger.

Green bedsheets. Translated lines. Very formal pattern here. My room, not on my bed.

Back of my phone. Formal, translated dots. Texture. WASH building.

Wooden blinds. Two way rhythm, vertical and horizontal. Translated. Very formal. My room.

Cardboard progress

Work on our cardboard project goes well. Like many, i began with the idea of layering cardboard to build the shape needed, but scrapped that idea mostly when it began to take much too long, i decided to simplify my design soon after finishing one small part using the layers, which would be later reinforced. I made the large wings out of two layers to strengthen them, although I'm afraid to add much else to them, as the weight might overwhelm the piece. I made the drum out of a few simple cut and shaped pieces and added braces to strengthen them, and i might leave it as is, with the open spot, because it does its job there anyways. I like the way the curly things on top shaped, although the rest of the parts up there aren't too accurate. Overall this piece, this cow vertebrae, or what have you,  is a very complicated item to make out of cardboard.

Looking at it in this picture makes it seem rather menacing for some reason........I like it.

Human dots

Our instructions here were to take our dot compositions, some of which originally came from photos as reference, and turn them into photos, using ourselves and other items to represent dots. Some people digitally edited theirs to add contrast, or even add dots where they were supposed to be, but i decided to leave the pictures natural, leaving it to the picture itself and the viewer to tell where the dots should be, instead of telling them. The pictures also needed to be black and white, and at one point I think we needed to be in the picture ourselves, but that wasn't entirely too clear. Here are my two compositions.