Artist Statement: for this project I took apart one of my sculptures and made it a nice back drop. with having a lot go friends that are seniors and helping them with there senior portfolio I was inspired to think of what I would want my back drop would we. I took the triangles from my paper sculpture and laid it on top of some burlap fabric.I pick this because I have always loved the feel of burlap and I picked the paper sculpture because I was my favorite project in the class.
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Materials Used : Balas Wood Paper wood glue Artist Statment: For these two Sculptures, We had to create one with just Balsa wood and one with balsa wood and paper. for the balsa wood, I wanted to bring the ocean to the classroom. I wanted someone to think about the Ocean while on a boat when the sun is setting. for the second sculpture, I used the paper and balsa wood to give a camp vibe with the paper 3D triangals.
Materials Used: Wood Wood Glue Artist Statment : For the Memento project, a boarding memory I picked memory of when I was looking st going boarding school my senior year. This memory meant a lot to me because of the journey that it not only brought me on but my mom and my family as well. Each side of the sculpture is a feeling that I experienced on my journey. the steps represent the steps I had to take in finding the school and the start of my journey. the part of a tree trunk represents's the symbol of the school its self.
Materials Used : Card Board Wood Glue Black Ink Artist Statment : For the floating Architecture project, I took Architecture from the Roman times as well as the Middle Ages. I took the concept of the arches from the Roman Coliseum. and the triangled roof that the Middle ages had brought me to make the floating roof. The class was only able to use blake and white so that is what brought me to use the colors that I did.
Sentence One: "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale." -On Longing, Susan Stewart For this sentence, I pick a picture of me and my friends in a snow globe. This photo was taken at an event at the college. You can tell how big the snow globe is because we are inside of it. Sentence two: "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience." -On Longing, Susan Stewart For this Picture, I picked a picture of me at the bean in Chicago. I pick this picture because I will all ways look back at it and remember my time there. I will never forget getting right off of the plain and the group that I was with was already making plains to go and that moment was very special to me. Sentence three: "The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body." For this quote, its I picked a picture of my mom’s birthday cake. I pick this because ...
Materials Used : Rope handmade labels Tissue Paper Ink sharpie Artist Statment: My identity project represents what I think I am and how a view myself as well as what society see's in me as an African American women and my viewpoints on how my family sees me. In a world in which we judge someone before we even have a conversation with them has always fascinated me. As an African American women, and that fact that I have people tell me that don't live up to the standers of being into or pour so I am not a true African American woman. The stereotypes that society puts on African American women are in red. In blue, I put what I think my family views me as. I believe that how someone believes their family views them plays a big role in how they view them selfs. I personally come from a very supportive family so I used words that were told to me by my family members. I used the ...