identity mask.

   

in progress: identity mask.

it's about time: soap carving.

"Carve two forms from life (a small, plastic animal) using soap as your medium. Observe and depict proportions.  Apply concepts of time to one of your carvings so that the form no longer represents your chosen animal.  Use the same animal for both forms."

For this project, we were to carve two animals using soap... At first I thought it would be fun: something new. I was so wrong... it was beyond hard and very challenging. For me, I like to look at one small detail and work with that, and then go to another area. This project challenged me because I couldn't look at just one area, I had to look at the whole form before carving.

the start to my first carving

when the polar bear began to take shape

start to my second bear

both polar bears side by side

both polar bears together

now the fun part: destroying one of my soap carvings!!

started dripping water on the bear

the water gave it an awesome texture, so i froze the bear to see what would happen
(and because polar bears live in the arctic)

i started to cut him in half...

one chunk i dug a hole into and stuffed it with cotton, and dripped hot red wax on it.
(i used cotton for the polar bears fur, and red wax because red is danger, and polar bears an endangered.)

showing both of the halves

started burning the other half, i liked the black smooth texture it gave

i stuck a bunch of pins into it, taking bit apart and moving it around and then used rubber bands.
(i wanted the rubber bands because polar bears eat seals, and seals are rubbery)

i added black ink to the wax and cotton ball sculpture because polar bears have black skin, and i like how it didn't exactly stick to the wax/soap

 

gregor's room project.

Assignment:
Using only white copy paper (do not use card stock) make three paper sculptures that visually narrate The Metamorphosis. Employ elements and principles of design to visually communicate your intentions.

This assignment uses limited materials and does not allow the use of tape, glue or any other form of adhesive. 

The three paper sculptures are to represent the setting discussed in The Metamorphosis and will be miniature.  The three sculptures are:
1.) A bed (must contain a mattress, a box spring, a bed frame, a headboard and at least one pillow and one blanket)
2.) Gregor
3.) Your Choice (I chose the couch that Gregor hides under.)

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For Gregor's room I went with what was required, the bed and blanket/pillow, Gregor and then I went with a couch. The bed was a bit of an experiment as I folded paper to make square poles. From there I made quite a few 'poles' and then used an Exto Knife to cut holes into the frame and put it together like a puzzle. For the mattress and boxspring, I used one sheet of copy paper for each, and made it into a rectangular box and stuffed it with paper to give it weight. The pillow and blanket were inked, then crumpled up (a lot) and stained with a tea bag to give it a really gross look.
Gregor himself is just a bunch of paper watered down and patted together and baked in a toaster oven. He was then inked with red, orange, black and brown (which turned him a black cherry color) and placed back into the toaster over, where he turned into a very ugly, hard bug.
The couch was essentially made the same way as the bed, just smaller, made out of posts. But because the couch had a little bit more weight and now as big, I ended up having to 'sew' the posts to stay up. For sewing, I cut tiny strips of paper and rolled them up and poked holes in the posts and strung the paper through. I inked it blue because it is a cold color and Gregor's family seemed very cold and harsh to him.

kafka's metamorphosis response.

Although I read this story all through high school, this time I was reading it for a different reason: A visual reason.

Whenever I would picture Gregor, I always pictured a huge, gross beetle/cockroach. Sometime I would go back and forth on this notion because at times he seems very small, but also very large. I believe Gregor is a very sad man, who was pushed around and walked on his whole life, until eventually the natural state of his life evolved into him morphing into a bug. His family doesn’t notice the change because they have always seen him as a bug; a minuscule, meaningless bug. His family doesn’t appreciate him, and that is sad. I think that it is depressing that even though he has transformed into this large bug, all he worries about is getting to work.

At the end of the story, I believe is the saddest part: His father pushes him into the room, and slams the door, as if to say they are done with him. This whole story is depressing and heartbreaking because Gregor never asked to be turned into a bug.

elements and principles in 3d form.

scale.

texture.

focal point.

repetition.

lists.

books I have read.
list #1

   

     

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books I want to read.
list #2

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people I find inspiring.
list #3

my mom.

 

demi lovato.

maggie smith.

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music.
list #4

My Spotify favorites 

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movies.
list #5