Identity Map Relief

Identity Map Relief :

I unfortunately don't have an image for this I waited to long to grab my work and got locked out of the art building for the semester, but the inspiration for my project was my old high school.

To represent the school I tried to show different paths and different areas of the two story outdoor building with controlled chaos. I used spray paint to further represent paths I would take going to and from different classes. I also wanted to show a different view form any angle you looked at and held the art piece.

Fluxus Box

Materials: wood carved strategically every other plank is carved in deep, every yellow line is carved in. dimensions: about 11 inches
  My box is based off the Movie : Killer Klowns from outer space.

I Designed each item to represent something specific from the movie that wasn't exactly a scene more so representational of events that happened like for instance I stuffed 48+ tickets inside a single lightbulb to represent the amount of people who died in the movie. I used tickets because usually if your going to a show or a circus you would buy or present a ticket when you enter the circus.

Memento: Ode to a Broken Heart

Ode to a Broken Heart: have you ever loved someone so much that when things inevitably end your just left heart broken. It's a piece that looks broken but you were to push it back together it might just fit . It wont be the same but it might just fit.

The process I used to create this was piecing to cylinder cardboard pieces together one slightly raised up. and pouring wood glue at the bond sprayed with cooking nonstick oil, which created a clear cover at the bottom. This allowed me to pour more wood clue and a spiraling down toothpaste with wood glue all over it mixed with non stick oil. I then placed it in the oven at 350 for about 5 or 10 minutes.

After taking it out I then cut a straight line down on both sides and split it open revealing the toothpaste and cooked wood glue that expanded as it baked. I would like to think it represent self healing Trying to piece everything back together.

Soap Sculpture

Soap Sculpture of a Polar Bear materials used : soap carving tools, soap, and miniature animal as model.

Balsa Wood

Balsa Wood Project, relatively small in dimension I can hold it in my hand.
we did two also wood sculptures my other one not pictured was much smaller with a round circular balsa base with pins poked through one side making a wave like texture and a glazed over pointed part of pins on the other side. It had similar resemblance to a stalagmite.

In the pictured balsa wood sculpture I tried to represent different info/ views from each side you looked at the sculpture.

Tape Shoes

Materials used: Masking Tape and shoes for shape reference.

Modeled the tape shoes off a basic pair of Old Navy Grey shoes

On Longing Exercise

On Longing Exercise

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale"

The image above represents depth in an image of how small we are compared to an ocean and sky present.

"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience"

This Quote represents this image accurately cause I have a medal from a 13.1 half marathon I ran and the medal is used to represent the miles and distance I ran in that race as well as my experience I had while running the race.

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three dimensional int the miniature that which can be enveloped by the body"

Not entirely sure what that means but to me I love this image I captured its in time square where every second a new news heading is displayed. I waited for the perfect moment to capture a memerable heading such as "They became best friends"

"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to posses both a specimen and a trophy"

I believe this suits the quote it's of a squirrel moments before it decided to jump to another branch. I believe every photo taken is a souvenir its a moment captured in time that will almost never happen again. Sure there are moments similar but never that singular moment.

"The place of origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated"

You most likely don't know where this photo was taken unless I tell you that the mind is left to its imagination. In which case possibly makes a person appreciate a photo more. to be able to experience something from somewhere else without even traveling to the place.

Touch: Inner Climate

"After all our palette of feelings through touch is more elaborate than just hot, cold, pain, and pressure."

 Touch when it comes to inner feel relates to outer feel you can't really feel anything inside such as warmth or cold unless your body first experienced it from the outside. Such as burning a lighter underneath your tongue. You will feel the heat before it actually starts to burn.

"Most of the cold receptors lie in the face, especially on the tip of the nose, the eyelids, lips, and forehead and the genitals are sensitive to cold as well. The tongue is more sensitive to heat than many other areas of the body."

The feeling of heat on ones body can be both alarming and comforting alarming if you light a lighter and burn your thumb, but warming if its a fireplace and you are sitting next to it warming yourself up. Life can be the same way people experience everything differently one good experience for one person could be hell for another.

Touch: Kissing

        

First Touch in a relationship or in anything intimate can be sensational, as well as scary. Yet it is the pleasure and emotional experience that takes us back to it.

"No other sense can arose you like touch, if touch didn't feel good there would be no species."

From my experience most intimate experiences start with a touch. whether it is a touch of a hand or kissing. This type of touch is normally a stepping stone towards more intimacy. Through both how you kiss and hold someones hand can truly express the emotions you feel towards the person.

"A kiss is the height of voluptuousness an expense of time and an expanse of spirit in th sweet toil of romance. When ones bones quiver, anticipation rockets, but gratification is kept at bay on purpose, in exquisite torment, to build to a succulent crescendo of emotion and passion."