Architectural Relief

For this project, I was to select two architectural time periods and then merge/combine/adapt the elements and principles of each style to create a relief sculpture so it could clearly be seen that I was inspired by the time periods chosen.  

We were only to use the certain materials listed below:

1. White foam board (any thickness). Can also use black.*
2. White paper (came in your kit). Can also use black paper.*
3. Balsa wood*
4. Clear packing tape OR Elmers Wood Glue OR Tracing Paper.*
5. Mask tape*
6. White thread/string. Can also use black or gray.*
7. Straight pins (with a flat head) for construction.
8. Box cutter/utility knife (must use to cut foam core and balsa).
9. Can use glue as long as it does not show. Use the Elmers Wood Glue. 
10. Can use black ink or pen for mark making or to tint paper and/or wood.

 * indicates that this material had to be used as a design element showing in the final project.

The two time periods chosen were Byzantine and Egyptian.

Below are final and in process photos of the whole project.

Memento

For this memento project, we were asked to make a non-representational sculpture of a memory. 
We were to use no more, no less, than three (3) materials. I used elements and principles of design to symbolize my memory

Finally, what was created is a free standing sculpture that is meant to be held in hand. 

The materials I chose were:

1.) Masking tape

2.)Hair/fur

3,)A white washcloth

 I chose these materials all for specific reasons. The fur was to represent the warmth that the kitten from my memory needed to stay warm. The fur that let him down. The fur that didn't quite work as well as it should have. The fur that led to his freezing to death.

I chose the white washcloth not only to represent the innocence of that poor little kitten but also because there were the washcloths that I laid over him outside while I waited overnight for his mom to come back for him.

The tape was chose because it collects everything with its sticky side and it is so moldable. This memory will stick with me forever. I'll never lose that picture of my kitten, frozen in a shoebox, clearly showing that he was trying to stay warm. That kitten was a few weeks old. He had a lot of learning and growing up to do. Just as the take was impressionable, so was he. He just never got the chance to be molded as the tape did.

Masking Tape Shoes

For this project, it was asked of us to make a pair of shoes, with laces, and solely out of masking tape. It was quite a fun process and probably my favorite project of all semester.

I started by thoroughly dismantling  an old shoe so that it was completely torn apart and each separate piece that made up the shoe was exposed. From there, I took the pieces and made a replica of each one using the masking tape.

After each piece was recreated, I assembled them just as one would assemble a real shoe. Here are some of the final pictures and in process photos of the entire project.

Body Happenings

For this project, I had to create a wearable sculpture that did something such as open, close, make noise, blow in a fan, etc. I chose to create something that enhanced my ability to create noise.

They are called stick fingers. Each separate finger was created with masking tape, a base, and an object at the tip. Each tip of all 10 fingers had a different object so that when they came in contact with another object, they made different noises.