Final Modular Madness Piece

This is my final piece to modular madness and I'm surprised at the comments I recieved on it. Everyone seemed positive about my piece and I believe Kathy was the only one who gave advice on how to change it. She said that the slight extension off to the right did not need to be so sharp.

Process Pics

These are some images of the night before the modular madness presentation. I had just finished applying the sweetgum balls and I actually thought I was done, but I still made more adjustments in the morning.

Moduler Madness

The objects (sweetgum balls) were placed together to make giant rings to represent the spheric shape of the object. The piece could have easily been made by another object, but the texture of the sweetgum ball gave it a better image. There was no problems with the materials except for the occasional poking problem with the texture. I discoved that gloves are necessary when working with sharp material. The scale of the peice could of been bigger, but the materials seemed perfect. The peice was supposed to be perfectly circluar, but because the object weighed down the structure, it gave it an imperfect shape. It seems the final peice is more ambitious because my ideas for it changed so many times that when the final idea popped into my head, it just seemed right for it to be that way. Because the peice isnt perfectly shaped, it seems to help it; however, I'm iffy about the peice reaching for the water. I think shape and texture are the dominant elements in my peice because they play an important role to how the object appears in its surroundings. I think repetition plays a big role in my piece because of the continuing circles and sweetgum balls. The object itself is a dried out seed just stacking up on the ground and the piece shows it stacking up and reaching for water like how a seed would. Viewers probably dont look at the seed as dried out and reaching for the water and they probably dont think of the peice as stacking like how the balls do in nature every year. The piece is reaching for water so that is why I placed it by the sink. The piece responds to the water flowing from the sink so that it can be reguvanated.



Staying in Line Rough Draft

I've always tried to stay in line. I always did what I was told to do with no questions asked; however, this line I was always told to stay on was constricting me. I tried to do what I wanted to do, but staying on the line was what I was told I must do. So one day, I decided to take a step off of it. The feeling I felt at first was forgein and slightly awkward, but soon, I began to smile in delight. The pressure on my shoulders was gone and the smell of freedom flowed through my body. I was able to say no to the things I was not able to when I was on the line and felt no consiquences from my actions. However, one day, I went to far. Instead of listening to my mother's words of wisdom about the use of fire, I went against her orders and grabbed the matches out of the cabinet anyway. I wanted to know what it was like to strike a match and let the dangerous substance dance in my hand like I had seen my father do many times in the past. The situation went from fun to disasterous in a matter of seconds. My hands were burned by the red and orange demon as the wooden pole holding it up fell from my grasp and onto my skin. At that moment in time, I kept telling myself that I should've listened to what my mother told me to do. I should of stayed in line. That was when I realized that, even though it is difficult, staying in line is what prevents people from hurting themself or others. So after I was able to get my wounds healed, I vowed to stay in line once again...at least...on occassions.

Line Pics

A vent

Our In the Making book

Blinds

Read between the lines

Tiles



Cardboard Proposals

These were the proposals for the cardboard project and I find it disappointing that coming up with ideas for doorknobs was a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Gumball Madness!!

It's really hard to see in the photo, but they are stacked in twos and will begin to from an arch that you can sit under.

In this photo, there are two rows and they begin to climb like stairs and they will wrap around until they make the never-ending staircaise.

I have four of them bonded by the stems to make a diamond which will then be used to...well, I'm still looking into ideas for it.

This was actually my first photo that I took. Apparently if you crush the sweetgum balls together, they stick together quite well, (as well as the carpet). However, I think I'm going to stick with hot glue in fear of the balls falling apart during the building process.  

It is really hard to see in the photo, but the sweetgum balls are actually twisting into a DNA like shape.