3D to 2D Assignment

3-D to 2-D

3D to 2D Assignment

Take photos of all the work you completed for this class. Select an image(s) to use for this assignment.  Manipulate an image(s), to create an entirely new image. Post the final solution on your Design II blog.  You do not have to print out the image.  The post is due during final exam day and time.

DO NOT use a documentation photo of your work.  The image has to be manipulated (either on the computer or by hand and then scanned in).  The final solution does not have to represent the original sculpture.

You can manipulate image(s) any way you choose. You can use photoshop, add music, add movement with animation of video. Other options don't involve the computer. For instance, you can cut and paste by hand, draw on image(s), incorporate sewing or paper cutting techniques. You can then scan the image and post the scan on your blog.

I am looking for thoughtful solutions that demonstrate effort and an awareness of the elements and principles of design.

Final Project

Basing this off of one of my sketches created about my mask (the rainbow one) I wanted to capture that in another aspect by using parts of my photos and a drawing and combining them together in a 2D form. By making all the figures black and white in that photo and using a rainbow to point out my true mask, I had decided to use inverse figures like the black and white ones and surround them around a figure created of nothing but splatter rainbow paint. It almost reminds me of hieroglyphics in ancient Egypt. To do this, I took one of my favorite mask photos and took the bulls head from my sketch and used the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop to combine them together.  Next I made that into a layer on top of my splatter paint layer and inversed it and then let go to make the splatter paint figure. Then I had copied and pasted the inverse figures around it and added old paper into the background. This was not that difficult since I have done it before and so it took me about 30 minutes since I had to remember each step. I had a lot of fun creating this and wanted it to stand out like most of my work has this semester. Enjoy! :)

Masked Identity
Assignment:
Listen to This American Life segment, Switcharoo, Episode 468.  Link below.  Write a personal response and post on your blog.

Through the making of a sculptural head piece and imagery, compose a visual narrative that offers clues to your identity without showing your face. Or you can interpret the term "masked identity" in another way and make sculpture and imagery that conceals your identity.

Use materials that emulate skin and skeleton (trace paper and wire) to construct a head piece.
The constructed head piece needs to cover your face, head and shoulders.
Once the form is complete, video or photograph yourself (or someone else) wearing the form.
Imagery should be meaningful and demonstrate a narrative.
Consider all formal and conceptual components when staging photo/video.
The final solution for this assignment is photography or video.
Upload/post on your class blog.

Response to video:
I believe that in some point of everyone's life, they want to be someone else. I know I do. That is why Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year, just because the fact that I can be whoever I want to be and not get judged because of it and the fact that everyone else around me is doing the same thing. I believe this want and need is due to the mass media. Whether its magazines, movies, commercials, books, whatever it may be, I think they all cause us to grieve over that fascination of being another person. An example of this is the models we see everywhere around us, especially those used for Victoria's secret. They make us girls want to have that perfect, face, perfect body, and make us think that we want to have a perfect life like theirs (even though their life may not be perfect). It all is the same. We look at someone else and see what they have and tend to want it for ourselves or just judge them and their lifestyle. We all wanna be like them! Cindy Sherman expresses these wants through the many alter egos that she creates in order to express her wants as well as societies wants. She speaks with her body language, props, and outfits alone. She seems to not just put herself into her characters shoes but actually think that she herself is that character. Much like actors on set when they are being filmed, like Johnny Depp when he was Jack Sparrow. Some people on set described him as that character himself because he loved playing that role so much that he became that role. We take on our lives by the questions and wants we have of other peoples lives. That is what makes us who we are as individuals.

Work in Progress

 I created my mask to resemble a diamond shape as well as the animal, a bull. This is because I went around asking my boyfriend as well as others what words they would use to describe me and one of the most popular words was stubborn. A bull is used to symbolize this as well as the diamond which can only be cut by another diamond.This was then used in my pictures I had decided to make along with the fact that my friends said I'm finally no longer a tom boy which is expressed by the dress. All are me going against the rules and being stubborn in each picture. All as follows:
Final Product

Me picking a flower where we are not allowed to. I just love how the dress blends in with the actual plant itself.

Me lifting my dress to pee in public like a dog as well as using a cone as a mega horn.

Going the opposite direction the sign is telling me to go.

Blocking the "Pay Meter" to make it say "Pay Me!"

Blocking the gates that are not supposed to be blocked.

Behind a gate in an area that I am not supposed to be in. 

 Sketches

Paper Stacking
 Assignment:
Read the sections I highlighted in Touch, A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman.  A hard copy was handed out at the beginning of the semester.  Post your respone to the reading on your blog.

Create two stacked paper forms.  The first is observed from life.  The second is your own design.

#1 - Observe From Life.  Use your eyes and your hands to understand shape and line. Your subject is a fruit or vegetable.  I suggest purchasing a couple of pieces of produce. In case your first idea does not work, you have back up.

Keep the size of your paper sculpture the same as the actual produce.  

I showed some examples in class that were sanded (using the woodshop sander). Sanding the paper stacks is not required. If you wish to sand your sculpture, you must contact Russell Maycumber, woodshop manager. Russell will train you on the equipment. You can e-mail Russell or stop by the woodshop located inside Studio 3. Russell's hours are posted on the outside of the woodshop doors.

Suggestions - green peppers, horned melon, squash, star fruit, pear, apple, banana, lemon, celery, large mushroom.

No blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, grapes or a small mushroom.

#2 - Your Own Design.  Using the same materials and the process of paper stacking as for the fruit/vegetable, design your own paper stack sculpture.

Prepare your design by doing research on-line.  You must have a sources that you derive your idea from.  Sources can be visual, literature, history or music based.  At least five sources are needed.  Post your visual research on your class blog.

Stay away from cliches and conventional symbols.

The size of your own design should be about the size of your hand.

Push for an innovative design.  Consider how interior and exterior work together.  Not all pieces of the sculpture have to attach - could you have parts that are able to detach?  Consider the use of "stilts" to life sculpture off of table, creating a space between sculpture and table. Pull from all previous projects to fuel your ideas about construction.

Incorporate color into your own design.  While the first sculpture, of the fruit/veg, will focus only on proportions, the second sculpture will be innovative and include color.  The paper responds well to ink (or diluted paint).  Gold/silver/red leaf or metallic paints can also be interesting.  Crushed pastels, rubbed into stacked paper is another option.

Do not use any other paper besides the assigned paper.  If your idea calls for the inclusion of other papers (newspaper, magazines, colored paper), see me and we will discuss.  Sometimes a compromise is possible.

Personal Response: "Touch" by Diane Ackerman
 Language is steeped in metaphors of touch! What seems real we call "tangible". Touch often takes the most time to forget out of all of our sense and I believe this is true because I can remember how a rabbit feels more than the exact pattern of its fur, the size, shape, and smell, it offers. Nother thing that stands out in this article is the sentence stating that people who aren't touched as children don't like to touch as adults. I think this is both true and false because from personal experience, I have a close friend who does not like to be touched and they weren't as much as a baby. And also in shows with psychopaths who went through that, normally they act as if they are craving the touch. Touch is everywhere! Due to the textures on everything and everyone! It is true! If touch didn't feel good, there wouldn't be species, parenthood, or survival. One of my favorite examples of this is of a baby monkey and a machine that gave out milk and one made of soft fabrics. The monkey chose the soft fabric over the milk. I would to because to me touch is a sense of warm safety. We instinctively begin touching right away. We also touch to clarify things. This is how we figure out whats what if we are in the dark or want to figure something out. Too bad sharks can't touch, otherwise we would have no shark attacks.

 
Finished Project

The first paper stacking was easy. It was exactly like the first soap carving only with paper stacking. I had to follow the guidelines exactly and recreate my fruit/vegetable which was a pumpkin. After completing it, I had then sanded it down a bit to make it smoother. That was the hardest part because of the fact that the sanders were not working properly for me. After that I had decided to add a glaze on top of it to hold the structure together more firmly. This ended up giving it an earthly tone and an industrious smell which worked to my advantage. The second paper stacking was an inventive one in which I was allowed to make any shape I desired. I have always been fascinated with Broadway and its scenery. That is why I had decided to base mine off of a stage and its plays. I watched "Dr. Calligari" and noticed how the scenes were always drawn out and warped just like the characters and their costumes. I wanted to imply this into my own work as well, and so I built the structure from bottom to top. I created a base which warped up into a spiral and then added a sort of fan onto the bottom and painted the warp red and painted it from red to white. This expressed a stage and its actor as well as the curtains, although i switched everything by putting the curtains on the bottom. I had then switched the colors around making the curtains white and the stage red. Expressing how the actors as well as the stage and play itself all join together into one show and one show only.

Sketches

 

It's About Time, Assignment Guidelines

It's About Time

It's About Time, Assignment Guidelines

Assignment:
Watch:
ART 21 Video, Janine Antoni. See link below.  Write a personal response to Antoni's work and post on your blog.

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.  Details below.

Materials:
-A couple of bars of soap (any kind, I suggest a variety - in case a brand is too soft or too fragrant)
-Kemper ribbon carving tool set
-Banning wheel
-Small plastic animal or figure (if needed, you can borrow from me)
-Toothpicks can sometimes be useful for detail work. 
-Butter knife can also be useful.
-Ivory soap is VERY soft. I do not suggest using Ivory soap for this assignment. On the other hand, Ivory Soap floats...so, maybe it is worth it for you to use if your idea involves floating.  ---Glycerin soap is transparent, so it can be used for this quality.  

Details:
Carving #1
Will be used for an "observation" grade. The soap carving does not have to be the exact size of the plastic animal.  However, proportions need to be correct.  Make sure to turn in your plastic animal along with observational carving.

Carving #2
Use your least successful carving for the time based portion of this assignment. 
The goal is to remove the form as far away as possible from its original state. 
Employ at least four processes that address "addition" AND at least four processes that address "subtraction" for a total of eight processes.  You may have more than eight processes. 
Use photographs and/or video to document the stages of your process and the final solution.  Set up a professional background to photograph the form in each stage of change.  
Process pictures of you performing the change do not have to have a professional background. 
Post final images/video on your blog.  
Clearly label each stage and state what you did and what materials you used.For instance, "Additive. I put holes in soap and added ink to each hole".  
Final solution can result in the soap turning to liquid, or a frozen form or multiple pieces. 
Response

Janine Antoni's work is quite intriguing. Watching her make her way through ideas and creating the two sculptures showed me that soap carving isn't as hard as it seems. Also the way she made one out of soap and one out of chocolate and eroded them in a natural way gave me ideas for my second bunny. Since one was chocolate, she had licked it until it was a smoother face. The soap one she had washed over and over, like how we wash our hands with soap naturally. This made me think about the animal I bought and what I could do to it that wouldn't be too far off from what we normally do. Then I asked my dad how he used to eat rabbit and how he'd cook them and got the idea of biting into the soap itself and all. This was recycled in my attempts of changing the second bunny dues to me biting into the bunny and dragging him on the ground with my bike. I wanted to bring in a child-like attribute to the care and "playtime" with the second bunny itself.

In Process Photos

Soap Carving Complete!

Plastic Bunny and my best soap carved bunny

Best Carved Bunny

Bunny that did not win the draw

Family Reunion after changes!

The first bunny was really easy to make, all I had to do was follow instructions and carve it as close to the plastic bunny as I possibly could. I started carving out the shape first, including the head and the legs,a and tail.

It's about time

Messing with the second bunny by adding and subtracting to it

1.)  Is it hot in here or what? - placed the soap rabbit on candle warmer and let it sit for an hour. (adding)

2.) Mmmmm, tasty! - Took a huge bite out of the bunny on the right side. (subtracting)

3.) I can fix this! - took pins and stuck them through the pieces bitten off and stuck them back to the bunny. (adding) 

4.) Going out for a stroll- Added on yarn to the bunny and tied him up to my bike and rode around on the bike while he was dragging on the ground. (subtracted)

5.)That's a great way to lose a few pounds - Cut off half of the body leaving the butt in the air. (subtracted)

6.) Peter cottontail - glued cottone onto his tail to create his own since he is a baby cottontail bunny (added)

7.) Is it hot in here or what - put him in the microwave for 4 minutes and 30 seconds (added)

8.) Still losing weight! - Tore off some of the pieces that remained (subtracted)

9.) Now time for some color- Added some yellow ink and cereal and microwaved

Sketches

Memento
 me·men·to [muh-men-toh]

noun, plural me·men·tos, me·men·toes.

1.

an object or item that serves to remind one of a person, past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir.

2.

anything serving as a reminder or warning.

3.

( initial capital letter, italics  ) Roman Catholic Church . either of two prayers in the canon of the Mass, one for persons living and the other for persons dead.

Origin:

1350–1400; Middle English  < Latin mementō,  imperative of meminisse  to remember

Usage note

Memento  is sometimes spelled momento,  perhaps by association with moment.  The word is actually related to remember.  One of its earliest meanings was “something that serves to warn.” The meaning “souvenir” is a recent development: The stone animal carvings are mementos of our trip to Victoria.

Assignment:
-Make a non-representational sculpture of a memory. For example, a person, place or event. Use no more than three materials.  You may deconstruct and manipulate materials.You can use the same material repeatedly.
-Be aware of the materials you select, methods used to construct and the juxtaposition of the materials. For instance, is it significant for you to weld, stitch, weave or tie any of the materials?
-Remember you are working in three-dimension so be sure to take the time to walk around your piece and/or work on a banning wheel so you can turn piece while working.
-Final solution should be able to fit in the palms of your hands (or two hands).
-****Important - Do not replicate an object. Rather, use elements and principles of design to communicate and/or symbolize the memory.
-Consider line direction. Is your memory taller than you? Could stacking or a tower like construction communicate height? Vast, therefore allowing for a horizontal presentation. Is the landscape (if you have one) of your memory closed in? Open with no boundaries? 
  
Notes: "On Longing" by Susan Stewart
1. "The body is the primary mode of preceding scale."
2. "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experienced is demonstrated by the souvenir.' The souvenir distinguishes experiences."
3. "The souvenir residues the public, the monumental and the three dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."
 4. and 5. "The souvenir is used most often to evoke a voulentary memory of childhood."
6. "To have a souvenir of the exotic, is to posses both a specimen and atrophy."
7. "The place of origin must remain unattainable in order for desire to be generated."
8. The function of the souvenir is to envelope the present within the past."

Personal Response to: "Inventory/ The Tokens
I would not like to wear my number and a tag like those babies had to. But I was happy to read that all children were accepted rather than being left out. Their tags were quite decorated though especially the ones in shapes of objects such as the heart and fish. Those tokens however, were more of a way of telling them apart rather than that of a memory, even though the mothers gave them to them as a parting type gift. I don't feel that they are representational due to this. Rather they are just there for the children to be tagged. That is why I wanted mine to be more representational and actually go with my memory unlike these.
Finished Project

Explanation: This whole Memento was based off of my first meeting with my boyfriend before we started dating. We had met in a haunted house where both of us played characters in that haunted house, me: michael myers him: Jason. Most of my memories about that night include the actual building and colors involved within the haunted house. It was held in the Flea Market which was completely white which is why I chose that for the base color of my project, as well as the fake haunted house blood everywhere, the red was used. I had made this structure after a foam board for a reason as well. This is because while I was getting to know Adam, I used to play around and take his fake machette away which was made out of foam, and I would hide it from him like he would do to my knife. I had used red thread to not only symbolize blood but also to resemble the fact that both of us wore masks and since I had worked there for three years, many people came to me and had me put on their makeup and fix objects that were damaged, like Adam's mask which I had to sew together at one point. The shape of this project was also made for a specific reason. Its kite-like structure was to resemble the mask itself as well as an actual kite to show how Adam raises me up and keeps me up like the wind and kite, especially after my previous relationship, and also how Adam makes my heart soar. 

Sketches

 

Poetic Metamorphosis
Assignment: 
Read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 

(A link to the reading appears here on the class blog, see below)

Compose a vocabulary list from the reading.  Post words and definitions on your blog.

Write a personal response to the reading.  Post on your blog.

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

Do not use card stock.
If white is part of your design, white ink must be used.  Do not rely on the white copy paper.
All forms are to be three-dimensional.  Address all planes on all forms. Example, a mattress has six sides (planes).
Mattress and box spring are two separate forms.
Bed frame and headboard are two separate forms.
All forms do not have to attach.
You may use water to deconstruct paper and activate glue embedded in paper.

Reflection and Vocabulary Words:

Outline for The Metamorphosis:

  The Metamorphosis is a short story written by Kafka, of a dream scape where a young man named Gregor has suddenly woken up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant bug (roach). He finds that his body is hard due to armored plates in bow-like sections, he has many tiny legs, and it is hard for him to get out of bed because of this. Since he is a traveling salesperson who is currently living at his parents house helping his parents financially, he has to get out of bed and get on a train to work. Because of his absence and stubbornness to open the door, both his family and superior go to his door and beg him to come out or he will lose his job.  Gregor was finally able to get the door open using his mouth after he told them he would be out soon. Everyone was in shock and Mr. Manager left in a hurry do to his disgust. Gregor's already, heavy breathing mother was in shock and Gregor was confined to his room. He slowly lost his human instincts and lost the ability to speak. His sister was the only one who saw him and took care of him till his mother said she wanted to help out. There he had frightened her to the point where his father threw apples at him, lodging one into his side. After that, they rented out a room in the house as well as getting a new maid as each of them had a job since their financial issues grew. Gregor hated them at this point because of how he was neglected. One night his sister played the violin for the men renting the room and Gregor was drawn to it and moved closer to the point where the men saw him and threatened not to pay rent. At this point, the apple in his side hurt more and more each day until one day Gregor thought of the happy memories with his family and passed on. This allowed the father to kick the men and the maid out of their house where they said their final goodbyes, and lived on a happier life where the discussion took place where Gregor's sister is to be married.

Vocabulary Words:

1. Verminous-

     a. of the nature of or resembling vermin.

     b. of, pertaining to, or caused by vermin: verminous diseases.

     c. infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin: verminous shacks.

2. Irrepressible- 

     a. incapable of being repressed or restrained; uncontrollable: irrepressible laughter.

3. Reverberation-

     a. a reechoed sound.

     b. the fact of being reverberated or reflected.

     c. something that is reverberated: Reverberations from the explosion were felt within a six-mile radius.

     d. an act or instance of reverberating.

     e. Physics. the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped, caused by multiple reflection of the sound within a closed space.

4. Arbitrary- 

     a. subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion: an arbitrary decision.

     b. decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statute.

     c. having unlimited power; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical: an arbitrary government.

     d. capricious; unreasonable; unsupported: an arbitrary demand for payment.

     e. Mathematics . undetermined; not assigned a specific value: an arbitrary constant.

5. Diminutive-

     a. small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.

     b. Grammar . pertaining to or productive of a form denoting smallness, familiarity, affection, or triviality, as the suffix -let,  in droplet  from drop.

noun

     c. a small thing or person.

     d. Grammar . a diminutive element or formation.

     e. Heraldry. a charge, as an ordinary, smaller in length or breadth than the usual.

 6. Premonition-

     a. a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.

     b. a forewarning.

7. Amelioration- 

     a. an act or instance of ameliorating; the state of being ameliorated.

     b. something that ameliorates; an improvement.

8. Asphyxiation- 

     a. to cause to die or lose consciousness by impairing normal breathing, as by gas or other noxious agents; choke; suffocate; smother.

9. Scrupulous- 

     a. having scruples; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled.

     b. punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact: a scrupulous performance.

10. Unequivocally- 

     a. in a way that is clear and unambiguous: The theme is unequivocally religious.

     b. in a way that is not subject to conditions or exceptions: He offered his forgiveness unequivocally.

11. Corrosive- 

     a. having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.

     b. harmful or destructive; deleterious: the corrosive effect of poverty on their marriage.

     c. sharply sarcastic; caustic: corrosive comments on the speaker's integrity.

12. Admonitions-  

     a. an act of  admonishing.

     b. counsel, advice, or caution.

     c. a gentle reproof.

     d. a warning or reproof given by an ecclesiastical authority.

My Take on the story

Reading this story for the fifth time really opened my eyes a bit more. I imagined it through Gregor's point of view. This allowed me to see and old normal room and house that shared a "grandma" type of look. This included colors that bled together as well as an old trunk, doily's, and an old wooden bed that could fall apart easily from Gregor's weight when he was a bug. This was expressed through the content, color, and ways I built my structures in this project. 

In Process Photos

Finished Project

Here the bed is expressed to be a wooden structure that is easily moveable and is occupied by a mattress, sheet, and pillow on top.The sheet is washed up and has coffee spills all over it to give it an older look while the black pillow compliments the bed frame.

The mattress itself was made out of woven paper that was soaked in coffee. I was woven strips through slits cut into two rectangular papers. After weaving, I took black strips and wove them through the paper and tied them off at the ends and stuffed soft paper into the middle of the mattress in order to give it both a soft and rough look which resembles a real mattress especially while touching it.

I imagined the big dresser, not as a dresser, but as a sort of chest?box that lied on the ground. I made an origami box out of paper and painted it black and white, matching the sheets and bed. Then I wove in black strips, tying it together like the mattress again. Next I soaked more paper in coffee and stained them as well as using the other parts of mattresses that failed, and stuffed them into the box messily.

I pictured Gregor huge and as a sort of "Bug under a rug" and so I wanted to show him by doing just that. Gregor is the rug/ doily itself. I carved out many images that struck out to me during the story. In the very middle I carved out two cockroach figures which mirror each other. Then on the shorter sides I carved out key holes since I saw the story through the door frame. Then on the opposite, I carved out apples since they were a big part of the story and Gregor's downfall. Surrounding it, I carved out little patterns to make it "grandma" like and doily like. Then I put a big brown paper underneath the middle to give it that sort of "Bug under rug" look. 

Sketches