Exquisite corpse

Silly Trees spit Sparkling Homes

Quiet towers spit bright balloons

Beautiful rats lying in quick shoes.

Identity Essentials

I chose the body as a landscape. The human body, especially the female body, has so many beautiful parts on it. I wanted to approach it the same way one would a landscape, looking for interesting parts, and finding just the right contrast.

Lecture Homework.

This is my niece Emma. I was over at their house with half a roll of B&W film that I needed to use up so I could develop it, so I decided to shoot a few photos of them, snapshots really. I chose it for this assignment because it was kinda offhandedly taken, and it came out well. It is pretty significant to me because she is growing up really fast, and it captured a moment in her childhood really well. Since she is my first niece ever, it was influenced by my love for her, and taken in a candid way. It was a genuine smile and the mood was light. The photo is intended to be viewed by whoever, and in a just looking kind of way. I will probably still remember this photo in ten years, just because it is my niece.


This is a photo of me taken by my good friend and roommate Deborah. It was taken at a costume party that we had before we went back to school in the fall. I was an African queen. I kept it as a reminder of the memory of that night, whic was a really fun night, and I chose it for this assignment because it's not a typical picture of me. The emotional relationship between us a really good friendship, and that influenced the mock-seriousness in the photo, because we are always goofing around. The photo was intended to be viewed after the party, and by close friends. I may not remember this photo in ten years unless I come across it accidentally.



This is a photo of a stranger I found on Flickr. I'm not sure why the photo was taken, but it may have been to capture a moment that he/she didn't want to lose. I chose it for this assignment because it looked more personal than a lot of photos that are commercially produced. It has no significance in my life other than just being interesting to look at. The photographer looks like it was somebody who could have been friends with the subjects ( and if you look at the angle of the photo, is either really tall, or the man in the picture is holding up the camera to take a self- portrait) I look at it as a quick candid shot, which is full of fun and happiness. The photographer seems to like the subject pretty well, and vice versa. I think that the photo is intended to be viewed by everyone (or else why would it be on Flickr?!) I probably won't remember this photo in ten years.

MODULAR MADNESS Final Crit

This is my MODULAR MADNESS project. It started as a wave, and ended up as this. It looks like a cobra. I am really excited for this project. It was SO MUCH WORK. I wish I could have backlit it, but I didn't really think of it. My favorite part is the color. I also like the size a lot. Its about 6', and it was bigger than a lot of the pieces in there. I liked the stream coming off of it, and that I found a way to use all of the pieces I had left over.

Word as Image Final Crit

[will insert images when I receive them back from Bill]
I finished My word as Image Project. I really like this, and the processes we went through to get the end product. I ended up using the words "organization" and "nomenclature". I think my "Organization" piece was the strongest, as it had better patterns. I was less happy with "Nomenclature". I think it could have been stronger, but you live you learn. :)

Word as Image progess

This is an earlier version of one my final products.

Progress on MODULAR MADNESS

[insert awesome sequence image that is on my iPhone that is in the shop getting the screen fixed]

So this project was exhausting on the installation. I had to cut cups. Glue cups. Get burnt.

Final Cardboard

This is my brussel sprout. It was an exhausting project and I kind of hate cardboard now. But that being said, I was pretty happy with how this came out. I think that I did good capturing the leafyness of the object, and the shape was okay. I think I could have put forth more of an effort on getting the body rounder, and adding a few more leaves. It also got beat up a little on the way to class, so I need to work on keeping my projects nice in the long run.

My kinda late Photo Safari

Icy grass. Texture, translation. Taken 2/4/11 at 9am in my front yard.

Circles, Pattern, translation, rotation. Taken in Friend's livingroom, 5pm, 2/2/11

Little corns? Pattern, Translation. Friend's Kitchen. 5:10, 2/2/11

Leaves. Pattern, translation. Taken in friend's livingroom, 2/2/10 at 5:15

Fur Coat. Texture. Taken 2/3/11 on friends jacket at 9pm.

Flowers, pattern, translation, rotation. Taken at 9pm in friends bedroom on 2/3/11

Carpet, pattern, translation. Taken at 9:10 pm in friend's livingroom on 2/3/11.

Circles. pattern, translation. Taken in friend's bedroom at 9:10 pm on 2/3/11.


Sorry that these were kinda late. I had no power for the majority of the day yesterday, so I left and stayed with a friend, and got back kind of late today. Hopefully they are accepted, but if not, I understand. I still wanted to post them. :)

No internet :( blogger won't work on my iPhone and I can't type in the dialog box. My power is out so no computer or Internet. I will post safari l8r

Human Dot Compistions.

These are my human dot compositions. I think they could have been better, and I will probably revise them later. I wanted to make the dots obvious, and similar to the compositions I drew my inspiration from.

The AMAZING CARDBOARD BRUSSEL SPROUT. [Part One]

Our 3D project for this week and next week(?) is to make a cardboard sculpture of something that is not manmade. We were given a variety of objects to choose from, and for some odd reason or another, the brussel sprout caught my eye. I decided to try and make a small version of it to test what would have been a very time consuming method. Fortunately, that idea didn't work out, and it was back to the drawing board. I decided to make a large center, with just two criss-crossing shapes, and then cover it in craft paper to make a more solid shape. After I finish with this, I plan on using larger sheets of craft paper to make a more leafy texture. I really hope to capture the different layers of leaves, and get it looking correct...

DOTS! and dots and dots and dots.

In class on Tuesday, along with working on our 3D sculptures, (mine's a Brussels sprout! more on that later though) we worked on some elements of 2D design. The project was to first get different sized dots, and randomly drop them onto a large sheet of paper, and then find three 5"x5" squares that contained composition that was pleasing to the eye. Then we were to glue them to small pieces of paper and discuss. After we discussed the initial three, we were sent back to make two more: one that had very little illusion of depth, and one that was purposely planned out to be pleasing to the eye. The point of the random dots was to see patterns that our minds may not have been able to plan out itself. Usually when strategically placing dots, your mind follows a few set patterns and it hard to get away from them, so the purpose was to avoid that with the first three squares.

WASH: day 1. Newspaper Towers!

I was pretty excited to find out that we were already jumping into projects the first day. The assignment; to make something out of newspaper and glue that would get a cinderblock as high off the ground as possible. When making the "tower", I knew that rolling newspaper into tubes would be the strongest option. Although you cant tell in the picture, the big tubes are actually filled with smaller tubes. When done this way, newspaper can actually be quite strong. Especially when reinforced with LOTS of glue. Like, a whole lot. Like 2 bottles worth. It held the cinderblock well, and measured 23 inches. In hindsight, I wish I would have had time to make it more visually appealing. It's a pretty utilitarian structure, just two tiers of newspaper tubes stacked on top of each other, with a few ads glue haphazardly in between. I did learn that with one project, there are about a million ways you can approach it. There were people weaving, crumpling, hanging and stacking their newspaper in different ways. I was really surprised at all of the different ways you could compile newspaper.