"The Mallard"
Julia Campbell
3-D Design
Project 1
My piece entitled "The Mallard" was constructed using newspaper, tape, handmade paper, paper mache, acrylic matte medium, watercolors, and thin wire. Its conceptual meaning derives from what it is composed of: newspaper. In present day society, paper is used as a means to relay information. Writing on paper allows messages to be mass communicated, of which one of the most significant of these examples is the newspaper. However, despite newspaper's history, it is being overcome and outdated thanks to the popularization of the digital revolution. Computers are now taking over the purpose newspapers once served.
To demonstrate this, I chose to embody these ideas in the form of a mallard. They are beautiful, graceful creatures, but are very fragile. Also, their ability to fly long distances is analogous to newspaper's "old fashioned methods" of communicating long distances. The bird has been made to look delicate and worn using toned down watercolors in organic colors. Similarly, handmade paper was used to create feather-like texture for the wings, which also reflects the fragility of newspaper itself. Barely showing through the handmade paper is the newspaper itself. Thin wire was wrapped around its beak to signify the silence physical newspaper now carries in our totally digital world.
I documented the bird in a computer lab. Surrounded by computers, the bird's outstretched wings reach out for attention, but it is outnumbered and holds no power or voice.
3-D Design
Project 1
My piece entitled "The Mallard" was constructed using newspaper, tape, handmade paper, paper mache, acrylic matte medium, watercolors, and thin wire. Its conceptual meaning derives from what it is composed of: newspaper. In present day society, paper is used as a means to relay information. Writing on paper allows messages to be mass communicated, of which one of the most significant of these examples is the newspaper. However, despite newspaper's history, it is being overcome and outdated thanks to the popularization of the digital revolution. Computers are now taking over the purpose newspapers once served.
To demonstrate this, I chose to embody these ideas in the form of a mallard. They are beautiful, graceful creatures, but are very fragile. Also, their ability to fly long distances is analogous to newspaper's "old fashioned methods" of communicating long distances. The bird has been made to look delicate and worn using toned down watercolors in organic colors. Similarly, handmade paper was used to create feather-like texture for the wings, which also reflects the fragility of newspaper itself. Barely showing through the handmade paper is the newspaper itself. Thin wire was wrapped around its beak to signify the silence physical newspaper now carries in our totally digital world.
I documented the bird in a computer lab. Surrounded by computers, the bird's outstretched wings reach out for attention, but it is outnumbered and holds no power or voice.
No comments:
Post a Comment