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Sooo here's my project :D I like the second picture just for editing purposes, it looks really cool! I cant wait to see everyone elses!

Celestial Bodies

My dorm room is not ideal for picture taking, but this will give you an idea, at least, of how my mobile turned out.

Circular Mobile

Sorry, this was the best picture I could take!

better then the polar bear!

i bring joo lockness monster...thing....

i wish i lived by a subway
*tear*

the artist name is
Joshua Allen Harris
theres more of his work if you google
him

enjoy!
=^_^=

terrible

Final Crit

Hello All! Just a reminder that final crit is Tuesday, April 29th. Upload a photo of your mobile and get extra credit!

This day will also be the classroom cleanup. All projects not removed by Tuesday will be disposed of.

You may turn in make up work and late projects up until May 6th. Please make an appointment with me to do so.
(Image above is the work of Diem Chau.)

The Keys of Life

My key is made out of almost 1000 puzzle pieces glued together. I guess it sort of represents how I'm not really sure where I belong right now? To me, a key represents a sense of belonging somewhere...knowing that if you have a key to a place, you are meant to be there. Right now, I guess my whole life is this giant puzzle and I don't know where I'm so much welcome. I feel like I have a lot that I need to figure out in my life and this key made out of puzzle pieces is a definite representation of that.

Melting Childhood

This is autobiographical because as a child I loved ice cream. More than any other kid did, so that shows a lot! I miss the easiness and simplicity of childhood so I decided to make an ice cream sundae. Being a kid doesn't last forever and neither does ice cream since it melts away quickly.

Junkyard Discobox

Made with illustration board, cassette tapes, spraypaint, a yardstick and a gutted kid's toy.

The point of this piece is to represent how nothing is original anymore, yet in order for something new and unique to be created there has to be a foundation of old inspirations.

showcase of anatomical proportion

My piece entitled, "showcase of anatomical proportion", refers to my experience in the hospital for almost 3 weeks during my junior year of high school. It was a terribly traumatic experience and involved a lot of trial and error methods of treatment. Because of my illness, I was an experiment, a guinea pig. I felt like I was treated like a scientific experiment, put on display for all the doctors to look at and mess with, similar to animals and biological lifeforms put on display as a part of scientific discovery.

Brother Gabriel

This piece is an amalgam of my childhood memories of my mother's possessions. I remember being fascinated by the jewelry box on her dresser and the secrets it seemed to hold.

Wings of Metamorphosis, Come fly with me

The symbolic meaning of the Raven in some folklore describes the raven as a creature of metamorphosis, and symbolizes change/transformation. In that a Raven symbolizes me in that
main reason. I have had to change and transform myself over and over. Whither it be me moving to a new school for the um tenth time, or the obsitcals that seem to never end. I made the raven out of leaves and other parts of nature to connect that nature is around and in us all
and it is the ever essence of peace for me and my safe area. Gold is a precious metal so i figured it would play a key part in the piese as a whole not just for astectic.

contriction

Hey, this is my repetitive project made out of rubber bands, with other materials (suede, metal circles and a metal clasp). It is an actual functional belt. This project is to give people a sense of reality and how american society is built on top of money and fame and how it is not necessary. For me, that false sense of reality is a trap that was easy to fall into and harder to escape.

-Tiff

The Great Wall

hi guys, sorry i couldn't come to class cause i got really sick..from food poisioning..never should eat that sushi...anyways, here is my penny-great wall, hope y'all like it.

i really like this project because it taught me how hard for my ancestors to bulid the great bricks by bricks, it really gave me a headache to stack all the pennies because the glue cold-out really fast (approximately 5-10mins), so i have to calculate how much glue i should mix in and how many pennies i want to stack.
i'm from China, where the Great Wall is, but i never been to it, now i'm in US, the chances to see the real Great Wall is really small, so this project represent how expensive for me to travel from here to China, to see the Great Wall.
Also this represent how much money, and energies of people to bulit such big architecture. i think if i use chinese coins will be more suitable for its meaning, but i can't really get any here since we don't use it..so just go with pennies^_^

Tangled in the Psyche

Our dreams are very personalized; a representation of what we fear and what we are confident about, among many other things. And a dreamcatcher is meant to catch the dreams that we call nightmares. But what is a nightmare to any one person? And, why, underneath it all, does a person fear that thing?
In the same way, those parts of our personalities that we keep from others, or only share with certain very close people, can also reveal a great deal about ourselves and the inner workings of our psyche. I think that the balancing of this duality--the public and private--and all the other little pieces of ourselves, is an every day essential. After all, our minds, like our bodies, are not made of one single thing, but, rather, of many little pieces that work together to create the illusion of something that is whole.

Putting your [game] face on

This assembled sculpture was made while I was thinking of how women, especially myself, use make-up as a defense against the outside world. I know if I go to work or school without my make-up on I feel vulnerable, as if people are judging my flaws. It's like this thin coating of "paint" works as body or facial armour. Perhaps we haven't come very far from the days of our grandmothers who wouldn't leave the house without "putting their face on."

recycleble wedding dress

Wedding dresses are worn once, and then never used again. Plastic grocer bags, on the other hand, are both reusable and recyclable. As I am a strong supporter of the 3 R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle), I made a recyclable wedding dress! The materials used are grocer bags, dental floss, red thread, red ribbon, two kinds of tape, and one zipper.

The Agony Of Glory

The meaning behind this piece is to represent who I am and what I have become of today. The trophy itself represents accomplishment and the needles or push pins on the trophy represents the obsticles that I have encountered in my life.

Final Project: Mobiles

For your final project you will be creating a sculptural, moveable, mobile. See the assingment sheet on the links to the right. Do an image search for Alexander Calder or mobiles. Think about materials you may want to use to create your mobile, you may use whatever you want!
Have fun with this one!
Final Crit will be on the last day of class.

Repetition Project

For  my repetition project I decided to make another dress. Originally it was going to be covered in silk petals and manipulated to look like many rows of gathered ruffle (the picture at least shows the dress's shape. But since I've been shopping around I found these different shaped flat backed mirrors that I thought would be much more autobiographical than flower petals would. Plus it would be much easier to just glue theses little mirrors to the fabric after i have sen the dress together. 

 

lol i know this is slightly off topic BUT

i thought it was pretty neat!

i know were done with the inflatable scuplture
and that we dont have a subway but check it out!
i know what im doing if i ever go to new york!
lolz
the bear looks animated
like its shaking water off his back in the artic! tehhehee

Kinetic Pneumatic Subway Bear