3D to 2D

Collective Drawings

Masked Identity

It's About Time

Paper Stacking

Metamorphosis

Momento

Expressive 3D Forms

Masked Identity

My mask embodies the idea that a large part of our identity is externally created and applied. The simple ambiguous shape reflects vulnerability to the influence of our environment, culture, people, and life's experiences on our identity. 

Although those same factors, if a applied to two different people, will effect them differently because identity is not solely external. We are created uniquely with different tendencies, gifts, and purposes. Thus in my design there is the condensed patch of fabric at general eye level. Each fabric represents different aspects, specifically, of my identity. The burlap represents my spirituality, because it is strongest when I am immersed in nature and burlap. 

Paper Stacking

Paper stacked pear

The concept for my second paper stacking project centers around an egg. 

An egg consists of a very fragile shell which protects the nutritious yoke within.

Therefore, the egg does not come of value or fulfill its purpose until this shell is cracked.

It's About Time

Starting point: The Pig

Subtractive. I shaved off the limbs, ears, nose, and tail.

Subtractive. I cut the body of the pig into the shape of a hot dog.

Additive. I painted the hot dog with ink.

Additive. I soaked some of the soap shavings in green, yellow, and brown ink to create relish.

Additive. I scattered unpainted soap shavings to give the look of chopped onions.

Subtractive. I melted the rest of the soap shavings in boiling water.

Additive. I soaked the melted soap in yellow and red ink to give the look of ketchup and mustard.

Additive. I poured the melted soap on to the hot dog to also act as a glue to keep the relish and onions together.

Additive. I wrapped the final piece in cheap tin foil to bring a focus to the coarse way we handle living creatures.

Response to Lick and Lather by Janine Antoni

I believe that Lick and Lather creates a picture of the cycle of discovery and destruction of the self. Janine Antoni licks and eats away at the chocolate until it eventually becomes a sculpture of herself. The gentle process of licking coupled with the aggressive gesture of eating are representative of the things we do to ourselves over time and through many experiences that make us who we are. I believe a similar message applies to the soap sculpture of herself, but where she was putting herself into the chocolate sculpture, she is now applying the soap sculpture to her body. Antoni begins with the sculpture and uses it to wash herself making the end result not about the disintegrated soap but about the cleaned body that came of its use.

Momento

My momento captures many memories in the mountains of North Georgia

where my grandparents own a cabin. The shape of the sculpture reflects that of a

tree, which shades and protects from the sun. The base which fans out into the outstretching arms

is woven from parts of wheat grass stems. Not only was the meditative process of weaving crucial 

to the emotion of the piece, but it best overall captures the unity of myself with nature.