#4 - Found Materials

This past week our lecture was on sculpture, particularly sculpture that uses unconventional materials.  For many of the artists the materials they used were an integral part in what they were trying to convey.

I felt kind of disconnected this week, being a primarily two-dimensional artist.  I'm also still in the stage of discovering who I am as an artist.  So this week I took a bunch of things and experimented.  I ended up taking a ramen box and wrapping it with tissue paper, then painting on it in acrylic using a feather I found the other day and the month old heel of bread I found in my fridge.  I call it Flight.

These materials feel overlooked, like they would end up in a pile of garbage in some back alley dumpster.  At the same time they can create another image sometimes overlooked: the view from your airplane window of perhaps birds flying over the water.






Artist Blog - Found Materials

#3 - Self-Exploration

   I love traveling.  I could do it all the time.  So naturally, I feel like the places I go influence my life and make me a different person.  They are a big part of what makes me who I am.  This leads me to my first project for my online class.  The instructions for this post were three lines long, so I was really at a loss when it came time.  I like lots of directions, so three lines isn't much.  So I took things literally and this is what I got:

   The idea was mapping your life.  According to the instructions, "[The artist] had her participants create their own map of their lives, histories, and how the different paths overlap. I want you to explore this idea in your artists' blog."  I thought about how I would do it for a while, then I took the words map and overlap and ran.
   Unless you're like my friend and you totally figured out what I did the second you looked at it, you're wondering what traveling has to do with this post.  I basically took the outlines of the states and countries I've visited, marked with cities and important sites I've been to, and created my life's version of Pangea.  I'm going to need a bigger piece of paper for future travel.  Seriously.





Artist Blog - Self Exploration