Sketches

 

Momento Sketches:

Masked Identity Sketches:

Gregor's Room Sketches:

Invented Paper Sculpture Sketches:

Soap Sculpture/Transformation Sketches:

Elements/Principles Sketches:

Paper Stack Sketches:

Gregor's Room

In Process:

Final Pictures:

Metamorphosis Vocabulary

• Admonitions: Counsel, advice, or caution.
• Amelioration: The act of improving something or making something healed/better.
• Draught: The act or process of drawing.
• Entreaty: Earnest request or petition.
• Superfluous: exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
• Scrupulous: having moral integrity acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper

Personal Response

Gregor’s discovery that he has become a giant insect, sets the tone for the rest of the story. When Gregor first recognizes his transformation, he doesn’t appear significantly bothered by it, and treats it almost like any other day. Throughout the story Gregor becomes more and more isolated and more and more bug-like. He becomes a hassle for his family and they begin to reject him, especially Grete who was Gregor's only compassion when he first transformed. For me the story was strange. I envisioned a decrepit Gregor amongst a dark dust filled room. Gregor's transformation into a bug left him alone and to me it seemed like he died from loneliness. No one loved him anymore and it killed
him.

3-D to 2-D

 

 

For this project I used my invented paper sculpture and collaged it into a underwater picture, manipulated the images, and here are the two resulting photographs:

 

Original Collage Unedited:

 

 

 

 

 

Momento

 

For my momento piece I chose to represent the memory of me getting attacked by a dog when I was three years old. The attack tore the right side of my cheek and upper lip which required over 150 stitches and emergency plastic surgery to fix my face. Today I am left with only a small visible scar. I chose this memory because it is definitely a part of who I am. Instead of focusing on the negative and gruesome aspects of my attack, I chose to represent it as something of beauty because I actually like my scar and think it gives me character. I also don't look back and picture an awful experience because I love dogs and being attacked by one has never changed that. I used leftover fabric from a ripped dress I had; which is significant because the dress was broken but I was able to repurpose it and make it into something new. I cut it into circles and dipped the pieces into melted paraffin wax in several layers, which built a skin like appearance on the fabric. As the pieces hardened I used my hands and a bowl to shape them into slightly rounded circles. I glued them together, and decided to stitch the piece to represent the stitches. I chose silver thread so it would not stand out too much from the white and gray patterned fabric. I wanted the piece to be subtle and detailed; dainty. The cut out holes represent the indented scar. Overall I like the form of my piece as well as its visual impact and weight.

 

 

Some In Process Pictures:

Final Pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Personal response to Inventory/The Tokens by Christopher Turner:



 

 

 

On Longing Notes: 

• The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale.
• Capacity of objects serve as traces of authentic experiences. 
• The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature... that which can be enveloped by the body.
• Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.
• To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Masked Identity

In Process Pictures:

For my mask I chose to emulate the lines found on shells and other sea life simply because I'm instinctively drawn to the abutment of organic and rigid line-work found in these forms. I wanted my photos to be very solemn, as if the subject is alone in their own world. I chose to do my photographs around the ocean because the ocean is a very calming place for me to visit when I need to be alone. Although the day I took my photographs, the water was very rough and I liked that wild untameable aspect in the background of the shots on the rocks. I think it gave the pictures another dimension that would have been missing if it was a calm day. I chose to take the photos rather than be in them because while constructing my mask I was almost solely focused on the composition, and integrity of the identity I wanted for my subject. I think all of my photos are interesting and visually communicate my ideas for this masked identity project.

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Personal Response to Episode 468, Switcharoo: 

In the commentary the woman who approached Keret claiming to be Cindy Sherman was described as being a upper middle class looking woman. Ira also stated that if you were going to put on a costume to blend in with the crowd at the MoMA this would be the one. The men tried to keep her there as long as possible to compare her with her "master of disguise" photographs. They said that she could have been the woman in the photos because Sherman had the ability to make herself look as old, young, beautiful, or as ugly as she wanted to. When questioned about her work the woman claimed that she really wasn't Sherman. Ira was unconvinced and tried to track down Cindy to ask her about the incodent. When she denied it being her the two agreed it was a very interesting circumstance. I believe it was a fan of Sherman pretending to be her in disguise to carry on her art, and expand on it. I found this form of emulation methodical and brilliant. I think it's very flattering for Sherman to have such a devoted fan base, if in fact it was an impersonator of the master impersonator herself.