"found" again( wouldn't fit)

Bottle cap I discovered in-between an oddly ritualistic circle of plastic deer. I hope I didn't steal their offering. It made me think of how some people say toys come to life when you turn your back and freeze when you try to watch them. I envisioned the circle of deer coming to life and worshipping some strange relic. Now that I'm watching they have frozen and will stay like this for as long as someone is looking.

Final Project

This was seriously my favorite project of the entire semester. I've always wanted to draw on someone in such a large scale like this. I think the main reason I have such a fascination with tattoos and body art is because I fell in love with the idea of the body as a canvas at a small age. Every chance I got I would be drawing on myself; pen, marker, paint, highlighter, anything I could get my hands on. Every time my dad would get mad and yell, and I'd run and hide in my art closet and draw more; sometimes I think he just made me want to do it more, almost like reverse psychology. Anyways maybe that's why I want to be a tattoo artist, I love to draw on people. There's something so freeing about just giving in and letting the inspiration take over and guide your hand across the surface, never stopping, just a constant stream of consciousness all put into motion through you. That's why it was so enjoyable to do this project. It all had to be done in one day, or else it would just rub off overnight, so I was forced to tap into that constant flow in order to keep the art going. Granted it was a little frustrating with the materials rubbing off at the slightest brush against something else. Maybe that's why tattoos are so appealing, all that work stays with you.

The concept behind this was loosely based on dreams, lucid dreams and daydreams alike. The two boards are the connection and similarities every person has with dreaming, the energy flow and centers of energy (chakras), but then those dream templates flow and adapt to each individual dreaming, becoming apart of their person. I illustrated the basics coming off the known board and transferring to the ever-fluid, living, breathing self, mingling with their energy and thoughts and exploding all over. The constant stream of consciousness was important to this. I had to let my mind wander into a half-awake, dreamlike state, almost like a trance to keep drawing.

Wood/Transparent

My most favorite in this collection is either my ink on wood drawing or the mounted head. The ink because painting on fresh woodgrain has now become a new obsession. The mounted deer head was probably the most fun to make. Since I've worked at a lot of major corporation stores, I wanted to demonstrate how I feel their companies view shoppers, as nothing more than a prize, a number or figure, something to hang on their wall. They work to get you to buy from them and keep spending. That's all they care about is being able to keep you loyal so you'll keep coming back and giving them you're money. I made the deer head out of shopping bags from some of the different stores I've worked at like this. I just loved the feeling of working with wood, cutting planks of it and working with it in it's natural state. Making use of the transparent layers and incorporating it into wood was exciting to do and a nice challenge.

Conversations

Maps

I no longer have my maps since my cats ate them and, quite literally, ripped them to shreds, so there are no images for this one. I did however do two maps, one for Andrea out of candy wrappers and another one for Rachel who is no longer in our class. The one for Andrea depicted her path to one of her favorite places in St. Augustine, the frozen yogurt place Luv-Berry. The entire piece was made out of all different sorts of candy wrappers, from Twix to Twizzlers and every sort of unconventional candy in between. From what I know of Andrea, she is a very sweet and eccentric sort of person who is always suprising me. Her art is always so ingenious and unpredictable I thought that when she would order her yogurt she would get a crazy concoction of all different unconventional goodies on her yogurt so I tried to mimic that with all the different wrappers.

For Rachel, as long as I've known her she's always been very studious. I pictured her keeping all of her notes from various classes in case she would ever need them so I looked around for my own older notes and put them together. Rachel's path she took was to school as well but it was very indirect, she stopped at many places and met a bunch of people on the way there. It was a very unfixed and loose path so I hung it in space so it drooped and fell all over itself, twisting and winding in and out of itself like her path to school.

From Heaven to Hell (10 ft Draw)

This was such a good start out to the semester for me. I discovered I love drawing with ink on wood over the summer break and has been somewhat of an obsession of mine of late. The concept was inspired by one video in particular, Music Scene-animated by Anthony F Schepard. I had always wanted to just draw, unrestricted without worrying if what I was doing was recognizable in any way, so this project gave me a chance to just pick up a pen and draw nonstop for over 12 hours on 10 ft of glorious wood. I knew I wanted to have some form of progression, something I had recently been thinking about and couldn't stop, so I started drawing a progression from heaven to hell and delving into some of the perceivable layers in between. I had been thinking alot about how we view our world and how black and white it is, trees are green, the sky is blue; very clean-cut no questioning what is. It made me want to twist that, to take how we view the world and tweak it, change and warp it to give others a different perspective, my perspective, on the world. So in a nutshell, here is 10 ft of my world.

Wrapping/diagrams

I tried to be spontaneous when doing this one and wrapped things I use a lot but don't really notice or think about too much. I wrapped them to draw more attention to them and to make me appreciate them more as art and designed objects. I wrapped my shoe, my glasses, my game controllers interesting to think that someone who probably used to be in school just like us had to design and create every aspect of that object. I thought about the game controllers, how someone had to design the shape, color and button formatting; how someone had to choose a typeface and create all of the marketing designs for it.