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.

Final Project Inspiration

Anthony F Schepperd's animations
Music Scene-Blockhead animation by Anthony Schepperd