Midterm Artist’s Statements

1. Modular Relief Structure

Modular Relief Structure was my very first project for foundation design and I found that working on this project was very thought provoking. I had to first figure out whether I wanted to work as a design team and I decided against it. I really thought because of my limited time it would be better for me to work by myself to not hinder the person I was teamed with. As I started this project I went through many ideas as to what exactly would be my theme, research, and the feeling I wanted to evoke to the viewer. I went from a Japanese tea garden, to a tea garden, to flowers and finally roses. I was very much intrigued by the stability of a rose trellis and how it could not only act as part of the composition but also create structure and balance.

My biggest technical challenge while putting my project together was the correct supplies to use while making my rose trellis. My project began to fall apart when I used rubber cement but once I used the hot glue gun my project came together very nicely. I feel my work represents a beautiful relief structure with a sense of softness and almost “girlyness” which was the feeling I wanted to evoke to my audience. I believe by adding the black butterflies it unified the whole piece with the black trellis and white roses. My projects environmental plane would be the wall in a home or any personal space.

 

 2. Serial planes sample and curvilinear foam-core sample sculpture

My serial planes sample and curvilinear foam-core sample sculpture I found to be a little me simple as far as the thought involved. Unlike working on the order and freedom of the curvilinear foam-core sample, in the serial planes samples I had to figure out the planes and my use of space. How many serial planes would I use and I decided to use the curvilinear planes to play on the negative and positive space of the rectangular foam core base. The planes in my piece steer the viewer’s eye around my maquette, especially my first curvilinear one. The vertical maquette showed to be a little more challenge because planes define volume by their virtue and shape and my maquette didn’t quite come out exactly the way I expected.

The curvilinear foam-core sample sculpture was more tied to what I was feeling while doing this project. I wanted a more simplistic and kind of clean look when it came to my sample. I researched Zaha Hadid’s architectonic structures she built and the way she used curvilinear shapes in structures and the repetition with variety it created through her architecture. It provided change but tied everything together. I wanted to use curves, with circles, and curvilinear foam core so there was also some repetition with variety. I planned that the planes in my piece steer the viewer in and out of the planar space and my intentions were to be able to view it from all sides. I feel my work projects off of the foam base and create a radial effect on one side while the other side protrudes right out at the viewer but in a different way in all directions.

 

 

3. Architectonic sculpture with re-purposed materials

The Architectonic sculpture with re-purposed materials will prove to be the most challenging so far for me because it combines everything we have learned in class. And one thing I’ve struggled with in this class is how to incorporate your researched information into my sculpture. What will be my theme? I researched now what do I do with this information? How literal should I be? How do I execute and evoke what I want? I find that my process informs my research and I work a little better that way. For this project I my interest was piqued by a picture on my wall collage in my room. It was a model wearing a serial planed peplum top and it directly correlated to what we were learning in class. At that point I found out just how much art influences about every aspect of the art world including fashion design. So I decided to do a symmetrical hat with serial planes and with the repetition on each plane I’m going to make use of reflective materials and transparency and the repurposed materials but as of right now I’m concerned with the basic structure. I feel my piece represents my view on art and my understanding and execution of it. An artist when they first start out it looks like this big unknown world that was just discovered and as I go on art will become more understandable and a little easier but more complex as an artist because I will constantly want to challenge myself. My hat will be big where the brim is with simple or interesting serial planes and few appliques but as the hat gets smaller around the head the hat becomes more complex with the amount of appliques and serial planes having repetition with variety.