3D Concepts Fall 2018

1. "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."  I went parasailing for the first time this past spring and it was crazy seeing how much smaller everything was in comparison to me and my friend when we were up that high. 2. "The Souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body." Over the summer I went hiking in Virginia and ended up taking home a rock that I found on the trail on the way up. I wanted to keep it to remember the hike I took with my friend and how beautiful it was. 3. "To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy." 4. "Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss." This picture was taken this past summer at the very last Vans Warped Tour. I have gone every year for the past 8 years so I know next year it will be weird not going again. 5. "Place of origin must remain...

For this project, we had to make one item dominantly out of paper and one dominantly out of balsa wood. The first image is my paper design and I designed a cube with holes cut out so you can see inside, and in the middle of the cube is super glue attached to a circle sculpture made out of balsa wood. The next two images is my design made out of balsa wood and masking tape. I titled this piece "Escape" because once I put all of the masking tape on I noticed it looked like the tape had a mind of its own and was trying to unravel itself off of the balsa wood. 

HAIR "Each hair grows for only about two to six years, at about five or six inches a year, and then its follicle rests for a few months, the hair falls out, and is eventually replaced by a new hair. So when you see a beautiful head of hair, you're looking at hairs in many different stages in a complex system of growth, death, and renewal. Fifteen percent of it is resting at any one time, the other 85 percent growing; many dozens of hairs are all set to die tomorrow, and deep in the follicles new hairs are building." I decided to draw this because I could show all of the detail as far each individual hair. I thought it was interesting how you can have a full head of hair and so many of them can be in different stages of growth/life. Even hair towards the top of your head can be dying, not just at the bottom.  ______________________________________ THE HAND "The swirls run through a few basic patterns of whorls, loops...

SOAP CARVINGS For this project I carved a polar bear out of soap two times. This was my first time ever carving soap and it was very challenging. The first one was very difficult for me in regards to shaping the body but once I started the second one it was a little easier. My first carving I was looking it from really only two angles the entire time, so in my second carving I looked at the bear from all angles and tried different areas every few minutes as opposed to just focusing on one area for a long time and taking away too much soap (like I did in my first attempt). Overall the project was a lot harder than it looked but I did learn a lot of proportions and angles.