Thursday, March 10, 2011

Final Art Class

Valerie Vanderkolk
3D Form
Professor ---------
April 22, 2009
Project 4 Response

1. In your own words / from your own understanding, what was the purpose of this project?
The purpose of this project, first of all is to work with plaster, and second to start with a found object as oppose to nothing. In theatre production we do this a lot, we search through second had stores and find a garment with we can add to or change to make a costume.
2. Describe your work (critically, visually, and conceptually).
The figurine I drew already had a very dynamic and interesting silhouette that I felt that the details just needed to be smoothed out and blobbified. For color I created a shiny iridescent color on the figurine by using four different colors and layering the colors over each other and leaving small sections to show the other colors underneath.
3. Explain the staging of your work.
How is it presented to the viewer and what makes it appropriate in this context? The piece was presented on a pedestal draped in an iridescent fabric. I considered placing the figurine on its side, but I liked how the figurine already had a dynamic sense of movement and form and I wanted to keep that. The fabric was puckered around the base of the figurine to hide how it did not sit flat on the pedestal where the figure had chipped while I was adding the plaster to it. When I first got the figurine, I was nervous about dropping it breaking it, so that apprehension did spill over into the presentation, because I am afraid of breaking it.
4. What terms did you find essential in maintaining a critical dialogue with the project, and… how does your project make use of this vocabulary?
Blobject – a blobby object, by having the project entitled this it automatically sets restrictions for the piece: 1) it has to be abstracted because it cannot be an identifiable object and 2) it has to be smooth, texture is very limited on this piece because blobs are not prickly.
5. In what way or ways is your project successful?
The piece is successful in the surfacing; it is very smooth and people went up to the piece after critique and touched it.
6. In what way or ways is your project unsuccessful?
I don’t know if I was able to abstract the figurine enough.
7. Are you satisfied with your work? If you were to recreate your project, what, if anything, would you do differently?
After I set up the figurine, I did want some more fabric to extend the space. If I had had more time I would have sanded down more of the paint to show more variation on the paint. I tried to do as best as I could with the spray paint but I would have like to do more with the surface.
8. If you were to alter your work outside the parameters of this assignment, what would you do differently and why?
I think it would be neat to do an entire blobject Nativity scene.
9. What did you learn during the execution of this project?
I learned how to mix and work with plaster. I learned the word blobject.
10. Do you have any personal thoughts that you would like to share with regard to this project?
I once rode a camel at the zoo. Ben (classmate) got more sleep last night than I have all week. I normally try to tell a funny story in this part to get you to laugh when you are reading it, but I running low on material.

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