3d to 2d

Balsa Wood

Focal Point

Pattern

Scale

Repetition

Based on the Scale balsa wood

Based on the Focal Point balsa wood

Based on the Pattern balsa wood

Paper Stacking

Fruit paper stacking: Lemon

My three photos of fruit paper stacking:

Invented paper stacking:

My invented paper stacking was inspired by surrealism. In my opinion, surrealism is based by the imaginative forming from the real. The thick squares in my project is the real and the stacked circles and curves are the imaginative design. 

My three photos of invented paper stacking:

Momento

Class notes on book On Longing

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."

"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience is exemplified by the souvenir."

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimentsional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."

"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."

"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy."

My momento is made of white fabric, blue string, and red string. This momento is made up of a half of the Russian and American flag. They both have the same red, blue, and white color. Russia and America are also both of my homes, one I was born in and the other I grew up in. They are both a part of me and a emotional form of a momento that I will always carry with me. 

Mask

I based my mask on black and white photography. I have always loved nature and I am always inspired by black and white photography.

This drawing is made only of paper and tape. The curves represent the curves on the mask.

This is a simple outline of my mask photo in black and white.

This is an abstract drawing of the curves of the mask. The green and brown color represent nature that my mask was inspired by.

Its About Time

Change 1: Cute in half

Change 2: Paint Green on one half

Change 3: slice and dice green half

Change 4: add two squares together with pins

Change 5: string the pairs with yarn tied to the pins

Change 6: cut second half in half

Change 7: Carve holes in second half

Change 8: String yarn thru hole in one half 

Change 9: Paint both halves blue

Change 10: Tie squares to both blue halves with yarn

Gregor's Room

Personal Opinion to Kafka's Metamorphosis

I found this story strange at best. The concept of a man turning into a bug sounds like something that would come from a bazar dream. When I first started to read this story, I found myself very creeped out. If this had happened to me, I would undoubtedly freak out. However, as the story progressed and I followed Gregor through this transformation, I found myself feeling very sorry for him to have to go through this for some unknown reason. It was sad to read that he died. You could not feel sorry for this man because his life did not end very well. To turn into a bug and then have his family almost immediately turn their back on him, as if he only mattered when he was a human. Strange, bazar, sad, and just plain freaky is probably the best way to summarize Kafka's Metamorphosis.