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Final Project: Why?

 Trying to think of a reason for creating this statue, I definitely had a subconscious reason behind this piece, and a faint idea of how to express it.  It's about my complicated relationship with my face and mirrors.  I had struggled with severe acne for about six years, starting from the tender age of 14.  It was something that sadly influenced me a lot as I was growing up and through my teen years.  Over the years it created a lot of self-hatred, low self-esteem, and depression.  Things that even now, although my skin is doing much better, still effect me and that I am still insecure about.   Gradually throughout those years of really disliking my face, I had taught myself to avoid looking into reflective surfaces, or looking at myself in full light.  After so much time this behavior became second nature, and even though I feel a lot better about my face now, I still find myself turning on the low light, or trying to avoid reflections. While this statue was meant to be an expres

Final Project: WIP

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 This week I was able to get a bunch of my work done on the "statue".  I think it turned out pretty good, a little less shapely than my sketch, but that was to be expected when working with hot glue.   I made rings of hot glue to stack on each other to build up the statue, and I think this method worked pretty well. Now I have to incorporate digital work into this piece, I have a couple ideas on how to do that.  I may take some photos of the piece on a plain background so that I can manipulate it in Adobe, try to make it look more ethereal and less clunky, play with blending layers and such.  My other idea was to upload a photo of the statue but keep most of it photo-realistic, and edit in little fragments of a face into the mirror shards.

Final Project: Initial Ideas

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 My first idea is to make a hot glue "statue" of a human figure with shards of mirror exploding from the head.  Hot glue may seem a weird material, but I've been using it for years to create 3D objects.   This initial idea may be the one that I run with, I'm still uncertain.

Project 4: From 7am to 7pm

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 These are some of the finals, from 7am to 7pm. As I said in my previous post, the deadline is too tight for me to be able to finish a full 24-hr book. so I have tried to at least finish 12 hours.

Project 4: Reaching The End

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 I'm starting to feel nervous, the due date is quickly coming up and I'm not finished with my work.  The unfortunate reality is that I will have to sacrifice quality to try and get it done in time. While this images aren't exactly as I would have them, I think they are a good starting point and will have to do.

Project 4: First Collage Iterations

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 I started this project by taking pictures of myself about every hour - not the most fun task taking unflattering, head-on photos, but once I started collaging them together it started looking less weird. Here are the first two, these are mostly experimental but I may use them if they work well.  The first is 7am and the second is 8am. Also, I have decided that the printed book will be small - 6 x 6 inches.