Project #7 > The Final Tour Student directed creations

From Pepper's email: APR 09 @ 9:45 am

I have already brought this into the class prior to leaving for break - so you should have a bit of thinking going on with it.  

1. This is a self designed project that you may use project ideas we have done in the past, combine them and/or add new ones! 

2. You need to of course work with the supplies and tools you have at home!  You may also try something we have not worked with. I will assist you as much as I can from afar, via Zoom, emails, FaceTime, YouTube, etc.

3. You also need to think about what motivates you to MAKE!! 
This is your opportunity to be YOUR OWN CHEER LEADER!
Ask yourself, what are you interested in sharing with the world as an inventive maker!
Is it a cause, an idea, a material, certain subject matter,  something totally cerebral? 

We want to see what is IN YOUR HEAD as a creator!

4. You will need to WRITE a 200 word PROPOSAL and send to me via my caz.edu address -- telling me what you are planning, materials using, techniques you are incorporation and the size of the work.  Include in your proposal one inspirational source.

You need to send along 5 well developed sketches/or collages. 

Proposals will be DUE THURSDAY APRIL 16 @ 6:00 PM.  Early proposals encouraged!

FINAL Tour will incorporate these things on our Fb group site

• in-progress imagery
• in-progress sketches / collages refined (10 minimum)
• completed form
• completed form in an appropriate environment for it to exist
• completed form in an odd environment for it to exist
• a video upload 1.5 minutes
• Be inventive! 
• Be creative!

More information on the project from our blog pages pre-COVID-19 ...

As the final project in Structuring Human Space, students will self design and construct their own project.

Within it, students need to exhibit a thorough understanding of an activated 3D form in space, thorough construction and excellent surface treatment within the object.

Before beginning your work, you need to run by me your planned strategy in order to get to the high end finished form.  
Including inspirational images in your sketchbook.

THE RULES ARE:

1. Your object MUST measure18" in one direction

Students need to show evidence of the evolution of the object in their sketchbooks and uploaded to Fb group site including:

• Students need to show the evolutionary steps in order to get to the finished form,  including accurate measurements
• Students need to be excellent time management managers!
• Students need to push their creative envelopes to the top in order to create a successful form

The project is due at our final exam block: 

Final Exam: TUES MAY 5 > 10:15 - 12:15 PM** This time may change due to student's responsibilities at home and with work.  We will plan, AS A GROUP, the best time where all can join in the critique on the ZOOM PLATFORM.

STUDENT RESEARCH and PROPOSALS 

04.12.2020   Hi Pepper! I thought of an idea for my final project last night and I wanted to get it to you as soon as I could! 
JEP:I don't know why I could not send it back to you on your original so pasted it below hereI LOVE the idea Cortney --- you have so much rich material to work with.  
My questions for you are:

1. Why the need for the shoulders to the top of the head?
2. Why not the brain?
3. It could be a journal of sorts with images/text of YOUR ideas within it.
4. I would make a list of the items you want to back in there. Can you create some sort of symbol for them viewers would understand? 
5. Can it be 2D / 3D combo?
6. I would also suggest you do a bit of research of the brain and how it functions with its lobes - that might give you a way of organizing things.
7. I would also LOOK at a lot of medical imagery - with the brain's synapse firings -- they're really beautiful.
8. I would look at other artists that use the brain in their work.
9. Big question is, what can you make it out of?
10. fiber/ woven / stitched / quilt / mosaic / you can do a lot with glue and dirt!!  ????

It's crazy - but no images are attaching!! 

I will stick them on the blog page for the final tour, okay?

I have noted a number of them here.

I hope this helps!

:: Pepper -- Happy Easter!

Hope to see you tomorrow @ 10:30 AM

Hello! 

So for my final project I had a funky idea to combine a couch and an umbrella it would be at a smaller scale of course, but I do have some foam to make a couch! I also have a cardboard tube to project from either the middle or off middle of the couch to an umbrella. I want my umbrella to be made out of wire. I think I’d like it just to be made out of wire and these stones my mom and I have collected with natural holes through them! Let me know what you think.

From JEP > Interesting Claire.

What are you hoping for your viewers to take away?

For me, it seems like a day dream or a memory of a comfortable island of some sort.  

The couch for me is a place to dwell and relax.  

How big is the couch going to be?

Is this what you are trying to get after? 

I am not sure if you need it, because your sculpture can be placed on different objects.

The umbrella with stones, and no other membrane to shelter me, reminds me of being awakened from a day dream slumber, abruptly.  Like its raining stones.

Perhaps you create the umbrella object and "perform" it in different places? 

On a couch, in a chair, in a bed, outside, etc.  

Here are a few things I have been thinking about....

Hi Pepper!

If you don't mind, I'd like to share with you the ideas I have for both the nature installation project and the final project and ask for some feedback.

Project 7 - self design

For my self design, I want to use paper as my primary medium, along with some other small found materials. I want my theme to be about my experience in this pandemic situation. I want to portray everything going on inside my head, everything going on around me, the good, the bad, the things I've been using to cope, just everything. And paper can be something that is SO personal. I want to use pages from the agenda I use for school, pages of my own writing and doodles, book pages, scrapbook paper, receipts from work. I also want to include some other materials such as fabric scraps and food packages. And I think I want it to take the form of an accordion book that emerges in all directions out of a box (also made out my personal materials). See the picture I attached? That's a normal accordion book in a box but I want my pages to have lots of layers that goes out in different directions and I want the layers to have parts that branch off into other directions as well. What I intend for this piece to demonstrate is that all of this stuff we're going through, it's all overlapped, it's all connected, it's not divided into good and bad sections. A lot of different things are happening at the same time and it's chaotic, and this is a visual representation of me appreciating all of those things, but just folding them neatly in a box somewhere, allowing myself to have a little bit of control.

I'd appreciate to hear what you think! Thanks so much!

Emily Cone

From JEP >

# 7 - sounds great Emiy! Do you have any items from day one of the lock down started, maybe downloaded and printed from the internet? The front pages of regional newspapers?? Some sort of diary?? You could use this as a substrate too, yes? I love the idea of layering, layering experience, cause and effect, chain reaction, all of it.  It's like the earth's stratigraphy, full and rich, loads of symbolism here!  As I see it, it will be the “collection” of stuff you use in the book which will be the tricky part to decide on. It also sounds like to me, some sort of mind map too - a new cartography to navigate through, a museum of the mind during this tragic pandemic!! 

Good for you Emily!! The project sounds really rich and pure!! I want to post this onto the blog. I want you to look up MaryBeth Edelson’s Postpartum Project and this... https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/edelson-selected-wall-collages-t14987

From Abbie Wilhelm

Wilhelm, Abigail L.

Thu 4/16/2020 1:47 PM

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For this final project I want to go back to cardboard and create a city skyline on the edge of my desk, but expand it into more of a performance/video work, using my animals as the performers! I was inspired by Joan Jonas' performance art and inclusion of her own animals and also the classic film Godzilla. I want to include my dogs behind the skyline and document their behavior in the "city" but at an angle that makes them seem like huge monsters invading the city. I would also like to try and set it up somewhere I could let my chickens play on, they love to climb and I think it would be a funny "chicken infestation". For the actual buildings I'm going to build them hollow to save material, and make "blocks" basically that can be arranged into different buildings and in the photographs/video be placed to represent destruction that my animals are "causing" Im going to use lamination and the corrugation to make details like windows and peaks and other architectural things. I'm not sure the specific size of the buildings, I think between about 4-8 inches so they look small in comparison to my dogs, but they will have to be large enough to construct since that is much easier than working with very very small pieces of cardboard.

JEP response > This sounds like so much fun Abigail!! I am thrilled that you are so inspired by Joan Jonas’ work!! She would be thrilled too!  I suggest that you get some excellent architectural photographs to base your models on.  They will have to really look like specific skyscrapers to make everything look rather believable.  I wouldn’t paint them or anything like that, as you suggest. Being that they are rectilinear you will only have to build the exterior walls (no stacking, like your bottle, yeah!)  I would also building them independently so you can easily move them around and create ‘new’ arrangements with them.  Placing some of stacks of books, etc. for variety of heights.  I think the chickens will be super with these. Build them some ramps so they can move up and down them. A video for certain of the final form!

It will be so much fun!! Very Edwin Wurm!!!