It's About Time

Process Pictures:

 Transformations

  1st I cut out the middle of the sculpture.

Then added pins to the top and through the hole.

 The pins made the middle break in half so i added pins covered in tape to reconnect the two pieces through the middle.

Next I wet the squirrel and covered it in my soap shavings.

 Once the soap was dry I took the pins out and soaked the squirrel in bleach water. Once it dried I cut it into pieces.

 Then I reassembled the pieces of soap with pins.

 Lastly I poured pink hair dye diluted with water over the soap sculpture. 

Janine Antoni Art21 Response

 I found the video of Janine Antoni's artwork truly inspirational. She takes her art to the next level by physically using herself as a part of each work. The most paramount artwork is more then the aesthetics; its the creative process put into each piece of art, and the background story that uniquely embodies the artist. Antoni demonstrates the deeper meaning in everything that is shown in the video, as well as relating them all to each other. One artwork gives her inspiration for the next creating a beautiful sequence. I especially loved her soap and chocolate carvings. I didn't know soap was made from lard, which was an interesting/ somewhat gross fact. After attaining that I thought it brought a whole new level to the sculptures. Antoni said she wanted to display "cleaning the body with the body", which she did in such a beautiful and creative way. She then took the idea even further by eating the chocolate and washing herself with the soap, this connected the sculptures to everyday life. Throughout the project she shows a unique process that is easy for the viewer to follow with no knowledge and even more thought provoking once her explanation is known.

Memento: On longing personal response

"On Longing" Quotes

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

2. Capacity of objects serve as traces of authentic experiences. 

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

3. Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.

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

Response to the "On Longing" Quotes

   When you have a souvenir or memento it turns something psychological into something physical. It takes a memory and turns it into something that materially exists. This ensures that the memory will always be with you. If the memory starts to fade in your mind it can always be refreshed with the physical representation of your memory. It can also be seen by others, giving them insight into a memory that ordinarily they wouldn't be able to see. It also is a way to show not only a memory but how you individually see it. A memory represents things only from the past, which is time that has been lost. Losing someone or something you love makes the memoirs involving them so much more meaningful. 

    

Memento: Inventory/ The tokens personal response

   The short story "Inventory/ The Token" took on such a serious subject and made it seem so casual and ordinary. The entire adoption system seems like a sick and twisted game. The wet nurses were paid a "general annual bonus" for keeping the children that they were responsible for alive, as if these nurses were playing a game to keep them alive only because of the reward they would receive. The upper class people of London in the 1740's turned unwanted children into a game by hosting a lottery event where the mothers who didn't want their children would pick a ball that chose the fate of their child. Even though forms of birth control and medical treatments hadn't been discovered its hard to believe that so many women would be so eager to give up their own living specimen. 

   With all other things not in consideration I thought the tracking system was really interesting. It gives us insight on how a mother could reclaim their child before things such as blood tests and social security numbers existed. Since a "token" was all a mother had to reclaim her children it seems that it brings great value to something that could be so simple. Since the token seems to be the only way for a mother to find her child it leads me to believe that If the mother were to loose the token there would be no other way for her to someday reclaim her child. This seems unfathomable to me that such great value can be placed on one simple thing. 

Memento

me·men·to [muh-men-toh]

noun, plural me·men·tos, me·men·toes.

Notes from class:

Process pictures:

    For the Memento project I created a non-representational piece to signify a memory of my great grandmother. Since purple was her favorite color, on her 98th birthday we released purple balloons into the sky and made a wish. Now every year on her birthday my grandma and I release purple balloons in memory of her. The sphere shape represents represents a round balloon. I designed it with a hole so you could see inside to represents capturing a memory, and the air in which makes the balloon float. The purple threat that belonged to my great grandma represents her, and the way I threaded it represents the different paths of our relationship as well as our relationship with other family members.

 

 

Drawings

Gregors Room

 In Process:

Final Project:
I chose to use dull colors throughout the every piece to express the dreary and sad feelings of Gregor's life.

In the story their was a picture of a woman in a boa that Gregor took with him when he was a traveling sales man to show people the product. I recreated the picture that was described making the boa bright pink. the boa is the most vibrant object in everything I created to represent Gregor's room. I wanted this to be the most vibrant thing since it represents what Gregor considered the best part of his life. I also made the briefcase bigger than scale to represent how important his job was to himself and his family.

Drawings