Fictitious Dishes

Paper sculptures

Paper Stacking

Proportion Stack, Tomato :

Inventive Stack:

Inspiration Photos were taken from some well enjoyed album's cover images.

to arrive at this. . 

3D to 2D

3D to 2D assignment.
   Designed from photos of architecture relief sculpture, paper stacking, and soap sculpture.

The Loser

I choose to work with Shel Silverstein's poem The Loser. In the poem once the loser has lost his head, he lists how he can't look for it, call for it, hear it, or even think about it. Therefor for in recreating the head I made sure it had somewhat of those features exaggerated. I went with a brainy pinkish color for the giant head. I choose to portray the loser also with a rock in hand emphasizing the irony found at the end of the poem.

Soap Turtles

Process pictures for my perspective soap turtle. .

Final Solution

For this project I took my soap turtle and 4 additive and 4 subtractive things to it.

For my additives I used;

-Sand

-Pastels

-Palm tree bark

-Candle wax

And for subtractive I;

-Cut off limbs

-Burned away wax

-Brushed sand away

-Melted and distorted pastels

-Poured OJ & let it wash off

I first cut all the limbs from the body

I then melted the main body using a torch, on a piece of palm tree bark and let the soap dry on the bark to adhere it together.

I crushed up pastels and sprinkled the dust onto the main body.

After melting and adhering the remaining limbs to the bark, I dropped sand on some limbs.

After dumping sand, I blew off excess and used the torch to melt the remaining into the soap. I brushed off some loose areas with my hand. I then torched the pastels in the soap to warp and blend the colors some. On the right side of the main body, as well as back left, I also dripped green candle wax into the piece. 

Finally I poured Orange Juice on the whole piece, letting it wash away leaving a thin transparent sticky orange tint coving the sculpture.

Janine Antoni Response

I find the performance aspect of Antoni's work to be truly genius. It seems she generates pretty basic ideas such as falling and by experimenting with her performance arrives at unique and beautiful work.  By incorporating things such as her body into her work as both a tool and canvas she remains very involved in the process. In her work such as Eureka, I was initially astonished as to how she carved the human body using the negative space, but to see that she in-fact dipped her whole body into a tub of lard, and then with the help of cables pulled out; showed how performance can not only change the ascetics of a piece but also alter the message received. Within documenting the performance of all her own work, Antoni, is still able to display her performance as well as the final product. I also found it inspiring how for her film Touch, she went to the extent of learning to walk on a tight rope simply for the performance of creating the illusion that Antoni, was walking on the horizon in her film.