3D to 2D

Paper Stacking

Part of the process; 

I had placed my fruit in a melted candle with the hope of creating a mold. I needed a mold because I found that in the examples that we were shown in class there is more than one way to stack paper.

My mold

I proceeded to bend my paper with nothing but water in a blender until it was a nice pulp.

After, I proceeded to put the paper pulp into my mold. When that failed I gathered a ball 

of the pulp and molded it into the shape of my apple as seen below.

As for my other paper stacking piece, the original idea was to stack in multiple directions, such as horizontal and vertical. However, with my final decisions made on my apple I decided that maybe I shouldn't go with the different stacking directions but go with a progression instead. Thus, my final second piece shows a gradual incline which graduates into paper pulp and a point.

Drawings

Masked identity

I feel like I accidently did this project in reverse. We were supposed to or I understood it to be, that we had to create a mask that involved our identity and present it in such a way that further emphasized that point. We were to figure it out, make a visual representation and then present in whatever way we wanted. Looking at the pictures and my final product, I think that I didn't know what I was creating when I first started out. I was merely doing my homework. Looking at it now, I see what may have been several unconscious decisions.
How does this represent my identity? Well, during the creation of the mask itself, I was thinking of a scene from Beetlejuice where the ghost couple was getting desperate to get these people to move out of their house, thus the ghosts manipulate their own bodies into grotesque forms with hopes of actually scaring the people out, and in this process they end up scaring this girl they befriended, regretting their decision to attempt to make themselves scary and thus turn to other methods. That was where the inspiration for the shape of the mask had come from. At first I thought it was only that, inspiration. However, I can relate to that. The feeling that in order to get things you want you feel the need to become a different a person and when you hurt the ones you love it really draws things into perspective. I have been there and although such experiences don't define me as a person I think they play a major part, just like in my final photos; the mask is a large part of it but there are several other elements at work as well.
In pertinence to the pictures, going from the top down;
     Wandering
     Lost
     Searching
     Still Searching
     Taking what life hands me
     Finding myself in places and not knowing which way to go
     Confined
     Content with being confined
     The next two are being alone
     The last two are judged
   

It's about time

Process of the carving itself.

 Pictures of my first soap carving:

The Process:

First, I subtracted by dripping water on it for about 6 hours

This was my result

Next, I added by sticking a short candle wick in his head

When I lit it, it turned into subtraction

Next I added beads to his back

You can't really tell, but I tore a hole in his chest (subtracted) and added a piece of ice.

Next, I subtracted by rubbing him on the pavement

Next I added a string

And my final step was adding shards of glass to divide him up

 Final soap carving