3D to 2D

For this project, I had to use one of the existing photos of a previous project and turn it into something new.  These images combined together were originally my second paper sculpture assignment. I took a 3D object and made it into a 2D image using Photoshop to manipulate the image and create a new masterpiece.  

Yoko Ono

To be honest I really do not see anything artistic about the Yoko Ono performance piece. I do admit it was brave of her to go up on stage and trust the viewers to cut off pieces of her clothes. I see her performance as awareness for women and their feminism rather than art.  The women cutting away the pieces were taking off the sleeves or stomach areas and I thought that was respectful.  At the end, a man was cutting off the bra and that brought  the performance to a whole new level. I really see art as something completed, not in the process of being completed, with almost random outcome.

Happenings

Here is a link to the video if it does not work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcx7BAYolLY

Although I had a different objective at the beginning of this project, ending with a calligraphy glove was never my intention but it ended up being more inventive and pretty with the feathers.

Memento

I don’t travel much, but when I do, I go with my family. I have family that lives in upstate New York. When we take a trip to New York we normally go when it is warm spend time at our family’s Lake house. The cabin has a beautiful view that looks out into the lake. I love spending our time there because it is a relaxing get away from everyday life. We would spend a lot of our time swimming, floating, kayaking, and fishing in the lake.

I would always get a sunburn spending my time outside swimming. Then I would come inside to take a nap. The cabin can get cold overnight so there are stock plies of quilts to keep us warm no matter what, and even with a sunburn I can get the chills. I loved wrapping myself with those quilts and falling to sleep.

Wood: represents the cabin

Stained wood: represents my tan

Fabric: represents all the quilts within the cabin

Poetry Respones

Poem

T.  A P H R O D I T A by Seth McCormick

Pale half-moon partially 

eclipsed by sand: fractured clam shell:

subtle curve 

of marbled toe—I found her 

thus forgotten:

an ancient goddess, her bones 

sun-bleached and hidden 

beneath sea glass and

sea weed

surrounded by 

fossilized limbs of echinoderms

pared radially like rose petals.

I rebuilt her on my nightstand

stacked her ribs 

one upon the other like a ladder

my eyes climb each night

in search of eternity.

Seafoam stream of ejaculate, stunted breath

eyelids half-closed with pleasure: I worship her

and she comes

to me, illustrious, deathless

as a poem

for a moment pale bone made pink

with flesh and blood.

A vision too quickly dissolved 

flaccid in the dark. But limp 

in my hand

it's all I have to cling to.

Sculpture One

For my first sculpture, I was not happy with the way this sculpture turned out. I was thinking more about the process of making it rather than referring to the poem. I really sought to make my paper sculpture deal with folding. For the triangular part, I was able to make smooth edges and gave it some texture with the repetition of lines across the triangle. I thought the triangle would be a good representation of a uterus signifying a birth of some kind. The blue and green colors would imply the ocean and seaweed where Aphrodite was born. 

Sculpture Two:

I made sure I came across the right colors that were directed towards Aphrodite, the goddess of love.  I definitely saw pale colors in reference to the quote “sun-bleached and hidden”.  For shape I pictured a round figure that demonstrates a circle of security because this poem talks about her being born and her birth is beautiful. So I decided to layer pieces of paper within a mold representing the description “stacked her ribs”. This poem gave me a thought of the paintings called “The Birth of Venus” done in the 1400s. While creating the small circular tubes, I was thinking of the colors within that painting and the “Seafoam” described in the poem. I did not want to do the tubes all the way around because it seemed too predicable. Keeping asymmetrical gave it a lightweight, elegant look.