Important Works of Fall-Winter 2018
"Doesn't ADD Up" -October, 2018, Haptics and Optics, scanography experimentation and color editing, no photo-manipulation or warping.
"Of the Scraps" -December, 2018, Body-World-Machine, scrap metal, scrap wood, scrap chicken wire, and rope.
Asked to be a part of the body of work in the First Year Experience show that will be exhibited on campus beginning in late August of 2019. Metal additions and detailing (such as twisted thin wire lashes) will be made and the piece will display as “Lady of the Scraps”.
“Situate” -December 2018, Haptics and Optics, older objects from home and new objects purchased specifically for college.
Photographs from a series that explored how these items coexist and how their colorings and textures come together in my temporary space.
"Accumulation" -December, 2018, Forum, mount board and acrylic.
A group project, made for the prompt, "Plastics: A Blessing or A Curse?"
We highlighted single use, short term and long term, plastic packaging by making flat paintings and layered them to have similarities to a pile of trash. We referenced objects in our everyday lives and allowed their colors and logos to speak to what groups in society take part in accumulation; company's mass production and consumers buying them.
The coffee cup, sprite bottle, and dawn bottle, on the left, were painted by me and assembled with my groups pieces on the right. Other paintings on the right are by: Emma Wigginton and Lisa Wei
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Be the Generation: Running with Our Heads Down
For my final project in my Contemporary Drawing class we were asked to create a drawing assist tool, craft instructions for the tool, and then make two "drawings", both at least on 42" x 60" paper, that depict an event with two differing perspectives.
"Be the Generation: Running with Our Heads Down" -December, 2018, Contemporary Drawing, personal belongings, recycled bottles, scrap metal, multiple lights.
On September 29th, 2018, the Global Citizen Festival took place in Central Park where a "fallen barricade" was mistaken for a gunshot. This created a stampede of 60,000 people trying to find an exit simultaneously, four of my closest friends included in the rush. Moments before, they were waiting for their favorite performer but instead were forced to run for (what they believed were) their lives. In the confusion, all assumptions had to be taken seriously just to stay safe.
My friends had exited unharmed but when the NYPD had confirmed there was no threat, reentry began and they were too shaken up to return to the upbeat concert. They found seating at a cafe and called their mothers. The next day, the CEO of the Global Citizens Festival released a controversial statement apologizing for the traumatizing event and inconvenience but then continued to say the NYPD had confirmed the “origin” of the noise that started the stampede was not a gunshot or a fallen barricade, but actually "attendee(s) stepping on and popping a drink bottle(s)." The Public has many opnions on this statement.
In this piece, I consider the bottle sculpture, near the bottom right of the above photo, to be my drawing assist tool along with the lights, as they help to make my shadow drawing of a semi-automatic handgun on the paper in front of them. I used plastic bottles and scrap metal to make the gun in order to highlight the noise association that took place the night of the festival and the caution that has become present at large public gatherings. The scattered belongings are important in not only recreating the scene but in representing terror. As my friend Kellie put it, “People wouldn’t be leaving behind their valuables if they thought their lives weren’t in danger”. Although a gunman entering a concert is not a new concept, the festival goers were extremely under prepared for a safe evacuation and I used the clutter to help bring that to life.
Although the projection room was not the original location, I decided to turn over the whole room upon installation and tie it into the piece. I flipped over chairs and tables to replicate barricades like my peers and I have been instructed to do in the event of a gunman being a threat to our previous schools. The socially satirical instructions on how to build the sculpture, comment on shootings in schools and other public places, I decided to integrate the festival scene with symbolism we connect to school threats to emphasize my instructions on "How to Sculpt the Illusion of Terror": https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ubCT1YnxdinLUWs0DAFhvSl8og2FzeZ_-P-FquH9PU/edit?usp=sharing
