3D to 2D

Me Inside Four Walls

For our final project, we had to build a structure that contained "drawers" with hand-made items inside that were personal reflections. Instead of making a typical, symmetrical structure, I wanted to incorporate a sense of tension by building varying shapes and sizes. These different but unified levels are representations of various aspects of my life and how I have many responsibilities. I decided to only use black and white tones, as I have very much an all-or-nothing kind of mindset usually, and am a bit of a contradiction. The items I hid within my "paper world" are a cross, heart, a butterfly (which is what my name means), pig made of fondant (as I'm a cake decorator), and a map that has markings of where I've been and where I want to go in the world.

Relief Poster

For this assignment, we had to find some kind of advertisement with a message; we then had to either support the message or mock it by imposing relative, 3-d objects. I chose to do two because I feel equally strong for both. I have also positioned the original ad next to my posters.

Body and Form

For this project, we had to create some kind of outfit that covered at least half of our body out of wire, tracing paper, and gel medium. We then had to use that outfit and create a narrative that made some kind of statement. My narrative was inspired by Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem Richard Cory:

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean-favoured and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good Morning!" and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich, yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine -- we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread,
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet in his head.

Soap Carvings

For this project, we had to replicate an animal figurine two times. One we turned in, and the other we had to change its form in a narratively, relevant way. My soap creations were make up of remnants of other soaps, which gave me the inspiration for the video I created.

Tape Shoes

We were required to choose a pair of shoes with laces, and replicate them by using only masking tape.

Paper Hybrid

We had to make 6 paper replicas from items found in nature without using any tape or glue. We then took those six items and created to unconventional pieces by cutting up and taping various parts of the six nature pieces.