Instagram pictures for momento project

"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy"

"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience"

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale"

"Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss"

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body" 

2D To 3D

Memento Project

Inspired by Hilary Sanders

Inspired by Peter Hoogeboom

My memento illustrates my memory of moving to Flagler College and St. Augustine. When moving to St, Augustine, I  knew nobody and was coming to a city I had only visited once in my life. I felt lost, confused, and thought I wouldn't fit in. On the other hand, though, I was excited to start anew. I couldn't be the person I truly am without any preconceived notions of who I might be. Moving to Flagler and the experience of that memory made me the person that I am today.

My memento cube has 6 sides:

-Two of the side are burned, scraped and cut. The burning symbolizes the burning of my past as I move forward with my life. The cuts and scrapes represent all the bruises and things I had to endure to get to Flagler

-The string that covers the scraped and burned side represents the mending of my past

-On another side, I have collected brochures and pamphlets from the welcome center (the first place I visited in St. Augustine) and cut, weaved, and glued them together. I have little words throughout that represent my experience. "Pizzalley's" is the name of the first place I worked in St. Augustine. Flagler college is seen, as well as a lot of the street names around the area. The intertwining of the brochures represents the lost-like quality I had when I first got here. 

-Another side has a hole cut out of it, and in the inside of my cube I have a wooden ball that just barely does not fit into the hole. This represents my trying to "fit in" when moving to a new place

-The last side of my cube has a cut-out arrows on a map that point to the place that me and my parents got lost when wandering the city

Materials:

Wood

Paper

String

Map Relief Project

My map relief project was inspired by the flight patterns that you usually see at airports. I've always loved traveling and mapping out each place I have been. The red string represents the "path" that the plane has flown, touching destination to destination. I included a lot of my personal style into this piece: the small, detailed cut-paper work. The cut-paper that comes off of the structure abstractly represent destinations and land masses. The use of the red color of the string was to guide your eye all around the project as you fly through each object and destination.

Inspirations

Inspired by: Chris Kenny

Inspired by: Val Britton

Inspired by: Haga Vardimon-van Heummen

Info from:  http://foundations3ddesign.blogspot.com/search/label/Map%20Relief%20Artists

Soap Carving

Left: First try

Right: Second try

My soap carving was a study of a polar bear. From the beginning I struggle with this project, but towards the end, I started to understand the techniques used to obtain more detail and scale it to size better. I had trouble fitting the hind leg onto the bear in the first attempt, but with some modification and better study of my object, I fit in the hind leg on my second attempt. The ears and snout didn't make it on the final pieces as I did not have the time to add them on. 

Balsa Wood Small Sculptures

Focal Point

My first balsa wood sculpture represents a focal point. The materials I used were: tape, wood glue, balsa wood, and straight pins. The wood arrows and wood arcs are used as a visual path to guide your eye towards the center. In the center is a ball made of tape and is used as the focal point. To make the arc in the balsa wood, I wrapped a thin piece of balsa wood in a wet paper towel, then bent it in half, and slightly bent it to get the arch-like shape.

Pattern

This small sculpture embodies the idea of pattern. The materials I used were: paper, balsa wood, and wood glue. To make the prisms, I made a flat outline of a deconstructed hexagonal prism and used that template to cut out my patterns. Scaling the prism down a size, I made a smaller prism and repeated the same process and pattern. I used wood glue to glue it all together. To further the idea of pattern, I used the shape of a hexagon as a base made out of balsa wood. I was to have a hierarchy in my project, so I made the bigger prism be on top of the smaller one.

Texture 

This small sculpture embodies the idea of texture. The materials I used were: paper, balsa wood, straight pins, and wood glue. To create the texture on top, I used a cluster of straight pins along with cut strips of paper. On the sides, I have a cut-paper texture that also allows you to see through the sculpture. On the other wooden sides, I cut little individuals blocks and glued them in a random pattern around each other to create another texture. Overall, with the limited supplies hat I had, my goal was to create as many unique textures that I could.

Tape Shoe

the sole

paper shoe attempt

process of making the sole

As an artist, I have always bit off more than I could chew with assignments. At the beginning, I believed that we only had replicate one of the shoes, so I picked the most detailed shoe, a basketball shoe, I could find because I was excited for this project. After a journey of sleepless nights and running out of tape, I can say that I have successfully made a shoe out of tape. Most of my tape went to stuffing the inside of the shoe for support of the tongue of the should and to the bottom of the sole. The sole of the shoes was the hardest part due to all the detail it had. Another difficult task was making the eyelet hole for the laces. The tape was so thick that I broke my hole-punchers and I had to cut the hole by hand; which was very time-consuming. In the end, I'm pleased with the to-scale shoes that I've made.