Category Archives: Form Study

Material Moves

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chose a cool material, do 5 things lots of times

In art history we were looking at a lot of ancient Greek and Roman stonework and I was getting kind of into carving, so I figured a soft foam would be fun to work with. Turns out floral foam is made with tiny rock particles anyway. Go figure.

I bought about 9 blocks and did five different things to it a bunch of times each. I ripped it, sliced it, diced it, punched it, and crumbled it. I came to class with little piles of each move. I don’t have those anymore or photos of them, this was an extra block I had left and carved into this.

Inappropriate Material

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find an object, make it with an inappropriate material

We were assigned to go into a thrift or hardware store and find any object that we liked. Then we’d take it home, figure out what was the least appropriate material for that object to be made out of, and replicate it with that material.

I found a cool tie in a big thrift store in Cambridge and decided something that didn’t bend or fold and was hard to manipulate on a small scale would be the least appropriate material. I used foamboard and it worked pretty well. My first version wasn’t detailed enough but I did it again and made sure to make the details on the back of the tie, and it got a good response. The detailing wrapping around the tie was definitely the hardest part. I even faked the stitches on the tag on the back. :D

Math in the Brant

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math operations on two existing gallery pieces

A gallery was set up in school with work from alumni and faculty that all responded to one question:

Do at least one math operation (+, -, x, /) with two objects of your choice. Everything else is open.

Our job was to take two of those objects in the gallery and do the same thing: use at least one math operation on them to create our piece that would be put into the gallery as well. At the end of the week, both classes, each between 15 and 20 people, had pieces in the gallery in addition to the originals we based our work on.
I used a long pillar through a square and the little pink guy (the artist called it the Bastard Daughter) as my two pieces, and my equation was something like the following:

[(Spear and shield) - decomposed soldier] / (scale of Bastard Daughter) + Bastard Daughter’s mutant clone =
the Fluff Guardian

It got great response, and when I installed it there was another piece out of wood and PVC that looked like a sort of abstract dragon, so I positioned my Fluff Guardian running toward it, spear and shield out, on the offense.

Hat 2

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communicate your most intense first-class moment

After making our first hat, we did some journaling in class about the making, the presenting, and the class as a whole. As a response to our ‘Hat 1′ assignment, we had to make another hat that represented the most intense part of our first class experience.

The most intense part of the class for me was presenting my hat. I wasn’t sure what to say because I didn’t plan it out, and I didn’t even make a real hat, I made a bandanna. Plus, I was just nervous and unsure during my presentation and that always goes awkwardly for me.

So my second hat was more of a response to my moment from the previous class, a ‘captain of my moment’ hat, to remind me to take charge of my presentation and my work.

Hat 1

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open everything

On the first day of class, our teacher laid out a table with cloth and sewing supplies and said ‘You have an hour and a half to make a hat of any kind. Make it good, make it what you like. Go.

I wasn’t really sure what to make, so I grabbed two pieces of cloth I liked and cut out a demon skull and sewed it on.