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final project "House into a Home" made with wood, drywall, yarn, greeting cards.

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Material vs Immaterial Project: "Playskool Visions" When we are little, we have a vision of how we think our future will be. Our vision is basic, colorful, and fragile. We think we know what will happen, but in actuality, that is impossible and the reality of our future is much more messy and dull than what we imagined. The front of this house represents our playful, childhood dreams and the back of the house represents the chaos that life actually entails. However messy, we still try to make the most of life and add glitter where things look ugly.

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What do you see me as? For this piece I wanted to create the living embodiment of negative emotion. I made the piece out of tooth picks because they are essentially a useless item that is made by a depleting source that could be put to use in in a better way much like the energy it take to produce negative thoughts and emotions. It is painted black to emphasis negativity. While making the creature I recognized that no one really feels emotions the same way, so I decided to leave what emotion the piece is supposed to invoke up to the viewer, thus the title of the piece. Whatever feelings or emotion you feel when looking at the piece, is what the piece becomes the living representation of it for you. For me the emotion I see this piece as is anxiety. It is a sharp dark emotion that preys on our fears and manages to destroy us internally. I wanted it to look like a frail creature that could still be very dangerous because that is how I see anxiety.

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#project6 #nancypalmerin

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Akira Starks Kauket's Temptation Materials: Clay, Glass, feathers, black matte paint Info: This project was based on the Egyptian Goddess Kauket(Kuk), who is the goddess of darkness. The imperfect body represents the bodies of those who have altered them in order to achieve the "perfect body." The glass represents the dangerous aspect of Kauket, discouraging the viewer to not be tempted to touch. The feathers are an invitation for the viewer to touch Kauket's body.

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Michael Cannon, 3D Foundational art.

Artists Statement

Katy Perry

This is my piece titled ‘Growth’, a material/immaterial project which tasked us with representing an emotion through the use of texture and materials more so than its form. My work uses primarily harvested tree bark and other natural materials found in the forest. My goal in choosing  tree based material, was an attempt to approach the feeling and spirit of gaining knowledge, or learning. This lead to a more abstract approach of this assignment, as the phenomenon of learning or growing is not a direct emotion, I wished to represent it as if it were. And I do believe that it is an emotional entity. The choice of trees to represent this is based on my personal relationship with nature and trees in particular. Growing up and to this day, nature is where I have allocated most of time. Whether hiking, camping, going on plant and animal studies or trail work, I have gained a substantial connection to the outdoors and what they have done for me. Being in the woods has taught me a great deal, I have found that forests, as I see them are an embodiment of growth, knowledge and learning, my time spent amongst them have aided me in growing in both my studies and personal life. As a powerful, adaptive force which never shoves only persists; I have come to relate a unique emotional response to trees and nature in whole, one which evokes a primordial sense of growth and change. My goal for the viewer was to invoke this, and to provide an  insight into my personal relationship with my material of choice.

Materials: Bark, moss, wire, glue, paper mache, lights

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Concentrated Love Zane Gregorian Materials: 99% Raw Baking Chocolate, Vanilla Extract, Serving Platter & Utensils. Chocolate is a medium full of romantic inferences, seduction, and indulgence, but when taken to its extreme the indulgent can be perverted into gluttony. That theme of excess appears throughout the piece, with the heart afloat in a sea of pure vanilla. Though the vanilla is aromatic and sweet, without moderation its sweetness is overbearing, almost saccharine. The heart, made of concentrated, almost inedible chocolate is literally offered up for consumption, mirroring the way in which we offer ourselves up to our significant other. This helps to characterize the all-consuming focus some people place on their partners which, though well intentioned, can suffocate them with unmoderated emotion and desire.

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Ali-Moosa Mirza Mirza-Picot Agreement Materials: Maps This piece seeks to convey the frustration and despair felt as a direct result of imperial powers, in the past centuries and still today carving up the world, creating conflict wherever they went and still go. At the same time it seeks to present the opposite feeling of hope for a peaceful world where there is no division, walls and borders which only lead to violence. It is my recreation of the globe in order to represent the world with countries which have endured centuries of oppression, in a new light, flipping the way we usually view the world. Traditional Maps present a distorted image of the world as they represent continents like Africa on a significantly smaller scale. Continents like Europe, the people making these distorted maps, is represented larger. This globe brings attention to that. This is why I used the material of the map to construct it. I see maps and find it strange how there are many straight lines for borders. These are borders made by imperial powers dividing and taking the land at will at events like the secret Skyes-Picot agreement. These arbitrarily drawn borders have only led to conflict still prevalent today as they grouped people of conflicting ethnicities and separated people with shared ethnicities. In some places the map erases these false borders like in Iraq, or the India Pakistan border and in some places it draws our attention to it. In some places I created random straight lines as borders in lands like the Balkans to bring to attention how damaging the imperialists drawing their own borders was. This is also why rather than a spherical globe the shape is rigid with straight lines as a commentary on the imperialism’s strange and dangerous shaping of the world with their borders. It is my hope that with this piece we can be prompted to research more in order to better understand the world we live in, in order to better understand the true roots of the struggles the countries face today.

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The name of the piece is “Falling”. I used foil paper to make the rose, clay and yarn to make the earth. The earth seems hanging in the structure. The flower is growing from the earth but on top of the earth. The metal look of the flower is the representation of manufacture. I used clay and yarn which are both come from nature to form the earth. Nowadays, as the manufacture develop more and more common, the pollution it produces give the earth very serious issue. The earth is falling.

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What am I feeling? I never knew how to identify with my emotions, and when I was given this assignment where I had to utilize materials to describe emotions, it was hard to think of something that would explain what I was feeling. I only knew anger, fear, sadness, depression, happiness, and anxiety. I know I have other emotions, I have felt them many times before... I just don't know what they are or how to describe them. I feel them in my chest, boiling my blood, lightening my mood, shutting me down, sometimes clashing together, and combining with one another to create something new. I wanted to show people how I felt through color because color conveys emotion. I used acrylic paint to better emphasize the thickness and the explosive aspects of these emotions. My heart is stained with red, blues, greens, and the whole spectrum of colors. Oskar Alfaro Materials used: wire, tissue, glue, acrylic paint

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Lithium Equilibrium by Audrey Benacerraf 

I chose Lithium as the primary material in this project.  I have bipolar disorder and I take Lithium Carbonate to help balance the instability of my manic and depressive cycles. From my personal and emotional experience this element has helped to stabilize my mood. For this reason, I created a Lithium scale that represents the balance of emotions. The base of the sculpture is a Lithium battery, with a branch wired to it. Within the tree branch there are small traces of Lithium which can be found in every organism. From the branches, chrysalises have formed.  The chrysalises were made by inserting colored lithium grease into plastic and sealing it. They were then attached to the branch with wire, to symbolize balance, similar to the arms of a scale.  The chrysalis shapes have been filled with lithium grease of different colors. The colors red and blue, signify the state between mania and depression.  For me the chrysalis represents transformation and expansion. As young adults we are experiencing many transformations at this stage of our lives. Rather than being destabilized by the ups and downs of mood cycles, I want to experience transformation,  like the chrysalis and lithium which help me do that.

Materials: lithium battery, branch, wire, lithium grease, plastic wrap 

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Blank Face by Simone von Kugelgen, made of plaster, yarn, and makeup. The piece deals with having to stay strong for family dealing with the looming death of the patriarch. It deals with staying strong in times of uncertainty, no matter what one may or may not be feeling or thinking. Sometimes one needs to be someone else to provide strength for others, despite any pain they may be feeling themselves.

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Protected Tree Glass, Stick(wood), Hot Glue, Plant Pot My piece is to represent the emotion of irony. The title is incredibly ironic in that the Tree(stick) is covered in glass, which is both fragile and volatile. We as people often interfere with the environment and even positive efforts often times also end up negative. The glass inhibits the growth of the tree and therefore does the opposite of protecting the nature, allowing it to slowly die. The pine cones are also frosted in glass shards, and though 2 have fallen, the last one is left on the tree just barely hanging on for survival. The spider webs, which are made of hot glue, comments how yet, even in death, nature seems to take itself back, allowing for new life to grow and prosper. - Brooke Drury - Art 3D Foundations, 2016

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Developed

I sought to create a piece that examines childhood development and how it factors into every individual. Every person you pass was once a child and every individual’s personality is formed by in part by the memories from their childhood. This piece uses my own childhood photo negatives as the material for the head’s skin. This was meant to invoke how one’s personality as an adult is formed during childhood and how individuals may choose to deliberately obscure this from others.

Wire mesh, paper mache and childhood photo negatives of the artist

Ethan Seidel, project 5

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“Artificial Sunlight” / Sophie Caplan

Through my piece “artificial sunlight” I aim to convey a sense of calmness. For the last four months, I’ve been listening to and attending guided meditations. One exercise which I found intriguing and strangely effective was a visualization in which the person sitting imagines and dwells on the idea of sunlight. They then picture the sunlight flowing through the body as if it were immaterial. When one brings to mind and dwells on the idea of sunlight and its qualities of warmth, lightness, spaciousness, the mind often experiences those same qualities, becoming clearer and more relaxed. I aim to convey this state of mindfulness and clarity of thought by projecting artificial sunlight in the form of a human figure sitting in meditation.

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Your Choice

      This piece was inspired by the following Jim Carrey quote: “Our eyes are not only viewers, they are also projectors that run a second story over the picture. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is ‘I’ll never be enough’” Metaphorically, my work compares two different lifestyles - that of a life lived through fear, and that of a life lived through confidence.  This conscious choice to choose a positive or negative attitude is made every day, and time (represented by a calendar) constantly reminds us of our choices.  If we mindlessly choose to live in fear, we begin to psychologically drown, and remain caged in.  The FEAR box is slightly taller than the confidence box, and the eye glasses are more easy to access, illustrating the inclination and convenience of choosing fear over confidence.  It’s murky image illustrates that this will always be counter productive and it is never the answer.

Materials: wire, eyeglasses, a weekly calendar, cardboard, metal mesh, saran wrap, water.

    by Zakery Chrest

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Project 6

“Star, Burst” - Sam Turoff-Ortmeyer

Materials - Wire, balloons, latex, shrink wrap, shoes, food coloring, starbursts

Since the beginning of mankind, humans have been confused. Confusion is an integral part of who we are, but it’s impossible to fully capture the sense of being confused without diverging into other emotions. It can feel like anxiety, panic, and fear, but from it comes passion and clarity. When we are confused we can feel our bodies become bloated and stiff with fear like wires and balloons wrapped tightly in shrink wrap. We start to become dizzy because it gets harder and harder to breath and our body becomes something that’s foreign to us. With one stiff arm we use the wall to stay balanced, but the pressure from the balloons is too great; from our latex skin and mouth erupts gooey starburst candy because we can’t contain our emotions anymore and what was buried beneath all that plastic is revealed to the world and ourselves.