FA SEM Blog

This is my blog for my Fine Arts Seminar class. I post all of the awesome projects we do in fasem art and english. This is by far the BEST class I've ever taken. I've learned more about myself, about others and about the world through this class and I couldn't be happier. I've made so many friends who have become family to me. Be inspired!

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15 day challenge - Day 11 - Outside Morgan Stanley. 

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Parkwood Blvd. Schenectady, NY

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Sumner Ave. Schenectady, NY

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For our sand mandala vessels, we made them out of clay, in any shape we wanted, starting with two pinch pots, expanding them into half circles then joining them at the middle.

After scoring and seaming them together, we used paddles to shape them into spheres. From there, we shaped them into any shape we wanted. For mine, I chose to do a chalice considering it is a big part of my life at this point and the core symbol of the mandala was the chalice in the seed. 

The crescent shape was really difficult to form the clay into. I had to start over once because the first one was too round and getting thin. For the second one, I shaped it more with my hands and when that was done, I cut the hole in the top for the lid. I strategically made the flame as the handle for the lid and then attached the base to the body of the vessel. This was flimsy and came out lopsided a bit due to the top-heaviness of the body piece.

On the vessel, we made designs/symbols that represented the symbols on our mandala. After firing them a second time with the glaze on, I tried to stick some of my sand on the outside on top of the peace sign and the brain inside of the woman, but it didn't stay. I might try and glue it with hot glue/tacky glue.

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The sweeping process. 

After we pushed back the rocks and swept up all of the sand, we put it all into a blue solo cup in a bag to save it for when we finished making our vessels. 

The rock in the center of my sand is the rock that was in the center of my mandala. This little rock seems to pull it all together and symbolically take the place of all of the rocks connecting the mandalas.

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Some flash-back photos to our mandala process :)

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Part 5 sweeping process

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Part 4 of sweeping :)

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Part 3 of Sweeping process

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Part 2 of the sweeping process, how beautiful.

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And the destruction begins…

I thought I was going to cry, but it was actually quite beautiful. I know tis is a sacred process and I probably shouldn’t have video taped it just for the personal connection but it’s my first mandala and I wanted to document every bit of this amazing process. 

I think next time, I will video tape me working on the mandala - the construction and destruction and then speed it up to see it all in fast motion. 

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Closing ceremony before we sweep away our sand mandalas!

Everyone wrote a haiku that went along with their sand mandala. Here, we pass around the candle and say our haikus aloud in the circle.

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Javon Johnson & Terisa Siagatonu - “PTSD” "The only difference there is between a soldier with PTSD and one of my students with it, is that the soldier gets to leave the battlefield while my kids go home to it." Performing at the 2013 National Poetry Slam for Hollywood’s Da Poetry Lounge. Check out more of Javon’s work in VIRAL.