“Untitled Art”

“Sin Título”

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INDEX:

1. Materials in the World

2. Material Translation: Final

3. Touch: ASMR

4. Lost Objects: Final

5. Redo/Undo - The Cannibalized Object: Final

6. Soft: Final

7. FINAL PDF PORTFOLIO

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Salute to the Bag

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Salute to the Bag

Inspired by plastic pollution as well as Lebrie Rich’s work using plastic bags this work as a combination between a symbol of patriotism and a product that has a single-use and ends polluting our world. Using single-use plastic bags the work imitates the American flag as it waves with the wind in an attempt to give a sense of how pollution and waste has become a symbol for the northamericans day to day reality.

Fun fact: 100 billion plastic bags are used by consumers in the United States every year. This comes down to being 1 bag per person each day.

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Support Collection

Using twigs and branches from the Natural preserve, this work creates a dependency within the materials to support itself and keep it balanced by distributing its weight with the broken-down plaster mold of the original roots which are then trapped and kept within the twigs and branches allowing the piece to be one one structure which depends upon all of its parts to keep upright.

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Fossilized Roots

Inspired by nature and Steve Tobins work, this is an amalgamation of past and present. Made using plaster to cast the branches of this bush it shows a connection between two worlds, trapped forever in time as a sort of fossilized print of such roots. 

An organic body and an inorganic one represented together, dependent on each other; yet still one is mimicking the other. An organic body divided into two worlds, trapped between a framed space, styled with a vignetting effect, present in early Photographies. Yet it remains limited by his world, entrapped with no more space than where it lies, while its counterpart, free and expanding beyond its composition is still attached to the other world, unable to forget its past but free to expand its reach. 

Just like archeologists have found fossils of plants and trees, which have given us a glimpse of what life used to be in the past; something that the human race may be sooner than later going to have to deal with all because of the way we treat mother nature.

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The Local’s Drink

Inspired by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, this work is a reaponse to the ongoing war. Civilians have taken it upon themselves to fight against the mighty Russia and the easiest say they have found to fight back was with Molotov Cocktails. Consisting of a home-made assembly line the bottles are pushed through a canal until meeting the funnel under a pouring tower to be filled up. They continue their journey by having added a newspaper wick and finally being packed in 6pack containers for easy transportation. This is a 47 min audio of the assemblage from scratch of 30 Molotov Cocktails using casting slip as the fuel and newspaper for the wick. In shorter words this has become the local’s favorite drink to fight against the Russian forces.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/142YuOn0wxHvE2u2Alva255IIXcbnccKo/view?usp=sharing

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Prosthetics for Nature by Nature

Inspired by nature and by Martin Puryear’s works this work consists of two prosthetic arms made out of wood and hold by plastic ribbons and metal wire to support itself. These wooden pieces are then mounted onto the tree’s callous; the callouses are scars from branches that used to exist but were cut off either by disease or human intervention.

This piece allows for the tree to regain that missing branch. Be once again complete and overtake that space it once had but lost forever with a piece that is technically made of another tree. Sarcastically giving back to nature using nature as the element. Making an obvious decision but at the same time one that feels as a hypocritical use of nature’s own resources to fix it by human intervention yet knowing that it will have no effect on the tree as well as receive no benefit from it.

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Lumber Yard Visit

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INDEX No.1

Fence: Final 1000 Elements Final QCQ # 1 Das Sockelproblem Kitchen Pedestal Sink Problem: Final Actions to relate to oneself: Final Self-Directed Presentation Artist Talk: Nicolas Lobo

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Self-Directed Presentation:

Mold Making

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“To Push and Pull”

Inspired by the ideas behind the string theory as well as Jean Tinguely’s works, this piece is an amalgamation of gravitational forces as well as tensions and forces of science which are being exerted throw the materials that compose the work. The use of industrial-grade metal rods, chains, fabric, wood and string are made to interact with natural forces as well as applying force to shape the work into providing a specific task. The objects in this piece express a push between tough elements with softer more organic ones and the correlation with metal working labor that is expressed through the white T-shirt being pushed down and burned from the constant sparks of grinding and welding.

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“SUBLIMEAL”

Inspired by Hein Steinbach’s work and Tom Sachs’ this piece is presenting a broken-down diorama of each element that constitutes one of the most famous meal from the renowned Fast-Food Franchise Corporation in history known as McDonald’s. One of the most successful stories of industrializing production and delivery methods of their products to costumer in record time. 

Using a found object (broken TV), the project evolved as to be presented in connection to a TV-dinner table tray and mimicking it with a Big Mac meal disassembled to its core ingredients and nailed on top of it. While also having a fake Samsung TV in front with the same meal nailed to it and covered in paper strips from an Encyclopedia. This medium of knowledge mimics the static or white noise from TVs, as the meal appears to come out of such digital real, almost as a subliminal message. While the Samsung TV itself being a product of mass delivery, but in this case of information, delivers the viewer a similar message as do the Fast-Food delivery mechanisms to unaware consumers, not to mention it being an object of the modern 21st Century. This work is a criticism about advertisement and how we are bombarded with psychological ideas for consumption as well as our social structures and businesses that profit off of those marketing strategies.

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QCQ # 1: Das Sockelproblem

“As a physical support structure, the pedestal has acquired the implicit ability to illustrate the symbolic basis of an object. Accordingly, pedestals have often served as media that established historical references, suggested genealogies or traditional affiliations and articulated hierarchies.”

-Manuela Ammer

Throughout history we have used pedestals to elevate objects and people into an over exclusive realm of power and importance. These pedestals have maintained the same basic concept and simplicity and when museums and galleries began using them in a very minimalistic form to showcase their artefacts and works it was clear to be meant as a utilitarian tool, yet with time they began turning into a way to allow art to be appreciated or believed to be better. Fast forward to today, contemporary art has made its debut with the incorporation of pedestals to part of their work and not as merely display tools for their art but rather a composition of both to create unique yet necessary changes to our understanding for pedestals.

Should we give pedestals a higher purpose than to simply be the place where works and objects stand on or should they mean and give the viewers a substantial explanation or understanding of its incorporation to a figure or piece of art that by itself cannot stand and exist, making the pedestal a key component in the way we see art today and at to which height should we present art to be seen as and appreciated from.

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“Jell-O-Bones”

Based on the Science Fiction/Conspiracy Theory paper by Frank Wu and Ben Lethbridge. This work is a satirical attempt at presenting Jell-O having a clear link to the extinction of the dinosaurs and the presence of Iridium in their artificial colors.

Jell-O is made out of gelatin which comes from decaying animals, whose crushed bones, and connective tissues are boiled and made into collagen. The colors used in this project are Green, Yellow and Blue; these are present in Iridium crystals, which according to their research is also present in Jell-O’s artificial colors. The project is filled with the bones of a fox and in essence, they are preserved and kept suspended from natures grip within the Jell-O, yet they tend to be ephemeral beings that with time will break down and decompose leaving nothing behind.

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DANGER. Do Not Enter

A blend of the modern uses of technology in the display of a sign that for centuries have been made in 2 Dimensions while this one incorporates a 3rd Dimension, that of techonology.

This industrial-like looking door that divides two spaces has a phone that displays a sign of  “DANGER. Do Not Enter”, yet through a very small screen compared to the size of the fence and door that clearly would require a bigger sign to display their warning to the public, makes it obvious it does not belong in there.

At the same time, this also shows us the satirical use of such techonolgies in spaces that do not need such upgrades as well as the years of acceptance and naturalization by society of using real 2 Dimenisonal signs rather than screens for the display of information.