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Project #5: Index

1. Self-Directed Practice #1: Research

2. Self-Directed Practice #1: Final

3. Self-Directed Practice #2: Research

4. Self-Directed Practice #2: Final

5. Final PDF Portfolio

Self Directed Project Final

I thought about my body in conjunction with nature for this self directed project. I also thought about sacred spaces within the body and land, regarding our hands and feet as tools to navigate our spaces. I chose to use wire to represent my hands and feet and put them in places where id normally occupy space and surrounded the wires with edited auras.

Project #4: Index

1. Corners: QCQ

2. Corners: Research

3. Corners: Final

4. The Dialects of Outside and Inside: QCQ

5. Door - The Dialects of Outside and Inside: Research

#1 #2 #3

6. Door - The Dialects of Outside and Inside: Final

Idea Board No 3

Using the doorframe as a place of inhabitance rather than a point of entry. Making this area a space to be lived in rather than to pass through.

Idea Board No 2

I want to play around with tension between the frame of the doorway using bodies or readily made objects, rendering the point of entry and exit to be useless.

Idea Board No 1

One idea is to incorporate shadow and light to create a barrier between the in and outside of the doorway. Creating an ephemeral blockade of some sort in order to emphasize the man-made concepts of inside and out.

QCQ No.7

Quote: “The fear does not come from the outside. Nor is it composed of old memories. It has no past, no physiology. Nothing in common, either, with having one’s breath taken away. Here fear is being itself. Where can one flee, where find refuge? In what shelter can one take refuge? Space is nothing but a “horrible outside-inside”.” (Bachelard 218)

Comment: The text describes the fear in being, perhaps it is being alive and finding purpose within this lifetime. Perhaps its fear of something as unknown as death. There is no refuge to go to, to completely quell one’s fears of this unknown, this concept of “outside-inside”. I feel as though this text is somewhat about fear of societal expectations. We are here, conforming to man-made concepts when we should be out there, pursuing meaning to being, meaning to relationships, meaning to oneself and our universe and space.

Question: How can we quell these fears? By accepting our fate or distracting ourselves from it? Would questioning our existence and fears minimize the want for purpose or will it continue on aggressively as we get older and closer to the unknown?

For the Corner’s project I decided to take a video of shadows and various hand gestures/shadow puppets. Gaston Bachelard’s text made me think about my past experiences and my past self in general. I began to look at the past as a shadow, an ephemeral entity that exists under certain circumstances but does not last, much like a memory. The reasoning for the use of shadow puppets in this isolated corner of my bedroom was to reference childhood and lighthearted activities such as puppets. The footage progresses with more “mature” hand gestures and even signifying partnership/self love with my two hands clasped together towards the end.

QCQ No.6

Quote: ”The child has just discovered that she is herself, in an explosion toward the outside, which is a reaction, perhaps, to certain concentrations in a corner of her being. For the recess in the boat is also a corner of being. But when she has explored the vast universe of the boat in the middle of the ocean, does she return to her little house? Now that she knows that she is herself, will she resume her game of “playing houses,” will she return home, in other words, withdraw again into herself? One can undoubtedly become aware of existing by escaping from space.” (Bachelard 139)

Comment: I believe this portion of the text has brought up the painful truth of existence and experience. Referring to this corner in a boat to comfortable life experiences, being sheltered and hidden from the world due to insecurities and fear of stepping outside of one’s comfort zone. Growth takes place once the child begins to explore outside of this boat and into the ocean, where new opportunities of life lessons are held; there is no sense and no real way of turning back and taking away those life experiences. We continue to push forward despite the pain because there is no other way, we live in a timeline that can only go forward. It is up to us to accept this painful reality and make peace with it, our only goal being to improve.

Question: How does one implement past experiences into our present? After experiencing a life changing event that changes your perspective and mindset is it even logical to go back due to comfort? What are ways in which we can step outside of the box and destroy our ego?

Project #3: Index

1. Self-Directed Presentation: Research

2. QCQ #5: Concrete Blonde

3. Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions I (Final)

4. Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions II (Final)

#1 #2 #3

5. Positive Fragments: Cast I (Final)

6. Positive Fragments: Cast II (Final)

#1 #2

Positive Fragments No 2: Wax Stix; Documentation

For this project, I decided to cast molds out of body wax/facial wax that is used to remove hair. When figuring out exactly what object to cast out of this material, I immediately thought of the tools used when waxing ie, popsicle sticks, without this tool, it is impossible to apply the wax.

Positive Fragments No 1: Angel Numbers Are Everywhere

I explored the idea of repetition and numbers in architectural spaces for this project, primarily focusing on the concepts of angel numbers and the study of numerology and different religions. I chose the sequence “777″ for its spiritual representation of evolution and abundance. “777″ is seen as a “perfect number”(in Hebrew tradition) that holds creation and the universe together and has significant meaning in different cultures, ex. representation of the threefold protection of the trinity (Father, Son & Holy Spirit). I decided to construct my own repetition of the number 7 from different sources as seen below:

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