3D Design

Hello! My name is Rachel, and I'm a second-year art student.

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This is a set of nesting dolls showing the way layers of artificiality are removed as you get to know someone, but that no matter how close you get to someone you can never understand all of their thoughts and struggles.

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For this project each of us had to make a sculpture in one hour using only what we found outside around the school. I made this using briars that I twisted around each other.

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My temporary nature sculpture proved as truly temporary. Went from cultic Grinch stole Christmas to nightmare before Christmas to utterly disastrous.

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I thought the contrast of the one piece that was gray instead of reddish-brown was interesting.

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Andy Goldsworthy makes these incredible sculptures using only natural materials. Because he makes them outside they end up being very temporary. It must take a lot of guts.

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For this project I had to scale up an everyday object at least four times using any medium. I scaled up a Dove bar of soap using cake as a medium. It’s yellow cake, vanilla icing, and homemade marshmallow fondant.

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For this project we had all the pieces to an IKEA stool, and we were supposed to incorporate all of them into a design that made the original function unrecognizable.

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This is a sculpture by Ross Brubeck. It looks almost like a painting in shape, and uses the negative space to create the design.

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This piece by Ethan Sherman is acrylic and gouache on wood. The wooden support is characteristic of his paintings.

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“The War of Art”

The war of Art is a book by Steven Pressfield published in 2002. It is about the creative process, and how to overcome the internal roadblocks that hinder it. To use his word, it deals with “resistance”. The way he puts it is that “resistance” is a force that actively works inside individuals to keep them from putting in the necessary effort to achieve anything noble or worthwhile.  This often takes the form of fear or distraction. His idea is that if a venture is truly important to you, that you will feel a deep fear of (or “resistance” to) trying to make it happen, because the idea of it is so important to you that failure would hurt deeply. He goes on to talk about how a “professional” overcomes resistance. His point seems to be that for an artist, a creator, or an entrepreneur to be able to accomplish anything they must be willing to strive for their vision “Come hell or high water”. If you have a nine-to-five job you show up at work whether you want to or not. In the same way a professional writer, artist, or entrepreneur has to work persistently whether they feel inspired or not. While I disagree with a great many of the other ideas he expressed, I do think that his fundamental point, that for us to accomplish anything worthwhile we need to stop making excuses and just work, is a good one.

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Sandwich by Claes Oldenburg.

We looked at the process that curators have to do when they install Oldenburg’s sandwich. This piece really shows how food and art are tied together. The process of creating a sandwich is very similar to the process of creating art. You make it, you destroy it, and you repeat.

Image Credit: Claes Oldenburg, Whitney Museum

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The curators treated the process with such a high degree of seriousness that it was almost like you were watching a medical procedure.

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This piece by Jessica Stockholder is titled “Vortex in the Play of Theatre with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder,". The color in her work is gorgeous. It makes her work seem warm and light-hearted.

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For this project the class had to make a color wheel using a color aid.

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For this project the class had to pick out a cool blue, a true blue, and a warm blue from a color aid.

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Buckminster Fuller.

Bucky Fuller was mentioned in my design course as a good source of reference for the next project in my 3D design class. I specifically looked at his usage of triangles. His work has taught me just how strong of a shape a triangle really is. I was also very impressed by his idea to transform the basic shape of a triangle into giant domes and that the triangle allowed these domes to be so strong.

Image Credit: Culturacientifica

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The idea of making a dome out of triangles is good engineering, but seems counter-intuitive when you think of a dome as a smooth curve.

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This video is an Art 21 documentary about Jeff Koons. It shows how he produces large scale public works.His use of "color maps" is really interesting.

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For this assignment we were only allowed to use six sheets of corrugated cardboard, a box cutter, and paper packing tape. We had to make a chair that would hold our weight.

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Man, this performance piece can make you emotional. Marina took each minute of the performance staring at someone for one whole minute each. After a while, her ex-boyfriend, who used to do performance pieces with her and were together for, I believe, 18 years, came to take part in the show. I can say this, I would never be able to handle keeping eye contact with a guy who broke up with me after 18 years of being in a relationship with. It brings a sense of sadness, but yet a sense of joy when I see Marina and her ex smiling at eachother. It almost brings a sense of reassurance to me for some reason.

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The fact that they were able to sit face to face and cry so openly makes you realize how painful their separation must have been, but it also seems like they've come a long way towards healing.