#(re)mapping project

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Final documentation for (re)Mapping project!

I finally finished my remap project last night. I waited until this morning to get a good picture of it with natural daylight. With the end of this journey comes the end to my junior year here at Michigan and first year at Stamps. Once I upload everything for this class, I’ll officially be a senior and the thought of that is so wild to me. While this painting was supposed to represent my journey throughout the class, it also represents my first two years in college before making the change to art. Even though I still feel extremely underqualified and suffer from imposter syndrome, not to mention this time next year I will be hurled into the real world to fend for myself, I don’t regret any of the decisions I made.

The beginning of the semester had been rocky for me, still trying to adjust and traverse the art student life. I also had to try and adjust to waking up for 8:30s on north everyday. I hadn’t had the best impression of the class yet and didn’t really know what was going on and felt quite overwhelmed.

As we moved onto the sequence project, I still felt quite lost, not having a solid understanding of what we were doing or why. As we got closer to the end though I felt more confident and could see the light at the end, as though I were exiting a forest.

For the body extension project, I felt incredibly confident in the process. I knew what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. I had finished it quite early and it felt like smooth sailing and like there were no obstacles, similar to a plain. I could see the end.

Then corona hit and everyone was forced to go home and stay in quarantine. It was like bring pushed off a cliff into a firey death, everything was suddenly super awful and schoolwork was hard to get done. Everything that had been going right was suddenly wrong. Times are still tough, but they’ll get better.

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Decided to make a timelapse of me fingerpainting part of the forest. She’s still lookin a bit rough but its progresssssss

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things i learned today:

- fingerpainting is harder than it looks

- i have less paint colors than i thought

- i need to stand up to check on my painting bc im looking at it from a skewed angle

i dont love it but its all a part of the learning process

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Okay so I finally got around to taping these papers together and it was much more difficult than I anticipated. I spent like half an hiur trying to figure out the exact arrangement because I wanted to only put tape on the back so they dont mess with the paint. I’ve also decided that I wouldnt tape the edges down so it looks more like a pile of papers that was thrown down rather than some papers that have been meticulously arranged. Also because my glue stick doesn’t work.

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Okay so I just finished this week’s conference call with Endi, Lauren, Michelle, and Olivia and I am gushing with ideas it’s almost disgusting. I had mentioned that I didn’t know what to use as my canvas since I didn’t think I’d have paper the size I wanted but then Olivia had brought up the idea of patching paper together and that sparked this idea. I’m going to use old handouts from this class taped together to be the background of my map/journey through this class. I had brainstormed ideas I wanted each “area” of the map to be and I wanted to do the map from this cool surface view instead of a traditional overview (I’ve been playing a lot of minecraft recently to keep in touch with my friends :’]). I’m super excited to work on this and get messy with fingerpainting!

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(re)Mapping Project Proposal

Map. I’m gonna make a map.

This semester was a rollercoaster. I tried to keep my tumblr as updated as possible but I am most productive in class so when COVID-19 hit, my productivity and motivation took a hard hit. When I think back on this semester, I remember the highs and lows. From the late nights I had scrambling to get stuff done to seeing everyone else’s labors of love in class, there were a lot of them. My blog is a little more sparse than I would like for it to be but there’s enough there to help jog my memory of what went on around that time (I also have my bullet journal which I would use on and off throughout the semester).

I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do so I thought about what I wanted to do (and what I would be able to do). I had considered drawing a webtoon, and then I thought about doing a finger painting because I thought that’d be fun and something not commonly done, but then I thought about how I had originally envisioned this project when it was briefly explained in the beginning of the semester and I had envisioned a literal map and that is what I’m going with. A personal map of my journey throughout the semester.

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The third “panel” allowed the viewers to see more than half my body. The participants had I spy sheet that contained social media symbols to reference Destini, Shalin, Ashley, and my body extension project. This was where I learned that art could also be nonconventional and fun like the twister game we created. I spy was a game I loved as a little kid so I wanted to input that into my mapping project.

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mapping project

Statement:

Throughout this semester, I’ve learned what it means to open up more to people and how that allows us to engage with each other. I explored how people broke down my walls and what it meant to break down my own walls. Not only so that others would be allowed to see into more of who I was, but also, for me to be able to see more into others. Through each project in methods class, I was able to collaborate and get to know people better. I wanted to recreate a game where everyone in the class would be able to collaborate so that they would see more of me and I would see more of them.

Reflection:

It was unfortunate that we didn’t get to have that much time in class to present our projects. I felt a bit rushed, and I couldn’t clearly explain the significance of each panel. The purpose of my game was to allow others to see more or who I was, and it was difficult to allow others to learn more about me when I couldn’t explain it all to them. Although it was unfortunate, even with these shortcomings, I believe people were able to see the more mischievous, fun side of me. It was definitely interesting to see who would take lead roles to solve the problems and see all the different roles people would take. Different people had different bits of knowledge, which they had to combine to figure out some of my games. Something I definitely want to take into consideration is my intentionality with all aspects of my box. Could I use other material to “open” each panel instead of the cloth? How could each interaction I have with the audience be intentional? How can I show more of a graduallity of little to no interaction to being fully open by the end?