#bodyextention

[madelinejimenez]

I haven’t talked much about my body extension in a while. I was supposed to do some documenting outside but the weather didn’t agree with me today. So here is an update until then.

This is the end result as far as appearances go, pretty simple build. I kept the inside of each extension open to increase the noise level when they clash together.

As I said in class before leaving campus, my extension is meant to be an attention drawer. When we were in groups we talked about creating extensions that were meant to express ways we connect with others, or at least try. Mine was centered around trying to connect, but trying too hard in the process. Therefore, people would avoid me instead because of this aggressive approach.

I decided to sorta go with the same idea despite no longer working in a group. Though I wanted to make it more relevant to me. I didn’t feel that being too “aggressive” or “trying too hard” was really my issue when trying to connect with others. I feel that I would benefit from being more assertive and using my voice more often. So rather than my body extension hindering my social experience, it will be shown aiding me. An attention grabber sorta acting as my voice.

[alliezang-blog]

This Is Not A Starry Night, performance by me, Dana, Allison, and Victoria.

We were inspired by Alan Bigelow’s This Is Not A Poem, which is an interpretation of Joyce Kilmer’s poem, Trees. I think Bigelow’s piece is so powerful because it retrospectively deprives Trees of its intended meaning, using its own words. It’s as if the poem is destroying itself. This Is Not A Poem takes something that we are comfortable and familiar with, and disfigures it until it’s painfully unrecognizable. To replicate this, we are going to take a painting that everyone knows, Starry Night, and recreate it with limitations that produce an unsettling image.

Because each of our extensions restricts our sight, we thought it would be interesting to further exploit the lack of vision.