3D to 2D

Cant Beat a Classic 

My 3D to 2D image was inspired by one my personal goals, to work for Vogue. Vogue is one of the most famous design and fashion magazines in the world. The style of all their covers and content is very structured and classical looking. I took my first balsa wood sculpture and turned the image into black and white. I then repeated the photo to create a background for the magazine cover. Because my sculpture is very structured, it tied into the theme for vogue very well. I choose to put Audrey Hepburn on the cover because she was someone who influenced design. 

Fluxus Box

Communicating a Character 

Materials: Foam core, gold spray paint, hot glue, pink fabric 

Dimensions: 15 inches in width, 7.5 inches in height 

Artist Statement:

My Fluxus Box was inspired by the movie Clueless. The movie focuses on the main character Cher, and her struggle of who she really is. My box and the items communicate this idea. The outside of the box is spray painted a gold marble to represent her house that is all marble and the only place she can be herself. I have eight items in the box, the first one is a red rose. The colors red represents passion and desire, which is how Cher portrays herself. But, the inside of the rose is white, to represent how she really is at the core, innocent, which the color white represents. The second item is a cracked glass box. Cher is obsessed with her image and is always looking at herself in the mirror. The cracks represent how her image of herself is flawed, she is not who the presents herself to be. The third item is a shopping bag. In the movie, she constantly goes shopping. The words on the bag represent the reasons she goes shopping all the time, she's depressed, alone, and scared. The forth item is a journal with all the adjectives she's described as and what people say about her. On the inside of the book, its filled with adjectives that actually describe her that people would only know if that read further into her. The fifth item is a glitter jar of tears. In the movie she is on the verge of tears a lot but bottles it up. In the situations where she does cry, she still tries to look glamorous and play it off like nothing is wrong. Th water in the jar represents her tears she's holding in and the glitter represents her still trying to look glamorous even when she's crying. The sixth item is her car key, but the buttons are different. In the movie, Cher's father got her a new jeep but didn't teach her how to drive it. The first time she drove she almost got in a car accident, when she tried to tell her dad she needed help he told her to figure it out. So, the buttons on the keys all say help because thats what she really wanted. The seventh item is a candle that is always lit. People are constantly trying to put her down, but she has such a fierce fire that she keeps going forward and her flame is never blown out. The eighth and final item is a mannequin being choked by pearls. Cher tries several times in the movie to escape her lifestyle and branch out from it, but she cant. She always gets dragged back in, that is why the mannequin is being choked by pearls, they're a symbol of her wealthy lifestyle she wants to escape.

Research:

1) Alan Saret 

https://www.jamescohan.com/artists/alan-saret

2) Gabriel Orozco
https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/gabriel-orozco-and-empty-shoebox

3) Jane Austen

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/emma/summary/

Balsa Wood Small Sculpture

If a Wood Carver Could Carve Wood

Materials: Sculpture 1, cutting matt, exacto knife, balsa wood, wood glue, metal pins

                 Sculpture 2, cutting Matt, exacto knife, balsa wood, paper, metal pins

Dimensions: Sculpture 1, 2 inches in width, 6 inches in height 

                     Sculpture 2, 6 inches in width, 4 inches in height 

Artist Statement :

Both of my sculptures were inspired by negative space. I looked at a lot of photos from the artist Howard Hersch. All his work was structured but chaotic and played with negative space. I wanted the first sculpture to have very structured forms, so I stuck with rectangles made out of the balsa wood. The form though, was very chaotic and contained a lot of negative space. The second sculpture was inspired by the way paper can fold. As I was toying with ideas for the sculpture, I noticed how paper can fold and make a unique pattern. I then combined that idea with the one of using negative space again. The pattern of the folded paper is used throughout. 

Soap Carvings

 Chipping Away

Materials: two large bars of soap, carving tool set, small plastic animal (fox), banning wheel.

Dimensions: 3 inches in width, 2 inches in height