Final Exam

I used my paper stacking project as the picture to warp. I chose this picture because it was the one project that resonated with me those most.  I wanted to keep the colors the same but turn it into a total different picture.  I used a kaleidoscope application, added patterns, and enhanced the colors. 

It's About Time

The work of Janine Antoni has a perfect balance to me.  I find equanimity and harmony in her work. She has the balance of light and dark, birth and death, happy and sad.  In her work Saddle there is a figure who seems to be crawling and is cloaked with some type of blanket masking her identity.  This figure seems to be trapped, they have a problem they are trying to escape but the problem is overwhelming and even when she thinks she is getting out the problem is still melting down her shoulders, spine, head, neck, legs.. The figure looks weak since it is crawling.  The problem she is facing has sucked away her strength and all she can do is now crawl away.  But here, in Janine Antoni's work, Saddle, I find balance.  Even though the problem she is facing has been eating her alive and has made her weak and frail she still has hope.  This figure is not giving up, even if it get's her down to her hands and knees. She will still crawl away. 

Another work of Janine Antoni's is Lick and Lather.  I think that the figures in Lick and Lather, although it is showing two heads, is the same person.  There is a dark sculpture which is very defined and detailed and a white sculpture that is vague, you can barely see the features on the face.  The dark one has more features because the dark is overpowering this figure's life.  It is not only showing great detail in the feature but you also see skin seeming to be peeling off of her revealing lighter spots.  I see this darkness and sadness trying to peel away from this sculpture to show the inner light.  The light that wants to come out but it is overpowered by the darkness. Happiness is there but it is masked by pain and sadness. The white sculpture is portraying happiness, positivity, and love.  It is there but has not surfaced. The features are vague on this sculpture and that is because the happiness has not surfaced yet. The dark sculpture is peeling because it is wanting to reveal the happiness.  

All in all Janine Antoni's work to me resonates with the word HOPE.

Turt One

Turt Two

This project was tedious but at the same time therapeutic.  I kept on making the same strokes but with time I saw progress.  It's About Time couldn't have a better title.  With time everything will be complete and whole but you can't rush it. 

Alterations to Mr. Funky Turtle

I got really real with this turtle.  We spent many hours and days together as a shaved him and unveiled his true beauty. As I got to know him he told me he was sad that he was so slow so I decided to cut his cute legs off and give him wings. I used paper clips for the wings, I just straightened them out and when I did it left a funky shape. Perfect for wings.