So Ugly It Still Works

This was a quick little project I did today for one of my teachers. Earlier this week I gave another teacher a bouquet of sticks, and this one here consists of dried flower, grasses, pokey balls and a cicada! Who knew death could be so beautiful! [Sorry! I know that's not really in good taste!]

"Yes, Pat IS left-handed."

This is a chair/desk/shelf unit I designed for an infamous Mr. Pat.  Theoretically, it is made out of a single 8' x 4' piece of plywood.  I actually like the concept a lot, and it would be really cheap to make considering the multiple uses for it!

"Wow, you do have skinny arms."

This is from a door installment I did with some friends.  I didn't care too much for it, but I love these pics I took of it.  The biggest challenge was threading fishing line through holes in the tubes.  Luckily my arms are skinny enough to fit inside them, so it wasn't too big of a problem.  Now, keeping the fishing line from breaking from the weight was a different issue.

"Oh, wow. That's great."

This little guy received a lot of praise, though it looks a hot mess! Hey, at least it photographs well. 

The full effect.  This is an "interior" view of the space.  The popcorn kernel represents a person.  Signifying the overpowering weight of negative space upon positive space, this bad boy took a lot of scoring and a lot of glue.

I designed it as two pieces, with the black box having slits in it to fit over the flaps of the white piece.

"But where's the linear element?"

This is my favorite thing that I've made! This container represents Creation in the sense that Light is coming forth from Dark.  I used two papers, one a corrugated, stiff black, and the other a thin, fibrous white, giving two very different textures.  I also made this gradient scale from the same materials.

"Work it!"

This is a hoody-vest that I made out of Cellophane tape and Saran Wrap.  Hot stuff walkin', huh?  It was really fun to make, for me anyway.  I used my boyfriend as a model, so by the time I was done, he couldn't bend over and he was sweating bullets! Plastic doesn't breath!
This is a miniature trash can designed after my vest.

And this is the trash can placed in the corner of two walls I designed using wood and paper I found in the recycling.

"Well, we didn't say you couldn't split them!"

This project was all about triangles and was inspired by the idea of a wedge.  You wouldn't believe how long it took to figure out how to fold paper into these shapes! But none of the features would make sense if they weren't all together.  The top half completes the bottom, the left half completes the right and the skewers hold it all together!I love the rhythm in this piece created by the skewers.  

"It moves! :D"

I had a lot of fun with this.  The concept of this piece was a wave.  I broke up several skewers into a rough s shape to give an edgy, almost harsh representation of a wave.  Then I used the paper to create a softer, smoother version as a centerpiece.  This central part served as a moving feature in that when blown, say by a fan, it spins, giving the full effect of the wave.

This version is using the same pieces as the original, but I removed the centerpiece to give it a more sketchy presence. 

I always thought this view loosely resembles a chicken!

"Did you try putting it upside down?"

This, I thought, was genius.  When assigned to incorporate [12] sticks into our projects, most people had sticks going everywhere! But me? I used a favorite prop of mine and pieced my sticks together as one whole part.  I thought the curlies where a cheesy way to deal with the paper sticking out of the sides, but the teachers ate it up!

"It's so ugly it works!"

This was my first project in IAR(.  I went through many models and ideas to get to the final product, as you can see!  The pine needles I found for this were simply amazing!