Look and Listen

For this project I was inspired by the scene in the first Harry Potter movie when Harry is on his way to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express and is looking out the window at the scenery. This triggered my memory to the time I was driving in the countryside of Belgium where there were colorful, beautiful hills. It almost seemed fake because it was so colorful and each hill had its own pattern. I constructed a box out of wood and created hills out of newspaper and moss with a little train window that slides through the opening of the box.

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Expose and Comment

I've been collecting pill bottles for a while now (just incase I wanted to make something out of them one day). I wanted to expose the side effects of Adderall because as someone who is prescribed to it and need its, I actually think it's a pretty terrible drug. I was also thinking about exposing GMO's, high fructose corn syrup and antibiotics given to animals with the pill bottles. I decided to recreate the branding for four products and put the harsh truth behind them on the packaging, still making the packaging look somewhat attractive for someone in a grocery store.

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Collect and Display

I was originally inspired by Atlantis and the theories behind it. I liked the idea of displaying ruins from an unknown world. I tried to play around with architecture and ruins of planes, satellites and ships. But with there being a limit of only four materials I decided to just stick to making ruins. The only materials I used were clay and water color.

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Liu Chen-Chou

Frances Lambe

Mesopotamian Ruins

Risk and Respond

Before I started Risk and Respond I know I wanted to expose yarn in some way. I made organic shapes with wire then wrapped them in yarn completely and left some open gaps. Originally I had newspaper at the top and thought it would be interesting to cover the outside in newspaper and expose the yarn on the inside. I decided I didn't like it so I took it off and started wrapping the wire in yarn, which ended up as the final product.

Mask

My inspiration for this mask came from cattle skulls.

I wanted a more broken down/decayed look which is why I didn't make the horns to their full length.

Materials used: wire, tracing paper and gel medium

Memento

The memory I used was from my trek to Machu Picchu.
 

The triangular shape represents the tents I was sleeping in for 3 nights and the balsa wood represents the trees I was constantly surrounded by. The moss represents the different trees and vegetation I was surrounded by as well as living and sleeping in nature for three and a half days, which is why I put the moss inside of the triangle.

Materials used: balsa wood, wood glue and moss

Paper Hybrid

This paper hybrid is made from a pine cone, a stick I cut in half and the top of a beer bottle.



Materials used: paper, water, gesso and pastels