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#4 Clothing

2009-01-02T22:05:00.000-08:00

Hokay, so. Here's a chair. Dang, that's a pretty sweet chair, you might say. Haha with anyone who understood that....Anywayz, this chair was constructed out of clothes! More specifically, clothes I intend on attempting to trade for cooler ones at Buffalo Exchange. They were just taking up space in the corner of my room, so until they are transported to Hillcrest, I put them to use! At first, I was just trying to imitate shape with the items of clothing. But i realized that bringing color into the equation would make the chair actually read as a chair. So, with a unity of color, I could depict light and shadow better. So I used a range of whites to cremes and a smattering of greys and blues, instead of just random color. Ta-Da!

#3 Embroidery

2009-01-02T20:53:00.000-08:00

This is what we like to call a "fascinator"! I stick a bobby pin on the underside of it and can then fascinatingly fasten it into my hair. =) It isnt the tidiest thing in the world, but it was my first try. It took me a few hours to embroider, and since I took this photo I actually filled in the yellow leaveature, so it stands out a bit more. I'm kind of stretching it a little on the application of the challenge rules here, but I think it still works. Happy New Year!
(PS-- The first time I was genuinely happy/excited about 2009 was tonite when I uploaded this photo to my Mac and saw that it had made a new "2009" subdivision in the pictures folder. I'm weird... and spend a lot of time in those picture folders. haha.)

#2 Hair Accessories

2008-12-29T23:25:00.000-08:00

So, basically I dumped out my box of hair stuff on the floor and arranged it! Result: sad, worried old woman. I'm noticing an old-person theme?

#1: Electrical Cords

2008-12-28T23:53:00.000-08:00

I see an old man in a wheelchair smoking a pipe. Hopefully you can see something similar. Oh, and he reminds me of the creepy creatures in Ursula's cave in The Little Mermaid.

Intro

2008-12-28T23:03:00.000-08:00

This blog is intended to be centered around art. I want to challenge myself to daily create something and post it here. Maybe I'll do a new daily challenge every month? I make the rules around here, so yeah. Sounds good. =)

This first month, until the end of January, every day i'm going create a piece using unconventional materials. No pencil or paint or graphite or ink. This is kind of an extension of what I started with my final project (kind of an oxymoronic idea--to begin with something final...) in my Life Drawing class, which involved arranging leaves to form a figure...or rather the negative space around and the dark shadows of a figure. The project itself was inspired by some of the works of Vik Muniz . That project was really read as being environmental art, since it was not permanent, but mostly because it was created out of leaves-- nature. What I want to explore is not really environmental art, but the transitory nature of what using non-traditional mediums will entail, as well as the obvious and forced creativity of using these mediums. I hated ripping all those leaves off their plants...