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Artist Responce Piece: Splatter Table

This is what I did for my Artist Response piece. The artist as you can see earlier on my blog did a Splatter Chair. So in response to his to his piece I did my own Splatter object, which was a table; included with a tablecloth and 6 sets of plates, forks, knives, and spoons.

1st Concentration Piece: Music Gives Hope in Times of Trouble

For my second concentration piece, I did another piece out of wire. This idea comes from watching the movie War Dance. This movie shows three teenagers as they are struggling with the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) war in Northern Uganda. To bring some relief and hope to their lives they play and sing, music. The man is made out of one piece of wire all twisted together to symbolize the struggles, pain and suffering that these children in Uganda have in dealing with the LRA war there. The drum is also out of wire, and clear plastic wrap, but it is smoother to symbolize that it brings hope to the kids in this time of struggle. The hope is symbolized through the orange spray paint on the drum spreading on to the hands and arms of the man. Music truly gives you (and the children in Uganda) hope in times of trouble.

Apples, Apples Everywhere…

This is a project that I did during my Sophomore year during my drawing class. This time we had to draw fruit, with five being similarly drawn to each other, and then one drawn differently, with any background that complimented our piece. So I hope you enjoy looking at it.

Peppermint candies

In drawing, Sophomore year, we had to draw candy. And so I drew those peppermint candies over and over, in all different sizes, all in pencil; but then colored one of the stripes of the mints red (its true color).

A.r.t.

This is a piece that I made in my Sculpting class, my junior year. We had to make people out of clay and make that our piece. I decided to make to make my four little people spell the word: Art. Piece by piece it came together; and of course I had to paint it black for the typical font color.

The Least, The Last, and The Lost

For my first concentration piece I used the themes of balance and line, with wire, to show a sub-theme of "The Least, the Last, and the Lost". When I was down in Guatemala, freshman year, for our church youth group mission trip, our church missionary who we worked with down in Guatemala, used the example of a little girl finding a purple flower in the midst of trash on a street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to portray this theme. It is like God seeing the purple flowers in the world (the least, the last, and the lost: drug takers, gang members, poor …) in the midst of the trash of the world and helping them; and we need to see them too, to help them. So that is what I portrayed; "The Least, the Last, and the Lost" by making a wire flower and wrapping the petals in purple thread, and putting it in the middle of twisting, turning wire wrapping itself around the flower trying to cover it up so that no one else can see it or help it.

"After" Piece

This is my "After" word piece. I did a "mini" upside down pyramid/top that if you open it up contians the mystery of the word after inside. It says, "does after ever come?, … it is like tomorrow…"

Mini Landscape

This is my mini landscape piece, in which I did a 3-D version of the Niagara Falls with wire, a plexi-glass box, fabric leaves, tissue paper, and more materials…