Doner #1

One of the doners ( my pops) came to visit me, he walked right by it, then walked through the entire gallery and then saw me and started to laugh very, very hard.

my mum( doner #2) was in BC, so she couldn't visit her precious individual.


there were a couple of things about this project that surprised me one was how startled people got when the saw me. A lot of this was a result of the location but even after that people were still very taken back by the splitting of my body. I think that is in part a result of the use of the connotations and expectations of a pedestal. I felt fairly normal in the box until i saw pictures. Then I was able to understand and place what people were saying. this sense of surprise is important and ( emotion) allows the piece to be more accessible.


As a human " bust" was able to make the roles of subject and object interchangeable. the structure forced me into the role of an object while the fact that i was moving, talking, listening etc made me the subject again. The space around me also became activated in a new way because those who weren't comfortable were forced all the way against the wall (across from me). While some people I didn't even know came very very close or touched me. I guess i didn't really expect that.

One thing that I was hoping for is that I would be come a type of monument or meeting place. this happened consistently through out my time there. People started by talking to me and then to each other, slowly forgetting about me. Being stuck there I became an audience for people who passed by and weren't rushed. I spent a lot of time talking to people who I normally wouldn't( like the administrates).

Excreta Excreta Excreta


sorry this is such a mess I'm kind of brain storming.

final display:



close up of the 3 pictures to the right of the pedestal.





and something you can read in real life but not legible on the internet:

more documentation and a few things i like.

a few closeups:

materials: bricks, ceramic slip, 1 inch glass, and buttons.

just other stuff.
center of the universe

same process as dress but amazing results if the text could be understood as a writing/ drawing tool. next semester.
power dust, ashes form firing. cruchy skin flakes.

explosion

still one my my favorite things.

these objects were really hard in the end. I mean i still have them and don't feel like i can really get rid of them but when they break I don't get upset. I guess i'd like to stll work with in this matter in the future.

things wroth considering:

power puff surprise ball, floating enterprise.

empty spaces. the dress at the top was by far the most interesting piece. in the making and the result.

the sunny life in LA

for my crit I showed this series of tests, I found it hard to work with such still objects like this. I have a desire to put ribbons( stars, bangs, flashing SHIT) on everything. I'm still working with these objects, and trying to figure out how to display objects. try to make the work sparkle without that extra flash.

This is a precession:

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there were four of us.

so we brought our sweating hands over to a sunny room in sculpture, as we walked in we stepped on crumbling ceramics.

above is a room of the entire room., the dress( the piece on the glass) was placed on the rocky brick towers.

this is a dress from the pictures of the church. the dress is on astroturf. kind of melting, kind of leaning. LA DEATH.

This was WILD piece. (but no one liked it) there was a pulley system that pulled pulled the "pants" up and then sweater and then pulled them together. as they clashed and bounced ash fell out of them.

the things that i found the most interesting was the residue. the ash and crackle.

Baby melts at church

these are some pictures i took of the dress knocking on God's front door.

At first I was interested in these objects bringing attention to positive space. But they are more interesting as self-contained environments then separate spaces. could they make you feel like you are on the inside of these spaces?

here are some more picutres that draw attention to what is missing:

the below picture looks like some sort of gesture or drawing. from a distance the objects look like some sort of language.

maybe a little bit of picnic love is going on.

SO there is a lot

I thought i put these up a while ago. but this was an ( accidental) performance I did; which in some ways turned out better then anything else I have been working on. the images transit or create a new space or even a lost space in a way that the castings I made don't.

a special touch