Thank you WARP Professors!

Thank you to all the WARP professors, I learned so much from all of you! Thank you  for your patience, advice, and time. I hope to have you all as teachers again ! You are all truly amazing, have a great winter break! I'll see you all in the Spring ! 

In Depth Project

The udder bra, supposed to represent how humans take cows milk and turn it into a business. They impregnate cows, because that is the only way they produce milk, and then they take the milk away from the baby and give it to people. That is why I have a baby cow trying to reach the milk from a bottle but he can't reach it. 

In Depth Project Process

Process of making the In depth project,  first making plaster and filling up a bottle of milk only a quarter of the way and making udder/nipples in a glove using the fingers as the udders! To later put on the udder bra!

The start of the udder bra, I first covered it in fabric that has cow print, then got the plaster nipples I  made from the glove and put them on the bra. This is suppose to symbolize how people use cow milk as if it was their own. Not realizing that there is a baby cow not getting any milk because you are drinking it. That is why I have the Milk bottle half empty, and will have a baby cow hanging off the side of bottle not being able to reach his own milk.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Plaster/glove finger nipples !

Small Works - With the required items

We were given 5 materials at random from a table by pulling names out of a hat. My materials were tissue paper, string, glue stick, Elmer glue, and a water jug. We were suppose to make another variation of the variations we just did. Since my other pieces focused on the cow legs and udders, I decided to go more into the udders. So I got the tissue paper and string and wrapped it around and formed out some udders. The paper is a very bright pink, which makes me think of inflamed udders, also the string around it I feel gives it some anxiety to look at, also reminds me of the fishnets from the other small works. 

This was the beginning of the water jug, first I cut it in half with a chainsaw (horrible idea, couldn't find jigsaw) then used the handle and top mouth part as the nipples, and put them on the top half of the jug. I then got the bottom of the jug and put it on top and made it into a lamp shade, again focusing on how cows are treated as products, especially their udders. It used tons of glue, tissue paper, string, and energy! 

The start of the  making of the lamp shade on the left, trying to work with the tissue paper to make it look more like a lamp shade. (Also featuring my cat Ringo.)

All Small Works together for critique on Tuesday.

Small Works - First 3 variations

 For the Small Works, we were suppose to find some folk art at our house. I picked this ceramic cow I have, one of many others.

 Three Variations of the original piece :

 I originally had the idea to make a cow leg/udder lamp. Since what caught my attention first about my original piece was the udders and legs because they were in fishnets. Which got me thinking how cows are exploited and treated like products, hence the cow leg lamp.  In the picture I started to form the leg lamp in clay. I later molded it and tried casting it in plaster. But didn't work out to great. The feet of the lamp got stuck in the bottom of the mold and was impossible to get out, so when I casted it in plaster it was missing its feet, unfortunately. I then made a bigger lamp again out of clay but pottery clay, and didn't make a mold of it, but since I could not fire it, it got to dry and broke a lot.

I also wanted to paint a few pictures of my piece, to show more detail and show the exploitation so I drew it out first, before I started to paint it. 

The beginning of a clay cow figure, I wanted to have the cow standing on four legs instead of the two, like in the original art. To make it look more like an animal but I also then added a dress and a hat to humanize it. 

All Original Small Works together: 

Edited: 9/7/16

ICA Response

      Susan Te Kahurangi King's artwork is very inspirational to me. After reading her story and looking through her exhibit  and learning that she is severely autistic, I was amazed. Her art makes you want to just stop and stare, and get lost in her piece to figure out what could have been going through her head while she was making these. I like how in her art, she uses such vibrant colors. Color always attracts me and she knows how to use them very well.

      Ida Applebroog's art really speaks to me, I love how she makes art on how she feels about the role mass media plays in desensitizing the public to inequity. I also make art like this but instead of gender, sexual identity, or politics, I do animal rights. In her art and my art we both try to get people to see the ugly truth that the media and big corporations try to hide.





Edited 9/7/16

Creative Impulse: Exercise- Paper Folding

This project was folding paper.

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.