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 Metamorphosis!

Traveling to school with my big huge mannequin very exhausting 

Made my hair into a six pack of buns! 

This is the finished piece I will post a picture later of me wearing it ! But for critique thought it would be more appropriate on the mannequin, but everyone wanted to see it on so next time I'll make sure to do that!!

 I am going to continue to work on it to make the rings less noticeable and more evolved from the parent object. 

In depth Process Metamorphosis

I started by getting all the sheets I made and started to attach them together and then wrapped around my body at first to get my measurements then put it on the  mannequin to start adding to the  dress. Originally made it with sorta like a choker neckline then changed it some to make it more complete with the dress so the neckline didn't look so distant  

This is how I changed the neckline I kept it like a choker but filled in the space more.

I then made long sheets of rings and added the to the bottom to make it long and flowy.

In depth process metamorphosis

I've been collecting plastic 6 pack rings for years whenever I see them I pick them up I find them all over the place. On the streets, in school, on the floor next to trash cans, at the beach which is the worst to see in my opinion because I just think of all the birds and fish that will get stuck in the rings and become disformed or die. I've been wanting to make something out of them for so long because I don't like throwing them out because I never know where they will end up. I encourage everyone to give them to me after use so they don't end up killing or hurting any animal somewhere.Years of collecting 

Starting to assemble them into A bigger sheet then started to create my dress. 

I want to make a dress out of 6 pack rings for the metamorphosis in depth project because I am turning trash into fashion and because to me it shows a person being trapped and suffocating in the rings, like what happens to innocent animals when people litter.

Small works part 2 - Propaganda

We no longer need fur for protection or warmth, there are so many other textiles that provide that today, it's pure whim and vanity to choose to wear fur. It shows a level of ignorance and a lack of concern that's is reflected on the wearer. In the top picture is suppose to show like an animal lover playing with animals and loving them but then in the next picture underneath the propaganda piece the person is wearing fur and sitting on fur saying how it's so luxurious to wear fur. (No animals were harmed in the making of these pictures, and no real fur was used!!)

Small works part 1 - figure out the animal from the text

In this small works assignment we were given a handout with four different creatures we were to pick one from each side and from the descriptions written in the texts we were suppose to create the animal we thought it could be.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: A Universe of Fragile Mirrors - Outside Museum Visit

This exhibit shows a selection of work by the filmmaker Beatriz Santiago Munoz. It showed her new work Marche salomon from 2015. She documents specific people and communities and other public sites to show the story about the popular Haitian market, even a toxic flower, and newly found places in Puerto Rico. 

I like that She uses regular people in her videos, it makes it more real. You can tell how much time and effort and commitment she has and she that puts into documenting. I really admire her engagement with the people she must have to be recording them. She moves very slowly through social and physical landscapes to make sure she captures every detail. I really enjoyed her exhibit makes you really think about more then what we see. 

 pictures are from other exhibits at the PAMM

A People's Art History of the United States - Reading Response

     Photographs are a great way of documentation, because it is a picture of something that was happening in the past. In this article it talks about photographer Edward Curtis who took pictures of native americans, but instead of showing exactly what was happening then he would stage his photos, and then go on to edit it them to make them look more dramatic. Then we would go off and sell them for $3000-$4000 he didn’t care about the native americans he only cared about that money and the fame. He ignored everyday realities that these people faced, his images were very selective, they didn’t show the issues of modernization or poverty, he even ignored everyday joy and wouldn’t show pictures of his subjects smiling. I think what he did was disgraceful he didn’t care about these people he just wanted to make a quick buck, what he did was objectify these people and made them look a certain way, and people were attracted to these images and created lasting stereotypes. 

     However the article also talked about another photographer who was native Richard Throssel, he took photos from the inside and actually showed what these people were actually like. He cared for his people he didn’t do it for money, he also staged photos but he did it for the health and safety of his people he wanted to stop the spread of disease. I believe what he did was good because if we didn’t have his photos today all we would have is Curtis’ photos which he made and wasn’t a really depiction of what was going on at the time. But even though Curtis’ pictures were staged I think it is good we have them because it is history after all and I’m sure if you had family members back then you would love to see any pictures you could of them. 

The Rhinoceros from Durer to Stubbs 1515-1799 Reading Response

Durer’s rhinoceros is known to be a woodcut that Albrecht Durer made in 1515. The piece he made is based on a written description of the Indian Rhinos. He never even saw a rhino himself he just made it based on how it was described. Although his woodcut is not exactly what a rhino looks like I think he did a good job for the most part for never seeing a rhino in real life. His woodcut had the horn on the back of the animal and gave him basically armor skin and very scaly legs. Even though it had so many inaccuracies it still became very popular. 

It was the 1500s there was no google for people to just search up what a rhino was people had to imagine it themselves based on what they’ve heard from others. Today you may find it hard to imagine what that is even like because when we think of a rhino we automatically know exactly what it looks like back then they hd no idea! I wonder what I would have pictured a rhino to look like if I never actually knew what they looked like. 

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.