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Spatial Map

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                                       Title: Par-tee Time(golf course aerial view)                                                 Materials: Wood, Pastels and Ink.                                                                              This Spatial map is supposed to be representing an aerial view of a golf course I grew up on up north. The piece is square to show the amount of space I was allowed to use in our back yard. My brother and I were not allowed to go on the golf course during the day. The piece is colorful to represent the colorful childhood I had. This house will always be a sentimental place for me, full of memories galore and old friendships I had to leave to start a new chapter in my life in Florida for college. The yellow represents the sun. The blue represents our house and the water. The green represents the grass. The red represents the flags and the white represents the golf balls. The circles emphasize the movement of what the golf course looks like as
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Memento

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                                    Title: The Perks of Being a Diamond In The Rough                                         Materials: wood and Paint(black and white)                                                               My memento piece is about learning disabilities. My mother was a third grade special education teacher. My memory for the memento is when I was growing up I would get annoyed when I would hear students make fun of those who had speech impediments. I did not see the humor in that. Some individuals stereotype learning disabilities by associating them as the same thing as having down syndrome, being in a wheel chair, or having autism(the problem here is that individuals cannot always differentiate). Others claim or make those who have learning disabilities feel as though they are "stupid". This is not true. If one has a learning disability it only means that those individuals learn a different way than others do. Growing up I would hear expressions
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Balsa Wood Scupltures

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                                                                                              Title: Balsa Wood                                                                                                                           Title: The 99 Steps  Principle of Design: movement. Materials: balsa wood, glue, and ink. My final sculpture emphasizes on movement because the stair-like-structure moves the viewers eyes along each piece. The stair like structure is a combination of different sections of stair-like-structures placed on top of each other. The stairs were glued together and stacked. Ink or glue was poured onto these pieces. Having these stair-like-structures arranged as so makes for a fresh perspective and new meaning to how one perceives movement in a space. The stairs remain in place but they twist and have a topsy turvy feel to the shape they take on as one piece staked. Title: Disco Inferno Principle of Design: balance using repetition. Materials: m
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On Longing Exercise

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Title: Call Me Artsy Sentence 1: "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale"(Susan Stewart). Photo Credit: Nfocusphotos, the photographer is Nick Porcaro. Artist Statement: I choose this image(of me holding a phone) because the quote mentioned scale. My body is near the phone and this photo depicts the relationship of scale well. For the phone and myself give the viewer an idea of how proportioned things are in our world. This photo also depicts much of who I am, a girly girl who loves to talk on the phone at times. Title: Bzzzaar fashion Sentence 2: "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experiences"(Susan Stewart). Photo Credit: Emma Gougeon, Hunter M. Burnette, and Alexus Barnhart. Artist Statement: I choose this series of photographs I took because the sentence given above dealt with objects. The photo series below involved me making outfits out of different objects or materials that would not normally be worn. The first photograph
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The JFK Fluxus Box

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                                                       JFK by Oliver Stone The box is 12 inches long and 10 inches in width. Made of wood and nails, it was topped off with three different components of spray paint and a lock to add to its authenticity. I wanted to depict a box that embodies injustice and corruption. A box that would represent truth. A box that would outrage the public. In the film JFK , by Oliver Stone, he emphasizes how the actors and plot were suppose to be almost identical to the actual events that happened in real life.  His characters were played by iconic actors and actresses. In fact, Jim Garrison, the district Attorney of new Orleans in the 1960's played Earl Warren(a supreme court justice jurist a.k.a the man who led the Warren Commission in court) in the movie JFK .  He played this role to be ironic. Garrison is the only person who has ever brought a public prosecution of the Kennedy case to light, to this date. He went against Clay Shaw in court (cla
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