Exam Exhibit

After a long semester of AP art, I finally decided to stick with 3-D, and this is the result. The 5 project i have chosen not only are all of my 3-D projects (minus the shoddy obliterate TV), but they also show my progression in understanding the material I'm using. The hand-face that was made years ago along with the obliterated earth, reminded me of working with paper mache and sparked the idea for my cluster headache project. The fish used paper mache to bind together sticks and is shows my fundamental understanding of structure around space which will be shown in future projects, just like how the lamp is just the beginning in showing my understanding of cardboard layer construction which i will be working with in more complicated ways in the future.

free choice fish

Heres the fish i made for free choice and has inspired my concentration idea to create animals with sticks or wire, or basically any material that leaves more space than anything else. In doing this can create semiabstract ideas of animals and attempt to show their motion though their pose. this fish is should look like its swimming because of the slight angle in the tail fin.

lamp shadow

This is my home project. I decided to go with a pretty abstract idea of home being the shadows of lamps, because the time they really come into focus, is when your at home with the lights shut off and your comfortably waiting to fall asleep at home. I struggled with deciding on what material to use, but eventually settled on layering cardboard to created a layered effect that almost resembles honeycomb, which can be connected to the idea of home. the table the lamp sits on mirror the shape of the lamp to create balanced symmetry. The most important part is the shadow of the lamp shade which because of the slots in the cardboard, shows the cardboard lightbulb built inside the shade. Im very satisfied with this project and am excited to keep working with cardboard layers as a possible concentration idea. I learned a lot of different techniques on how to use the cardboard from just working to put this together.