More from sophomore year
Saturday, October 9th, 2004
This is the sun mobile I spent so many hours working on. It was my final project in printmaking/3D arts sophomore year and I seriously underestimated the amount of time it would take. To give an idea: it started out with 2D cardboard shapes, which were padded with folded newspaper attached with masking tape (a lot of masking tape). That was, I think, then covered with a layer of papier-mache and painted white. Then I painted the designs on (and because it was crappy acrylic paint, it took at least 2 coats per color), and finally strung everything together with screw eyes, jump rings, and hot glue. It’s now hanging over my bed and for the first few days I was afraid something would give and it would fall on me in the middle of the night. I spent several months hating it, just because I was so sick of looking at it, but I like it now.
This was another mediocre project from 3D arts sophomore year, one that looked radically better in my head than it turned out. The way I originally envisioned it didn’t involve the collage background, but the project objectives included something about “representing ourselves,” so I felt like I had to include it. The face is actually my own–we made plaster casts of our faces (or feet or hands) and incorporated them into the work. That was pretty fun, except for the part where I scrubbed my face raw getting all the Vaseline off it from making the mask. The whole sun/moon thing was a big theme of mine sophomore year–these two works, plus a print with a sun motif and a fold-out book type thing with a night sky theme going on.
