“All I Want Is You”
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
These photos are of an art project I did sophomore year, in printmaking/3D arts, but that I’m thinking about redoing someday. It’s inspired by the the U2 song All I Want is You. The cover is at left. I used black matboard for to give the front and back covers stiffness, and braided black and gold embroidery thread for the wrap-around to keep it closed. I really wanted to find a good star button or something for the cord to finally wrap around, but I never found something that suited, so it just tucks. The moon is a stamp, since we had to include something of that sort to tie in with the printmaking aspect. I went a little crazy with the gold stars on the front; the back cover and some of the inside pieces are better, although I didn’t bother photographing them. This is the inside when you unfold the whole thing:
The white blob in the lower right hand corner is my toe. It wanted to fold up, so I had to step on it to keep it flat. This is a detail of the inside:
I really like my inspiration for this project, but I think I could do a lot more with the imagery in the song and generally make the whole thing more complex. The song has a ton of excellent, tangible imagery, so the challenge was to keep the piece coherent and unified. Perhaps I could make that the theme of one of the altered books I’ve been planning on doing forever, with a few lines on each page. That way I could have the freedom to explore each of the images seperately, which might work better. Maybe Lanciotti would even let me do it as a free project in class. The next one I’m going to do is a landscape painting of a view over the water from senior retreat, but perhaps after that I can try something completely different.
