PROJECT 3 JUAN PABLO TORRES

Reflection: I realized when i got to class that my project varied from everyone's and thats when i knew i should have reread the rubric which i didn't bother to re-look at because i pretty much had an idea of what i had to do and honestly rushed the hell out of this one, but its whatever. I started out simply just cutting random geometric shapes with an x-acto knife and just glued them trying to achieve some sort of rhythm at the same time allowing space to flow with the compositions which would add texture but even so, it remained flat and 2D. The overall process wasn't too time consuming, i'd say it took about 2 hours tops to complete. I didn't like the idea of deconstructing the compositions because i knew it wouldn't look as well as the original pieces. Also I think i could have been far more creative with it, perhaps used some other fixative instead of just a plain glue stick. I was disappointed with this one and this is perhaps one of my weakest projects so far.

Colleen Rothe-Project 3

Reflection: At first I was a little intimidated for project three because I didn't know how destroying would go. After giving it some thought I figured "well what holds paper together? Staples!" so I wanted to use them but not just pile pieces together I wanted it to have more movement. I was also inspired by stain glass and how its a bunch of different shards that come together to form one piece. I think my favorite part of the project was cutting the paintings into little pieces, there was just something very satisfying about chopping it all up. Stapling the pieces was a bit difficult at times because the pieces are so small trying to hold them under the stapler was challenging. Overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, I like how all the colors work well together and there's no area with all red or green or yellow. My only complaint is that some of the staples unhooked from the paper and started falling apart.

Project 3 Kristal Michal-Brasseur

Honestly when I started this project my process was not thought through or planned out. If i could go back i would have created a concept before just ripping up my pieces willy-nilly. Yet I did what I did And worked from there, although I am happy with the piece. I decided to continue my concept from my last project which was about my recent break up. I decided to craft a tree because I wanted it to represent the growth that I went through during that period of my life. Loving that person tested my mental endurance and moral character. In that relationship I started to define myself and what I wanted out of this life.  I also decided on a tree because even though trees die they still continue to exist (unless they are cut down). This is exactly how I feel about my last relationship, even though it's over it still happened and i can't change that. So i guess I'm using this piece to try to convince myself of that, to just accept that it's over. I decided to put the inorganic composition pieces more as the base of the tree because ultimately that was the final decision between us. Yet from that decision the memories that we made shattered and or branched off and that's what my organic composition was all about. In order to create this piece I originally started with sewing my two compositions together, yet as time went on I decide to switch adhesives. I opted out for painters tape because when I had see the base of the tree it was too flimsy and It looked messy due to my lack of knowledge in sewing. When I was sewing however I did decide to use a brown thread to really show that the shape I created was meant to be a tree. Ultimately I did enjoy this project it was nice to do something different from just painting or just drawing. This project helped me to literally ‘branch out’ as an artist all while still doing a new approach to art that I enjoyed.

Project 3 Leo .

I loved this project and it's because I didn't like the previous project. The it was interesting to see how people interpreted the project. I was one of the people how didn't start with 100 pieces method. I had a design in mind. I had a couple of concepts that I was entertaining, some of which were 3D. I landed on the composition you see today. In the planning of this project I had an idea, however when it came to execution it all sort of just happened. I worked off my base idea and ended up with something entirely new. I defiantly like this project better than the previous, but I think my project in its current state needs improvement and more happening.

Project 3

Reflection:

Overall this project wasn't stressful, it was possibly even relaxing and satisfying to do. When I heard that we had to destroy our pieces I was very excited, as I had intended on doing that anyways. Personally I like this piece better than my original two. While I had originally intended to make roses out of the strips of paper that would have been far to tedious and time consuming to accomplish, so weaving them together was my next best bet. While having it unfinished looked cool, I decided to finish weaving the rest of the strips.

Project 3- Nadia Slawick

Reflection

The day we were given this project, I decided to sit on the floor in my room and rip my two compositions into one hundred pieces. After everything was ripped up, I started to assemble my new composition with glue. I had a few things in mind that I wanted to capture with this piece. I wanted this piece to still have qualities from the first two pieces, such as organic and geometric shapes and texture. As a result, I made the shape of this piece an organic shape and kept geometric shapes on the inside. Equally important, my first two pieces had tons of texture within them. I wanted to transfer this texture to this pieces as well, but in a different way. To do this, I decided to layer most of the hundred pieces underneath and peel the top layer upwards so that you can see what is underneath the composition. Also, I made this rug like texture by simply bending the paper piece in half and gluing only one side down allowing the other side to stick upward. Overall, this composition turned out rather interesting and I am happy with the results. This project really taught me to let go of my pieces, and I really did. Not only did I rip two of my favorite compositions up into a hundred pieces, but I am also selling the reconstructed piece sometime this week.

Project 3

By Feza Ali

From all the projects, by far this one was the most interesting one. I never would've thought of ripping my paintings into 100 pieces and then making another art piece out of it. I feel like it gave more feeling and importance to this project, because it was something completely different before and then renewed it another piece. I played around with warm and cool tones by making every other piece the opposite. I am planning on changing the medium I used to gel medium which give it more of a clean look.

Leo Design Archeology board and compositions

Reflection:

My main focus for capturing inspiration was to find repeated geometric shapes. The geometry of architecture has always been an inspiration to me. The shapes almost become organic as they are repeated. That is how I approached the 2 compositions. The first composition's source image was the chainlink fence. The repetition almost starts to look like a cell pattern or tissue cells. The second was from architecture on campus. I this composostion I want led to play more with scale.

Project 3: Julian Chastang

For me, This was difficult to find something to do with the cut up pieces. Cutting the originals wasn't hard though, but i guess i went a little crazy with the razor blade and cut too many pieces. I remember trying to arrange the pieces into something specific, but i couldn't really come up with anything. This was the problem for me, since i only used a few colors when making the original paintings. Ultimately i ended up arranging the pieces like this and glueing the pieces to this scrap piece of bristol. One thing i was thinking about was taking the piece of bristol and making a box out of it, Spray painting it with either chrome or blue paint, and glueing the cut up pieces to the box. For some  reason i didn't do that and just decided to glue it to the bristol as is. It was an interesting project, but i just wish i would have went with the idea i mentioned.

Project 3- Ally Bertling

 

 

 

 

 

At first, I totally had no idea about how I was to even do this project. In the beginning I just cut up both of my compositions into small pieces and layed them out where I could see all the colors to try and get an idea how to do this project. It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to put it back together. I sort of  then split all the colors from compositions into separate piles by color. I then used hot glue to put each separate pile of colors together then I glued all the little separate pieces to each other. I took all the black colored pieces and sort of made a border around the piece and separated all the colors from each other. I put this project together piece by piece and each piece I was putting together at first seemed like it wasn't going to look good or that I wasn't going to like it in the end but in the end, the piece turned out pretty good.

Project 3 - Lincoln soucy

Original Compositions

Bits and Pieces

End Result

Reflection:

This was a very tedious project, but I'm pleased with the results.  When I fist began to deconstruct my original compositions, I had only a rough sketch of an idea and wasn't entirely sure that it would turn out decent or not.  However, After a couple hours, I realized I was halfway done.  The staples turned out to be an incredibly sturdy fixative while adding texture and weight to the piece.  The stapling process is incredibly tedious, but the end effect was worth it.  I chose to rearrange the pieces of my original composition into the shape of a shark because I felt it would be best to create something close to the original forms.  I tried to be mindful of layering the paper fragments to add rhythm.  I used the pieces if the orange/yellow triangles to create contrast in the fins of the shark.  I never expected all of my materials to come together as well as they did.  The blue scraps turned out to be exactly the right amount and created a fairly even outline/frame to hold the shape of the shark, so that it wouldn't look like the fish was suspended in the air.  The blue helps to hold the composition in place and add a needed element of darker color to the overall result.

Charity Pinchum Project 3

In the beginning, I really had no idea what I was going to do, how i was going to do it or how it would look when it was all finished. First I started by ripping my two compositions into pieces then I walked away from the project for a while just to see if I would get any interesting ideas or see some inspiration while going about my day. After returning to the ripped pieces I still had nothing no Ideas came to mind. I force myself to work. I ended up stapling pieces together into 6 smaller sections then I had to decide how I would connect the six pieces, I could connect them with staples or stitch them together. stitching would have been very difficult so I stapled them. I tried to give section an even amount of color and I still managed to make it still resemble water in a way. Before we deconstructed the two pieces I didn't see too much similarity or unity between the two paintings but putting the pieces together makes it look like the two belonged together all along.

Angela Brooks - Project 3

Original Compositions:

Final Composition:

I was excited for this project 3. I didn't feel attached to my original compositions so it was easy for me to tear them apart and see what I could create from the pieces. As soon as we were assigned this project I knew immediately what my plan was going to be. Since a lot of my shapes were already triangles or I could easily make them into triangles, I knew I wanted to arrange the pieces to represent the sun. However in my first composition I really liked the gradient in the circles, so I wanted to keep that in my project 3 and not touch it. I started off using glue to put the shapes together but some wouldn't stay so I used double-sided tape which worked much better. I put the middle circles together first and then I knew I wanted all the red triangles as the first layer. After the red layer was complete I glued the purple and blue shapes on for the 2nd layer, then I put the green shapes wherever I could fit them for the 3rd and final layer. I also kept the stars from my organic composition and taped them where I thought they looked best. Once I thought I was finished I decided that it was lacking something so that's when I decided that I wanted to burn the edges a little. However, I didn't want to burn the project I jut spent so much time on, but I still felt it was missing an element. So I taped the whole piece onto another piece of Bristol board. I know I could've used the empty white space in my original compositions but I had already thrown the pieces away because I had completed it a few days prior to the idea of burning it. 

To burn the piece I simply used a lighter and ran it along the edges, some parts got a little out of control. In the end I am pleased with the outcome and I'm much more attached to this project than the original compositions. A lot of people said it reminded them of something out of a comic book which I thought was a cool complement. 

Project 3 - Jessie Kim

Original Compositions

Process

First, I realized that in the middle of my cactus panel, there was a big area of blank space that I could use to attach the smaller pieces to. Second, I knew that I had a lot of white blank space and black/dark blue space and wanted to use them to create most of the at least 100 pieces we needed from the compositions. Present in the picture are not all of the pieces from the compositions; they are just most of the black and white pieces. I then cut out the colors that were part of the diptych, like the cacti and the stars.

I wanted to maintain the integrity of the diptych's theme of a "desert night" so I cut the black and white pieces into irregular/random but sharp pieces to represent the cactus' prickly features and decided to use the colors to create petals for a desert or cactus flower. I chose to sew the pieces of the Bristol board along the three edges of the big white triangle piece. I don't know why I particularly wanted to use needle and thread for this part of the composition but I think the idea stuck with me when the project was first introduced (the method of sewing was one of the first examples said to be an acceptable fixative). I'm also into embroidery, and honestly, I like sewing, so I guess that that also influenced why I wanted to use needle and thread. For the flower, I just glued the pieces onto the Bristol board and continued to overlap the pieces.

The bottom and widest edge of the triangle was sewn last. The side edges contain layers of randomly aligned black and white pieces. On the bottom right and left corners, the number of Bristol board pieces layered together is the most and the number decreases as you approach the top vertex of the triangle. I did this in order to create a small effect of rhythm along the back side of the composition.

Results

Reflection

At first, I didn't like the idea of this project because I did not intend to deconstruct and reconstruct my original compositions and ended up kind of liking how they had turned out. However, once I actually started to cut up the piece, I realized that I can just remake these paintings and make it even better so it's not a big deal. It took a lot of time to sew the pieces together and a lot of effort and a little bit of blood but I don't regret my choice of fixative. It was a fun project to do and sort of convenient in the sense that I didn't have to do much thinking or apply as much focus as I had to do with the other projects so I was able to work on this project while watching TV and in between actions/events. During the critique, classmates said that my idea and piece is cool and clever. It was cool to work on something that was more of a 3D composition.

Maddie Summers Project 3

Pictures:

Reflection:

I was really excited about this project because I didn't like how my project two came out, it didn't have the under water theme I wanted and I knew I could have that theme with this. I really like how it turned out, it feels like an undersea coral reef. It was something completely new and it inspired me to do more with the technique. I liked making the paper sculpture and I'm definitely going to keep doing it. The only thing that's iffy is the fact I used glue to hold a lot of it together because -- shockingly -- elementary school level glue doesn't hold stuff very well, it would have been cool to do more sewing like I did for the base but I just didn't have the time or energy to sew every little bit on there, it's something I'll remember for the future though in my own work.

Colleen Rothe- Project 4 & 5

Reflection: When we were first assigned this project I was actually looking forward to it because I had never used illustrator so I was looking forward to trying it out. I also love photography so I was definitely excited to make that composition. My first composition is not my favorite, because it's the first I didn't really know what I was doing, I like it but I think there's too much negative space. I like the second one better even though I had to do it quickly because I made a mistake and read the directions wrong, but I'm still happy how it turned out. I really like the colors and the shape of it was fun to play around with. Some of the photos I took were from Wayne campus and Algonac State Park from when I went camping. The campground is so pretty because it's right by the water and the wild life that grows around it. Taking the pictures was my favorite part because it was fun looking for "elements and principles of design" in nature and just exploring outside. Overall I enjoyed these projects and I think it was a good change to do some digital art.

Project 4 & 5 reflections Kristal Michal-Brasseur

While working on projects 4 and 5 I must admit they were not my favorite. I personally am not a tech savvy teenager living the modern era at best I'm still stuck in the early 2000's. Infact my grandma probably could have navigated better around photo shop than me. Although i was not crazy about working on the computer I did however enjoy the opportunity to explore my campus more. This is my first year at Wayne state so I really used project 5 to get familiar with campus and downtown Detroit. Through project 5 I realized how visually pleasing and inspiring the juxtaposition of nature with a city background really is to me. Also while doing project 5 i realized how important the artistic element of contrast is to me. Whether it be contrast of colors or lighting almost all my photos show contrast even though that wasn't my intention. Regardless each photo is meant to showcase a small snapshot into my every day life as a 19 year old college student attending Wayne State.  Project 4 also had the seem concept except it was only meant to showcase the beauty of downtown Detroit. Before coming to Wayne State i never truly knew what the city I grew right outside of had to offer. Both of the photos were actually taken on the Detroit River Walk when i was going on a boat tour of the Detroit river.  As i stated perviously I am not tech-savvy so while working on project 4 I got very frustrated trying to learn the software. I think if i could back and redo project 4 maybe i would have tried to experiment just a tiny bit more with the technology instead of letting it intimidate me. 

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