Drawing, Designing & Constructing 3D

Exercise 1 Description

       In the first exercises of this project we had to make a seat out of one pieced of cardboard 4x4 that could hold the weight of one person. This was the first step to problem solving and learning how to work with the cardboard like how to fold what makes the area stronger and how to use folds and flaps to hold it together. Allowing the chair to function without cutting away from the 4x4 sheet or using glue or tape. 

Exercise 2 Description

       The second exercise was about duality and the relationship a chair has between itself and the person. This time using as much cardboard needed but still not using any fasteners and holding the weight of one person. But focusing on the over function and appearance more along with the relationship, giving the chair a meaning and purpose to a certain idea or concept. Using the previous ideas from exercise one and combing the techniques with new ideas.

Kendall Buster Reflection

       Kendall Buster has used both art and science to link her ideas together from her studies in microbiology she has turned what she’s seen through a lens into art forms of many kinds. And view art and science as endless possibilities and that they are very similar in studies both using experimentation and new ideas to form new concepts. That experimenting in art and science can both bring new concepts that you may not have expected but yet end up being good mistakes sometimes. I think this also allows you to explore many ideas and lets you use multiple things you maybe interested in and combining them into a piece of work that not only conveys multiple ideas but also have more personal meaning to your work.

Martin Puryear Reflection

       Puryear uses art and design in different ways by looking at different cultures and finding different materials to use besides your average ideas of materials. By doing this he considers his work to be less of a specific object and more of an interpretation of what the viewer wants it to be even if it may resemble something. These ideas allow for constant reconsideration of objects and pieces growing and becoming something more with different concepts. I think this idea allows you to be really creative and constantly try new things and is a good way to get your mind thinking outside of the box.

 

Essay on Duality

         The relationship I share with my dad is a very strong and special one, he’s been looking out for me ever since I was born. I’ve lived with him all my life and he raised me all on his own. Like every child and parent you have fights and don’t always see eye to eye on things but he’s always there at the end of the day. When I think about my most of my friends and there situations they are so different my dad raised a girl all on his own, everything most girls would go to there mom for I went to my dad for which was awkward at times but he was always there for me at the end of the day no matter what the circumstance. There are of course thousands of stories I connect with my dad but the one that sticks out the most to me right now is my high school graduation and the conversation we had about how I was now going to be leaving for school and how proud he was of me and that I was now starting a new chapter in my life and just because I was moving away didn’t mean I couldn’t count on him to still be here for me. I think the connection you share with your parents is the strongest one most people can have parents have a bond that we’ll never understand fully the amount they worry, care, encourage us and protect us in larger than life. There are so many details to our lives they pay attention to that we probably overlook everyday like the clothes we wear, food we eat and the shelter they provide for us. The overall connection should never be taken for granted because no matter what happens at the end of the day they are the people who made it possible for us to be here.  

Summary of the Project

       The challenge of this project was to create a chair out of cardboard without any type of fasteners and learning how to problem solve when building a functional chair. I learned how to use the properties of cardboard to my advantage and the best ways it would work to both support weight and fold and hold together without glue or tape. Learning how to make flaps and folds that are both presentable and functioning. Along with building a functioning chair incorporating a meaning with it was an idea you had to use showing a relationship that you connect with.

Mapping Space and Time

Project Description

       This project was about being able to use space and time to map an area and show the little details from different views and times. Also using sections to alter or expand the view. And how it relates to the two dimensional picture in the three dimensional space. Also how the photographer relates to the space and where they are when taking the photo and how that affects the view and angels.

Summary of Project

       This project was about using an object and photographing in a way that your not used to seeing it and focusing on the little objects that make the normal picture whole. Learning how to look through a camera and not take a picture as a whole was the most difficult task for me and trying to set things up in a grid. In this project I learned that you can use different angels to allude the eye making things seem larger and smaller depending on where you stand and how you take the picture.

Camera Lucida Response

       This article focused on what the picture really was and that the story behind it is irrelevant but what it reminds the viewer of. That it may bring back memories to them or connections that have nothing to do with what the photographer intended. Also that the color in a photo is like make up and that a simple black and white photo shows the photo better, even though that there is color in the reality of the picture. And that every picture only capture a moment but it can tell a story that its very moment hold with the right person in possession of it. That all photos are limited in a sense of what is actually being seen but the imagination of each individual viewer will portray it in their own way. 

Errol Morris Response

       Points out that all photos are connected to the world in some way. Even if they are posed or taken with a bias they are still connected to the world in some way. And what makes a photo honest isn’t based on when or why it was took but the fact that it was token for a purpose to show others or document a situation. And that any photo only shows one moment not before or after so the only way to really understand it is to investigate it the best you can. 

On Photography Response

       This article focused on the ideas that a photo can only tell some of the truth and that people might rely on them a little too much. All photos of the same object can look different for many different reasons from position and angel to the zoom and other factors added in with technology or even other things. And that there is no real way to look at pictures and know exactly what is going on. That they capture a moment but only the viewer knows what that moment held and although books, documents and other things hold photos to teach and express ideas and facts the person learning should remember that this photo is really only one tiny segment of the real life experience. 

The Master of Illusions Response

The master of illusions is about creating a space and time using vector points and knowledge of geometric grid. How alluding the eye into thinking that there is this space that was actually created by a human. Spacing things in a grid and using the created space to look real when it’s an illusion. Using different angels and shapes to show things in a new way. 

The Photographer’s Eye Response

       This reading focuses on five main ideas of how and photo is formed starting with “The Thing Itself” which point out that the object in a photo can be portrayed in many different ways and how the photographer and the viewer portray it may be different so when taking a photo a photographer must really be focused on what he is trying to show and show it in the best way possible because a photo captures a subject during an event and which one is remembered is the main goal. Next is “The Detail” photos cant hold a narrative without a comment or subtitle, consecutive photos may help but without knowing the exact truth no one ever really knows how or why a photo was taken besides the clues they can pull from what they see. “The Frame” is manipulated by the photographer he is only showing you what it is they want you to see every photo continues to extend in every direction, so therefore that space is in some ways being recreated to only be viewed in one way. The “Time” is also manipulated no photo shows the future or past just the moment in which it was taken and before fast shooting cameras time was very crucial no movement could be captured and when it was taken and something changed the photo would come out blurry and now what the photographer intended to capture. The last idea is “Vantage Point” and how different angels or lighting effects a photo allowing one object to have many different views. 

Ways of Seeing Response

       Photography changed the way we see because a picture unlike a painting can be in more than one place at one time. Photos have made paintings less valuable in some ways like they are not the original so that makes them distorted but also the silence of what you may experience in a museum may be taken away in a photo of it because your viewing it in the setting of which you want to experience it. But photography has also let others study paintings who may not get a chance to see them in their original place. But the photo will never have the real affect on a person the same as the painting.