3D piece

So I decided to put my art book/poem piece on hold. This weekend I stayed at home and worked on my 3D piece. It's been a long time since I've been really engaged and connected to a piece like this. While I was looking for objects to work with at Urban Ore, there were two (cheap) beautiful boxes that spoke to me. I knew that I wanted to work with the one that looked like a treausre box first. With it, I found lots of keys, locks, nobs, and chains.

My favorite part of making this box must of been using a staple gun and drill (to drill the lock onto the outside of the box). I never knew how healing it would be to let out some bottled up agression out on an art piece with a staple gun, hammer, and a drill. :)

Unfortunately all of the drill bits I had were too big for the screws. I ended up filling the holes with glue and stuck the screws it and it still did the job. :) Another part of the piece is a ceramic heart that I had members of my family paint layers on. I painted the first layer then I had my sister, cousins, and mom each add a layer to it.

So I decided that this sacred, mystery box is a representation of my heart. I've been debating with myself how I want the set up on the bottom to look. I've kept the box open in my room and have been getting visions about it throughout the week. I'm sure eventually it will all come together.

Carol Es

My intermedia artist that I picked is Carol Es
Here is a link to her website: www.esart.com/
Here is a link to her blog: www.esart.com/blog/

Some of her pieces that I connected with:

Forgive

bound


Escared of You




Arguement Park

Enjoy! :)

Words Unspoken.

Last week I managed to figure out how to retrieve this poem on my external hard drive that i've been working on. I've poured my heart and soul into this piece over this past year and my 3 words tie right into it. I'm pretty excited to work with this piece that I thought I lost and would never see again.

I bought this book that has blank pages in it a while ago and I started to look for images that match to the words of the poem. I've made about 4 pages in it so far....trying to find new art techniques to incorporate inside it.

Beginning my word art.

So i've been experimenting with my words through art...

I've continued on my sad piece by adding lots of black, red, and zebra colored tissue paper on it. I think the picture looks more deathly, than sad. I started doing some art with my sister last night and asked her "does this look sad to you?" She said "no" (btw, shes 7 years old). So I asked her "what would make it look more sad?" She said "Tear drops and a knife". So, I ripped a picture of a bear out and ripped its head off of its body and added a tear drop. Then I added a knife to the broken heart that I painted. It still didnt look as sad as I wanted it to be. While I was working on this piece, I burnet a red candle that smelled like a hibiscus. When I felt like I was finished the the piece for the night, I knew that I wanted to experiment with the melted candle wax. I poured the wax over the collage to give it a waxy/drippy look. I think it added a good touch to it...but i'm still not sure if sad is the feeling that I really get from it yet...

I continued on this sculpture that I made on my first day of Karen's class. I decided that this would be my mind-blowing piece. The scuplture came from the idea of my world opening up and digging deeper within myself. Under "my world" there is a thick spiral foundation to keep it grounded and always moving inward and outward. I decided to start painting it because the thought of me really working inward and noticing the way that i present myself out to others is pretty mind-blowing. I look at myself now, and i've really come a long way in the past few years and this is just a reminder to myself of that change, and the change in myself that i'm striving to make.

I started a canvas to work on my overwhelming piece. I used green, brown, and black acrylic paints. I painted a swirling design over the whole canvas. I have this poem called "P.O.W." by Alicia Keys that I LOVE. Im going to cut out and paste along the lines that I drew. I know that I want to take this piece further and include the audio somehow in it. She is AMAZING.

Here is the video of her on def poety jam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAPFfIxP6VE

Thats all I have so far on my process thus far....I'll keep you guys posted with new updates. :)

3 words

Here is one of the only pictures I have of me and my artwork. This is some of the work I created in Kaleo and Elise's Ancestors and Spirit Guides class.

My 3 Words.

mind-blow⋅ing  /ˈmaɪndˌbloʊɪŋ/ [mahynd-bloh-ing]
–adjective Slang.
1. overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
2. producing a hallucinogenic effect: a mind-blowing drug.

o⋅ver⋅whelm⋅ing  /ˌoʊvərˈʰwɛlmɪŋ, -ˈwɛl-/ [oh-ver-hwel-ming, -wel-]
–adjective
1. that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
2. so great as to render resistance or opposition useless: an overwhelming majority.

sad  /sæd/ [sad]
–adjective, sad⋅der, sad⋅dest.
1. affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
2. expressive of or characterized by sorrow: sad looks; a sad song.
3. causing sorrow: a sad disappointment; sad news.
4. (of color) somber, dark, or dull; drab.
5. deplorably bad; sorry: a sad attempt.
6. Obsolete. firm or steadfast.



When I first looked at these words, one instance in my life came to my mind. The bottled up surpressed sadness of an event that lead up to many overwhelming feelings...and it is MINDBLOWING to look back and realize how much of a survivor I really am. I have a good feeling about this class, it's time to continue the healing process and step it up a notch with this opportunity to explore intermedia.