Site Specific- Rowe

For my site specific project, I decided to make a "spider" web. From artists to children's stories, they have been used to relay messages. These messages can be political, emotional, poetic, etc. Having what seems to be a creative block at the moment, I had a really hard time thinking of something to do. And once I decided on the web, I still had difficulties thinking of what to say in it. It is the end of the semester however and at this point I feel like theres not too much to lose so I might as well suck up. Malena joked about wanting a raise while we were doing evaluations so...why not advertise it, the extra input can't hurt. I wrote "Give Malena a raise." Enough said. I did it in very subtle colors that blend, but when you're close enough you can see the bits of gold that spell out the words. This took much longer to make than I thought, so in theory...I would make many of these and post them up all over the Rowe building because the students and faculty in that particular building would know who I was talking about.
Web of Persuasion
2'x2'
100% cotton twine

Time Project

GOSSIP GIRLS
I took a spin off of the popular game TELEPHONE to show how fast that news travels and how quickly the information can get mixed up. We all know the all to true cliche of how girls are so very gossipy...I chose to comment on a rumor that I recently heard about myself this semester, and I have to say that I was surprisingly intrigued and humored. I took electrical tape to represent the phone cord and connected it to photos of girls on their cell phones, connecting their conversations. I heard this rumor from 6 different girls so there are 6 different comments posted on the doors.
Gossip Girls
3'x18' (flat objects strung on flat surface)
mixed media

http://www.clichesite.com/category_results.asp?which=time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

Barbie

IDENTITY:

I decided to express my identity by taking all of my insecurities as a woman out on barbies. Barbies are the all to familiar opitime of female beauty. As someone who is so uncomfortable with her appearance, I tend to take it out on other women sort of blaming them for my insecurities...finding myself wishing that instead of being like them, they would be more like me so that I wouldn't have to change to feel better about myself. It's horrible, but some girls I just want to get really fat, and others...i wish I could make their hair ugly or sabotage their makeup. So with these Barbies, I chose one to chop off her hair and stain it so that it would represent all of the times I cut my hair and dye my hair, then become unhappy with it. Another, I wrapped her hair over her face and put a pink piece of a sack cloth on her for clothing... I took away all of the glamourous features that she came with and made her to seem anti-social. Barbies always look cute, in real life....girls have shitty days and just want to be invisible, sweats if possible, no make-up, sunglasses, and a hat...this was the best I could do. And finally, my favorite...the body factor. I dressed this one in a measuring tape because I am always conscious, on a daily basis, of my weight..how clothes are fitting, if my face is getting fatter,etc.. I marked all of the places that I want to fix with a marker and even rubbed off her breasts with sand paper and cut off her behind...hey, my body does not look like that!!I also tried to boil one but it didn't do too much, just made her head pop off..haha. For the presentation, I put them back into the boxes as if they were for sale again but with no price, daring someone to buy them...who would want a doll who looked like this?!?!?
New Generation of Barbie
8"x3"x2"
mixed media

Material Invention

I'm not entirely sure that I interpreted this assignment correctly. Instead of creating a sculpture out of the objects that I found, I chose to transform my bathroom from its intended use to that of a workspace using my walls as a sort of canvas... I used things found in my bathroom for all of the objects and makeup as a medium. "beauty is art".
Untitled
6'x5'
powder-based make-up

Test

Just testing...