Topic #6 Final In-Depth Project

After many ideas and attempts to start the In depth project, I took a step back and I thought about my brother in California and the Thomas Fire that is happening around Santa Barbara. Many people have lost their homes and relatives, as well as a few vineyards that also got caught in the fire. And of course I wanted to also commemorate the firefighters that risk their lives everyday to have control over the fire.  

Topic #6 The Art Universe and Miami Art Week

Enjoying some ginger spiced pineapple juice at the Casa Lin during Art Basal weekend. Amazing artwork, food, people, and atmosphere.

Topic #5 Packaged Narrative In-Depth Project

 Road Rack Case

Guitar Foot Pedal

Backstage Pass with Flashlight and Keys

Amplifier

Topic #5 (Narrative) 8- page Zine and Zine mock up

 8 Page Zine

Zine Mock Up:

Topic #5 (Narrative) Practical Incongruencies

I believe in health.

The soup is cold.

I f**k aliens.

Topic #5 Telling Stories Rothman Reading

    I really like Marion Fayolle's "The Mirror." To me, it shows a man walking up to the mirror admiring himself which maybe gives a narcissistic expression on the character. Then you see a woman who sees the man looking in the mirror and she appears to show some anger or jealousy and throws the stone at both the man and mirror. She gets other women to help her collect the broken glass and they all use the fragments to make artwork.

    I think this expresses how the woman felt angry that the man was so intrigued by himself instead of the woman so she used the stone to get rid of the man and used him for her art piece to tell a story. I really like it because its a visual story without words. Words would tell you exactly what is going on but I think the artist doesn't add text for a reason. She wants us to know ourselves just by looking at the images and she wants us to tell the story.

Topic #4 Landscape In- Depth Project

        For my topic #4 In-Depth project, I constructed a mirror image of two similar houses, ponds, walls, and landscaping. I wanted to convey how pollution or non-extensive care could spread in the environment. The left side shows a home that is well kept in an eco-friendly setting where the grass is well cut and fed, the pond is filled with clean water and the walls are clean of graffiti. The right side shows a home that is rotting from neglect in a polluted setting where the grass is not cared for and the water is contaminated and the walls are full of graffiti. 

         What makes this piece interactive is not only the real water in the ponds but the mirrors that are hidden underneath the broken brick wall on the polluted side of the project. If you adjust ur eyes on the eco-friendly setting while hovering over the polluted setting, the mirror shows the eco friendly setting turning into the polluted one. This gives reference of how pollution can easily take over without extensive care and awareness of the population.

The materials that were used for this project are wood, popsicle sticks, moss, glass, paper, paint, rocks, sand, plastic, and makers.