N. Dolphin WARP

Cars pass every 7 minutes or so. Wind is constant, but like breathing  with little coughs of fervent breeze. Lights reflect upon everything  like energy gliding upon us all.  Jumping, flashing, glowing; out of lamps, stop lights, torches,  advertisements, candles, tree lights, and store windows.  Over here, look at me! Glaring from my lover's eyes.  his love is humming.  Like the sound of the lights. Rain starts to trickle.  Take cover, closer to consumerism.  It's all over the place, so don't look.  Reflections, reflecting, both them and me.  I don't mind being wet I love what pours down  A cop flirts with a girl.  Green light towers over her but I am not envious.  My companion is here.  That street by the pub, I cannot see. The unknown is itching at me. I can't see, but the only rowdy people go that way. Birthday crowds, and pairs of girls giggl...

Dale Chihuly sculpture in between tropical plants (Fairchild Garden) Vizcaya 19-- Bristol High Cross (Stourhead Cross) The Temple of Concord and Victory (Stowe) Jean Dubuffet's Jardin d'email Statues symbolizing the the Aniene River (left) and the Apennine Mountains (right) Medici Fountain Neptune's Fountain Basilica of Maxentius Basilica of Maxentius Hercules and Capus Bernini's Four Rivers Ha-has (recessed walls)--where do you find these?           A ha-ha is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond.The design includes a turfed incline which slopes downward to a sharply vertical face, usually a masonry retaining wall. Ha-has are used in landscape design to prevent livestock to gain access to the garden, without obstructing views. They are usually found in grand country houses, the Royal Artillery Ha-ha in southeast Lo...

For this topic we learned about how much control artists have over the messages they want to convey.  The compositions we create, colors we use, mark making, it all conveys moods and feelings the the audience can pick up and use as context. I chose to do a portrait of Marcello, the man that sells flowers by my house on 88th and 107th. That man never stop smiling through rain, scoring sun, or the cold. He always looks content to be doing his job; he radiates light from his little crooked smile. For my propaganda I was trying to portray how dangerous and laborious his job is. I didn't emphasize the opposite quality as much as try to show opposition but leaving a connection. The compositions have repeated colors and patterns in them, but still portray different moods. "Concrete Jungle" represents an urban area perceived as a challenging place to live. The Miami I have lived in my whole life has been a hot, hardworking city. I have personally felt with and seen others strugg...

I chose the photograph titled [Mr. Smith, Overseer at Wylie Mill, With four children, Chester, South Carolina]. The photograph for the gelatin silver print was taken November 1908 in Chester, South Carolina. The photograph is a portrait of 4 children workers and their overseer "Mr. Smith". It is evident that the man in the middle is the authoritative figure, especially since he is in the center.The youngest looking kids are on the lower steps and the older ones on the same step as the overseer. The children's poses look very timid, while Mr. Smith is just straight on open and confident. The man is very serious and stern looking. The three children look serious as well, except for the kid all the way to the right. He is what makes this picture to me. He is the only one cracking a smile; he shows the children's innocence. He proves that these workers are still just children and still have premature mentalities. It aches my heart seeing how serious these little baby boys...

This is my in-depth project for the second unit. I combined all the ideas I was trying to portray throughout my smaller assignments into one literal big centralized ball. I designed a chair design, and corresponding repeat pattern responding to a "centered" personality. Here I have provided many different angles of the planet interior, exterior and in movement. The suspended sphere has some exterior movement, as it turns, and interior movement of lights. I was inspired by the theory of the overview effect in the documentary "Overview" (2012) by Guy Reid. I first read about the theory in the photography book "Overview" by Benjamin Grant. I first made a repeat pattern of irrigation fields I saw in Grant's book, which represented fertility and growth to me. I translated similar patterns of circles and a similar color pattern onto the globe. I was very inspired by the idea of spreading a new perspective of our home planet "earth". So I created my...

I prefer Dürer's woodcut because of how much character it has in it. It is a more stylized piece with exaggerated armor looking features and detailed scales on the rhinoceros. Even though a rhino does not look exactly like his woodcut there is a reference of a one horned rhino, and I can see it. It is his interpretation and that is why I like it because it looks different and has more character to it. I find it to be more interesting than Burgkmair's naturalistic version.  Francesco Granacci's version of the rhinoceros is the one I found the most amusing. It is obvious he has influence from Giovanni Penni's with the low scooping U shaped head and the shape of the body. But Granacci's version was a more realistic version of an illustrative rendering of the rhino so it looks strange all together. I found Dürer's unrealistic but metaphorical because of its armor. But Granacci's looks like it is wearing an iron skirt with little legs underneath like ...

I modified the reference pattern of the chair from the pattern book into my own design to show my "personality". The green and pink choice of color represent fertility and growth, the shapes of full circles and half circles represent the process of becoming whole and wholeness. What I believe is behind the definition of being centered is growth, quality, wholeness, and the balance between fragility and sturdiness. The chair is made of wood, except for the back support and the cushion is made from leather and fabric. Front View  Side View  Top View  Repeat Pattern 

I got my inspiration for my chair pattern off of a satellite picture of your beautiful Earth. The photograph was part of a series of images from a book I own called "Overview: A New Perspective of Earth"by Benjamin Grant. From this book was the firs time I heard about the Overview Effect. My repeat pattern is based off of pivot irrigation fields in Wadi As-Sirhan Basin of Saudi Arabia. The circles represent the the growth (agriculture) that comes from being centered. 

This is the chair pattern I chose to communicate my "personality" of Centered. I found the chair pattern to be centered but fragile.   5" Drawing of the Chair Pattern from Plate 242 #4

I chose one of my symbols, the female key(above), and translated it to a 3-D figure.  These are the instructions, as well as images of the process of making the sculpture.  This is the original sculpture on the right, and the re-created version on the left.  This is the final product of the 2D-3D translation. 

 This is my form-based language derived from my personal view on things that go on in my life.