N. Dolphin WARP

I focused on adding detail of the face, but I didn't want to make it look like an actual human yet. I got my inspiration from a plaster bust my mother did in high school. I also added the history of the Olmec heads I later looked up while researching. Simple features that demonstrated so much, but I wanted to work with the opposite of a hard stone. I have been sewing since I was little and really enjoy it, so I thought  could put my skills to work while making fabric heads. I didn't want them to look like puppets so I focused on the simplicity of a head as a whole. I was focused on a slow process of growth from the first head to the continuing pieces. I spent most of my time on quality of the sewing, symmetry and underlying shapes. The green and red shapes are used to represent the different shades we have underlying our skin causing different tones on our face. But once again I still wanted it to look more like a representation of a head, not a model. The process behind the h...

This is the process of development from the first head to the latest head. I am planning to keep adding to the development. 

Influenced by a ceramic head, an aztec style painting, and bohemian pillows.

 The curators María Elena Ortiz and Arden Sherman put together a very well orchestrated show. The sound of Conlon and Harker's performance piece filled up the silence in the room, and made me feel like a game of clinking dominoes was happening behind me. Each piece I came across had a different message and connection to dominoes. There were all sides and concepts including: falling dominoes, the community involvement, and the game of domination. There was a very Caribbean influence with artists from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and more. Each artist related to dominoes in different ways of course. For example Nari Ward related the game of dominoes, a mirror and pieces of a brown paper bag to the racial issue our country has faced throughout history. Figueroa created his own set of Dominoes from asphalt and street items like gum and beer caps to resemble the active streets dominoes are played on at home. Evans relates his hand painted stamps to the communicativ...