N. Dolphin WARP

My partners were Estefania and Nestor. Here is our three pieces together as a comic of three single panels. The second image is the panel I made. 

 For my second small work of this unit I chose to make work responding to the Euphemia city in the Calvino reading. The city was a trading city that was very prosperous and populated. But other than it obviously being a trade city, it was a city where stories were shared among the merchants and travelers. They shared memories other than goods and money. So I wanted to incorporate that idea into my four pieces. The first piece was the sacks of memory. I sewed three sacks out of burlap each; each sack representing a part of the brain that we use for memory (frontal lobe for decision making and remembering, temporal lobe for auditory context and hearing, and occipital lobe for visual processing). The large burlap sacks are very commonly used for carrying several goods. The second piece was woven stepping mat of ignored memories. We step over mats almost every day, whether at a store, our house, school. Almost everyone wipes their feet on stepping mats. in the Calvino writing one of ...

This is my small world #. It is a street in a box. The shape of the box is used to accentuate the shape of perception of a street, except backwards because the viewer is looking into the smaller end. It is difficult to make out a specific shape because it is only reflections upon clear vinyl inside. This layout was used to describe the relationship of lights upon a wet commercial street. Lights and sound are what represents a street at night. The fact that the imagery inside is not clear, concentrates the audience on the sound as they look for context. The box is meant to be held and looked into, the way a store window is looked into.  The following images are of the front of the box, the street or garden exercise, planning, and video of the inside of the piece. 

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.

5 images of pattern and ornament in my every day life

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