My Final Project! Read on for more insight!

Suspended pine cone. The cage provides some form of protection. Kind of the way the pine cone would cling onto the old tree itself before it finally detaches and falls off.

Pine cones holding seeds and future tree life contrast with the aged, now dead, tree bark. Something about the way two different stages of life are tied together.

Trapped pine cones until they are freed.

Close up on the caged pine cones.

Also part of my final project! A new response to: How do you like your eggs?

Slow decay.

Empty hammock. Made with a single continuous piece of wire.

Life-size! Scaling up!

Aftermath.

Inspiration for final project: the hollow tree stump.

Nature, rustic, abandon, empty, hollow, space

Sunny side up. Shiny, raw, friendly, smile, blank, gross, emptiness, hygiene, cute.

Eva Hesse. Intertwining, minimalism with feeling, that is my favorite part of her work. Eva Hesse is known for her minimalist work that holds a lot of underlying emotion that hits differently depending on the viewer’s mood at the time. I looked at her work upon Professor Yao’s suggestion, thanks!

More from Eva Hesse.

Kelly Lim. Crochet, minimalism again, roadside art, making a space a place, adding humor.

“Art for all ages and sizes at the Children’s Biennale in Singapore”.

Inspiration: playing with the idea of texture, natural colors, putting things that are normally in the background in the spotlight

Bookmarking, collecting. Just some colorful leaves that make me happy.

Project 2B: “turn off.” It is a video, so please contact me if you wish to receive the link to view it.

Inspiration for Project 2B: Hairball, collections, corners, abandon, marginalization

Ideas for Project 2B: Shadows

Ideas for Project 2B: Moisture, condensation, water, observation, time, patience

Ideas for Project 2B: Humidity, bubbling, steam, over-boil, overflow

Ideas for Project 2B: Another angle of the hairball

Packed (Lunch) With Love

Abandoned angle. Reminiscent of an abandoned packed lunch rejected by a schoolchild in favor of the “in-crowd”.

Words of inspiration: travel, family, fall produce
Ingredients: processed expired white bread, moldy raspberries (notice the white specks), ziploc plastic bag to give the effect of intended extra protection and sealing

Inspiration: country, patchwork, quilt, warmth, home, gender roles, homemaker, vintage, quaint

Non-traditional patchwork quilt, regiment

“Broken Promises.”

Project 2 Part A: my first alginate mold making and plaster sculpture!

“Scapegoat.” Final Project #1. Made with canvas drop cloth, scrap stuffings, and hot glue.

Project #1 front profile. Size: 16 inches in height, 14 inches at widest across.

Project #1 back profile. Cascading facial profiles along the side that conjoin at the tip.

Project #1.

Canvas cloth sculpture inspiration. Allusion to water, ocean, animals, nature, etc.

Canvas beanbag, distressed material, texture, seams, soft, slouchy.

Project #1 children’s mobile model with shapes of the bear in cardboard cutouts dangling.

Project #1 crumpled magazine model of bear.

Project #1 model: lint flower from dyer trap with pillow stuffing as “pollen”.

Detailed rendering of the inspiration, my teddy bear.

Cute 2D rendering of the bear.