Art
Diorama
This art piece really resonates with one because water plays a big part in my personal culture. One thing that inspired me was Silver Lake in New Hampshire. I love Swimming and lounging on the dock with my family, and looking for fish and mussels down in the depths. I made this piece with a reused air pods box, liken that I found on a hike at Stack rock, modeling clay, and resin. When I glued down the moss and liken, it was difficult to get it to stay put on the inside and outside of the box. One other challenge that I faced was keeping the fairy lights tangled in with the liken. I eventually just glued them down! I learned that even trash, or things that have been cast away can still become something unique and beautiful. This diorama also represents solitude and reflection, and accepting your emotions.
Process
In this image, I am giving one of my peers a critique to help improve their diorama.
Process
In this image, I am applying moss to the inside of my diorama.
Process
In this image, I am speaking to Lauren about the story exchange that we did. She told me a story, and I told her a story, and then we shared each other's stories with the class.
Alebrije-Folk art of Mexico
Before we began this project, we did some research so we could learn more about these amazing pieces of art, and so we can decide if these are appropriate for us to create them.
Alebrijes have four different elements that they are based off of, and those are fire, water, air, and earth.
Many people believe that alebrijes have been in mexican folk art for a crazy long time, but in fact they became something official in the mid 1940s by indigionous mexican artist Pedro Linares.
The background of these majestic pieces of art is when this artist became very ill and while in an unconscious state he dreamed of these creatures, and kept muttering Alebrije... When he woke up, he decided to create one of the ones he saw.
Final sculpture
This art piece has been so much fun! I would like people to know that cultural appropriation is a very important topic, and should be understood, and respected. I made my sculpture out of clay, glaze, and designs done by glaze applicators. I was inspired by the beautiful Mexican folk art "Alibrejes". This project is important to me because we researched alibrejes, and gained a deep understanding and respect for this nearly century old art style. Before we started creating our sculptures, we learned how to make sure that our sculptures were culturally appropriate, and we even interviewed people from this culture. When we applied designs to our sculpture it was very challenging because they were easily smeared, and mixed. My sculpture represents grotesque and beautiful because it represents the scary and dangerous parts of you inside, and the colorful and artistic parts on the outside.
Process
In this image, I am busy building my final alibreje sculpture.
Process
In this image, I am explaining one of my clay pieces to one of my moms.
Final sculpture
This is my final sculpture, I have worked really hard on it, and I am really proud of it.