Sustained Investigation #2

The main idea that guided this artwork is my sustained investigation question for this semester, this being the second piece officially revolved around it. My sustained investigation question was "How can you capture the universe through art?" In this piece, I wanted to capture space through mythology. Phisacly this piece is meant to resemble a Roman-style mosaic witch were present throughanchent Rome, offeten depicting their different  gods. The godess in this piece is Diana, Roman godess of the moon, hunt, and childbirth just to name a few things. In this way I wanted to capture how people in history saw space, as something heavenly. 

Out of all the projects I did this year, including in other classes not just art, I think this is the most time I have ever spent on a school assignment and it was very enjoyable to do so (even if I felt I was making to progress most of the time). Roman moseics are made of many cubes plasts in a concrete like substance to creat images. To emulate this proses I cut out many many squares out of colored paper and glued them onto a larger piece. I used spall black suares to creat the outline between the centerpiece and the border, wich in itself took hour. Then I spent hours cutting  out and gluing a sigel star in the corner, at that point I realized my process was not working so I photocopied it to get the other three, gluing the image onto the paper. I did the same after creating one side with the moons and one segment of the plant. Then I got to the centerpiece, I liked to joke with my friends that I got through a three-hour-long video essay on Breaking Bad before I had even finished placing all the pieces in the white background, that's not even a joke that's true. And then I created Diana out of paper and had to fit pieces in the background color around her. Knowing I was running out of time to finish the assignment, I drew the deer and the dog with a chiseled marker to make it look like the rest of the moseic before firing in background pieces around them and the ground. 

I had originally had the idea for the form of this image from my first sustained investigation when I skeched out the godess Artimis on a piece of stamp bloke. This depicted her shooting a bow and arrow with her hunters running along in the bacround. Unfortualy I changed directions with the first project. Then I was inspired to make a moseic because we learned about them in Latin. Since what I learned about was a culturalaspect of Rome, I changed only in name the idea from this being a image of Artimis to a image of Diana (literal since there tecnacly the same godess just the Romans renamed all the Greek gods). This might have also had an impact on the final product since I strictly researched  and looked up references  of Diana from that point on. My original sketch for the complete moseic was done on a piece of math homework. Aditonly somthin of note is that I submitted this assignment to the Latin convention's art competions and won 1st.