Word Image Project

I am a bike. I spend most of my life chained up to the rack. I get to spend most of my time right next to my friends. I spend the long cold nights in the elements and never get to go inside. The best part of my day is when I get unchained and am able to be free and go for a ride.

The 5 words that I randomly generated were adventure, concern, lid, grandfather, and productive. I was full of emotions when I got these 5 words because I just lost my grandpa less than a month ago and these are all words that could be related to him. He was very hardworking and a productive man. He owned his own construction company and has worked his whole life until he was diagnosed with cancer. For nearly the past 3 years he had been battling his cancer. He received a bone marrow transplant 8 months in and this created a lot of concern for my family. He started off doing really well and then he started to decline. This created a lid basically trapping and restricting him on the things he could do. He was a very adventurous man that loved to be up north with his family. I find it crazy the reminders that I get nearly daily of him and it just gives me the comfort that he is looking down on me and telling me that he is ok. 

For my artist presentation, I decided to present on Mark Dion. Mark Dion is an American Conceptual artist known for his use of scientific presentations. One of his most common ways of portraying his work is through sculptures and architecture. Dion is basically a scientist, historian, and artist all in one. He was born in Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1961. He attended the University of Hartford, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, School of Visual Arts. Throughout his life he has had major art exhibitions at Miami Art Museum (2006); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004); the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003); and Tate Gallery, London (1999).

Michael Ray Charles

He lives in Austin Texas where he does his artwork out of his house. He creates poster like artwork of people. His artwork tends to be related off of historical pieces or people, for example, Elvis. His artwork ranges from the type of people he uses in it. To me, it seems most of the people in his artwork had blackface on but it also appeared he had black people, and a few white people in his artwork. 

Final Project Plan:

For my final project I plan to create a turtle out of one time use objects such as plastic straws, forks, spoons, and paper plates. My goal for this project is to represent using less one time use products to limit our harm on our environment. I haven't decided yet if i'm going to glue all of the materials together or not, but I feel like I'm leaning towards not. 

Final Installation Project

Title: Back Home

Meaning: The meaning behind our project was bringing materials back home. What we mean by this is putting the paper back in the place where it came from. Paper is one of those things that we nearly take for granted because of what has to happen to get it. To get paper, we have to cut trees, nearly ruin natural habitats for animals, haul the logs away, bring them to mills, slice off the bark, turn the log into wood chips, boil those chips until its soup like, the soup is then smashed flat, dried, and finally cut into pieces of paper. This process is very long and we thought it would be interesting to “bring the paper back home.” The installation seemed to work and I felt it displayed the meaning well.

Installation Booklet