Plastic Thread Boa

Here is another piece from 'trash day'. The original material is the plastic yellow box binding wrapper strips...? You can see from the top picture that I started to strip the plastic to get a really weird fuzzy fiber. I then crocheted long lengths with an 11 hook and then doubled them up to make a choker. I also added some pieces of safety glass but not enough for them to be noticed [didn't have time]. I underestimated the time it would take me to crochet plastic thread. I would really like to make this HUGE and not so tight around the neck so the connections I made aren't permanent though I kind of like the clasp I threw together. I'm still not sure about the color; I was thinking of turning it black but everyone liked the yellow...then I was thinking maybe I could figure out a way to dye it and then I was thinking if I got the fiber small enough maybe I could spin it into new thread...but I don't know how to spin very well so...

Nuggets

This was a small 'go pick up some trash and make something for next week' project. so I picked up a tic tac and some wrappers and went from there. The gel capsule has a tiny herkimer crystal that a girl in my class gave me. They're beautiful and I'd really like to work with precious stones in pills in the future projects...we'll see. Painted gold tic tac, bigger cold foiled tic tac, and the one that got a bit munched looking is coated in clippings from a marlboro wrapper. I wasn't sure what to do with them after I had made them so I just presented them in the little tube to let people tap them out...

Allison Smith's Fancy Work

So this is the giant 25'x25' quilt I and a great group of people helped to make with Allison Smith and it's up in the SFMoMA, for this weekend only I believe, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the museum. I should have taken a picture of the entire room so you could understand the scale and the way everything is situated but...the lanterns on the floor are about to the top of my knees maybe higher and the candle was about my height or maybe 6 ft tall so that makes the mirror maybe the size of the quilt from the center out to the brownish purple pinkish area after the white...maybe? I don't know but everything has been enlarged from what they would normally be manufactured as, if that makes any sense. And the mirror is opposite the quilt so you can see it reflected all psychedelic like and the lanterns were scattered around. There were also a couple of tables and chairs/benches for the lectures and the musicians that would come around later in the evening which I didn't go to unfortunately. So that amazingly gross chartreuse green color? Yeah helped print that [among just one or two others but that one is my favorite] and I could tell you all the colors of diamonds I helped to cut but uh that would be boring. Anyway I had a really great time working with everyone and I am so amazed at the way it turned out [they finished the sewing while I was on winter break so I didn't really know just how big it would be...or how amazing]. Not a big fan of quilts but I'm a fan of history and collaboration so I say success!

Tumblr

So I started a tumblr blog for obsession purposes. So if you are interested watchyoureyes

Oh

Here was a linocut self portrait I did for senior year of highschool. I won the national scholastic silver award [I'm not sure if that's what it's called] for it.

Scholar's Spine

I sewed and crocheted a paper necklace thing for my intro to textiles final freshman year. I was trying to see if I could create patterns with the text lines. Again I would like to redo this idea but...time...

Hall of Bacon

A collaboration project that was really funny. From what we could understand about the project handed to us we had to copy a piece of art we saw of the artist that was given to us. We didn't really like the pieces available to us and just the artist in general [jannis kounellis] so we kind of made fun of it. We burned bacon with lighters in a small hallway letting the fat drip on the paper and then made people walk through it. The sound while we were burning the bacon in that small area was great we should have taped it. For the crit we only lit the one piece at the end because we thought it would be the safest so of course it decided to fall into a burning meteor of firey fat...anyway I actually really liked this project because it was just hilarious and my partner Boin was fun as well. 

Tiny Fat Man

This was a mold blown piece I made for glass. I think the project was supposed to represent a part of myself but I just thought it was funny to 'blow up a bomb' because I am lame. Anyway this is a tiny version of 'fat man' with glass from a shattered car window I found on the street.

Yardage

A yard of fabric I printed with a 1 inch stamp in different shades of grey to black for intro to textiles. It's true. I am insane.

Quasimodo's

Line drawings are fun. The first Quasimodo is my favorite drawing I have ever done.

Neon Ladies

I like neon chalk pastel yes I do. It's probably the only way I like to use color and it's really the only way to keep me focused on drawing a model for extended periods of time. Although when you are working in a dark room everything looks well blended but then when the lights come on...it's not...

More Radical Jewelry

Two more pieces for radical jewelry. 

Bathroom Rosary

This was another piece I made for the radical jewelry program thing. It is cursed. I wore it for a week and in the course of that week it sent me, my father, my mother, and my aunt to the hospital.

Refraction Caps

Ugh talk about a failed project. Huge ambitions can get you nowhere. This was for sculpture. But again I love the idea of the material. I interlocked the caps of cheap razor blades together to create this organic shape for people to look through. I had to chase this asshole down who worked for the city in front of my class because he stole it because I didn't have a permit. Anyway most likely the most expensive project and I didn't get anywhere near the size I wanted. [donate razor blade caps to me please]

Glass Foot Nail Bed

I plaster casted then sand casted my feet and stuck them in a bed of nails I made by sticking nails through canvas. There are 2 more to this series in which I stuck one foot in shards of glass and two other inside nylon stockings but this one was my favorite and much more interesting/well done. I love pouring glass [it's less stressful for me] but the process of sifting sand and everything that goes along with sand casting takes so long.

Pane Bowl

This was a bowl created from a bajillion triangles I cut from a sheet of glass for intro to glass. I liked the process of this in that it was OCD repetition. It originally started as a bracelet but in the last hours before it was due after agonizing and agonizing over if it was done I decided that I should finish it off with a bottom.

Micro/Macro Skin/Mold landscape

Study of micro/macro patterns for intro to textiles. I used plain weave to represent skin while I was looking into the colors of bruises and the texture of mold. It ended up becoming a desert landscape type thing. This was my first time weaving so it was basically a giant 7 foot long practice for techniques. I am going to say it again for everything I think but I like the ideas of what I was looking into: cloth like skin or skin like cloth...skin mold...I don't know but I hope I come back to it.

Useless Object

Making a useless object for sculpture. So I made fire at your finger tips...literally. I made it an arduous effort to have to light a match; getting all the pieces out of the jewelry and snapping your fingers to get a light... The thimbles fit together on a ring that flips from wood block to diamond and the matches are in test tube earrings and the spent matches go into a necklace vial. I like the idea I just need to make it easier to use.

Failure Ball

Left over wire and jelly cord basket ball I made for intro to textiles. The materials were from failed projects from other classes hence the title. I like making wire baskets. I like wire...sometimes.

4 of 7

This was second semester freshman year for sculpture where we had to make seven sculptures connected seven different ways. These were the only ones that I liked, though I did make nipple goggles to go with the feather necklace but I don't have a good picture so I bet the image in your head is better than what they were.