INDI Group Show

This was the Individualized Group Show Mei-Ling and I put together with the chair of our department. I never know if I should put people's names/work up on the web since it's theirs...but I wanted to show what the whole set up looked like. I'll come back with a list of the participants and maybe some of my favorite pieces. The last picture...the angle that I'm standing at is in the corner window where Ashley set up a little quilting bee space. in the other window we set up a scrim for a rear projection of some of the student's stop motion/video work. The two pieces I put up were the gas mask [soft riot gasmask #1] and my rings [handscaping with postcard diorama rings]. the rings I ingeniously tension set inside a shadow box, I was pretty proud of myself though my next goal is to have them be able to slide around so that people can change the scenery themselves. one show down. one to go.

the "i'm so insane" fabric

We were supposed to make a yard of fabric but because I'm stupid I didn't get to finish it. but atleast my teacher was impressed. This is done by taking a small woodburning stencil tool [the tip is like a felt pen] and melting the plastic fibers to make little tears in the fabric. It's pretty but it's not done...ever.

Burnout

This is called burnout on silk/rayon. It's like magic. Like stupidly toxic magic. the goo stuff burns out the...uh the rayon leaving the silk threads behind. I put it on a darker background so you are able to see that it's pretty much see-through. The bottom picture is what happens when you leave all your hard work [top image example] out to dry and someone gets it wet after it's dried and therefore mushes all the burnout paste into a giant wet cloud shape. The plan was to make these sheets into a lantern until I found out that you can't iron it into a pretty pattern if someone's already fucked it up.

Rusting

My materials class is just so...I don't know...but I just thought I'd share one of my favorite accidents. This is rust on cotton. I first wrapped the fabric into a tube and bound it in bailing wire then doused it in vinegar and water. Then I unwrapped it after a week and placed it on a giant flat sheet of rusted metal and doused it again. Then I came back and added some steel wool. Tahdah. It's about a yard long this is just my favorite part. The other fabrics I tried didn't turn out so liquidy but I got a lot of beautiful cross patterns

Scent Mapping with Tunnel Books

This was a project where we had to walk down Mark St., SF and smell things, write them down, and then find a way to map at least 3 scent places. I'm only showing two because they were all really horrible to begin with but the 3rd one was just really ugly. Sorry the pictures are so yellow...and that I can't draw or paint...or make a tunnel book. Basically I chose 3 really difficult things to make a project. yay me! I think it's a good start for something better. These are just sketches in more ways than one. Especially because the way I wanted to print the text didn't work so I had to do it on the computer right before class and I had 4 layers but for each book the 3rd layer on all of them didn't really make any sense so you can still see my little "cut here" markings. I don't know...sketches...could've been cool.

Selling the Church

When me and Crista were on our way through the shady streets of sf we saw a church with open doors and a for sale sign on the gates. It was completely epic. this creepy man had bought the church and the church had just left all of this waterdamaged stuff behind including birth, death, and marriage records. Almost everything this man found was on sale. And this is exactly what our show is about. So some of the pictures we took will hopefully go up in the show. I should have taken more of the sale prices on everything but...oh well. I WISH I HAD A CAR...AND A LOT OF MONEY. because our show would have been perfect with the altar and the pews and the everything. uuugh. but the guy was way creepy and kept trying to force us into buying things even tried to give us gravy boats...so I stole a bullet out of the makeshift collection plate instead. ha. what an asshole.

Individualized Show Posters

I made some Makeshift Posters for the Individualized Show I'm organizing. We had a little poster party where some people came to help out and one of our guys Lael created the stamp to make it all look a little more cohesive...Though they all look like children made them so no worries about that. I don't have images of other people's but I'm sure someone else does...somewhere.

George Speake Gives You God

A little sample for my Franken Fabrics class [we destroy fabric to make new fabric]. I burned the cloud things with a heat gun on polyester then heat transfered a xerox transparency onto the fabric then rusted some lines throughout the clouds and then embroidered the holes created by the heat gun with some gold thread. I think it'd make a great poster if I scanned it...The transfer didn't turn out too well because I get so bored with ironing. I can't take it. I was thinking it would be nice if I ended up embroidering the image of him in gray scale. It was also suggested that this become a sculptural piece instead of just a wall hanging which I like [light box maybe?]. It's hung up right now in the textiles department so maybe a better picture later.

George Speake was a "preacher-scientist" and proved the existence of god through science experiments. He would stand on top of a transformer coil with thimbles on his fingers and have the electricity run through his body. I love national geographic.

451° [Incongruous Perfume]

“For all the men who have been singed and driven back by flame.”

It is a spectacle reserved for the night. The heat that bakes your face, pulsing and igniting a slow whiskey soaked grin that can barely swallow around the racing heart that’s beating in your throat, leaving your stomach clenched and empty. The air is thick with giddy fireflies that smolder into moths of feather ash. It burns as you inhale or are you exhaling? Fire-starter, fire-breather, you are the book burner.

At first application it has the notes of a hidden library: of the cool dark mustiness of mold and dust, flowing into a warm mixture of paper, leather and printers ink. It bursts into the heart notes of a bonfire with hints of vanilla and warm stones, glowing like an ember and tingling with whiskey and kerosene. It then fades into a cold smoke, ash falling on the rain-soaked tar of a tree lined road at 3 am, the in-between hour of a misty fall morning.

This project was for my What Smells class [about scent and perfumes, the industry and historical significance/loss of smell] we had to create an incongruous perfume [a perfume that doesn't fit...that shouldn't be a perfume] based on a brief created by a client of our choice. I chose the Firemen of Fahrenheit 451 as my clients. The first paragraph is the brief and the second are the notes of the imaginary perfume. We then had to design something like an ad campaign, a bottle, a radio ad, etc. I was the only one who made a bottle model. It's a super janky tape imitation of a zippo. I wish I could actually make it...all of it. Im super impressed by my photoshop skills though ahaha. I'd really like to continue making perfumes of/for/about characters in books. A whole series...It'd be fun...if I had time.

I'll come back and show the actual psd wrapper once I compress it or whatever.