Faux

I thought I had posted this but I guess I didn't. This was for my individualized class where we were supposed to recreate and/or improve a failed piece. The most horrible piece ever [first picture] was a piece I did for my sculpture class freshman year where we had to make an abstract human emotion or gesture appear to not be human, but still convey the emotion, and enlarge it to human size, out of wood. yeah. I was so confused...still am. so I made this horrible thing out of millions of wooden skewers that was at first supposed to represent an awkward hug from a taller person [installation not shown] but when we were required to move the pieces down to a show case, I placed it on a pedestal that when touched would rock back and forth which I liked better so then I renamed it 'beckoning'. The whole point of the piece for me was to make it seem as though it wasn't made out of wood. to make it appear either in motion or soft [which didn't work as planned]. that was my only goal.

so for the new piece I decided to follow that train of thought, but in reverse. I wanted to make something that looked like wood. so I decided to knit and embroider wood panels. of course this piece didn't work out as I had planned either [I was planning on making this crazy interactive game where you built something with the planks] but the wool I had chosen [for it's sheen that to me, resembled hardwood flooring] was too expensive for such a grand idea. so instead I made a tree trunk like collar/cowl/scarf thing which is so chubby and soft and warm. it was made out of 3 skeins of merino wool which created 14 different sized planks of 40, 60, 80, and 100 stitches that I then stitched together to create a double wall effect. I think I could have done better with the wood grain but you know how time doesn't exist and all so this idea is something I would like to continue. Both are failed projects to me so maybe the third time is the charm!

I'M READY

cuz I'm air traffic control, bitch!...now go find me some lightsabers.

extreme isolation headphones are for studio recording [but really they're made for antisocial derranged headcases with the impeccable ability to pick up every unpleasant noise that makes them want/plan to simultaneously strangle everyone and smash people's skulls in while tearing out their own eardrums...]

Omg What Was I Thinking/Work in Progress

um...making wax paper lace ruff collar thing with mr. Werner Lewald's personal library stamp...

Anger Management/Work in Progress

I am seam ripping a white cotton tshirt to make into a necklace for a jewelry project but really I'm using the project as an excuse for picturing my neighbor's face as the tshirt I'm ripping to threads.

R.I.P.

I.

I weep for Adonais-he is dead!

O, weep for Adonais! though our tears

Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!

And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years

To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,

And teach them thine own sorrow, say: "With me

Died Adonais; till the Future dares

Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be

An echo and a light unto eternity!"

-Stanza I of Adonais by Percy Shelley

R.I.P. Alexander McQueen

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...