The Reading Book closed (Line Assignment)
Designed in inDesign, printed on paper twice, folded and tied with twine.
Statement:
My project's purpose was to explore the use of line in language. In learning Japanese or Chinese calligraphy, images such as those that appear on my pages are used to practice the strokes to complete each character. I applied this to my own letters, which are a layering of two English alphabet letters. The book's format is as such that it can be read in multiple directions, as demonstrated by the various images I have chosen to display here. Interaction with the book is meant to bring about a feeling of the uncanny; the letters and book format are familiar yet strange at once, making the viewer feel unsettled. Its title supports this feeling, by implying that it is meant to be read prompts the viewer to attempt reading these characters, a virtually impossible task.
The Reading Book open (Line Assignment)
The Reading Book folded (Line Assignment)
Fishnet
Final product (Mapping Assignment)
Napkins from Lulu Dining Hall twisted and staples used to hold them together.
Statement:
My project is intended to comment on AVI Fresh, the food company Wellesley College employs and the largest independently owned food service company in the United States, and other "green" companies' use of deceptively eco-friendly marketing techniques to appear transparent and appeal to younger generations. In a similar deception, my fishnet deceives the viewer by firstly appearing to be made out of rope, while in actuality being constructed out of napkins made of "100% recycled materials," second by being held together by staples, third by having gaps far too large to capture any fish, and lastly by being hung on a wall in a flat position and thus incapable of acting as a fishnet.
2016.3.18.
Portrait with Video (Smoke, Light & Mirrors Assignment)
Statement:
2016.3.18. comments on the history of female portraiture: a traditionally male-made painting intended to reflect a woman's purity, financial appeal, and societal status. The materials and presentation of this portrait are intended to evoke the problematic nature of this history by both breaking apart–having the portrait leaning against panels of wall rather than hung, having the identity of the female figure left unidentified–and upholding–the gilded frame, the silhouette, use of curtain/draped fabric in the portrait–conventions of traditional female portraiture. The final result is unsettling as it evokes the familiar and the unfamiliar at the same time.
2016.3.18.
Video detail (Smoke, Light & Mirrors Assignment)
2016.3.18.
Portrait, plaster board, frame, video, wooden bench (Smoke, Light & Mirrors Assignment)
