Ideas: Human Body project

My inspirations and ideas for the human body project:

1. The ocean and sea life, Jelly fish, coral, and sea stars, waves
2. Tai Chi movement and kung fu
3. Chinese culture
4. Marvel shows like spiderman, the hulk, and X-Men
5. The bad guys in Spiderman (the Sandman, Venom, Green Goblin)
6. Mimes 
7. Hispanic culture

    (my top three choices are in bold)

Soap carving finish and changes

Here is the finished soap carvings of both turtles. I set them all up in a triangle like formation.

1st change: I put the soap turtle on the stove and cooked it with oil on medium temperature for 8 min.

2nd change: I placed the soap turtle in the microwave for 25 seconds and at this point it looked and felt like a fat marsh-mellow.

3rd change: I cut the soap with an apple cutter but it didn't cut all the way through.

4th change: I added a candle to the messy piece and added the savings on top because it ended up to be kind of flat.

5th change: I added pink paint to the piece because it looked like a cake to me.

6th change: some paint got scraped off and I added pins to the piece. I also took away the candle because half of it melted in the soap because it was still a bit hot from the 2nd change which was the microwave. 

7th change: I rolled the whole thing in a ball because of the mess that it was causing and it felt like a silly-puddy or clay. And I took away the pins.

8th change: This is the final change to the soap, I added colorful sprinkles to the rolled up ball that felt like dough. Now it looks like a donut hole or a bouncy ball and feels like a silly-puddy.

Soap carving turtles in-progress

This is the first soap carving in progress. I carved out a turtle, but the only problem I had on the first one was that the shell wasn't as round. But I'll fix that as the second one is being carved.

This is my second soap carving of the turtle in progress. The second picture of it is complete expect for the details. This one turned out better because the legs are skinnier and the shell is more round.

Episode 468: switcheroo response to Cindy Sherman

Switcheroo from the American Life,

What if someone mistakes you for someone else?

        When I was listening to the program it seemed as if a woman goes up to them saying that she is Cindy Sherman.  It happens at a moment when Ira’s companion is just realizing that all the photos are of Cindy, playing the different roles, when this woman approaches the two of them and says she visits the exhibition every day to see how viewers react to the work. Cindy wanted to see at the exhibition on how people reacted if she wasn't really the Cindy Sherman. When she spots artwork she feels like each are impersonal. Sometimes if you can't tell what a piece is, listening to the artist who made it can make it clearer but people can also interpret it in their own way. All of what is said is more opinionated that facts because that's how art should be anyway. Cindy was making this own experiment by making people question and wonder about her and of the art, for herself and related the audio to her work.

Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni has very interesting art work especially within her sculptures and the process on how they were made but then messed up. Though to me that art is kind of weird because of how the face looks messed up now. That just creeps me out, the fact that who knows what she went through to mess up her own face. Her art work is a bit confusing but when you look into the work, it make sense but I feel that it's taking me a while on figuring out on what she's showing in the work. Still, it's not really appealing to me because it's just like messy artwork to me. I'm more organized oriented and like cleaner artwork. Looking at it in general bores me though actually doing the art itself might be fun.

The Veldt Story project

This is my project based off the story the veldt. So far it is a bunch of boxes made out of paper along with a paper chain. The chain in the second picture, is what I'm going to hang the boxes on.

This is my final sculpture for the story the Veldt. It is hanging from the ceiling by the chain, hooks, and fish wire. The boxes are hanging from the fish wire. I set it up like this so it kind of looks like a chinese lion, like what they use for traditional lion dances. In the story lions were the animal that was the most mentioned so I wanted to make it feel like that. The reason why I used the metallic like silver color is because the story had the feeling of a robotic like box which was the daycare and the ways those kids in the story lives were like. The red is for the mysteriousness of the story and how in the end the parents end up dead and I'm guessing the children did it only because they didn't want their parents to take away the daycare. 

The story is like a mystery because it didn't exactly say that, that happened and you didn't really know what the kids were up to all the time and I was wondering the whole time why did they decide that? The parents seemed frightened about the sahara that their kids imagined. I thought it was imaginary at first but as I read more I realized it was real to them but the two children somehow denied it for a while. The red color is for the blood and the reason why the boxes are shredded more going from left to right because towards the end there is more sweat, blood, and fear coming more from the adults. If you look in side some of the boxes I tried to make it look like a lion came in there and tore something to pieces so its like a scene of blood without any traces of a human body.

Personal Response to Story

This is my response to the story the Veldt:
         This story reminds me of an imaginative type of plot. Almost everything seemed to be made up but to the kids it was real. When I was little, my bother and I would always come up with imaginary places and things and pretend we were there. It seemed like a wonder of nature coming to life, but to the parents it's either scary, confusing, or just plain annoying. Sometimes parents don't seem to understand the child's part of imagination. But in the Veldt, it was somehow real and in the end its like the parents just vanished. It felt like a mystery like you didn't know exactly what was going on or what was going to happen even after reading the ending. It had a creepy feel to it, like there were some parts still missing, almost haunting. For me, as long as I was happy with what I had, and could imagine something was real, I was fine. But if someone tells me otherwise, things probably won't end well. The children were really attached to the nursery but the parents wanted to take it away, and then they started freaking out. That was me when I was little. Also as kids, we didn't like the fact about moving to a different house very much. We had a hard childhood and didn't know what was going on with the world unless we heard it from school, though my parents didn't spoil me and my brother too much but my grandma did. The more spoiled you were, the more lazy you become especially as a child. Parents still need to learn how to raise kids properly, even now.