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12. Viral Intervention: Final Artifact

As the final artifact it was more ideal for us to take a little bit of the sand, gloves and the brooms we used for cleanup to show to our audience the remains of what was destroyed since we weren’t physically able to bring it to class like other students did. The orientation that the artifacts are in represents teamwork and collaboration mainly because of how close the artifacts are to one another. They also represent the hard work it took to actually ideate, plan and execute.

Our intent with this final project was to get the audience within the space we chose to interact with us as we worked on the project. Although that didn’t happen as much as we might’ve wanted it would’ve been better to go to a more populated park where there would be more eyes and more people willing to interact with us. We were also focused on creating something colorful that embodies what our full sentence was which at first was a little tricky to figure out what our final proposal was gonna be. In the end as a group we compromised and found out that with the time frame this would be the most effective project. Everyone was very hands on when it came to the actual execution of the project, even down to the ideation.

This video displays the group working collaboratively to create the different colored versions of same for the final piece we were going to create. What you see us doing here is creating a relation between these materials that come together seamlessly for the final piece. We start off by adding a little bit of water into the sand, we follow it with a few drops of food coloring and then we begin to mush it like dough u til the colored solution is fully mixed into the sand.

The idea behind this design was to create a spreadsheet so it looked as practical as possible. We are creating a colorful work, color and highlights were added for additional flair.

Instead of using chalk to create the drawing and then clean it away with baking soda, we will instead use baking soda itself to create the image. We can spend some time dying the baking soda with food coloring prior to the installation. When it comes time to clean away the image, we will still use vinegar and brooms to sweep it all away after the chemical reaction has fizzled out.

We could make one of these (see below) it could either be a phone with either Facebook, instagram or twitter or just be a frame of the social media. We could put it in a public place around campus or just somewhere that attracts a lot of people and maybe all of us can sort of fit within the frame but we enact or represent a current event that either no one's talking about or something that recently has happened and maybe get people to interact with us. One of us from the group could hold a sign that says cancel and they could also have smaller pieces of papers that says cancel on them and those that want to cancel us can just pin it to the frame. Then we could record everyone's reaction of people that either ignored us, chose to cancel us or even give us a bigger reaction. It would almost be like a social experiment.

Wel with the fact that we only had an hour, we wanted to go somewhere that was secluded and where we wouldn’t have too many interruptions especially with the fact that we were going to be burning paper. The parking garage was the most ideal place to meet up and do it. We split into smaller groups, where us guys went to go purchase a lighter and the girls went to look for a newspaper so that they can write the words each of us chose on the newspaper.

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My reasoning for choosing this place was that it was a place my dad loved to go to. The passing of my father although it’s still fresh, choosing this place in a way helps me still stay close to him. At the same time I find myself conflicted when I see this place mainly because of all the different memories surrounding my dad and this place, I find myself almost avoiding it, avoiding the feelings that this place makes me feel when I think about him. The song I utilized for this assignment was “Cranes In The Sky” by Solange. I paired this audio with my video mainly because of the lyrical content which I relate to. In the song she’s talking about dealing with a traumatic event and finding ways to move on past it without having to feel the way that she does but she finds herself suppressing how she feels through different mediums instead of confronting how she felt head on. Which I relate to because I found myself constantly doing the same thing. On the contrary, I realized how not okay it is to suppress, and it’s much better to feel things in the moment and really feel them. Take time to understand them before moving on instead of fueling things that you love with how you feel and with action that isn’t motivated by genuine feelings. Often times we’re always moving so fast that we forget to slow down, and be present that we miss all the little intricate signs that life throws at us. I say that to say this “Feel but don’t forget to live.”

Since I missed out on the first assignment I decided to mix the two together. With the passing of my father recently I decided to make the assignment about him and to give the audience a sense of who he was and what he meant to me. I utilized pieces of fabric that had some form of emotional or memorable attachment to make it feel more personal. I also made sure every little detail within the instillation was something of his or something that he loved to give the audience a sense of who he was. I also wanted to see how all of these connected pieces would react within the space and color, which I think exemplified the mood/feeling I was trying to invoke. My choice of color initially was blue but I thought that purple would be a better choice after doing some research that in African culture they utilize the color purple to symbolize strength and royalty.

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