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1. Self-Directed Practice #1: Research

2. Self-Directed Practice #1: Final

3. Self-Directed Practice #2: Research

4. Self-Directed Practice #2: Final

1. Corners: QCQ

2. Corners: Research

3. Corners: Final

4. The Dialects of Outside and Inside: QCQ

5. Door - The Dialects of Outside and Inside: Research

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Quote: “The fear does not come from the outside. Nor is it composed of old memories. It has no past, no physiology. Nothing in common, either, with having one’s breath taken away. Here fear is being itself. Where can one flee, where find refuge? In what shelter can one take refuge? Space is nothing but a “horrible outside-inside”.” (Bachelard 218)

Comment: The text describes the fear in being, perhaps it is being alive and finding purpose within this lifetime. Perhaps its fear of something as unknown as death. There is no refuge to go to, to completely quell one’s fears of this unknown, this concept of “outside-inside”. I feel as though this text is somewhat about fear of societal expectations. We are here, conforming to man-made concepts when we should be out there, pursuing meaning to being, meaning to relationships, meaning to oneself and our universe and space.

Quote: ”The child has just discovered that she is herself, in an explosion toward the outside, which is a reaction, perhaps, to certain concentrations in a corner of her being. For the recess in the boat is also a corner of being. But when she has explored the vast universe of the boat in the middle of the ocean, does she return to her little house? Now that she knows that she is herself, will she resume her game of “playing houses,” will she return home, in other words, withdraw again into herself? One can undoubtedly become aware of existing by escaping from space.” (Bachelard 139)

Comment: I believe this portion of the text has brought up the painful truth of existence and experience. Referring to this corner in a boat to comfortable life experiences, being sheltered and hidden from the world due to insecurities and fear of stepping outside of one’s comfort zone. Growth takes place once the child begins to explore outside of this boat and into the ocean, where new opportunities of life lessons are held; there is no sense and no real way of turning back and taking away those life experiences. We continue to push forward despite the pain because there is no other way, we live in a timeline that can only go forward. It is up to us to accept this painful reality and make peace with it, our only goal being to improve.

1. Self-Directed Presentation: Research

2. QCQ #5: Concrete Blonde

3. Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions I (Final)

4. Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions II (Final)

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5. Positive Fragments: Cast I (Final)

6. Positive Fragments: Cast II (Final)

I explored the idea of repetition and numbers in architectural spaces for this project, primarily focusing on the concepts of angel numbers and the study of numerology and different religions. I chose the sequence “777″ for its spiritual representation of evolution and abundance. “777″ is seen as a “perfect number”(in Hebrew tradition) that holds creation and the universe together and has significant meaning in different cultures, ex. representation of the threefold protection of the trinity (Father, Son & Holy Spirit). I decided to construct my own repetition of the number 7 from different sources as seen below: