Then corona hit and everyone was forced to go home and stay in quarantine. It was like bring pushed off a cliff into a firey death, everything was suddenly super awful and schoolwork was hard to get done. Everything that had been going right was suddenly wrong. Times are still tough, but they’ll get better.

Decided to make a timelapse of me fingerpainting part of the forest. She’s still lookin a bit rough but its progresssssss

i dont love it but its all a part of the learning process

Okay so I finally got around to taping these papers together and it was much more difficult than I anticipated. I spent like half an hiur trying to figure out the exact arrangement because I wanted to only put tape on the back so they dont mess with the paint. I’ve also decided that I wouldnt tape the edges down so it looks more like a pile of papers that was thrown down rather than some papers that have been meticulously arranged. Also because my glue stick doesn’t work.

Okay so I just finished this week’s conference call with Endi, Lauren, Michelle, and Olivia and I am gushing with ideas it’s almost disgusting. I had mentioned that I didn’t know what to use as my canvas since I didn’t think I’d have paper the size I wanted but then Olivia had brought up the idea of patching paper together and that sparked this idea. I’m going to use old handouts from this class taped together to be the background of my map/journey through this class. I had brainstormed ideas I wanted each “area” of the map to be and I wanted to do the map from this cool surface view instead of a traditional overview (I’ve been playing a lot of minecraft recently to keep in touch with my friends :’]). I’m super excited to work on this and get messy with fingerpainting!

I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do so I thought about what I wanted to do (and what I would be able to do). I had considered drawing a webtoon, and then I thought about doing a finger painting because I thought that’d be fun and something not commonly done, but then I thought about how I had originally envisioned this project when it was briefly explained in the beginning of the semester and I had envisioned a literal map and that is what I’m going with. A personal map of my journey throughout the semester.

The third “panel” allowed the viewers to see more than half my body. The participants had I spy sheet that contained social media symbols to reference Destini, Shalin, Ashley, and my body extension project. This was where I learned that art could also be nonconventional and fun like the twister game we created. I spy was a game I loved as a little kid so I wanted to input that into my mapping project.

It was unfortunate that we didn’t get to have that much time in class to present our projects. I felt a bit rushed, and I couldn’t clearly explain the significance of each panel. The purpose of my game was to allow others to see more or who I was, and it was difficult to allow others to learn more about me when I couldn’t explain it all to them. Although it was unfortunate, even with these shortcomings, I believe people were able to see the more mischievous, fun side of me. It was definitely interesting to see who would take lead roles to solve the problems and see all the different roles people would take. Different people had different bits of knowledge, which they had to combine to figure out some of my games. Something I definitely want to take into consideration is my intentionality with all aspects of my box. Could I use other material to “open” each panel instead of the cloth? How could each interaction I have with the audience be intentional? How can I show more of a graduallity of little to no interaction to being fully open by the end?