#surface research

these are my final pieces for surface this semester. i originally was going to make a large sculpture piece, but because of some personal issues, i was unable to finish it. instead, i tried to create a small painting tat was personal to my experience over the past few weeks, highlighting my own faults and problems. this piece was more about making something for myself that i didn’t have to think about and that i didn’t have to worry about it looking “right”. i used this project as a tool to help me relieve some of the stress and anxiety i’ve been feeling for the past few weeks. i don’t love these pieces, but i think it was important for time to make them and take some time to think about my own problems and try to work through them.

here is a video of one of my surface projects, in which i research ed paschke's work and then made a piece inspired by him. he was very interested in the ways that technology affect us as people and our art, particularly television, so i created a video project in which i recited a monologue from The Twilight Zone (a popular TV show during the time he made work) and burned it to play on a DVD on the television.

Second Surface Research project. Collage made out of print, paint, trash, origami paper, and palette paper. 

This was my first Surface Research assignment. We were to make a 30x44in composition out of only non-representational shapes with black paint/ink. 

Surface Research Day 1