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(Week 10: Final Portfolio): My final portfolio for Art 103 is finished, on time :)

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(Week 10: Final Obstruction #2 Critique):

I installed my piece in the gallery space for final obstructions :)

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(Week 9: Obstruction Project #2):

My final project is complete :)

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(Week 6: Deal-Class Cancellation):

No class due to class participation during the Fringe Event.  

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(Week 5: First Friday): After parading our puppet and deflating our inflatable, I took the TROLLEY down town to look at some art, listen to some live music at 3-Penny Mercantile, watched some Belly Dancing, and helped set up for a music show in the Underground Market featuring live DJs. (The Silent Disco in the Park was rescheduled due to the weather.)

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(Week 5: FRINGE-Puppet Parade and Inflatables):

My artist group participated in the Oregon Fringe Festival through the SOU Foundations class. We inflated our inflatable Japanese Shrine on the Art Quad, and Paraded our Geisha Kimono Puppet down to the SU and back. It was actually super fun, and I am so glad we got to experience this after all of our hard work :) <3

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(Week 5: Puppet and Inflatable Slumber Party): 

My group stayed the entire night in the Sculpture building working on our outfits and inflatable :) 

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(Week 4: First Obstruction Project):

My found object and trash project is done. #EDM: “Light It Up,” #Christian: “Oceans,” #Pop: “Rock-A-Bye.” 

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(Week 3: Research- Obstuction Related Artists):

(1.) Unknown: This “Polar Bear sculpture” was made from recycled grocery bags. It was made for the Eden Project. I like this, because I don’t see much trash art, and I sure don’t see much use of recycled plastic bags, so it is very appealing. I like polar bears too.

(2.) Tom Deininger: He’s a collage artist who creates works out of just about anything he can find. I enjoy that he lectures at schools and colleges, and also creates canvas paintings. Why waste money and buy art materials, when there are strange materials to use for design. I like this artist, because his subject matter: material choice, trash, found objects, self-portraiture, gigantic sculptures, palette, and paintings from crushed materials is so broad and unique.

(3.) Jean Shin: She’s a Found Object Artist. This project called “Sound Wave” absolutely amazes me. I’m a very musical person, and seeing all of those dead records being reused is really cool. I’m amazed at how well the shape of the wave turned out and how it stayed with the form, since they’re all melted and sculpted to that particular shape of interest. I also like that each record is black, but the centers are different colors is appealing. 

(4.) Tyree Guyton: He began the “Heidelberg Project”, which involved street clean ups. Deserted houses became massive sculptures and canvases, dead lawns were developed into sculpture pedestals, and trees turned into places to hang strange found objects. I find this to be quite fascinating, because, who uses actual buildings as part of art nowadays? I don’t do much thinking on that note.

(5.) Julien Palast: Created a series of photographs called “Skindeep.” His idea was to shrink-wrap models as a way to reveal the contours of both male and female bodies. This vivid project explores the human silhouette in an atypical and vibrant way, and that’s why I’m so intrigued by it. I find myself being both comfortable and uncomfortable with it. As I look at the Shrink-wrap alien goo, the mysterious and neon-rainbow-hued substance definitely reminds me of Nickeolodeon Gak. 

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(Week 2: Mission: Saturday Video Documentation: Nature Observations!): I spent 15 minutes out on a porch observing nature, and spending time out in the sun with a cool breeze. I observed a dog hearing a noise and running after it, birds chirp communicating, and 1 happy dog jumping after a ball. I heard freeway cars, people yelling from afar, lawn mowers, airplanes, motorcycles, and a dog barking from a distance. I saw a fluf and a dragonfly. I heard music coming from the SOU Stadium, that sounded like a concert or an award ceremony: "How ya guys doing?" And the crowd yelled "YEAH, Wahoo." These could relate to my groups puppet identity, because our character spends much time out in nature, and is a very summer\spring like woman :) http://youtu.be/7WLKBNORnGY #Spring2017

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(Week 2: Reading/Research-Obstruction Related Artist Statements):

(1.) Damien Hirst: “God Alone Knows.” A painter and scultpter who creates glass displays of dead animals and medicine cabinets. He’s important to me, because he uses found objects and turns them into installations. His early religion education factors into his artwork. I can tell that his work has religious aspects just by looking at them. 

(2.) Rebecca Edwards: “The Naturalist’s Childhood.” She turns found objects into collage like pieces with wooden shelves, and searches for feminine objects. These objects become her language. Her theme of natural vs. constructed femininity entices the viewers to touch the tactile materials. She arranges her collections into combinations for humorous juxtapositions. I like her work, because it inspires me to work with found objects to create themed collages.

(3.) Barry Rosenthal: “Ocean Blue.” He works with found trash and nature photography. His theme focuses on the way humanity manages it’s relationship with nature and the ocean, and consumer goods in the context of ocean borne pollution. His theme involves color and object similarity, and arranges the items into collage like photographs. He inspires me, because I love nature, and I dislike litter and pollution. I’ve experienced picking up trash on the streets for community service, and you’d be surprised how fast my bag filled up.

(4.) Yuken Teruya: “Corner Forest.” He uses recycled toilet paper rolls for installations. This Japanese artist uses items that were once part of a majestic forest as a way to use the keen sense of humor to create forest work. The theme is nature vs. consumerism. I like Yuken, because he uses a unit that is used by every person on the planet, several times every day, and I find that to be very unique.

(5.) Michelle Stitzlein: “Up Cycled Butterfly.” She uses piano keys, broken objects, and waste materials to create the so called “Recycled Art.” I enjoy her work, because I love butterflies and music, and I am trying to work more with trash to show that art can be created with any type of item in the world. :)

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CCACA Fundraiser: Homemade soup\chilli with homemade bowls :)

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(Week 1: Reading-The Inflatable Cookbook):

I read The Inflatable Cookbook, and I found it to be very interesting that it was made in comic book form. The illustrations are wild, and when I was looking at them, I took some of them the wrong way. I’m disturbed by “The World’s Largest Snake” in many ways. I’ve heard of Ant Farm before, but didn’t know they published it. What is Electroasis-Instant Media? I liked the Donald Duck comic, and I like how it explains the steps on how to make the different inflatables, like recipes and origami books. “KIDS-make your own bubble, easy as 1*2*3″ made me curious on what it meant by bubble. Haha, I just love “World’s Fastest Turtle.” I love the design for “Pillow Talk.” Multiple songs kept popping into my head when I read this. “Water is easier to read if you add coloring.” I didn’t know you could read water? I’d actually love to own a fan kit. My attention was caught by “! Warning ! Funky Generators Eat Fan Motors,” because I was confused as to how heat was lost due to construction through the bubble skin. What in the world is bubble skin? I found this reading to be an extremely helpful tool, because it provided the information on how to make a good inflatable. These tools included weight measurements, materials, anchoring, windloading, and much more. “Enviromints” is really funny, and I think the page about “Idea Plumbing” was somewhat humorous, because ideas get ‘clogged up’ too. I appreciate “Fantasy”, because I find it to be so beautiful in that a mother can communicate with the embryo during gestation through headphones. :)

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(Week 1: Inflatable+Giant-Sketches):

My sketches for the giant puppet and the related inflatable.

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(Week 1: Event #4-First Friday):

I went to the SOU art galleries, enjoyed some artworks downtown, watched some belly dancing, and enjoyed some awesome music at the Dragon Gongfu Tea House in the Underground Market <3

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(Week 1: Event #3-Ashland Independent Film Festival):

I attended one of the AIFF TalkBacks on Filming Activists. I learned a lot of information about the narrators and the independent films, and we were skyping with the Moderator. :)

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(Week 1: Mission):

This was super fun. A group of 5 of us from Foundations went out and swept from the art quad to Pita Pit and swept their floor from them. One of the workers said “What's this?, wow, hey, could you come back at 9:00″ LOL. xD