Topography

For this assignment, each student must translate a 4"x4" segment of a topographical map. The material, size and presentation are up to the discretion of the student. The only restriction for the assignment is that the final object can not be composed of vertically stacked sheet materials.
The assignment is due Monday, April 5th at 8am. Objects should be finished and displayed in their intended manner. The studio should be clean and free of all building materials.

Foiled

For this project we were to blow up our original objects twenty times it's size. I kept the object bare in the back to show the original form of the cardboard, and by adding the small amount of foil i found i was able to make the object a little more interesting by showing the metallic property of the original object.

Gloriann Langva 20x object

max moore 20X

Sara Greenberg Project 2

This assignment was a tough one. How was I supposed to make an epoxy syringe 9 feet tall and be successful? I decided to use primarily cardboard, tape and plastic sheeting, because I felt that transparent plastic would best convey this idea of "epoxy". I chose to leave hanging twine and visible cardboard, because when you are pushing the epoxy out of the tube, you can see the plunger. I also decided to use gravity as a factor, and I hung it from the ceiling. My critique went terribly, but I am confident that my piece conveys what I wanted it to. Gravity. Epoxy. It is a representational piece, and I feel that it properly shows what I wanted it to.

Steph Boyle's Project 3 (20x)

In this project I had to recreate a 20x enlargement of two connected plastic blocks. I found peices of cardboard, fabric, and paint to construct this using duct tape as my only adhesive. I first created two boxes for the bulk of the piece. To ensure that they wouldn't collapse, I added braces inside each out of cardboard. Next, I measured out cardboard strips for the ridges that are prevalent on the edges of the original plastic blocks. After, I applied twisted fabric to the border of the tops of the boxes. Lastly I covered the sides and tops of the piece, then painted the ridges that were left the brown of the cardboard they were made of.

As for the presentation of the piece, I chose to construct around one of the pilars in the room so as to mark my space in the studio in a more concrete way. I felt that I should have painted the pilar white as it had alot of graffiti on it. Although looking back, there's something about the pilar's state that I enjoy, in that our generation's candid thoughts and creativity is piercing through something as pure and clear as glass. I feel that it's an interesting oxymoron so to speak...but then again, to everyone's interpretation be their own.

Jack YU 20X

At first, when i started this project i thought that it was going to be an impossible task being that i had had a hard time replicating the object in a smaller form. As it turned out, things paned out better then expected. This peace is entirely made out of garbage, with the exception of hot glue to hold it together.

Malibu Elling 20x

When thinking of what material I would like to use for the 20x I decided to start to chip away at

the pile of metal hangers that i have acquired over the last couple of years. I started with the central rectangle cutting and joining the wires together. Next I started working on the handles of the brush. This part of the project was the hardest for me to figure out. It seemed like every time I tried to improve the "posture" of the handles they would just slouch back to their former position. So I moved on to the Bristles. My frith thought was to make bunches of wires to represent the bristles and have sharp ends but... that would have been too much cutting for my already tired hands. I then decided to make cylinders to represent the group of bristles instead of the individual bristles. By this time I had no strength left in my hands in order to improve the handles.

representation- Cindy Foster

I used paper, hose, and rocks. They were put together with glue.

The perfect object- Cindy Foster

I did a screw.

Mary Szustak Project 3

I decided to construct this project out of wood because my original project was very solid and heavy. I have never worked with wood working tools, so I was very apprehensive to go into woodshop. Eric was very helpful with telling me what tools would work best for what I wanted to do. I told him I wanted to stack the wood to make it heavy, but after talking with him about it, he convinced me that it would be much more efficient to construct a frame and then cut wood to fit the frame. That's what I did. Then I cut a whole through the center.

I feel like the execution of this project was successful, especially considering that I have never worked with wood cutting tools prior to this.

Nicola Nolletti- object 20X size

Now as you can see i have a shovel. overall i have to say that this assignment was very rewarding in the sense that i had fun with it because I enjoy sculpting out of any material I am given or in this case found. My shovel is constructed mostly of cardboard as the general percentage. In the spade I slipped in two rods of metal that i could bend so that the spade would always maintain its shape. The staff pf my shovel is two pieces and uses paper and the handle bars from the bike we destroyed, these gave the staff support. to connect the spade to the staff i used the spokes from the bike wheel and used them like nails in order to connect the two. Finally I used paper tape to recreate the wood texture for the staff and the spade. now my pictures are are dark for a reason i captured the natural light of outside at night. it almost gives it a graveyard effect to the shovel which i think is very fitting. It is also in a construction site which makes more sense as to why a shovel is there.

Jake Di Pietro (The perfect object X 20)

At first, when i started this project i thought that it was going to be an impossible task being that i had had a hard time replicating the object in a smaller form. As it turned out, things paned out better then expected. This peace is entirely made out of garbage, with the exception of hot glue to hold it together. I found all of the materials in three places; re-po, miller dumpster and a dumpster in town ware the old liquor store was. Used in the peace are; 2 tire innards, 4 trash can tops, electrical wire, an old table stand, plastic bags, paper, 5 gallon bucket tin foil, an old ash try like thing, some gardening plastic and chicken wire. The peace is made in parts so if you'd like you can look inside to see how all the garbage was put together. I presented it standing up, because i thought that was the best way for the viewe to experience the peace.