WRITING/PASSION PROMPT

What are you passionate about?  What keeps you up at night? What drives you to rise out of bed in the morning?  What can you do about this tomorrow, in a week, in a year?  (your answers do not have to be art related or even related to education in general.  I am more interested in understanding who you are and how you are directing your life.  Your answer may be simple or complicated, all I ask is that you’re honest.)

SKINNED PROMPT

SKINNED

For this project I would like you to chose an object that is meaningful or formally interesting.  You will need to make a “skin” that will cover this object.  The skin will be applied directly on to the object of your choice.  I would like you to think about how the underlying form of the object will influence our understanding of the material that is being placed on top and vice versa.  Both object and skin will work together to create an idea or re-categorization of each material used.  Think about the object and skin as two words that form a sentence.  If these two words would come together to create a sentence what would the verb or action be between them?

Please come to the next class with an object and 5 different coverings to experiment with. 

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SKINS Seeds Sugar Sand Beads Flowers Confetti Glitter Shark teeth Macaroni Saw dust Baby powder Pennies Toothpicks Saran wrap Paper Contact paper Stickers Paint Tape Ribbon Yarn String Table cloth Fabric Tulle Mesh Pantyhose lace whip cream peanut butter honey puffy paint bacon netting

ADVERBS Tightly Gently Loosely Delicately Securely Compassionately Intensely Frivolously Thoughtlessly Skillfully Gracefully Undeniably Quietly Fluently Evenly Unequally Barely Scarcely Surprisingly Fiercely Kindly Shamelessly Brutally tenderly Passively Intimately Gradually Increasingly Precisely Roughly Substantially virtually

VERBS Covers Wraps Conceals Decorates Stretches across Protects Embraces Encrusts Overlays Blankets Cloaks Dusts Masks Disguises veils screens binds shelters envelops cuddles equalizes Balances Poisons Defines Measures Transforms Encompasses Restricts Contains Borders Encloses surrounds

YOUR OBJECT

Penique Productions

Olsen Zander (skins)

Mike Kelley (skins)

Liza Lou (skins)

Holten Rower (skins)

Ernesto Neto (skins)

Christo & Jeanne Claude (skins)

MULTIPLES PROMPT

MULTIPLES (80 points) materials: 100+ any object of your choice
For this project you are required to use over 100 of the same object to assemble your sculpture.  These 100+ objects must be the main component of the work.  After looking  at the artists from the power point, try to pinpoint which objects you are most interested in and why.  Think about different ways these objects can connect together, what types of patterns you may be able to create.  Also, think about the meaning of the objects that you have chosen and how this may be used to inform you about the form that these objects will take. You are allowed to use anything else, wire, hot glue, decorations etc. of your choice just as long as you have 100+ of one object. 

TIPS&TRICKS
-If you're having trouble figuring out what form you want, start connecting your objects one by one without any distinct plan.  Play with how the form begins to build and how each piece is connected with the other.  Are you stringing your objects together with fishing line or wire or are you gluing them together? Maybe they aren't connected at all but piled inside of a container.
-Look at your objects in a pile, in a line, in a flat plain or as polka dots or a checkerboard.
-Do your objects belong on the wall, between the walls, hanging from the ceiling or growing from the floor?
-Do you want to make one sculpture, where all the objects are contained in one form or do you want to create an atmosphere, with each object hanging individually?


Artists of Interest: (check the posts that are labeled multiples)
Jean Shin
YaYa Chou
Daniele Papuli
Willie Cole
Andy Goldsworthy
Flortentijn Hofman
Tara Donovan
Do Ho Suh

Andy Goldsworthy (multiples)