This week in senior studio...

These past two weeks in senior studio I spent a lot of time getting settled, finishing up past projects, brainstorming, reflecting, and experimenting. First off I had to finish off the work I started in Ceramics class. The project I had to complete was a project where I had made many different sizes of pears with stems (and some had attached or unattached stands) and then had to glaze them in different colors that pears wouldn't normally be. The pears also had different shaped holes in them. Hopefully we can fire these in the kilm in the future so I can see my finished products? Next, I completed my brainstorm sheet. While doing this I just let my wander and think about what types of things I'd like to do and accomplish in this class. I came to realize that I like to be in a studio space that has a lot of space, air, and light in it, and that also has a relaxing sense to it. However, the art I like to do is often quite different! I like works of art that are infused with bright colors, intricate details, and use many different mediums. This fact can be displayed in the piece that I started working on next. I started with just some different shapes of cut-up newspaper pasted on a sheet. Then I filled in the surrounding areas with swirls of color using pastels, charcoal, and colored pencils. I also used some collage. Overall I had no direction in mind--- I just decided to "scratch" and see what happened. Ultimately I ended up with a little funky piece that reminds me of a constellation of stars or planets in a bright, fluorescent sky surrounded with floating chunks of matter.