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da processess

So here are a few process photos of the big head construction
It's from sophomore year but it shows what it took to make something that big out of mushy clay.

the early stages

building up

finally has a face

during critique

ready for the fire

when it came out it had a crack in the forehead, time for a patch.

and it sits through all weather

the little things

So I was stumbling through the internet one day, which is not an unusual occurrence for me seeing as my attention span is equal to that of a squirrel who just ate a sugar cube, and I ran into a flickr page titled “365 days of stormtroopers”. All star wars geekyness aside, this was a pretty awesome stumble. It shows toy stormtroopers acting out scenes of daily life but not in a miniature setting but in our setting and our scale. This brings up a great scenario. Imagine that the things we make, whether they are mockettes or our fully resolved pieces, can experience the world as we do but in our scale. Recently the topic of scale has entered conversations and discussions and I am torn between making them bigger or making the small things that I do incredibly detailed, borderline hyper realistic. At the moment I am leaning towards small and intricate but there still needs to be more play and more investigation into both ends of the spectrum in order to achieve a happy medium. Hopefully I find a happy medium. This is just a little comic relief that helps me look at things from a different perspective.

stumble

If you know what stumbleupon is, then you know what its possibilities for sources can be. If not, then let me describe it to you. It is a website and a task bar on your browser that allows you to surf the web through the click of a button. When you click the stumble button, either on stumbleupon.com or the taskbar on your browser, it takes you to a random website on the internet. Of course all websites are rated and screened then added to the sumbleupon pool of sites. That being said I have recently stumbled upon a ceramicist who combines two completely different aesthetics into one. Brendan Lee Satish Tang is the artist. His work references two different time periods and styles from their respective times, and it is the marriage contained in his work that creates great interest on my part.