its about time project

the beginning

second attempt

Eight Changes:

adding

I added pins that align with spine of the animal

Then I added hemp string and twisted them around

the pins

Next, I painted the soap with acrylic green paint.

With the wet paint and a little water, I added soap shaving onto

the soap

Then once the soap shavings were on the soap I wrapped

masking tape all around it.

subtracting

First I chopped off all of the legs.

Then I chopped off the snout of the animal.

Next I chopped off the neck and some of the soap shavings

Then I removed more of the soap shavings

Then, with all the soap cravings I created a coat 

since people like to wear sheep's fur in coats and sweaters.

I wanted to change the soap form as much as possible and from the beginning I knew that I wanted to use the soap shavings for something. I think that it is ironic that I ended up picking an animal thats fur is acutally used for sweaters and coats, it wasnt intentional at first, but I like the way it came out all together as a whole. Craving the soap was not the easiest thing but it was much easier with my second attempt even though both of my soaps were different. My first soap was a harder more dense soap and the second one was soft and had a strong fragrance in it, which made it hard to work with.

memento

"The souvenir distinguishes the experience."

This quote stood out to me because I am always trying to collect as many objects as I can from the experiences I go through in life. This quote reminded me of traveling places. Whenever I traveled somewhere wether i was younger or even now, I also try to have an object represent the places that I've been, to show, or remind myself that I've been there. Wether it was money from a foreign country or a key chain that said where I visited. When first hearing what we had to do for this assignment I began to think of a souvenir that was significant to my childhood.

Experience to my piece.

This piece resembles when i was younger in 3rd grade. At my school that year we opened a time capsule. The last time it has been opened was in the 40's. So in there were many toys that the students used in that time period. There were also a lot of class photos of all the students that attended there then. I created this time capsule to remind myself of what this memento experience was like. Instead of having memorabilia inside the capsule I put paper on the outside as well. Also a time capsule is meant to secure things over a massive amount of time. I made mine not so concealed.

Touch

When reading this article, it made me think of all the things that I've touched today. I've actually learned a lot from this article. When Diane Ackerman was talking about the experiments with rats and the massaging that babies in prenatal care it was interesting to learn how easily our bodies can fail without being touched. Out of all the readings that we've read so far this is my favorite. This article gave me an insite of how touch is the once sense that doesn't have one organ you can focus on. My favorite part of this article was went the neurologist and other scientists experiment with touch. For example when primates were in three situations. One touch was not possible but all other contact was, two for four house out of twenty-four the glass divider was removed so for interaction and three total isolation. Its sad to say that the monkeys who were totally isolated ended up having brain damage. I know that it must sound cruel for us human to test other animals but as a result of not being touch ends in brain damage is pretty depressing. As humans we rely on touch to express emotion, but its really our hands that are the messengers of emotion.

The tokens

This article was upsetting. It is unfortunate that mothers want to get rid of their children so easily. Yes, I understand that if you wanted to give your baby a better life then you would lend it up for adoption, but the London Foundling Hospital is not a place I would give my unwanted child to. Even though to most mothers who didn't want their child would think this would be a great place for their babies, I think otherwise. The admissions to the hospital "never exceeded two hundred." Even with the amount of babies being accepted, many were dying in the hospital. I think its interesting that the mothers would attach "tokens" to their babies to identify that it was once theirs. What I didn't like about the tokens was that the hospital was trying to attract donors by putting them on display. These tokens were the only objects that these children had from their biological mother. For the hospital to display them to get money, just makes me sick.

Masked Identity

Cindy Sherman seems to be an interesting lady. Wether or not its Cindy Sherman that Ira Glass and Etgar Keret ran into in the MOMA, I think that its interesting better off not to know. I think that its funny how easily people can be persuaded by people. This episode reminded me of the show Jackass, and how they would do prank on people. In Act one Keret's story is pretty funny. He probably had  many encounters with people but its funny how people are so easily fooled. This audio is completely fiction but the way that its said is believable. This makes me question whether to believe or not believe what strangers tell you or many even your friends. People are strange, but it seems like many people have multiple identities.

Its about time.

After watching "Its about time" with Janine Antoni, I realized her work is something I've never seen before. My favorite artwork that she has made was the rope called "Moor." In the description on the movie, it was described as a life-line, which is what I liked most about it. Since it included peoples clothes and personal objects (such as hair or an electrical cord), it was literally a piece of them from one moment in time. What Antoni created was a twist of all her friends and even her own belongings, so that they all make one giant rope. By twisting them together she intertwined everyones moments. If I made this, I would've called it memory. Since everyones items that made this whole creation is a memory of some material object that was once important in their lives. Another piece that I liked from the video was "touch." I liked how Antoni went through the process of how to walk a tight rope just so she could get the footage of her walking across the horizon. Thats dedication. Those two pieces were the only ones I liked in the video, that other pieces to me seem strange. If I were to look at these pieces in a museum without any explanation I would be confused.

Elements and Principles