Wednesday, August 21, 2013
ephiphany.... drum roll please...
After working with just markers and white paper last semester, I had an epiphany (duh duh duhhhh) about how that would carry into my work this year in a different way. I had been thinking about value and success and validity; where those ideas stem from and come from. I started thinking about personal victories that happen throughout our lives, from having a little brother, to turning five years old, to getting into college, ect. I was thinking about my ribbon that I got in kindergarten when i won "best artist k-3" and how it made me feel to get that.
Since I think and prefer to work sculpturally, I want to use my drawings from last semester to inform "trophies" of personal victories. What if at the end of your life, there was a room that had trophies in lines and rows (kind of like how they set up terra cotta soldiers in museums) of all your personal victories? How freakin cool would that be. I was thinking about using plaster to make molds and casts of these trophies so they would be almost lifesize and using mixed media, ect. to add onto them.
The first one I made this summer was for Nick because he plays Punk Rock Baseball every Monday night. They had another Punk Rock team from Philly come down to play them and they asked me to make them a trophy for it.
Thoughts...?
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Maggie,
ReplyDeleteI would like to see the one you made Nick. When reading this it made me pause to think about all of my accomplishments and what the trophies would have looked like if I were to receive one!
My question to you is, would you make a bunch of traditional trophies that all have different titles? Or are you going to create more of the summer camp trophies where you are given an arrow for best marksmanship, or given a palatte with paint on it that says most creative. I think those are more authentic and would be awesome for ALL of your accomplishments!
what if you made trophies for more "mundane" accomplishments...like a trophy for wearing a white shirt for one full day without spilling anything on it... or one for doing something nice for another person. some days, just existing is an accomplishment! or you know, at least putting the two on equal ground. like "graduating college" and "getting your paper done on time" ...because if you viewed all of those things as accomplishments and saw all of those trophies together, each one contributing to the next...you'd feel pretty damn good about yourself! as you should :)
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great idea magpie, run with it. I'm going to assume that your not making typical trophy shapes..more like each one with materials that correspond to the accomplishment? can't wait to see where this one takes you :)