The two photographs are meant to describe two types of comfort. One is cramped and wrapped up in oneself and the other is more open and represents release.

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Blood Sweat and Tears from Carolina Vogt on Vimeo.

For this piece, I was inspired by Shinkichi Tajiri’s Friendship Knot. To turn something we trivialize into something so grand and big instantly grabbed my attention. We tend to do things, wear things, get things without paying attention to where they came from and why they were created. It makes us sit still and think for awhile of the things we trivialize. That’s what I got from Tajiri’s Friendship Knot. Similar to that piece, I wanted to display something we trivialize in public in its unconventional size to make people perceive something that has very small presence in our lives differently.

This Red Ball of Yarn has a deeper conceptual meaning. There is a single knot made in the center and the threads are just wrapped around that knot. This continuous ravel of the threads represents both connection and complication in relationships. And for people to interact with this piece in public in playful manner lets people forget about all the small complications in life.

Swing

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For this assignment I drew inspiration from a fable I remember fondly from my youth, Aesop’s  ‘The Lion and the Mouse’. In this fable, a mouse proves he is more worthy than he appears by chewing a lion free from a rope trap.

http://vimeo.com/52825999

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Jon Cuba:
(you should look at all his work though)

http://cargocollective.com/joncuba/787484

Louise Bourgeois used knotting in both her two dimensional and three dimensional work

The concept behind my first project was to illustrate in a non literal sense the progression an animal makes from living organism to edible, and the fact that the essential identity of the animal flesh does not change even though the name transforms. The tessellated origami form  was used to convey a sense of structural soundness, essentially creating an atmospheric “world”, a representation of the throat through which the animal, in the form of meat, passes through.

Here are images of the process and the outcome of my experimentation for this assignment. I was really inspired by Richard Sweeney‘s studies on paper folding. There was this certain complexity in areas that somehow expressed simplicity and elegance in its complete form. I thought this came for the repetition of accurate folds that lead for the paper to transform into a very dimensional form. I started from a small piece of paper and created simple folds. From that I tried some complex folds. Then I worked with bigger sheets of paper and created multiple folds. This lead to me create a sculptural piece, which somewhat resembled Sweeney’s works.

I’ve had a pen pal since summer of 2010, however last December I stopped responding due to the accumulation of tasks and busy work that consumed this past year of my life. I resorted to communicating with her in ways that seemed more expedient; however with that we lost an element that was characteristic of our friendship.

Being here brings me back to a state of compulsive list making and constantly attempting, and often failing to complete assignments. Rather than complete this project for a letter grade, I’ve decided to use it as a means to accomplish a personal task. The content of the envelope serves as an excuse for my delayed response, however the assignment being an incentive to respond ten months later demonstrates the still present importance of academic requirements over personal ones.

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