river sports

White Neck. That was the title I decided upon for my final Officina piece. I made a photo installation ( my first) using small printouts taken from inside a white balloon. Through the mouth hole you could see any of four themes: light streaming in, views of my pink bubble gum piece, other ballons with hair sewed around the rim, or white easter grass. I then tried to affect the immediate area of the balloon surrounding the camera and sewed some hair into that, and so played with long focus shots versus up close shots. I feel that these photos were closer to getting my message across about how sculpture can draw you in whereas photographs may not always.
As for the barnacles.... well, I made a slew of them. I researched them, found out they consisted of little marine animals with the longest penises relative to their size and that they grope around for places to cling on to and they just bunch up regardless of how different they might look from the ones they're surrounded by and... they just weren't doing it for anyone, including myself. They look cool, but there is not much transferred there in terms of reationships making sense or whatnot. So, while I can say that I learned a ton about giving form to those little suckers, using everything from crumpled toilet and wax paper to the plastic containers used to display fruit at the local market, I did not pull the various mixed mediums together. Maybe next time.

Just wanted to give a shout out to everyone who took ( and taught) this class, especially in these past two weeks where we've all been in studio nearly all day. I had an awesome time getting to know what each of your works were aiming for. Hope you all got the good artistic inspirational shivers at some point this semester, and that those shivers continue to ring in the passion for art making. Happy Summer y'all!
~Nicole