Allison Glazer

I think I know what my basic underlying ideas are in my project. The first is about the individualized experience that a person has with a reflection. The experience is personal and cannot be recreated. In order to show this idea in a project, I was thinking I could set up my mirrors in a public place (where people do not know that the mirrors are an art project). I would take pictures of the reflections I find in the mirrors and then I would have other people take pictures of what they see in the mirrors. I would show the contrast between my experience in the reflection as opposed to other peoples' experiences, who don't know what they're supposed to be seeing, or if they are even supposed to be seeing something in general.
The second nut is about the 2d/3d nature of the mirrors. The mirrors are reflecting a 3d space but within the mirror the space is 2d. It deals with the reality of space. I want to try doing something in a trompe l'oiel style to further change reality. I tried painting a curtain on the mirror so that when looking at the reflection, part is covered by the painted curtain. This deals with the idea of what is in front of what, what is real, etc. I am only putting up pictures of my second idea because I have not yet installed the mirrors in a public place to try out the first idea. The pictures in the blog show a curtain interacting with grass/nature and the concrete ground, which also brings about what is real and natural versus what is fake.

Windnie Pan

I was fairly happy with the way my midterm project came out. However, after looking at the final product when I came back from Spring Break, i realized that I really need to start working 3-dimensionally. You just cannot get the sense of the knotting or texture of the ropes without it physically being there. After meeting with Julia I decided that my "nuts" would be 1) an interaction with space/basically just making something 3-d and 2) the use of materials as symbols. I've been hurting my brain trying to come up with ideas for the two projects and am having a hard time separating them into two different pieces. I decided to go to the 99cent store and ended up buying a lot of junk that I will be weaving together to form my own rope. I've been playing around with the materials in the studio and have made a couple of different ropes. I will be leaving for the weekend, but i am excited to work on this again on monday.

Sam Week uh... 8?

Wasn't sure if I needed to post for this week, so no images yet. The crit went well, as my project produced, fo r the most part, the reaction I was looking for. It wasn't totally successfull, but I think I conveyed the majority of what I hoped to. I ended up doing two endings, one where Boris has the typical "happy" ending, and another where he jumps off a cliff. So yep, I'm pretty glad about how the project went, but I'm happy to start something new that doesn't have anything to do with walruses. Maybe I'll tackle Rhinoes again... or hippos.
Thanks Jana!

Allison Glazer

My final project was a mirror installation and a book containing images I found in the mirrors. The installation was meant to allow a viewer to find images within the mirrors. I wanted it to be personal because that was my original reaction to the reflections around the Arno. I made the book for two reasons. I wanted to have something permanent because I knew that after the crit, I would take down the installation. I wanted something to show for it afterwards. I also made the book because I wanted to show what I saw within the mirrors. They were the images that I found interesting when I looked in the mirrors. The installation and the book contrast each other in that the mirrors allow the viewer to see a range of reflections while the book only shows what I saw.