Creative Works

August 23rd, 2010 at 04:00pm Chloe Briggs

Last week was amazingly creative… I mean creative in the learning sense, in experiences, in the doing.  We finally made both our goblets and our jewelry pieces.  There were a couple days where I did both of these projects back to back.

For the goblet project I decided to do this mermaid and ocean creature concept.  I did everything in specific pieces.  I crafted the container part, and then I made the bodies and then attached them to the container, left that aside and then I went on to the stem and the base.  I took my time and went at a constant tempo.  It was nice cause I felt I was getting into an imaginative groove.  Problem was that I focused on each part, making it close to perfect as I could get it that I had to work overtime to get everything fully done!  Talk about a hustle and bustle.

For the jewelry project I went back to my childhood by taking an important imaginary land and incorporating a character’s wardrobe piece into the oceanic jewelry I was creating.  In the workshop we focused on cold contact which simply means pieces of metal put together without the use of heat.  I think it would have made things incredibly easier if we did but it could have also been more dangerous.  In the end I made a crown as my main piece but on the first day I made little things such as a ring and a pair of earrings.

Today we had a mini trip at 25th street called Pentagram which designs labels and such.  The guy there named Joe who talked to us about what he and Pentagram do was really fun and absolutely hilarious.  He talked to us about how he came up with the MAD sign, the process of throwing out the first idea and then working with it and finally coming to the finished product.  The interesting was the way he said he had all these time constraints and it sounded kind of like the projects I have at school, which he later mentioned that’s the same feeling.  The most inspiring thing he had said though was how he likes designing things for a reason, for something someone needs.  I liked that a lot.  He kinda made me want to work or at least intern there.

The ArtsLife Internship is coming to a close pretty soon and I can honestly say I’m not looking forward to it.    Hopefully though I’ll get to work here again in a different experience than my first time around.

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