Process and Materials

August 23rd, 2010 at 04:02pm Christian

“Nothing worth having is ever easy to get” - Zoe Kessler

Last week was a terrific and fun experience working on our projects for our upcoming exhibition, “BUJMCCCA”, which is our first names’ initials intertwined. One of our enjoyable projects in this internship was creating a goblet. Of course, everyone in the group had to create a sketch of his or her goblet. However, during this process I changed the form of my goblet just like some of the other members of the group. Fortunately, I made it look better than the one I had planned. In addition, we had less than a full day to finish forming our goblets, which made it a short time procedure.

Moreover, another of our difficult and interesting projects was the jewelry making workshop. As always, a procedure needs to be planned, in this case, sketched, and so I sketched my bracelet. At first, I thought it was going to be easy making jewelry but it took a bit longer than I thought. I also added more designs than the ones I sketched. The easiest part of this jewelry making was the drilling. But twisting a  short wire with another twisted wire by hand was also sort of difficult.

Both projects remind me of a time when I had to measure with my vision, being two feet away, the size of the fruits that were placed in a basket. After measuring we, the students, were suppose to draw it, with pencil, the exact same size it was portrayed to your angle, of course, as detailed as possible. Due to this effort, I was able to compete against two great artists from that class in a final event which took place on the 1st floor of the building and where everyone stood and watched.

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