This was project had the goal of exploring the concept of a drawing in a three-dimensional space or object. We used cardboard to develop a three-dimensional object and incorporate some sort of drawing in to it or use it as a drawing.

I decided to develop something organic like some sort of a flower and go with that. I enjoyed the very hands-on kind of vibe the whole project had into it.

The show overall was a total success. All the teams gave their all. It truly showed in the final pieces. If I would pick a favorite, I would pick the light/shadow drawings by Brittney’s group. It achieved an atmosphere that strongly correlated with the subject matter. It gave a sense of dream space. Good job, guys.

On my part, now that everything is over I don’t know how I feel about the end product. If anybody would ask me how I feel about the whole thing, i would have to say that I have mix feelings about it. On one hand, i feel satisfied with the fact that something not too many people believed possible was done. On the other, i feel that I was not successful in achieving my vision.

There are many variables that amount to the source of my dissatisfaction. For starters, I set to do something way above my skills, something unknown. Even though I set myself up with this kind of thinking all the time in order to reach higher levels of skill, i did not take time, budget, team interaction, among other things into consideration. I just kept constantly wondering about my resolve. What were my motives behind this endeavour? How did this fit into my goals and the big picture? Was i being honest with myself? These were constant questions that were roaming inside of me during this long journey. Self-doubt is normal in any endeavour. It is wise to constantly check oneself.

Of all the comments and feedback i received, one of them really stroke home with me. We both agreed that i needed more experimentation with the media to actually be able to achieve what i really intended to do. Moreover, the line quality made by the wire was being lost because the mesh was covering it, and the overall sculpture did not relate well with the portraits in the background due to the different drawing styles.

Perhaps in the future i would explore this medium again and be in a better position to experiment with it. Who knows… In the end I am grateful for the opportunity to have been able to tackle and extraordinary idea and bring it to life with the help of great classmates i got to know better. Fun times…

With this experimentation Morgan and I collaborated to create a drawing installation using tape and yarn. One could say that this was paramount for our research for the final project we proposed.

We were inspired by the blood splatter analysis presented in the detective show Dexter. In the show, string was used to show the direction of blood from the wound and attack. With this in mind, we created a crime scene of such using tape and yarn.

I have grown very fond of the work of fellow Puerto Rican  artist/muralist Alexis Diaz. His work is beautifully created with very intricate crosshatching and traditional art making skills. It is unusual for a street artist nowadays to use this kind of skills as a  way to stay on par with the street art scene.

His murals are focused in the organic. Usually it is a combination of different parts of animals or people. It gives the sense of an old anatomy or science book illustration. Alexis Diaz now have murals and commissions all over the world.

This Korean sculpture’s are something to be marvelled. His work seems to have an existentialist kind of thematic. He studies how all parts of something as a whole makes up the actual object. For example, one of his pieces is a grand piano beautifully covered in aluminum wired. This questions whether the piano is still a piano if it is not able to do it’s function.

My main focus with Mo Park is his work with wire mesh. His wire mesh portraits and landscapes are a force to be reckon. This work have an ethereal aspect to it. The different layers of mesh are placed in such a matter that it created a very intricate crosshatching. After that, he substract little by little to bring the whole image  out.

Long days and night of work came through this week. The wire prepping was labor intensive and we came upon a lot of difficulties during the process. One of the first situations that came upon us was keeping proportions right. Once we had the nose develop and continued with the other parts of the face, we realized a few things: 1)That the sculpture was getting too big, and 2)The parts had different proportions whatsoever.

Another situation that came across us was the fact that the wire twisting was very time consuming and we needed to figure out a way to make it faster. Thanks to the collective awesome minds of Gio and Dan, we came upon some great engineering to make that process faster. It was like watching sorcery. It was beautiful.

The face started coming together but we started facing another challenge. And that was that we were building from the floor up when the actual piece is intended to be hanging. As of the moment, the sculpture was restructure to be able to distribute the weight evenly and not sacrifice form.

While working I kept on wondering how we could strengthen the the concept of the project and how the piece could have a better readability. How could we deliver the message across. The idea behind the project is how we are more than the struggles and difficulties that we go through; how we are more than what people perceive in the moment. The drawing, the sculpture is just an impression of what we see, of the people we are drawing. This drawings, as good as we could make them, could never come to say who this people really are, who this person is.

This sculpture represents the different layers that makes who we are, but most importantly who we think this person is. Perception. However, I had the idea that instead of posting more impressions of people on the back wall we could instead have statements of people saying who they are. Basically stating that there is more to them that meets the eye, that they are more than the struggles and difficulties that they are going through or they have had. This very small statement would say who they are, saying it to the world how amazing, How kind hearted they are. How much love is inside of them. That there is more to you that meets the eye.

However, I still needed to find a way to incorporate the drawings. On one of my breaks from working in the sculpture i came across a dumpster from a construction. I wonder what if i added broken pieces of rubble to the bottom of the piece, creating a sense that something has been broken and out of all that rubble still the wire (inner structure) is there. How this could be a strong symbol of shattering perceptions. And then I thought about adding the portraits to the rubble. All that beginning space that occupies the sculpture will symbolize perception. Then the back wall will have the statements in a very light shade of grey. This will force the viewer to actually get close and let this people tell them who they are.

What do you guys think?

On this week  the team split up its responsibilities. Part of the group was focusing on portrait development, while the other help with the wire bending and prepping for the sculpture building.

The first progress critique came in and we had some helpful feedback into how the drawings interacted overall with the wire structure as well as how we could show the portraits in the gallery wall. Overall, there was difficulty understanding how the drawings related with the overall concept and the wire structure.

During this week we focused on the concept development for the piece, the logistics on how we were going to develop the project, and how the introduction of 2d drawings would fit with the overall concept.

I focused on the concept art for the wire sculpture/drawing and the final look of it.

The work of Oliveira is focused on the shared qualities between sculpture and drawing. His sculpture are made out of wire. However, in perspective, the look as if they were an ink sketch drawn in space.

He is a constant present figure in international art fairs. His artistic background has brought him to experiment in wire. It all started as a sculpture major concentrating in ceramics; which later developed into a postgraduate in artistic anatomy focused in drawing.

Alexandro Farto, or more commonly known as Vhils, is a Portuguese artist whose work is presented all over the world. He is known for his street art which consist of carving the walls and exposing beautiful portraits of of locals.

He works around the idea of identity and how we are composed of a myriad of layers. This is represented by exposing the different layers of the wall as he carves the portrait