Hybrid Heros/ Altered Egos
Title: Landscape out of scraps
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Title: Landscape out of scraps
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The Knot connected is another piece made by Lauren. It seems that this piece is connected to the idea of the umbilical cord and lotus birth where after a baby is delivered the placenta is still attached to the baby and is kept close until the placenta dries out in a few dates and dries out. It seems that this artist connected this artwork to the connection between the mother and the baby. In both of these works, I was inspired by Evans' use of small strips of cardboard glued together to create more natural and smooth shapes. |
So I began with a large piece of cardboard and I cut them in half to create two pieces. At this stage, I did not have an exact plan for how I was going to make this hill. I wanted to be able to sit inside of this hill so I knew how wide and tall I wanted to make the project but I did not know how to make a round shape with the cardboard so I started with the bottom section with the two pieces of cardboard I had. In order to give the cardboard a rounder shape around, I bent the cardboard a few times. I knew from the beginning that I would have to consider how I would transport the project so I made it so the pieces were separate and could be connected later. Luckily I found a video that explained different ways to join cardboard together and one method was to make slits in the cardboard and place a well-fighting piece of cardboard inside. The tension between the two pieces would keep that cardboard in place. After I made the bottom part I started working on the dome. I used a tip that Katey taught us which was to make tiny slits on one side of the cardboard to allow the cardboard to bend. That is how I started making the curved structure on top of the base I made.
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Next, I started filling up the back of the dome. Using some cardboard I quickly cut out some pieces and made a sort of structure in the back of the dome to give shape. I then used some large dampen cardboard which I took for the top layer of the corrugated cardboard that I soaked in water in order to cover the entire back and sides of the dome to hide the hot glue and uneven cardboard. It also gave me a blank surface to work on. After this, I was still a bit unsure of how I wanted to cover the surface of the cardboard in order to give it more texture. This was turned back to Vincent van Gogh and Laurean Frances Even. In Vincent van Gogh's landscape called The Olive Trees, he makes the land in the piece made up of different patches of land using different colors and lines. Lauren with her cardboard used many pieces of cardboard which gave the cardboard some texture. Sort of combining these ideas I decided to take patches of smooth cardboard mixed with some corrugated patches of cardboard and overlap them on the surface of the dome creating texture to resemble the ground.
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