Time Capsule!

Hello! For this assignment we were to fold a cardboard box and then design in in however way desired. I enjoy painting using one color over a big amount of space so I enjoyed painting the box. While drying paint that was on the box with a heat gun I realized the paint started to bubble and I really liked the way it looked. After this later of paint dried I continued on with layers of green black silver and white. I also added tissue paper to the sides as well. Although I have been late and still am on finishing this project, so far I have put in a Dr. Marten's tag from a pair of boots I got recently. I really enjoy wearing Dr. Martens shoes and plan to hold onto the three pairs I own for a long time. I am planning to write a letter to myself before it is sealed and putting it into the box. To be quite honest, I don't really know what to put into a time capsule because Time Capsules don't really hold an importance to me. However I did enjoy creating the box and am glad the way it turned out!

Finished my book!!

Hello! I finished sewing my book together and now I am looking forward to add more to it! I really like how the book looks when it is fanned out, it shows the colors transitioning very well. I was running low on time to finish sewing this but luckily I was able to finish it within 2-3 class periods. I have used this method of sewing books two previous times in this class before and I am glad that it only took me a short about of time to get back into the hang of sewing a book. Below are pictures of the completed book and some pages that are in it!

Book is starting to come together!

At the end of every year, 21 pages we've worked on through out the year goes into a hand sewn book. Since this is my third year of Creative Arts, I will be taking home a third one this year! Not only do I like the book pages in this years book, but I noticed how each book is very very different from the previous years. This year I used a lot of acrylic and watercolor ink for most of my book pages and I am very satisfied to see all the colors going nicely together! I'm currently working on making the two card board covers for the book, then I will begin to fold the papers and soon they will be ready to be sewn together! This years theme I wanted for my book was to be Outer Space, and I believe the colors and textures I used closely intertwined with the idea and colors used Outer Space. I look forward to completing this years book within a few more weeks, as well as my junior year in high school!

Numbness

My love for so many creatures, ideas, objects, theories and people can not be identified through a tangible proof- but everything I feel, see and learn to understand seem to fill me to the brim with a sense of liveliness words cannot express well enough. I don't collect, or need much to be happy. I appreciate people's time and words more than anything. In the current sixteen years I have lived on this planet, many things have built me, and broken me into the person I am today. I don't like alot of things about myself and I am a package full of complexities that I've become adjusted to overtime. One feeling however, I have not been able to adjust to is Numbness. When I am numb, I am cold, hollow and I feel like I'm merely a ghost floating along the Earth, watching and understanding everything around me but my heart and mind isn't in it. It's like someone scooped out all my insides, made me a hallow shell, and put me back together. When I am numb, nothing seems to rid it until it passes.When I am numb, I believe I am nonexistent. I become almost someone else I don't like or understand. The feeling of Numbness doesn't come around everyday, but when I do feel it, it makes me appreciate even the darkest and most saddest emotions my body has the audacity to create because what Numbness has taught me, is that even in my purest moments of my depression, anxiety and fears, it is much better to feel than to not feel at all. All these feelings hurt me inside out- doing the smallest tasks can make me feel so vulnerable, weak, small, and just want to leave wherever I am. But I am alive, and after all I've managed to go through, I should be proud of who I am. The deepest of my emotions make me feel alive, regardless. I am thankful for that because some cannot feel at all, and even though I could take ease at the thought of feeling with out depression and anxiety- it surely reminds me I am alive and I would hate if I ever grew into a walking, breathing corpse. I am thankful for the range of emotions because there are times once in a while that "happy" seem to suite me. It doesn't last very long but the occasional times I am, it is blissful, and I could just cry from the relief of lightness I feel. Emotions are beautiful. It makes me realize I have not turned into a stone from within, I'm still alive- able to appreciate people, nature and the entire universe even more than I have already. My love for everything around me continues to expand. 

Pop Art

Hello! In this assignment we were to create a stamp. Using linoleums, we carved a design or picture into the rubber stamp. After that step was completed, we used paint and created a design out of the stamps. I didn't enjoy this assignment as much as the others but I didn't mind doing it either. I am satisfied with the results however, and thought it looked interesting! 

Fortune Cookie Assignment

 

In this assignment we were given 6 fortune cookies with fortunes inside. With these 6 fortunes, we were to create a page that was inspired by the fortunes, or the learn Chinese on the back of it. The fortune that inspired me to do this page was "Want a hen tomorrow than an egg today". I liked this fortune because it was about patience and the importance of it. I am very satisfied with how this has turned out!

Art x 3 Project

This project was very interesting. In this assignment we were to collaborate with two other students on one work with the theme being "Celebrity". Now when the theme is celebrity it is theme to visually express your interpretation of what the word celebrity means to you, and how you perceive it to be. I found this to be interesting because everyone has different opinions and views on social media, and people expressing it on a piece of work they are working on, everyone's pieces turn out completely different. On then first day of starting this assignment, we worked on it for two days. The number I was assigned was put on a sticker and into the folder where the unfinished piece stayed until the next person would work on it. That person would work on it for two days and then finally, we were given a third piece of work and 4 days to work on it and bring it to completion. I really enjoyed this assignment because although it doesn't look like much, my part in this piece, I felt, was visually expressed using the theme. This was a very different experiment for me, and it showed me to be able to let go of my work and give it to someone else. As most people, I would imagine, like being able to complete a piece  by themselves. It was interesting how this assignment played out and I really enjoyed myself!