The night before Tuesday. . .SARAH!

The night before Tuesday. . .PEACH!

Two days until Install!

I am definitely going on my final spurt of bowl making tomorrow. I think I have finally perfected my technique and created an assembly like work pace. I'm always more productive if I have sorted out a way to do one step all at once before I move on to the next one. I think it is one of my weird problem solving skills, how can I get this accomplished in the most efficient way possible? Here's some shots of the bowls so far. I have 47, my goal is 80 and they are a bit greener than they appear.

-Malia

The Bowls are Multiplyin'

Here are some shots of the bowls I have so far, I'm interested in how they are looking layered. I think I will have a better idea of how it will turn out when I get a lot more made. I realized today that they are very Wabi Sabi, their simplistic, primitive, impermanent forms. I'm going to read the book again, and for anyone who doesn't know about the Wabi Sabi, the wikipedia entry pretty much sums it up.

idea for the first project -peach

Hi ! I think I'd like to use a corner of the room :)
the joint-twins just couldn't get out of my mind :P
I'm thinking about the door curtains, I'd like to make about 5 rows of them and have them drape down from the ceiling, each row will be consists of 5 long-thin stripes of eastern paper, with illustrations of shared organs and human eyes and maybe some scenes of the siamese twins living together.

but the stripes will be cut in different length so it forms a shape in the middle , a hollow empty shape of two people stand side by side. I'd like my viewer to stand in them, two at a time. so they can get a sense of how the con-jointed twins felt,they were always under the pressure of the public and followed by the shadow everywhere.

I'll upload a sketch later on today cause I'm not doing a good job explaining in words.
now that I think of it, it might be too rushed for april 14 :( I might do a first layer or a smaller version....and keep doing it through the quarter and make it fully rendered for the final....

Paper Bowls

New idea, this is what is great about this class, I finally have ideas that I am excited about!! I want to make these paper bowls out of recycled paper I have around my house. I am shredding it and putting it on a mold to make a sheet then ripping it and putting it in a bowl mold. I would make a bunch of these and attach them to a wall (possibly with magnets). I'm not sure if I will have anything inside them, I'm kind of interested in stamping dates, I love how those stamps look but I'm not sure how I would incorporate it to make the bowls more meaningful. Thoughts, suggestions? -Malia