Over the weekend was the opening for Joshua Jackson's show, D.O.P.E. Portal Adventures. As per usual, I'm awful at taking pictures of myself at receptions, but I did actually take pictures from the show. The work and the show were both a lot of fun, but I found myself wanting more out of the work for more of an immersive environment in regards of the installation pieces. The group Josh had recruited were a lot of fun and also included a few people I had already known, such as Ross who walked around the event with a creature bursting from his chest like it was no big deal. (The children were very adamant on removing the creature. The cast filled their own roles well and it was obvious they were having fun interacting with the crowd. Then Ross died.
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As Project 3 comes to an end I went ahead and got started for the final project for class which is the ReMix. I enjoyed the final product I had gotten from Project 2, so I decided to revisit piece but with multiples on a smaller scale. A good portion of class today was spent bending metal while waiting for wood filler to fully cure on part of my piece for Project 3.
Today was my day that I finally sat down and cleaned up the excess metal off of my slugs and got them nice and pretty for the final product of this project. I had also popped the little lads into the sandblaster after I was finished with the grinder to give them a nice matte finish.
I made the executive decision to make more slugs out of different types of clay to add more variation of materials within my finished piece. The slugs are loosely based on real species of nudibranchs.
With the resin sand molds finally being fully cured from last class, I went ahead and prepped for today's aluminum pour. This mainly consisted of some minor cleanup and removing excess sand from the mold before having a graphite/denatured alcohol mixture brushed on.
Towards the end of the class we did a quick pour with enough time to pop out my lads from the mold. While the pieces didn't come out exactly like the clay models, I'm still happy with my final results. Project 3 has started up, and not gonna lie but I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing for the project itself. Here's some nudibranchs getting prepped to be part of a sand resin mold.
One of the pros to being a work study for the campus galleries is that I attend most of the receptions. The downside is that I notoriously forget to take pictures. The painting above was a piece in the fundraiser event, La Mirienda, for TAMUCC's Visiting Artist program hosted by the Cotillion Club of Corpus Christi. Setting up this show was possibly the most stressful event I've ever experienced with handing and hanging close to 300 works. This particular piece was a fan favorite for many of us working the event. To paraphrase Dr. Petican, the painting is indulgent and almost like a guilty pleasure. It is neither overworked or underworked, as well as that the artists flexes their control over the medium, composition, and color choices utilized in the piece. The resin finish over the canvas brought a mirror-like finish to the piece which added another level of interest into the painting
The reception itself was a lot of fun, and also incredibly busy. I saw artists go into depth about their work and process with patrons to softly push sales, and I saw patrons be actively engaged with each other and the work displayed in the gallery. In a post-event update, we were all informed that the even this year was a great success with more work sold this year than last. I'm always bad at taking in-progress photos of my work for my sculpture work. This is mainly because I'm usually so focused on getting the project completed that taking a quick progress picture doesn't even come to mind when I take a break. The image on top is when I was using a rust dissolver on my metal to help take care of my rust cleanup faster. It actually did not help me out that much (and also lead to an impromptu vet visit for my dog a couple days later due to that my dog grazes as much as a goat). The bottom image is when I had finally finished a majority of my welding and started up on cleanup.
I struggled a lot coming up with designs for this project. With the project being nature-inspired, I immediately hit a rut with how I was going to approach the project. Initially I thought about utilizing geodes and mineral formations for the project, but I wasn't overly thrilled with the idea. Then I saw someone's desktop picture of on of the preloaded images available to chose from of some lightning and I was off scribbling up ideas on how to make energy have mass.
For my lamp, I want to have control over the direction of light. Some of the designs are based off of objects around my house while others are based on geometric configurations I had been sketching for the past year. One is based on a lunar phenomena called a wet moon where the present is has its points pointing up due to being illuminated from underneath. (The only reason why I know this is because I drove past a "gentlemen's club" by that same name recently and I had to look up the term) I designed my pieces with time consumption in mind as time is something I always seem to be short on.
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