My Shadow

Unfortunately, this blog has to be short because I have classes to sign up for and homework that needs some attention. However, I wanted to share with you all the project I completed today. If you have been following my 3D design assignments you know that I have worked with: balsa wood, wire, and eggs. The next material to add to the list? Screen-door netting. For our latest 3D assignment we were given a little bit more freedom. We could use any material we wanted, and well, make anything we wanted as long as it could be justified as a "body-extension." I know. What does "body-extension" technically mean? It's hard not to take it literally. And well, you can take it literally, that is a part of what "body-extension means... extending an arm... a leg... think of "hair-extensions".... etc... But, it can also mean lots of crazy other things. And the lots of crazy other things is where the class went. For example, today was critique day, and today we had someone walk into class with their dog which was connected to their sweater which was sewn to look like they had long arms that held onto the dog. One person dressed up as a big swiss army knife. One person made a teddy bear jacket. You name it. After contemplating very long finger nails, I settled on the idea of ... drum roll.... my shadow!! It's sounds weird, I know. While most of my classmates came with costumes of all sorts of 3 dimensions I came with simple screen door netting for a shadow. However, the more I thought about our shadows the more I realized how connected they really are to our 3-dimensionality.Shadows prove our volume, our mass, they prove that we aren't transparent. This project was all about the human body as sculpture and I think I added to the conversation today. Here I am...(please ignore the all-gray-pajama-craziness I have on...)





As far as craft goes. I could not have done this one with out Wes. He so kindly traced me onto the netting. I cut myself out and cut out the long legs on the floor. Sewed the pieces together and sewed the whole thing to a pair of socks that I could slip in to. I kept picturing peter pan where he tries to get his shadow to stick with a bar of soap. All for now.... more soon!

Love,
Katie