trampoline gesture wizard-of-oz
october 2011
imovie, soundtrack pro, flip mino, canon ti1
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where the wild borders are
2011
crayon, ash, wood shavings
This piece symbolizes an attempt to study children’s drawings, and approach crayon, primarily a tool for children, with a new technique involving melting with an iron, dripping, splattering. The focus of this piece is about the borders that exist within a community, a neighborhood, the place where we grew up –borders that we were completely unaware of as a child. Expressed through painterly gestures and contrast with a “primitive” style drawing of the place I grew up, the process of the project became very intimate with me, as I had gone on tangents of experimenting with other techniques, such as the child study,microwave study, and eunoia.
Included is also an installation that accompanies this piece, called molting. It describes the process which cicadas undergo to discard their shells as they grow, just as children, at a certain age suddenly become disinterested in crayons, art, and which, for me, was a time of social and identity confusion.
A design 2 - materials project to create an ironic self-referential item led to delving into the world of processing and arduinos. Dependent on the viewers position on the bed, different noises spanning from train noises to yelling men activate, creating a (hopefully) unpleasant environment to sleep in.










