Layers Project

I have always been super fascinated with working with silhouettes, as well as natural beauty. I decided to create a combination of both of the, in this scene by creating a rastered wolf near the front of the piece to draw the viewers eye in. I decided to design this piece off of one of my favorite summer camps as a kid, and the wolf seemed like it would be a good fit for the scenery. This piece went through a few revisions, as the wolf was originally too small, and thus it kept breaking as I cut it out after it had been rastered. I decided to make the wolf larger, as well as decrease the power and a few other settings to create the wolf of this color.

Lantern Project

My grandmother’s favorite bird was always the blue jay, and she always said before she died that if she ever came back, it would be in the form of a blue jay. Whenever anyone in my family sees a blue jay, it reminds us of her, and I wanted to pay homage to that. The front of this box pictures a blue jay with blue tissue paper overlayed on the inside of the box to give a light blueish glow and variety in color from the birch. The top features angel wings with a white tissue paper background as a sort of way to honor my grandmother. I actually made this lantern box as a gift for my dad, so I intentionally left the other 3 top sides blank for if we ever want to add anything. The bottom of the lantern is open faced and can be placed over any open light source, as it was very small and thus difficult to place any functioning LED inside.

Altered Toy Project

As a kid, 2 of my favorite activities were building Legos, and doing puzzles. I always enjoyed Legos because of how straightforward they were, and how you could never really “mess up” when building with them because they would work no matter how you connected them. Puzzles on the other hand gave me the complete opposite feeling. I always loved the challenge that came with solving puzzles. It was always so satisfying knowing that when you put the correct piece into the puzzle, that was the only piece that could go possibly every go there. I decided to incorporate both of these ideas into my design for this altered toy. I decided to alter the shapes on the top of the Legos to replicate one of those childhood toys where you match shapes with other shapes on a peg board. I wanted the altered toy to look as simple as possible until someone tried to put them together. I focused on accuracy in my design, by modeling this piece to the exact scale of a regular 2X4 studded Lego. I also added holes into the bottoms after I noticed when I dropped them they were too dense and didn’t sound like real Legos. I decided to make Legos that only connect with each other 1 way, so you can only build upwards. It really defeats freeing feeling that comes with Legos and it honestly pretty frustrating when you start playing with them.