Head Piece

Manipulation: I think I did okay with the manipulation of materials. I mixed media which I never do so it was a good and new challenge for me. With the reed, I had to learn how to work with it because I never had before. To make the spiral things, I got the reed wet and then wrapped it around glue sticks and tapped it at the ends to make the twisting stick. I let it dry, removed the tape and then glued them on. That was a new challenge for me but I liked it. In terms of the cards, I think the fact that I cut them into
rectangles kind of made them look like shards so it gave it new dimension. I also think it was good how I mixed using the face of the card and the back of the card.

Paige's Feedback:
-done with consideration of the cards
-has a lot of movement

Nat's feedback:
-didn't bend but got a curve -> clean and neat
-likes the spirally things


Problem Solving: At the beginning of the project, I had some sort of crown assembled from the AP art retreat so I knew that I should probably try to work off of it because it was already started. A big concern of mine however was that the crown wouldn't look interesting. If it was too symmetrical, then I thought it would look boring. So I talked to you and we talking about exaggerating one side. As I built up one side, I thought it was still missing something. The cards were blending in too much with one another. So I looked around the room and saw that a lot of people were using the reed. I thought it would be good to incorporate the reed because it would add another texture and help with the exaggeration

Sam's Feedback:
-likes the spiraling up
-asymmetrical looks good
-looks interesting
-good negative space

Nat's Feedback:
-made a cool headpiece
-did cards in a unique way
-addition of reed adds a different and good vibe
-good comp.

Bug Hybrid

Manipulation: I genuinely have no idea where I land in terms of manipulation. I really struggled with this material. I think that its very clear that it is made of wire and I didn't really try to hide that. I think if I had more time and more patience, I would have used the mesh some more because I like the look of the mesh and the extra texture. I do think that is something that I did well was manipulating wire to so that It had different textures from my peers around me.


Problem solving: I ran into a couple of difficulties because I did this at home over break. For example I didn't have any mesh so I had to get a bit creative to make the body have some sort of depth and shape to it. I took the wire that I had at home and I wrapped it around my hands so that I got a rounded shape and then wrapped it in different directions so that it looked like a full body. Also I did ditch my virus original wire so this was basically the product of an attempt to problem solve.

Paper Form

Manipulation: I feel like it would be a B. I mean I know this isn't fantastic. I think the fact though that tried to play with texture in shredding the paper demonstrated my attempt at manipulating. Overall though I feel like it's short of something but I don't know what. I feel like I could have challenged paper a bit more. Maybe before April I'll go back and add some detail when im not so close to it. I think that's the problem, I'm too close to it right now and so I can't see those easy fixes that I think my paper form needs.

Problem Solving: I think for problem solving I'm at a B+. I tried to figure out different ways to get the paper to burn in a way that I like it but I couldn't get it down. I tried balling paper and burning. I tried balling paper, glueing the shredded paper and burning. I then glued shredded paper and burned it. I liked the way that it burned but I realized that it could be aesthetically pleasing to photograph the paper burning because it goes with my concept better.