Tape Shoes

Masking tape

9 3/4 x 4 x 3 1/2

Balsa Wood

Balsa wood, wood glue and straight pins

4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 inches

The design element for this sculpture is texture because of the ruff surface of the triangles and rectangles. 

Balsa wood, wood glue, and straight pins

5 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches

The principle of this one is focal point because when looking at it straight on your eye goes to the middle of the flower. The circles under the flower also helps with the focal point. 

Balsa wood, wood glue, masking tape, paper, and straight pins

5 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches

The principle for this sculpture is space because of the space created by the paper on the top and the rope tape on the bottom. By making a house like structure on the top with the paper it makes a space for the wood shavings to be. Then wrapping the tape around the pillars makes a space between the bottom of the house and the floor it's sitting on. 

Soap Carving

Left: 4 x 31/16 x 1 1/2 inches

Right: 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches

Soap

3 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches

On Longing

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale"

I choose this photo of my dog Copper because of the way his body looks in the photo. With his body looking smaller and head bigger showing scale and how the further in the background things look smaller than the foreground. 

"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experiences."

When I saw this quote I though of the lights that they hang up every winter in downtown St. Augustine. The lights being the objects of capacity servicing as an entrainment for tourists which also gives them the experience of seeing the lights. 

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."

The first part of the quote reminded me of this photo and how small the people and objects look even those they are not that far off in the distance. 

"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."

I chose this photo because without the flower being taken away from it's stem, and dying eventually, it would have never been taken and been presented in this way. 

"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to posses both a special and trophy."

I thought this quote worked perfect with this photo because it is not very often you see air balloons on an ordinary day. By taking this photo I have also taken passion of the exotic and made it some type of trophy. 

Touch: Hair and Animal

Hair

When looking at hair for women through the past century you can see many changes. One that sticks out the most for me is how the length of hair seems to go on a cycle of short, medium, long, repeat.  Ackerman talks about how each hairstyle from each decade represented a different thing. For example, when her mother was younger they believed that "serious women have serious hairdos that are formal, stayed, and don't move... loose ends on one's head means loose ends in one's life." With this Ackerman says this is probably why women wear their hair in tight buns, under scarfs or hats.

Animals

Animals use their sense of touch to help them detect danger but to also to find comfort and pleasure. When a baby giraffe is born it falls about an average of 6 feet into this world, after the fall the mother then cleans it up and helps it stand for the first time. These first few touches when a giraffe is born creates a bond with its mother, just like other mammals.