Touch Reading: ANIMALS

Touch Reading: HAIR

HAIR:

The hair section emphasized the metaphorical meaning of hair.  A woman with firm hair and no "fly-aways," was a put together woman.  A woman with untamed hair meant she was a woman who does not have her life together. These are the two styles. The one on the left is put together, while the one on the right is not put together. 

Animals:

I chose the 3 animals the section talked about the most in detail.  

5 Statements from On Longoing

       The five statements from the book On Longing

jj      1.) "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."

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jj    I chose this picture for the quote because it made me think of different body types.  An adult perceives a room much different than a tiny child or baby.

        2.) "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."

ll          I chose a snow globe as the imagery for this quote because the quote made me think about souvenirs and the most common souvenir stereotype is a snow globe.

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

          I thought of a Big Ben souvenir because there is something about having a replica of something so majestic and monumental.  

         

         4.) "Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."

2         When I think of nostalgia, I think of my 85 year old Oma (german grandmother) and her Reminisce magazines she gets monthly.  They make her so happy because they show things that she used to do or have as a young girl.

          5.) "To have a souvenir of the exotic, is to possess both a specimen and a trophy."

!            Many people get souvenirs from exotic places, that stand out from their decor in their homes.  It proves they went somewhere interesting.

          

          6.) "The place of origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated." 

         Things like alcohol from other countries are desired because you can usually only easily get them in that country.  Kalik is the beer of the Bahamas and they used to sell it at a few grocery stores in the U.S., but recently, they have not been available anywhere other than the Bahamas.  

Memento

Memento

I was born and raised in Virginia Beach, Va.  I have always lived within 5 minutes of the beach.  Due to the environment I was constantly surrounded by, most of my childhood memories happened on or near the beach.  The memory I chose to portray is the memory of those average beach days as a kid with a few of my closest girl cousins.  We would spend hours by the dunes, collecting nature and making crafts out of it and using it in our make-believe games.  This is a memento to represent when we would make nature crowns, and every single day, at least one of us had a CocaCola can in our hand.

  The Coke Can

The CocaCola can represents the coke cans we would drink all day while playing and imagining on the beach.

  The Sand:

The sand represents the beach and the dunes of the Chesapeake Bay and the Oceanfront in my hometown of Virginia Beach.

  The Grass Crown:

The grass crown represents one of the many crafts my cousins and I created on those long summer beach days.  We would braid the sea grass and then tie it to make a crown.  I made the crown smaller than my head now, so it looks like it could fit a child.  

Soap Changes

Soap Changes:

These were the additive and subtractive changes to one of my soap carvings.  The goal was to make the animal figure into something unrecognizable to the cheetah.

Change #1: Subtractive

I put my soap into a container of ocean salt water for 3.5 hours, without touching it. It is subtractive because the water ate away at the soap.

Change #2: Additive

I added pink food coloring to the soap, the soap gained a color and gained the dye on it.

I then spread it around the body of the soap.

Change #3: Additive:                                                           

I poured some sand on top of the soap.  

It gained the sand on to it.

  Change: #4: Subtractive:

I put the soap in the microwave for 15 seconds to melt the top layer of the dye and soap.  Because it lost a small layer, it was subtractive.

  Change: #5: Subtractive and Additive:

I wiped the excess dye and melted soap off the figure, causing the figure to lose the excess material, however, the addition of dye and soap onto the paper towel was additive because the paper towel is part of the sculpture.

  Change: #6: Subtractive:

I sawed the body in half and in a bunch of pieces, causing it to lose its original shape and form.

  Change: #7: Additive:

After sawing up the figure, I wrapped it in the paper towel and proceeded to smash it evenly with a hammer. It is additive because the soap and paper towel became one when they were smashed and stuck together.

 

  Change: #8: Additive and Subtractive:

I burned the paper towel into the soap remains, which caused the burned pieces to adhere to the soap. The paper towel lost mass, while the soap gained the burned embers. 

  Change: #9: Additive:

I poured pink dish soap onto the burned soap paper towel.  The soap was gained, along with a scent.

  Change: #10: Additive:

I added natural objects into the mix, like leaves, to create the feel of a nest.

  Change: #11: Additive and Subractive:

I put most, but not all of the soap into the make-shift nest, so it lost some. I added the Halloween spider web material to hold the shape.

  Final Change: #12: Additive:

I glued mulch onto the base to give it a more natural feel.

Soap Carving Project

The Soap Carving Project for 3D

This project helped me find the negative space in an object. I carved two sculptures of the cheetah out of two separate bars of olive oil soap.  One of my soap bars was a lot softer than the other, which made that carving process easier and more enjoyable.