Contemporary Media in 3D-Laws
Ted the Standard Poodle
Subject Matter and Context:
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The piece is meant to cause Standard Poodle Awareness because most people identify poodles as little yappy lap dogs.
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The sculpture does not have any relationships to historical precedence but it does reference examples in the world outside of fine art. His purpose is for children to read books to him to fulfill his destiny.
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Please see meaning for more information.
Medium and Technique:
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The sculpture was created from cardboard, wire, hot glue, staples, newsprint, masking tape, paper mache clay, and paint.
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The sculpture was modeled using the proportions of my own standard poodle.
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By using paper mache clay, I challenged people’s perceptions of what art materials are because paper mache is not a traditional art material.
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I also use paper mache clay for texture to represent fur.
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I used a heavy body, titanium white paint on the entire sculpture to make it more recognizable as a standard poodle.
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I used paynes gray liquid acrylic paint and acrylic glazing medium to bring out the texture of the paper mache clay.
Form:
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You immediately identify the form as a standard poodle by its haircut.
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It is not critical to the success of the piece that it is identified as anything other than a dog. However, it would be nice if it is recognized as a standard poodle to bring awareness of how magnificent of a pet that a standard poodle can be.
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The sculpture is to scale which is important to Standard Poodle Awareness and also a good size for kids to sit down beside and read to.
Meaning:
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Standard Poodle Awareness
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Kids reading buddy
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Ted the Blue Dog in Disguise has a story.
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The end of the story requires children to read as many books to the statue as possible to bring him back to life
Once upon a time, there was a dog named Ted. Ted was a white standard poodle. He lived with a wonderful family. He loved to go outside to play in the sunshine. One day, he went out to play and saw a new statue of a garden gnome that looked like he was reading a book. Ted liked the new garden gnome. He sniffed it. Then he sniffed it again. Ted realized this would be the perfect place to relieve himself so he hiked his leg and started to go pee pee but then something magical happened. The garden gnome sprang to life. The garden gnome was very upset because he did not have his umbrella, so he cursed Ted and turned him into a statue. The only way to break the curse is to have children read a million books to Ted.
Healing the Chakras Through
Weaving
Healing Chakras Through Meditation and Art
Jessica Lane
April 2023
Contemporary Art in 3D
Subject Matter:
Healing the Chakras through Meditation and Yoga
Weaving to Heal the Chakras through Meditation and Yoga
Medium:
I chose to represent my experience with chakra healing through meditation and yoga with fibers in a circular loom. The fiber colors, textures, and how it was spun represented different things for me in my journey through healing with yoga, meditation, and the chakras. I have always loved yarn and other fibers. I can sew but never learned to knit or crochet even after many attempts to teach me. This project gave me the time and excuse to experiment with a new medium and I have found my new art medium.
Technique:
I have a Traveler’s Notebook specifically for this project. The beginning is information about weaving, fiber artists, websites, the chakras, colors, and yoga poses. Then, I created a section of several pages for each chakra to record what I am doing, feeling, sensing, meditating on, and yoga poses to correspond to each chakra. The end contains notes on possible ways to display the weavings, a few pages that contain my end thoughts about the project, and photos of the finished project. After I had set up my notebook to have a place to record my experiences, I started in on weaving. I had only been introduced to weaving about 2 weeks prior to this assignment but I knew I wanted very much to learn more. So, I studied weaving techniques and started with the basics. Tabby Weave, Twining, Soumak, and Rya were the weaving techniques used. I tried to keep composition and color in mind when creating the weavings, as well as my notes and memories from each individual experience.
First, I warped the circular loom with an interesting color of warp string or yarn. Mostly I used darker colors. Next, I used a chunky yarn such as chenille to wrap the plastic loom to cover it and to use as a frame and for ease of display. A Circular loom just made sense for this project and it is my very most favorite shape. After that, I had to weave the center to stabilize the warp strings and to represent the core of the chakra, the center of the body, the spine. Later, on most of the centers of the chakras, I added beads and sequins to add a bit of my personality to it and make it shine and stand out. The circular weaving automatically send the viewer’s eye to the center and I wanted to give them something more to look at, a glimpse into me. Next, I added layers of fibers by using different weaving techniques, keeping in the back of my mind composition and color. Each layer represents something from my experience during my yoga and meditation practice. I left warp strings showing in some small places and some large places to represent my inner self, my ribs when I breathe, and space around me filled with incense and sitar music.
Form:
For the Form, I chose circular looms, about 28 inches in diameter. Circles are my favorite shape and I thought that the loom would make a great frame to tie together the whole weaving. It also makes display easier because I can hang the weavings on their looms on anail on the wall.
Context:
There are 7 looms total, each representing and enclosing into that circle, a chakra and my experience using yoga and meditation to heal that chakra.
Meaning:
A visual representation of the path I took using meditation and yoga to heal my chakras. My inner self has come out to play with a new medium.
Corresponding colored shirts
Corresponding colored shirts