Science Theme

INSPIRATION

Dendrochronology
http://ltrr.arizona.edu/about/treerings
http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/


Bryan Nash
Tree Ring prints

Mended spider web Nina Katchadourian
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php

Joan Jonas-Mirrors

Vivian Maier-reflected self portraits

How mirrors work: http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/mirror2.htm

Spirits are often associated with mirrors. Mirrors are covered out of respect for the dead during the Jewish mourning ritual of sitting shiva, but in many people in the U.S. also cover their mirrors when someone dies. According to superstition, a mirror can trap a dying soul.

Richard Coleman

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STATEMENT

Dendrochronology is the dating and study of annual rings in trees. The spacing and patterning can indicate how dry or wet a season was, if there was flooding, or a fire. Each year a tree leaves behind a mark of its experience.   I explored this passage of time by sewing man made tree rings. A slice from a tree trunk was hollowed out and used as the surrounding ring, juxtaposing the natural with the unnatural. The time spent can be seen when the thousands of stitches are examined. It is pinned to a wall with the wrinkles, bumps, and other imperfections.

Paper Sculpture

INSPIRATION

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This paper ball is is reminiscent of a meteor or some other space object meant to be explored. A pathway was made by threading together small paper rolls. The pathway begins far away from the sculpture leading the viewer in, and wraps itself around the sphere, ending at an ambiguous organic pile of paper that appears to be growing from within the sphere.

Assemblage

INSPIRATION

David Cata - Portraits sewn into hands

http://www.designboom.com/art/david-cata-sews-portraits-of-his-family-into-the-palm-of-his-hand-01-10-2014/

Altar piece

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Photo

View through telescope

STATEMENT

This piece was inspired by a pair of binoculars I took apart. A lens was removed from one of the tubes, so that it flipped the image seen. I immediately knew I would somehow connect this to my recently deceased gramma Bercie. An old cutting board that belonged to my still living gramma was given to me and broke and was used as the base. Also found was a light switch and an old alarm clock that was taken apart. Later in the week I was looking through old family photos and found the one used in this piece. In the photo my sisters and I sit beneath my gramma. The flash from the camera reflects in the painting above her head creating a halo of sorts. The photo was placed so that when someone looks through the lens they see an upside-down image of what can be interpreted as her spirit.