March 18

Buckmister Sphere

This is my first project for my Space/Materiality class: The Buckminster Sphere.

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The project consisted of 2 stages:

The first stage was the construction of the base sphere, the sphere on the left. Using straws and brass-plated pins, we constructed a sphere out of polygons. The sphere is composed of 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons. We use this sphere in order to make the next one.

The second stage is a sphere with a unique design, made out of any material of our choosing (the right one). I, being proficient in the material, decided to use wire. My sphere has a main ring composed of 4 pieces, connected by small rings were the pieces go through. The rest of it is pieces of half of the main rings’s length, which create the form of the sphere.

This Project is one of my favorite thus far, making me trouble solve and think how to efficiently make the job asked by the teacher, and reusing a material i used on my portfolio for applying at Parsons

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March 18

Sculpture Project

My project for our team sculptures was two statues of characters based on creatures of the folklore from our respective countries

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Wynne thought to use characters that would represent our cultures. He decided to use Son Goku as his character; due to the fame the character has in fiction. I decided to go with one of the 5 most well known characters in Venezuelan folklore, The Whistler. I liked the idea of using an obscure and dark character, which would contrast with Son Goku very well.

 

We decided to use clay and wire due to the details that would be available to us making the statues. We decided to start with a base form of aluminum foil covered wire framing. On top of these, we would apply the clay and do the details of the characters before it dries off. Finally, we decided to make the stage of the statues New York, since that is where we met each other.

 

Overall, we had little trouble working together in order to decide what we were going to make for this project. Wynne and I effectively brainstorm to make something we hope is very special.

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March 7

Figure Compositions

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This are compositions made out of the negative space of this image:

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Using Photoshop, we made shapes out of the negative space in this image. we then were tasked with making 2 compositions with them: A white figure (the left one), and an ambiguous figure (the right one).

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