Final Project: Feel Yourself Sensing

Feel Yourself Sensing is an interactive installation composed of emotive textured tiles that can be moved and reconstructed based on a users interpretation of the emotions evoked by them and how they as individuals wish to arrange the tiles to communicate their emotions. The sense of touch is used as a mode of communication in the context of this project to provide a vehicle for those with impaired vision and/or…

IDS 1: Project 5

THE BEGINNING We spent the entirety of our second half of this semester orchestrating a group project based around our experiences in and with mental health. I had never done a group project of this magnitude up until this point. There were several periods of deep discussion going into this project. What we landed on was that we cared about mental health more than any other subject we deliberated doing…

Project 5 Week 6 Check-In

This week we have begun to finalize layouts and print the zines. These are the layouts I did for the 3 different prompt zines. I am really thrilled with the different prompts, I am really proud that I wrote so many that I consider to be really nice pros and now they are to be printed an dI may share and keep them. Because I did the majority of the…

Project 5 Week 5 Check-In

This week we used our time off for the holiday as an opportunity to use our time off as a chance to either make more imagery or collect imagery from those we would be surrounded with on the holiday. We decided that before we could (have) reached out to a community beyond ourselves and see what imagery they were creating and/or collecting we should look around us. Because truthfully we…

Project Five Week Four Check-In

This week has been about: compiling our imagery, beginning to layout those images, compiling more “prompts” for the prompt zine finalizing the layout/formatting of each zines finding how they can connect to the other aspects/groups to this project    As far as imagery goes this week we set two goals for ourselves, the first, on Monday we said, everyone come in on Wednesday with 5 drawings, collages, etc that you…

Project 5 Week 3 Check-In

At this point my group and I have formulated a concise idea of what we want to accomplish with our zine. We want to make three iterations of the zine: A documentary zine, that prompts you around the rest of the exhibition/space – working to supplement the work of our peers A zine of prompts. I have been exposed to several different books with a prose oriented format that can…

IDS Project 3: Manifesto

My (Written) Manifesto I believe in caring deeply for other people. Caring for others and desiring to empathize with them creates an atmosphere wherein we can grow and deepen our human experience. Meaningful relationships bring meaning to life. Balance is essential. Maybe not to be in balance but to be aware of balance is what’s most important. There are balances and dichotomies in ourselves and everyone else but there is…

IDS Project 3: Emotional Object

  Exercising Emotion.  When asked to bring in an object that carried an intense amount of emotion I automatically knew I would bring my phone. (As if I wouldn’t already have had it on me.) In conjunction with my media class, film classes, and of course Integrated Studio, I have experienced a heightened awareness of my consumption of media and also the media I create/perpetuate. I feel more than anything,…