Throughout my time in my elective making meaningful things I felt that the class wasn’t what I truly expected, I went in thinking I would learn computer programs for designing in 3 dimensional space, I felt the only things I could make would have to be in a computer to then come to life. I soon learned the class was more about hands on creativity. I was in a my space class that same semester, the two courses reflected each other in ways that helped my make but Making meaningful things differed in a way that allowed me to make what I wanted, which is great.
Throughout the course I got to make a wood frame, clay molds and casted with plaster. We created paintings with house hold items like toothpaste, peanut butter and spices. One of my favorite projects was designing a prototype of a shoe decreaser with built in shoe horn, shoe cleaning solution and cleaning brush. we also took a trip to the Brooklyn museum and saw the Frida kahlo exhibition.
When the final was given we were asked to make either a statement piece or something with meaning, I chose to make buttons for my final. The reason is because around that time I had just started to collect buttons that I would find on the street or that were given to me. When I spotted the first button it sparked in my the same emotion that I had when I started collecting key chains when I was seven years old. something drove me to always be looking out for a key chain, that same feeling drove me to search for buttons anytime I walked. When making the buttons I was designing what was popping in my head, but when I showed my project my classmates brought up the word nostalgia. Then I realized it as well that my buttons reflected my and their childhoods. My project couldn’t come to full completion due to the schools button machines being broken :,(
