Title: Dina’s Coalesce Materials: Plywood, wire, olive oil (to glaze) Images: Report: For my studio project, I created a wooden sculpture in the shape of a geometric figure with an engraved cut out of my mother’s name, “Jude”, in Arabic calligraphy. My concept is to show a visual exploration of the culture I grew up with…

THE PROJECT During the semester, my experience of research in this semester’s studio class was very different and more intense in terms of what areas we had to concentrate on in our work and how we would approach the situations and the information we were presented with. From our observations such as the “Art I…

What was observed? For my investigation I first observed lighting up some matches and watching them fully burn out, as well as observing the trees in the city parks and studying their branch forms. Another observation I did was people’s faces and hands, the forms, movement, and structure. Why (how does it relate to your…

Using wooden hands, I was trying to cover them up using non-dry moldable clay in skin-tone colours to create a marble effect onto the hand. I was hoping to use the two light and dark tones to mimic a gradient marble mold and to create depth into the hand. To be safe I tried it…

A.  ABOUT THE WORK YOU ADMIRE My chosen person is the English painter David Hockney, who was not only a painter, but created beautiful sketches of people around him, as well as a being a photographer and a stage designer. His paintings captivated me from the very moment I laid eyes on them, expressing his influence of the…

Last semester, I had a Studio and Seminar combined project for Bridge 2, which was to create a body-extension that was supposed to exaggerate or intensify one of the five human senses, such as either smell, touch, vision, etc. I remember that we had to work with a partner and combine both our extensions to…

My collage is based off the image of the girl holding a magnifier to her eye. To me, it felt like she was searching for something but yet couldn’t grasp it just yet. My main theme was to go out and explore the world, and that exploring different cultures and places is eye opening and…

1. Both lists A and B: A. 30 actions: B. 20 themes: 2. Two choices and explanation of why: 3. Three experiments My chosen two are the theme and inspiration of Saudi art, with colors that remind me of home such as an array of beiges, blues, yellows, reds, and the action of drawing in forms…

In Integrative Studio and Seminar, I have been introduced to many ideas and concepts through our Bridge exercises, required readings, creating projects, artistic practices, journal entries and class discussions. I clearly still remember when we first had to introduce ourselves by guessing a unique fact about each other in Studio, and choose a Hindu mythological…

Mood board & Ideas: For my final project, I wanted to do something associated with an expressive form of sculpture and textiles. The first thing that came to mind were peacock feathers. Peacocks use their feathers to show off in order to attract a mate, and they are vibrant expressive feathers on their backs that…