THINGS (human bodies) FALL (gain and lose various bacteria which cause it to) APART (bloat and decay).

My initial idea revolved around my interest in the seemingly peculiar way that the body falls apart, which involves first being filled with gas (essentially, filling up). While this obviously seems counter productive, it could be said that this pattern occurs a lot in almost everything we know. I hope to compare the decomposition of the human body– specifically in the stage of bloating– to everyday structures and processes. While this sounds vague, I have specific ideas in mind: the removal of a building to reveal a field, the destruction of one’s own biases in order to understand others, and the bloating of the body before its eventual decay. I hope to juxtapose these three ideas (the body is a must, while the other two examples are open to constructive criticism) by placing 3 structural recreations of these processes (using different materials for each, like wire, clay, and sound (?)) in front of three very concrete illustrations of the literal processes going on (not open for interpretation or abstract thinking).

Here is a sort of idea collage that I created in order to convey my idea. I have inserted a page break before the images of decomposition in case anyone is adverse to gross shit. 

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The original photos of the cast:

Here are the inverted photos for tracing:

Here are the drawings:

Aaaand here are the inverted final drawings:

AND FINALLY, here is the full monty:

WE’RE DONE! THAT’S A WRAP! LET’S FORGET ABOUT THIS PROJECT!!!

This one is significantly more interesting.

The comments I made were as follows, as the sketchbook page it was written on became soaked in water and is now unreadable:

1. Oh Jesus, oh God, I hope this kills me.
2. This feels like Flubber.
3. I wonder when I’m gonna die. Now? Is it now?
4. This, uh, this feels like Flubber still.
5. Oh, it’s getting hot. I don’t like this.
6. Fuck this.
7. Oh shit.
8. Oh God.

Now, here’s the plaster cast:

Now, here’s the box I made to hold the cast:

Finally, here is the stand, confidently holding the hand plaster:

Wow, this is incredible. I love this content.

Alright, here’s something exciting: wave forms. Yes, it’s all very chic. Do you remember the album “The People’s Key” by the sad indie band Bright Eyes? Never my cup of tea, but it was something like that in terms of visuals. I’m not sure what I’m saying. I believe that I have made my opinions on this project very clear, however.

Anyways, here’s my stab at it. I wish we had done it in blood like the guy we were basing the project after.

The “Wire Selfie” project was a lot of fun, because it involved an interesting paradox: we could be as abstract with it as we wanted to be in terms of how we actually put it together, but at the same time we were to follow a blueprint provided to us by our fellow classmates. I think being able to interpret someone else’s interpretation of your own face is very complicated but also very intriguing. There’s something to be said about the sort of game of telephone that the art runs through. Either way, I’ve found that I’m pretty tragic at handling wire, but I can say that I tried.