A new idea using inanimate objects

What I did:

In the second week, I went further with my first idea of documenting my emotions, along with thinking up more project ideas and variables of these ideas. I also spent time researching artists who have worked with ideas similar to what I have come up with. In all, I have completed 10 hours of work composed of:

·      1.5 hours of continuing my emotion documentation, along with trying different styles of drawing (can't figure out how to make them stay rotated)

·      2 hours of thinking up more project ideas and variables

·      3.5 hours of researching artists whose work relates to my ideas through their websites and books. 

·      3 hours drawing examples for my newest project idea.  

What I accomplished/ discovered/ encountered:

Trying a few different styles of drawing was fun and showed me that certain styles can give a different feel for the emotion that I am trying to portray. I had a lot of fun creating characters for my moods for the first few weeks of school and it was nice to be able to get my emotions out in a way other than vocally.

While creating these, however, I came up with another idea that I think would generate better with an audience. Since I was little, I have always attributed emotions to inanimate objects and felt empathy for them when they were ugly or never used. A few days ago, I wondered, if these inanimate objects could talk, what would they say? I thought that it would be fun to illustrate these objects with personalities, giving them facial expressions and writing their dialogue beside them. I came up with a few, but my shower drawing is still my favorite. It got a lot of reactions (good and bad) from people who I showed it to, which is exactly what I wanted.

After thinking about different variables for this project, talking with Juliette, and researching different artists who make inanimate objects come to life, I realized that I should think about alternate ways to communicate my ideas besides drawing, whether it be through photography, solely text, 3D sculptures, or sound where the audience can hear what the object is saying. Here are a few examples from different artists (worth1000.com and bent objects) that express the emotion of certain everyday objects through either manipulating the photograph of it, or creating limbs for the object and positioning it in a way to look like it is a living object with a human personality:

This project could definitely show my quirky personality. And instead of a project where it just displays my personal emotions, this new project would be more for the public and everyone could relate to it. It would be humorous, but some of them (like the shower) would make people feel a little uneasy.

What I think I should do next:

From here, I will take my new project idea and think about different ways and different media that I can use to portray the objects best, and to give it the feel that I really want the audience to see and respond to. I will also try to come up with many more inanimate objects that I can illustrate.