Thursday, January 5, 2012

Take away points from December consultation

Key points from faculty group:
  • Littering and excessive waste issues seem to be an interest of mine, but drawing faces seems to be a passion. These two things are not coming together cohesively, so I should stick to what I am passionate about, and the project will turn out better. The mere surprise factor might just be enough to fuel my project.
  • Use architectural details to integrate the faces more into the architectural structures. This is key to making my project come together!
  • I need to be more site specific and goal specific
  • My faces are currently expressive, but they are not very informational
  • Try to use different configurations of the face depending on what is present in the architecture. Don't limit myself to 2 eyes and a mouth. Maybe try to incorporate other body parts as well.
  • Also, don't limit myself to a certain style. Have it be dependent on the architecture. 
  • Try to experiment with text, as long as it is integrated within the architecture as well.
Implications going forward:
  • First, I will take pictures of a few sites in Ann Arbor and then draw on each of these pictures as many different ways that I can to integrate facial features and body parts in order to humanize the structures.
  • I will try different ways I can draw on the structures or use similar materials to the ones used to make the structure in order to create facial features and body parts that look integrated within the structure. 
  • I will learn about the site and the objects that are incorporated before I take over the site with my art.
  • I will try different configurations of the face and the body, not just limiting myself to 2 eyes and a mouth, and I will try different styles as well.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Noelle! Thanks for getting this in. Moving forward, on the idea of considering the architecture more and "human-izing" the buildings ... is this moving towards finding the personalities of the different buildings?

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