iar 112 final project: elsewhere composition

interior perspective practice

this is the renovation of my friend Melia's perspective:

apparently no one is home, and the person that lives there reads braille magazines.
but they have great taste in art.

[marker on vellum.]

final studio project: habitable wall

the final project for the semester was to create an engageable / habitable wall for a client we were assigned. I designed a wall for James Turrell, an artist whose medium is light.
beginnning with sketch models, I developed the idea that ended up in the final design, that incorporated a canopy type "wall" with a space for entertaining, sleeping/resting, food prep, storage, a place to work, and an area to showcase work.
here's the process:

second iteration model

final model

final model, second view

presentation board and model display

wishful thinking

meet my newest love:
the Becca stool by Anthony Marschak for Modern Bamboo caught my eye while window shopping at Design Public. they feature it as seating and have two together to form a coffee table, but I'd love it as a bedside table.
commence drooling...

otherwise we're elsewhere

the second visit to elsewhere was today, and this is a photo of our little forum in one of the larger open areas there. our assignment is to draw specific individual spaces inside the building that we've chosen, to be used as a sort of map when finished. (it's so overwhelming!) we also got to play with some of the objects and arrange them into "visual puns"... however, I regret that the few that I came up with may be too risque for posting here. maybe later.

Drafting assignment: sketchup practice plan

caring is creepy

our drawing class visited an amazing place today, aptly titled elsewhere.
this building houses the story of a woman who loved things. all things, and she cared enough about them to keep them for most of her life. you know those places owned by eccentric people who hoard things and never throw anything away, and end up with a house full of stuff and a little path to walk through? that's what elsewhere was, but now has been turned into an interactive art gallery/tribute to the eclectic. I loved it. It takes up two buildings downtown and is chock full of everything. really, everything. if you can name an object, it's probably there. it has that smell that you expect from an old store or attic, and has creaky floors and peeling plaster--the works. I've never been to a public place quite like it.

I left feeling as though I had to switch gears and snap out of the elsewhere environment. it was bizarre how I felt removed from my day when I got back to my car... I didn't even know what I was supposed to do next, or what my plans had been for the afternoon. I'm sure I'll be thinking about the experience for the next few days!

pretty little things

I started photographing tiny things found outside around my house a couple of years ago. Oddly enough, what began this trend was a scary garden spider that made a web in front of our living room window. Unfortunately for me, she was alive and very mobile, so I did not get very close to her (and the result is a photo that is out of focus).
Yet I continued to search for small flowers, harmless insects, and especially dead-but-well-preserved insects to take pictures of. Now, thanks to the macro button on my camera, I have a neat little collection of nature photos you can view here.

*Please note: you will not find a single picture of a worm or snake.

sketchbook assignment: object vignettes

a little studio experience

Jake gives his advice about a sketch model.

Suzanne and Stoel explain the meaning of life.

Some of us prefer not to have our photo taken!

Classic Melia: "I don't understand...!"