My assignment: sculpture

For my piece i choose to let the assignment take me were ever it would lead me. This piece was very hard for me to understand. i could not think of an easier way to make a bubble gum bubble nor an easier to tie a shoe lace. So i decided to go against this and really though about every thing that would be incorporated in my piece. My piece incorporates a microphone stand,and fan mechanisism that was changed to suck air from a mouth piece and or mouth, that would be blown in to a sewn semi transpernt ball, that is a literal and a representation of a bubble. My piece is a self blown piece that takes the idea of blowing a bubble gum bubble, and almost eliminates the role of a person. My piece incorporates a snorkleing mouth piece that is placed on top of the opening that is the input of air flow. this small piece was placed on top of the microphone stand at mouth level. reason fro the stand is a very simple yet complicated element. i asked for suggestion in my piece for placement and such and a got microphone stand. At first it was kind of random, but after thinking about a M. stand and what i means to me, i thought of a interesting concept. ( Mainly when people blow bubble gum bubbles they are in competition with other they want to blow the biggest bubble to shohw their talent.) a microphone stand is a location were a person commands attention like the bubble. The sewn ball AKA the Bubble is only inflated with air flowing through the mouth piece if the opening is covered that ball keep the air and slowly starts to disinflate. THIS sort of happens if a person stands close up to the mouth piece, and the person feels the air being taken from the body even without trying. the ball becomes a container of several peoples air, in a way evry one contribute to the inflation of my piece, without even knowing.

Latest Sculpture assig.

So the latest piece that was assigned for sculpture is a two part piece. we had to do research on thing people do on a daily basis, such as putting socks on every day, blowing a piece of bubble gum or tie a shoe. i did my research on how to blow a bubble gum bubble, and a way in typing to tying a shoe. the entire class did an interesting research topic, but according to our teacher mostly every ones Research lacked the small detail, like placement of fingers or body part in better description. i think he has right, and i feel that there would always be something that would be missing. But from this we were suppose to make a piece that would make the chosen action much easier or completly eliminate the action in a way. this was a very hard project for me.

Latest Sculpture assig.

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Monument to Playfair

Knot for Karate Belt

How to blow: a bubble out of gum

1. Chew it vigorously until you feel that it's rubbery and smooth, rather than sticky, sandy and rough. Saliva helps a lot in this process, so go ahead and just mix the two of them.

2. When you feel that it's nice and firm, use your tongue to roll the gum into a ball and put it in the middle of your tongue.

3. Press the ball between your tongue and the roof of your mouth to make it flat, a bubblegum pancake, if you will.

4. Gently conduct this pancake and set it vertically on the back part of your front teeth, which should now be closed.

5.Slightly open your mouth and use your tongue to push the central part of the pancake out of your mouth between your teeth.

6. Your mouth should not be completely open, nor your teeth completely closed.

7. Still holding the border of the pancake between your front teeth, gently wrap your slightly moistened lips around the part of the gum sticking out of your mouth, and start blowing very slowly.

How should you tie your Karate belt? Here is the answer.

How do you tie your shoes?

KNOT 1.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
Here is an interesting way to tie your shoe,for me anyways, I do the bunny ear knot.

The way to show the steps in how tie a shoe lace, is much harder that than just doing it I have learned it is crazy hard here i am trying different techniques and I am pretty sure that these are to simple but i am making it really hard or something?

KNOT 2.

Step 1:
Hold one end of each shoelace in each hand.
Step 2:
Cross them, making an X.
Step 3:
Pass one end of the shoelace under the other.
Step 4:
Pull tight.
Step 5:
Fold one shoelace in half while holding laces taut.
Step 6:
Wrap the other end around the folded end.
Step 7:
Grasp it in the middle after pulling it around the folded end.
Step 8:
Bend it into a flat loop and pull through, making a bow.
Step 9:
Repeat with other shoe.

KNOT 3.

Step 1:
Cross the two shoestring ends over each other once and then loop one end under the other to make the first basic knot of a bow.
Step 2:
In your right hand hold the right shoelace, with palm down, in your pinky, ring and middle fingers.
Step 3:
In your left hand hold the left shoelace, with palms down, in your pinky, ring and middle fingers.
Step 4:
Position your index fingers and thumbs in gun position.
Step 5:
With your right hand place your index finger over the right shoelace and your thumb under the right shoelace. Your hand will be spinning towards you and the string will rest on top of your index finger and thumb.
Step 6:
With your left hand spin your thumb away from you over the shoelace and your index finger under the shoelace. Your hand will spin away from you and the string will rest on top of your index finger and thumb.
Step 7:
With your right index finger on the bottom and right thumb on top grab the left shoestring between your left finger and thumb.
Step 8:
Hook the right string with your left index finger between the right index finger and thumb.
Step 9:
Pull strings in opposite directions.

KNOT 4-5-6

http://reidster.net/shoes/

Art History

How to read the pictures

OK, the order of the images, are from the top of each casting section and then move down. staring with '.', then Casting part 2 and 3.

Interests

Furniture and other decorative house elements, have been a big part of my interests, so a lot of these web sites include a vast majority.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.treehugger.com/files/th_images/green-furniture-3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/how_to_green_your_furniture.php&h=312&w=468&sz=30&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=w1141221akS9eM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfurniture%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jazzitupinteriors.co.uk/acatalog/main.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jazzitupinteriors.co.uk/&h=425&w=283&sz=35&hl=en&start=17&um=1&tbnid=QomaqYvgIoZwRM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=84&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcontemporary%2Bdesign%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN

Part 3: Casting

Part 2: Casting

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Here are some of the steps to the class casting project.

Catch up.

Ok, it has been a while since I have posted a blog. so, The casting experience was amazing the setting up and the pouring of the hot metal into our molds, and the taking out, oh yes and the clean up of the monuments I cut mine apart. Finnaly a have figured out how to transfer my images from my computer with out cost.

Artist StatementI

I as an artist love to experiment with all materials. I enjoy the idea of using any materials and making something that may not have anything in common with the material of choice.

The human body is a theme that I really like working with, There are so many things that could be done to the human body, people alter their body by adding and removing as they please. My fascination with the body from a different view is the development with time. For example, face wrinkles, they may take years to appear but in a flash they can be erased from the face.

The growth of my art works have attained a relationship with the body from the very beginning. (The growth that my art has with the body is just like a wrinkle and a face, with the ability to change with the hand and mind of an artist).

I am also fascinated with the ability for my art to portray motion; still or literal-the amazing reactions that my viewers have when they see something that sparks interest.

I am still growing as an artist and thinking up new ways building a relationship between the body and my art work.

Artist Bio

Gustavo Galvan Junior was born in Dallas, Texas, on November 17, 1987. He began experimenting in art at the young age of 13, sketching anything he saw of interest, with pencil. Later, he attended the highly accredited, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas. He graduated in 2006 with a focus in dimensional studies (Art work with a theme of 3-D).

His artwork during his four years in high school was devoted to experimenting with all types of making art, such as drawing, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, printmaking, and design. During this period, Galvan earned several awards.

He is now a second year student at Alfred University located in Alfred, New York. There he has started to improve his artistic technique by experimenting with different material and studying the styles and techniques of other artists.

He has exhibited in two art shows at his first year of college, and has plans to show and exhibit his artwork in many other surrounding galleries. Galvan is also planning to earn his Bachelors in Art and Design, and a minor in Art History and Business, and graduate May 2010.