Form Studio, week 6

The results from this week. I'm starting to narrow my focus and look at the divergence and convergence of lines and breaking borders.

Form Studio, week 5

Last week Martin spent some significant time giving a lecture on process drawing including lots of exciting and inspiring work by Eva Hesse and others. Process drawing is about creating a system of constraints (geometry, pattern, process) and working against that system with your hand. The two push against each other to create tension.

This week I continued my study of the materials and looked at lines, curves, and how things begin to break at the edges.

Form Studio, week 4

Week three has been all about the straws. I love the way the spray paint applied through the straws begins to create impressions of depth and focus. I began to work with vellum, light, and tubular shapes to push this effect further.

Looks like something is growing in the petri dish...

Form Studio, week 3

For week two I spent more time exploring the quality of the brushe's bristles. I like the way the bristles mat together and start to interact with each other in the same way that hair does. I also pushed further into how I can make marks using spray paint and straws.

Form Studio, week 2

My first week in form studio with Martin Venezky. The objects I am working with are straws and brushes. I spent the week exploring the materials and learning about the different ways I can use them to make marks on paper.

Mind Map

My first section of design writing was with Laurie Seidler and was focused on maps. For the final project of the section I created a map of my neurosis and worries and wrote out a legend. Here's a sample.

When you flush a toilet, the force of the flushing water is enough to send particles flying up to eight feet in the air. I read this fact in a Kids Discover magazine in 1998 and it permanently changed my perception of and interaction with germs. For one, I can no longer see a toilet without mentally overlaying a sphere with a radius of eight feet and it’s center resting in the toilet’s bowl. This is the sphere of toilet particle contamination. The concept of the eight-foot particle launch is so deeply embedded into my brain that nothing could dislodge it; flushing with the lid up will always cause skin crawling discomfort no matter how many times the fact is disproved. In my current apartment, the bathroom is so small that the toilet sphere encloses three of the four walls. This is why I never leave my toothbrush sitting, exposed, on the bathroom counter top and why I do not keep my towel hanging on the towel rack. Because even though I never flush with the lid up, you cannot trust the guests.