Wax

I wrote down Beethoven's love letter and put it in an envelope. The wax seeped through the paper and made the words visible below. 

I carved an ear outline into wax, playing on the word earwax. 

I put a shell into the liquid form of wax and let it cool so only the top part showed. 

I made a wax cupcake. 

I poured the wax onto the coins and the imprint was left behind. It's hard to see in the pictures, but you have to turn the wax the right way in the light. 

Drawing In Space

Utensils/Tools

I outlined the tools/utensils and cut them out, then placed them over things that they would be used for or with.

Newspaper

I transferred newspaper onto my fingernails.

I drew a school of fish in pen.

I thought to myself, what if a newspaper was more fun looking? I added multiple design elements and highlighted/connected words that are important to me. 

I have lately had an interest in origami so I made an origami fish to go along with the school of fish I drew.

This is an origami warbler bird. 

I made a box that contains smaller newspapers that I made.

I rolled up newspaper strips into separate rolls and then tied them together to look like a bundle of wood logs. 

I thought how one of the rolls looked like a time capsule so I cut it open and stuck a scroll inside. 

Powder

I made my own zen garden!

I used spices and other cooking supplies to spell out their labels.

For this piece I reflected on how I like to take things with me and I decided that I would like to take a piece of Flagler with me when I graduate. I took sand from the Flagler volleyball court. I thought more about what comes after graduation and that  don't know yet where I will end up and decided I wanted piece of home too hence the "snow". Combining two places that have helped shaped me and I can take this jar where ever I end up.

I ground up pieces of charcoal and dumped them into this paper basket I made, put clear tape over the opening and then shook the basket so the charcoal stuck to the tape making the inside of the basket look as if it was made of black paper. 

This is the paper I used to grind up the charcoal and I thought it came out strangely interesting. 

Wood

For these three pieces I experimented using the ash from a burnt piece of wood to draw/write with. 

I traced the tree rings in ink to make them more prominent and better show the age of the tree. 

I liked the comparison between the rough bar from a tree to the polished sheen of store bought wood that has been cut and sanded down. 

I found a piece of wood that was so incredibly thin and flexible that it looked like string so I used it as such to create a name tag. 

I burned one side of this piece of wood to reflect how pristine it looked on one side and the corruption on the other. Things aren't always what they seem.