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. 

Water

I used cutout letters to make the word uniform and then used a sponge to lightly apply water to the wood. 

Googling how to use water as art I mostly came across nail polish techniques. I tried a few and none worked, but I did enjoy the way the nail polish would sit on top of the water. 

I put water directly onto my camera lens and took a picture of a picture so that the image became distorted in only a select area. 

I chose to put maple syrup in a mason jar. I like the texture mixed with the water and the way it sat on the bottom instead of floating. Also when looking down upon the jar it appears that all of the water is brown. When looking at it from other angles there also appears to be a layer on the top of the water even though there isn't. 

Inspired by my work with the thread and the DVD I put droplets of water on a CD to see the effect of the rainbow within the water droplet. I took a picture with and without a flash to see how they differed. 

I put water and fork into a cup of water. I covered the fork in tinfoil hoping I would later pull it out. Alas I was sadly mistaken, but I loved the way the ice froze around the fork and it formed these beautiful ice crystals that hung down on the inside. 

I like the sound of water and thought it would be nice to have a small memento with me where I could shake it and hear the sound.

Thread/String/Yarn

For my first piece I had a round piece of glass and wrapped some yellow and orange yarn around it in a criss crossed pattern. It reminded me of a ray of sunshine. Not only did I like the effect on the glass, but I liked how it threw a shadow onto the paper. 

I thought it would be a good idea if the yarn represented another type of object and I chose to make drinks with it. A glass of water, lemonade, and a shot of whiskey. I chose these drinks specifically because they match my tablecloth.

In my art history classes we are always discussing the gaze of the female and I decided to bring together some of prominent examples and bind them together using fishing line. I used fishing line because it is clear and the relationship between the viewer and the subject is also invisible. 

I thought back to our assignment on body marks and how many decided to make the body their canvas. I applied this concept by wrapping yarn around my foot and making a sandal for myself. Albeit a poor one, but it was comfortable all the same. 

This is the first letter that a friend of mine wrote me when he was deployed into Kosovo, Europe. It's a year ago that I got that letter and we are no longer friends. I decided it was time to put an old memory away so I sewed it shut with red thread. 

I was reminded a lot of spiderwebs and cobwebs when I made this piece. I took the photograph in low lighting to give it an eerie effect. 

Usually when learning how to draw you begin with a grid system. I decided to skip a step by already putting the grid on the mirror. 

I was looking at this DVD contemplating procrastination when the light hit it and created this rainbow on the disc. I thought it resembled a multi-colored yarn I had to I wrapped half the DVD in the yarn that matched.