Project Tag: Multimedia

24 Hours

  • by rosie

This art is the relationship between order and chaos, with time representing order. Time moves horizontally as the uniform panels at the center spread from left to right. The intervals that the 24 panels create are equal, and they make up the consistent 24 hours in each day, though with time comes infinite possibilities, which are the swirling shapes representing chaos that stem from the order of time. This chaos that bridges from time is a repeated pattern, the light behind the puzzle representing sunlight that begins and ends every day.

After reading a book series about time travelers before making this art, I thought about the pieces as moving through/affecting different points in time physically. In the real world, these squiggles could be ideas that come together over time, arching over initially unconnected thoughts that lead to a conclusion, or events in the past or future that become significant because of what happened in another time, and the way that they fit together perfectly, even raised at different heights, is what I consider to be luck, fate, or hope; The idea that everything will work out if given time.

Come Alive!

  • by rosie

Our trampoline mat broke last year, so I used it as a canvas for this piece about keeping memories alive, inspired by the trampoline game I played with my brothers that goes “Mummy, mummy, come alive when I count to the number five…” I decided to keep parts of the trampoline mat border and hardware to emphasize that it is a trampoline mat and highlight its upcycled nature.

As mummies were preserved for the afterlife, we can preserve good times through art, because the afterlife of a moment is in the memory of it. Balanced by numbers around (and centered on) the sarcophagus, this piece points to the idea that if you save a memory, reliving the happiness that it carries is as simple as counting to five.

The hieroglyphs featured across the work spell out the game’s incantation. Instead of holding a crook or flail like most pharaohs do, this one holds an oak branch for the tree whose leaves shaded and fell on our trampoline.

Materials: Upcycled trampoline mat, yarn, acrylic paints, gold trim

Dimensions: 24×36 inches

Cycle

  • by rosie

This piece of upcycled Extra brand gum wrappers is about individuality in the unity of natural cycles. The tiny, unique pieces that fit together to make larger shapes also create an inward swirling pattern around a larger central circle, which I think of as life in the center of its workings. Any of the tiny shapes can be picked out and seen for itself, yet all of them work towards a greater picture. There is importance in the individuality of shapes, as each makes sense in its particular place, which no other shape on the canvas could satisfy. Representative of natural processes that make the world work, shapes might represent plants, animals, or individual raindrops in the water cycle, each reflecting light in a slightly different way, as do the placed wrappers, that make up the shape of the river they flow into.

Cycle is a multimedia art project that explores the relation of individual parts of a whole that laid out in a series of circular shapes.

Close up view of the raised components. These components all interjoin with each other (a la puzzle pieces), but they are raised to different levels within the whole.

Seascales

  • by rosie

I made this piece by glueing chip bags, insides out, onto a canvas, and painting over them with black acrylics, to make an etching surface. I started the etching with a few spaced-out amoebas, the bones to begin filling in with fluctuating waves of lines. The overlaid triangle of scales (each with three layers of laminate) are outlined with silver sharpie, and held together with clear twist ties and brads through hole punches. The order and smooth consistency of the scales contrasts with the background of wild movement and bubbly texture of the chip bags. I made this project outside of school and was experimenting with laminate and chip bag materials, and noticed the look of ocean waves and fish scales after finishing.

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