Childhood Memory

Another project from my concept class-it had to be a sculpture on a childhood memory using objects directly relating to this memory. The memory I choose to focus on was of my mother's father, my papa, who lived in florida and owned a chocolate shop. My teacher made us put all of our projects on the floor and crawl around to view each other's work, it was pretty fun!

I ate the chocolates the next day:)

Things I will post in the future...

So, I have been so bad with keeping up with my work, but here is my checklist of things I hope to post soon.

Small book I made for Concept.

Another small project on childhood for concept.

Mixed Media bug project.

maybe some stuff from drawing, however most of it is not worthwhile...I'll do some rummaging.

random project through drawing when we had a guest artist come in from the UK and teach our class for the day, the assignment was "drawing with light", which mostly became just a project which incorporated light in some way.

College has been going GREAT! Here are some photos

Beautiful day in Pittsburgh for a football game. Even though our team stinks and we are D3, their is still a strong support for the scottish heritage here at Carnegie Mellon. The marching band goes all out with their kilts! CMU is also the only college in the US where one can major in bagpipes, I think. You can hear them playing around campus occasionally...

Me and some friends at the beginning of the school year, before we had homework!

Concept studio!

The last of my studio classes is concept. My prof. is the craziest guy ever, and he has been around forever. Concept is not media specific, and so far we have done things like sculpture, performance, and a lot of other random things. It is about the generation of ideas, so we talk about a lot of things like the city and our lives presently, memories, dreams, etc. Fun stuff, and it is pretty easy too because he focuses more on the concept rather than the final project. I am going to get a few more photos of work that can actually be documented, but for now here is a piece that I did that represents Dante's Inferno, the assignment was to trace shadows of ourselves to represent something from either Inferno, Purgatorio, or Paradiso. Cool stuff.

This is the shadow I did for the Inferno.

This is me and my shadow!

Mixed media

One of my classes (which just ended, it was only a mini) was 3D mixed media. One of the two projects assigned during the seven week period was to make a story in a box with objects. I did a performance under the alias Nancy, who was a middle aged lady who was married and lived a comfortable life financially but feels disconnected from the world, and tries to compensate by partaking in various hobbies, activities and classes. This was inspired by where I lived in Atlanta, where I saw many middle aged and older ladies who are financially very stable and live very comfortable lives but are often isolated, disconnected, and unhappy with their lives. I didn't record the performance, but here are some pics!

drawing class with prof. Clayton Merrell

We have been doing a bit of figure drawing in my drawing class, the majority of my classmates have not done or have limited figure drawing experience. I spent about a hour and a half on each, powdered charcoal and charcoal on both.

I need to start drawing more on my own, from observation, yeah...

His left arm is not out of proportion, it was actually like that.

long time no see

So I thought I was going to start a new blog, but I just missed this one so much!

I really missed blogging, and I should be documenting my work, and I should have more photos up soon it's just that my profs. have them, but I am BACK!

Carnegie Mellon has been great. It has been awesome. I love it. However, it is no RISD or MICA, and I have found that I really need to give myself the extra push to keep up with the pace in which I was creating work in high school. But college is SO MUCH FUN! Hopefully by keeping up with posting and documenting my work I will have a concentrated representation of what I have been doing.

What I have been doing here is a whole lot different than anything I expected. at CM, they really focus on contemporary art and I have been working in many different media (except painting:(

I will let the future posts do the explaining.

Love from Pittsburgh,

Lauren