Daniel

      For this project, I wanted to measure something about my life over the course of the short time that I have been back at college. To do this, and as a jumping off point of the project, I took note of and drew a quick one minute sketch of everything that I ate while here, right after I ate it. I saw this as a way to create a sort of self portrait, in the sense of "you are what you eat." I found this to be really insightful, as I got to see what I would resort to eating now that I was back at college during the pandemic. I planned to fill up a full page with sketches in the week that I was documenting this, but only filled up half a page, as I did not end up eating as much as I had originally intended. However, this seemed to add to the experience, as I am not done eating with the conclusion of this project, but could continue documenting these things for the rest of my life if I wanted to create a life-long self portrait.      From here, I realized tha...

     This project saw an exploration of various themes, but grouped all of its parts under one larger theme. For each project, I explored the concept of identity, but not always in the sense we normally attribute to the term. I explored the concept of identity first with things that we give credit to at face value, changing what meanings are meant to be given to objects, but then progressed as I made more pieces to explore what it meant to have an identity as an every day object, and what we think of objects to mean or represent.      First, I drew on playing cards for a while, changing each suit into something else. Having 13 playing cards in a suit could be symbolic, and is part of the identity of a suit of cards. However, 13 playing cards can be applied in different ways. If two letters are inscribed on each card, the entire alphabet can be encoded into a single suit of cards. Additional meaning can be gleamed from the cards themselves, changing one...

     For this project, I was given the challenge of recreating an object that I had never seen before or had any level of experience with. My assigned object was a Polly Pocket Pool Party set, which according to the description I was given, is a sort of doll set composed of two characters, a blue pool, and a purple slide that they could use to get into the pool. This is clearly something that had deep sentimental value to my partner, who could vividly remember the details and how they would slide the characters down into the pool. I made an attempt to gather as much information about this object as I could, in hopes of getting some idea of what it looked like, as this would be an art piece that they would have an emotional investment in.      The concept itself was not much of a problem. It was only moderately complex, but I was confident that I had a close enough idea of what it looked like that I could put something together. The issue lied in making this...