Title : Cardboard bones
Size : (in cm, needs hight,width,depth
Medium : Cardboard
Completion : Febuary 2022
Exhibition Text : I have always felt like a skeleton. So through this hybrid heroes project I wanted to portray this. This project sadly isn't one of my best due to the nature of the project. But I still wanted to portray this through the use skeltons such as the ones jose posada made.
Size : (in cm, needs hight,width,depth
Medium : Cardboard
Completion : Febuary 2022
Exhibition Text : I have always felt like a skeleton. So through this hybrid heroes project I wanted to portray this. This project sadly isn't one of my best due to the nature of the project. But I still wanted to portray this through the use skeltons such as the ones jose posada made.
Planning : When I was first introduced to the project i imediately started brainstorming ideas for what I would do. My first idea was to recreate Star-Lord's Mask/helmet. But this idea was quickly scrapped due to a lack of orginality. I could not think of ways to personalize it. as such I scrapped the idea. Next was to make a shirt and pants but this idea was shut down also for a lack of ideas. I had struggled to think of an idea of what to make. Then I suddenly had the idea to turn myself into a skeleton. This isbecause I feel like I too skinny, like I'm just a skeleton.
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Next I had to think of ways of translate 3D bone structure to 2D because of the way I would create to bones. But The skull would need to be 3D. This is where I started to look through my inspirations more deeply then a quick glance. I attempted my best quick sketch of one of the skulls to get a better look at how I would create the skull. I noticed that alot of Posada's skeletons are wearing hats, but I wanted to add my own spin and decided I would make it wear a winter hat because I spend alot of time playing outside during the winter at my grandparents' cabin near ever weekend. Because of this I spent alot of my winter up there and wanted to caputure that part of my childhood in this piece as well.
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Experimentation : I had started out by making a quick mock-up of the fore-arm bone to present in class. It was sloppy and not well-crafted but it served it's purpose of conveying my ideas to the teacher. Some of the things that need changing is : making the bones out of white cardboard, making the wrist cuffs rounded and not jagged and making the wrist cuffs blend in to what I was wearing.
Making the ribcage proved to be a challenge. I need a way to keep the front's shape so I needed to get a lot of one color. Luckily I had a large amount of Pop-Tart boxes. because of this I was able to make a large chestplate to secure it. Making the ribs were easier. Scoring the cardboard is difficult with a safety knife because it would constantly retract so the scoring would get kinda sloppy in order for me to get the knife to cut it semi-consistantly.But keeping them secure is the re problem. Hot glue is fine for a while but it's prone to snapping off. making dowels was suggested to me, but the way I glued the ribcage to the plate is very secure and difficult to remove.
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The skull was incredibly difficult to make. I have always struggled with manipulating the physical world and round shapes with straight lines ar quite hard for me. But I tried my best. It's suppose to be a winter hat but I feel like it could be conveyed as just an plain skull. The face was supposed to be 3D but due to a lack of any knowledge I didn't know how to make it.
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Critique / Reflection : I am etremely dissatisfied with the final piece. Almost everything about the afrt has some critical flaw. But this was my first time working with this material to this level or manipulationg the physical world. Most of the other times I have made work "similar" to this, they turned out alright, but they too left something to be desired, but not to this level. The connection to the inspiration is weak on top of that. sadly this looks like it was rushed and it was slightly becuase of poor time management and lack of motivation. Due to these reasons, the overall quality is extremely pitiful. If I were to re-make this, I wouldn't. I tried my best to enjoy making it, but I couldn't do it.
Compare & Contrast :
Compare : Both my work and the inspiration's main focus is the skeleton. And the main focus of each is the skull and chest. Both have a meaning behind them and are not just skeletons for no reason. His skeletons are people of all types (rich,poor,men & women.) where as my skeleton is suppose to be me.
contrast : My work is a cardboard sculpture compared to a drawing. The inspiration also has a clear mexican look & realistic where as mine is more generic and cartoony. In the inspiration's work, there is a large amountof detail in every skeleton and items where my work is much more bare-bones.
Compare : Both my work and the inspiration's main focus is the skeleton. And the main focus of each is the skull and chest. Both have a meaning behind them and are not just skeletons for no reason. His skeletons are people of all types (rich,poor,men & women.) where as my skeleton is suppose to be me.
contrast : My work is a cardboard sculpture compared to a drawing. The inspiration also has a clear mexican look & realistic where as mine is more generic and cartoony. In the inspiration's work, there is a large amountof detail in every skeleton and items where my work is much more bare-bones.
Connection to ACT :
1.) The cause and effect relationship of my inspiration and my own work there. Whithin the face of my skeleton, you can domewhat see where I got some of the inspiration from some of Posada's work,
2.) The overall approach is portray political figures and injustices. He wanted to portray that "In death we are all equal. Blond, brown, rich, poor, we come to the same fate,”
3.) The generalization is that Posada wanted to fight injustices in his home country. He specifically mentions that we're all equal in death and I belive he feels that way in life to an extent as well.
4.) The central idea was to fight injustice. All of the skeletons are likely representations of real people or based off of them. but because you cannot distinguse peopple based on skeletons, because they all look near identical.
5.) The inferences that I saw was posada cared for his contry.This is because when he was alive, the mexican revolution was ocurring.
1.) The cause and effect relationship of my inspiration and my own work there. Whithin the face of my skeleton, you can domewhat see where I got some of the inspiration from some of Posada's work,
2.) The overall approach is portray political figures and injustices. He wanted to portray that "In death we are all equal. Blond, brown, rich, poor, we come to the same fate,”
3.) The generalization is that Posada wanted to fight injustices in his home country. He specifically mentions that we're all equal in death and I belive he feels that way in life to an extent as well.
4.) The central idea was to fight injustice. All of the skeletons are likely representations of real people or based off of them. but because you cannot distinguse peopple based on skeletons, because they all look near identical.
5.) The inferences that I saw was posada cared for his contry.This is because when he was alive, the mexican revolution was ocurring.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/skeletons-as-political-art-a-look-at-day-of-the-dead-artist-posada