April 13th, 2009
Wow! This semester has flown by. My Senior Thesis Exhibition opens tomorrow, I have a 5-6 minute presentation due at 4:30, and a 10 page paper due on the 23rd. Time flies. I will graduate on May 3rd, well as long as I pass all my classes! Anyway, I have spent the last two semesters working on my final project. As of 11:00 am today, the project is finished. I installed the pieces on the project table in the gallery today. The biggest weight on my shoulders has been lifted. Now all I can seem to think about is my presentation tomorrow. It is amazing what you learn from school and fellow students. I have learned how to be confident about my work, whether it is good or bad. I have taught myself how to own the things/pieces/work that I produce. My final project started as a physical history of the film camera… that proceeded to turn into cutting cameras in half as a way to show their “guts”. I toyed around with resin, which did not work the way I had intended. Now this project has five objects. Each objects has an outer side of plexi glass. The inner parts are comprised of a camera that has been cut in half and the rest of the volume is Know Gelatin. The gelatin is somewhat translucent. This way I was able to set the cameras inside of something that would keep them from moving. They will eventually mold which will make for a more interesting look. Regardless, I love the progress that I made and the experiements that I made.
