School started last week and I haven’t made any time for other activities. This is going to be a busy semester, but I will make a point to keep up on my other more important obligations.
project five:
use this bottle somehow.
use the concept of container.
use it within 2 weeks.
Out of this whole summer we’ve only gotten four projects (almost) completed. I think we’re going to go ahead and post a fifth word and try to move on - maybe a new word will bring inspiration. Please still post for the last word if you have time! Thomas gets the next word.
“Que eras, Gadsden?”
Procured concrete panel, second-hand paint, Oyster Cracker stencils.
A veces me gusta perder.
Materials Used: paint found in the remnants pile at Home Depot (I like to consider it repurposed - it was meant for someone else), blueprint, newspaper, reused canvas.
Sometimes I like to lose.
I painted over an old canvas that hung in my last apartment, and purposely left portions of the old canvas showing. I added sections from a newspaper - one of a woman in a bikini and another of the movie title “Year One” - that show some aspects of Latin American culture that are important to my idea of development there. I also used clippings of an old building blueprint and clipped them to mimic a city skyline.
I like the idea of repurposing and reusing materials for this week’s topic because in Latin America a lot of their structures, both physical and institutional, use borrowed materials and concepts from the United States. The blueprints are misused - they have been cut out and shaped into buildings, not actually used to build something. I see a lot of this misguided use in borrowed materials and concepts in Latin America - they tend to fall short in execution. The text exemplifies this attitude - so much falls short and doesn’t quite work, that it’s almost as if they did it on purpose. Latin America is in a constant state of disrepair and degradation in physical structures and in politics, yet they’re handed a lot from other countries. How could they fall short so often if it’s not intentional? It’s almost comical to me.
desarrollo is Spanish for development. i specifically chose a Spanish word so that we can think of this week’s project in an other culture’s perspective.
Stipulations:
this project can’t involve a concept that is inherent to our culture - it must be considered from the perspective of a Spanish-speaking country/culture.
this project must involve at least 50% repurposed materials. if you’re doing audio, make your instrument out of repurposed materials - you get the point.
Due by 11.59pm on Thursday, July 23rd.
