Hijab

My piece is about changing the location with covering it with Hijabs. Hijab is the head covering that Muslim females wear. Muslim females have to cover and I wanted to take an object and cover it.

Installation Weekend: Personal Public Space

This weekend's exercise began as an homage to an unknown artist. I say this because I am certain I have seen work similar to this in the past, either in dreams, or in person. Arriving at site, my favorite parking space, I began making forms from plates. The plates were symbolic to me of home, and they also served to mark "my" parking place. These forms were those that I found to be the most engaging of those which emerged during this process.

After creating these I began to think about other works which had been created throughout this class. My mind wandered back to Amanda's initial installation and Joe Haldeman's book The Things They Carried. These influences inspired me to examine the things I carry, and how my own baggage shows who I am.

Safe Haven (2011)

Artificial Beauty

Installation Project Three:
Using artificial flowers to portray beauty.
March/April 2011

Swab Garden

Project 3

the purpose of this installation is to raise awareness towards recycling. The location is hwy 49 in the intersection with hwy 29

Project 2 malaria installation

This is a video of the installation i created towards malaria. The piece is located in charlotte north carolina in the noda district.

Second Installation Weekend

Before

After:

More to come....

Installation Weekend: Cala Lillies

I was given a couple hundred cala lillies on a Saturday night in Wilmington.

I decided to use them for installations ASAP.

Below are pictures of what evolved.

Rob Benjamin "Ortus"

This was a rescale of a picture that means a lot to me, it was found through the process of pulling out all my belongings and physically feeling the weight of them, through weight and emotional weight. Then using media i explored putting it in places that also hold weight in my life.

Monument/Anti-Monument

Book Dome.

 "Book Dome"
  Book Pages, Wire, Wood Glue
  Kacie Rodriguez (March 2011)

Ephemeral Installation

This is the final work composed during Michael Beitz's stay with us. The figure is made from a life cast of James Hart, a fellow student, and is comprised entirely of biodegradable materials. The components were gathered by hand, sorted, and shredded. The resulting material was then hand pulped. To ensure adherence of the varied constituents flour was added to act as a binder. The material was then hand strained to remove excess moisture and additional flour was added. After achieving the consistency of a very dry dough; seeds for Morning Glories, Sunflowers, and various bulbs were added in hopes that as the figure is exposed to the elements it will deteriorate leaving behind its own memorial.

I was very pleased with the outcome, and I am very thankful for all of the help Michael provided.

During a discussion with my Managerial Economics teacher she mentioned that this work was used as an example by another visiting artist at the McColl center during one of their workshops with the business community.

I hope to further explore this medium again in the near future, and even though this project was an ordeal due to the amount of work required I am exceedingly proud of the finished piece.

Rap Pages!

Here are the pages I have so far. I ended up using modeling clay since I won't have to fire them.

This one took about an hour and a half:



And this one took about two hours:

I'm going to do the last one tonight, let them all dry out over spring break, then take them to the site.

Subversive Guerrilla Art Video

Finished up the video on Thursday, here it is for your viewing pleasure: clicka

Installation Project 1 - Ellis

I rethought my concept about the globe after Michael Beitz asked me if I really thought the world was going down the toilet. I don't really think the world is going down the drain; I believe it is the headlines that we are inundated with on a daily basis that tell us it is so. Therefore, I chose to install my piece in front of one of the large 'front page' posters on the wall surrounding The Charlotte Observer's building in uptown Charlotte. I used a copper spiral (natural element) to connect the globe (symbolizing the world) with a toilet seat (symbolizing the drain). I toyed with adding actual headlines along the spiral, both wrapped or hanging as Tibetan prayer flags, but found that nothing was added to the final piece by doing so. The piece remained installed until the steadily increasing wind started to blow it over. Fitting, I suppose, as I caught the installation and 'saved' it. So...my final message is this: WE can 'catch' the world and save it from ourselves!

Amanda Installation

Here are pictures from Amanda project 1

They are not in sequence. Outside her apartment she had the table set up with the wine and deserts. Then we had to go into her apartment!