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!

My Project

Here are some images from my first part of my project!

Subversive Guerrilla Art 2

Took the ol' box out for a spin a second time on Thursday, and the thing for which I was waiting finally occurred: a cop stopped me and asked me what I was up to! I explained that it was an art project, and though he apparently decided that I was a harmless student and not a terrorist, he nevertheless told me to "wrap it up" because I was "spooking people." I of course didn't argue that it was just an empty box and nothing to be afraid of, but rather called it a day. After all, the statement on the box became undeniably true, so I had nothing left to prove.

Again, I was unable to get this incident on camera because I was walking at the time, the camera was in my pocket, and I certainly didn't want to make a move for my pocket while getting stopped by cops. I plan to have the fully edited video done by Thursday, then I suppose I ought to come up with a new project.

Oh, and it might be hard to see in these small images, but one is of a cop nudging the box with his foot (not the same cop who stopped me) and the other is the box next to a trash can, which is where the cop placed it after inspecting it.

Here are some of the other images.