Project #6 was a collaboration project with Savannah Cave.  She is an artist who loves to express her message by using triangle spikes that protrude off the wall like a relief sculpture.  With different sizes of triangles, she likes to decorate them using craft supplies and toys that often follow a monochromatic color scheme.  Her initial color combination was bright purple, pink, and blue.  While these colors look good from out of the bottle, I did not enjoy how all three colors were bright against each other.  Instead, I opted for two colors that are duller and have one brighter color that would pop out.  Additionally, I wanted to crochet with yarn to create strands so I can wrap around each of the triangles.  She was in charge of the structural support and I was in charge of the decorations and the overall color aesthetics. 

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     Overall, this project pushed both my and Savannah's artistic craft not only in collaboration but also in pushing our artistic limits in trying to jungle both structural integrity and color textures.  I think there are strong individual areas of the sculpture that are worth celebrating, but overall craftsmanship is poor due to random hot glue strings and poor resolution of areas of attachment.  There were gaps in between the smaller triangles and where it was the glue to the larger base of the triangle.  To resolve this issue, I had to cover up the gap with crochet granny squares.  In the end, I do no not like the sheer light purple fabric that reminds me of a high school prom dress.  The light blue tulle made the sculpture tacky and there were a lot of disorganized elements that destroyed the unity of the sculpture's appearance.  However, the black spray-painted small triangle is my favorite part of the entire creation.  Savannah bought a set of blue random items that came in a tennis ball container and it was perfect to hot glue onto our sculpture.  It was so satisfying in spray painting a glossy black spray paint onto the rounded bead surfaces and the spikey tall detailed items.  I thought the spotty yellow spray paint job looked tacky with the different blue shades of the toys together. 

 

     If I had to take one learning experience it would be that Savannah and I had a poor vision of what our creation was going to look like because no theme connected both of our visions.  Instead, Savannah had other ideas and I was unsure about how she was going to deliver these ideas.  Overall, there was poor communication between the both of us and I found out that friends are not always the best partners to work with.  I found out that I have a controlling personality when making art and I found that Savannah has a persistent goal in mind that is hard for me to understand.  I wish we had a clear message such as environmental activism, biblical references, or a message about materialism, but instead, we ran with whatever came into our minds during the spur of the moment.  This project was rushed, unfinished, and has poor craftsmanship.  If we truly wanted to work together in the future we would need to make more of these sculptures by picking which pieces worked to make a sculpture that we both like.   The only redeeming qualities of this sculpture are that it is big, makes a statement, has a wide variety of textures, and is black.  For my next project, I would like to work with Hanna Ngai possibly since it would be easier to collaborate because we are in the same art class.  If this collaboration is unable to happen, I want to continue molding with polymer clay to make clay portraits on an 11" by 14" wooden canvas.