Week #1
Oil painting of mountains on wood panel and white and green crochet vest
Week #2
Purple crochet top
Week #3
Yellow crochet converse
Week #4
Blue and green granny squares
Week #5
Garland of colorful dots
Week #6
White Crochet Bolero
Week #7
Daisy Dress
Week #8
Purple and white bow vest
Week #9
Yellow Cardigan
Week #10
Duck tape Dummy
Week #11
Diamond Dress
Week #12
Blue Face
Week #15
White and Black Yarn Wrapped Hand
Week #16
Rainbow Yarn Wrapped Hand
The two hands are a motif in my work. One hand represents a greater spirt or a hand belonging to a God-like presence. The black and white hand represents human. Both of the hands work together to grow a poppy flower sprouting out of a painkiller pill. The title of this piece is called PAIN (ful) KILLERS which is a word play. The broken pill capsule represents the seed of the poppy flower. I think pain killers are supposed to relieve pain, but most often then not, many people become addicted (hence the drug effects of the poppy flower) and overdose. People that overdose because they are either addicted or develop a drug tolerance. Drug tolerance is when one develops more and more resistance to the drug and the drug does not affect the person as much. The person has to take more of that drug to get the same effect of the drug when he or she first took it. Many celebrities and patients die from overdoses and therefore they are KILLERS although they are supposed to relieve PAIN.
Week #17
I bought red yarn to make the petal of the poppy flowers. I started with one petal and then soon realized that I needed some sort of structural support in which I used metal wire. I then proceeded to make an additional 3 petals and stems. I then made the dirt patch. I crochet a circle of brown yarn and then I sewn the other half and filled it with stuffing. I then hot glue everything together (hands, flowers, and dirt). I filled the hands with cardboard and then wedged a piece of cardboard between the hands and the dirt to provide structural support. Then I pushed the stems through the dirt and out through the back of the hands. Finally, I drilled in screws from the back of the dry wall and into the cardboard of the hands.
Week #18
I sketched a many basic ideas for my home project; I then boiled it down to a fashion piece. I choose to play with composition, one of my goals for this project, to make the overall outfit asymmetrical. I play with diagonals and combine contrasting colors, that traditionally do not complement each other. I play with asymmetrical lengths of the sleeves; the right sleeve is going to be touching the floor, while the left sleeve is going to be normal length. There is going to be a ruffle diagonal on the skirt, like a flamenco dancer.
Week #19
I begin making rainbow hyperbolic structures out of yarn. Crochet is the ONLY medium to create an accurate hyperbolic mathematical structure. Computer have a hard time processing and replicating this complicated structure. The essential idea behind a hyperbolic structure it that many stitches are competing for one space. This makes the structure undulate, but when you stretch the structure out, it will be a straight line.
Week #20
This week I started making the avant-garde should structure out of a hyperbolic structure. I tried to combine and gradient analogous and complementary colors that would not traditionally go well with each other. I think the colors are beautifully ugly, but make me what to keep staring at it. It is almost like my brain is trying to make sense of the organized chaos of colors.
Week #21
This week was especially fun because I began the tedious process of sewing on the individual rainbow pieces. I intended to crochet the same color in separate pieces, so I can position them where I liked. This process paid off in the end, because I more wriggle room in which I can make up the placement as I go which makes it more spontaneous. It was almost like a organic creature in which I was making.
Week #22
Sewing on individual crochet pieces on the denim jacket and black and white skirt.
Week #23
I sketching and brainstorming ideas for my next project. One if my goals is to make the crochet piece bigger. My student goal was to change the subject matter from faces to hands.
Week #24
I finally sketch and colored in my final copy of what I wanted to do. I wanted to experiment with color and the tones in the fingers. I took regular printed paper and made a grid of the hand. I replicated my sketch with pencil and then filled it in with markers.
Week #25
I received yarn and I was ready to start. I began crocheting the wrist in a curvy rectangle. I then proceeded with crocheting the wrinkles of the hand; this was my favorite part. I then crochet the dark red folds where the thumb is attached. I then crochet the thumb in three sections: the fatty part that is an avocado shape, the connecter which is a rectangle, and the tip of thumb which is a circle. I like to break and simplify things into shapes. I sorta used the large sheets of papers as reference to sizing and colors. During this process, I would take one or two sheets of paper and focus crocheting only that section. In this way, it felt that I could tackle to whole hand in a more effective and systematic way. I proceeded to crochet the fingers one by one. Each part of the phalange was one rectangle and each joint was crochet to join the rectangles. This part was rather easy and enjoyable because I used the same process over and over again while changing up the colors and tone. The entire hand (minus the finger nails) took me 5 days.