For my non-traditional material I used confetti sprinkles. When I was choosing my project I originally saw the picture that I was going to use of the crying women, but didn't know what I wanted to make it out of. I had seen the picture before and seen the pop art style before and really wanted to use that type of art for my project. I found the right size sprinkles later and choose to start the project. I first glued the background paper in its correct sections so that the color would be able to be seen through the sprinkles. The project is unfinished because it takes a lot of time to get the small parts in. For the hair it gets very small and I have to cut the sprinkles to the right size to fit. I also have to make sure that it ends up ones together correctly and no spaces. The process of glueing down the sprinkles I have to use tweezers to grab the sprinkle and place it correctly because the sprinkle, especially when it's cut, can get very small. The sprinkles isn't the hardest material I have worked with but its just very time consuming and fragile. Before starting I had to sort all the sprinkles to make sure I had enough and make the process generally go faster. While cutting the sprinkles I usually just wanted to make one cut to get two pieces. But, the sprinkles are fragile enough that sometimes cutting it makes the sprinkle completely shatter. I was really unsure about how this was going to turn out but I'm happy with it and I will finish it in the near future.
I chose appropriation as my postmodern principle, which uses pre-existing images but with a little bit of change. The art to me is almost a parody of the original and that's what I focused on for my project. For my project I was walking outside and saw the labels for "No Parking" and "Fire Lane". In the moment I changed "Fire Lane" to the only thing I could think of at the time, Louis Lane. Then when I was deciding what to do, I played around with this idea and tried to find for words, but ended up really liking Louis Lane. I wanted my final product to look like the text style of the other words, but that made me nervous that maybe it was illegal since it could throw off where to go in an emergency. To do this, I knew I needed something that would 100% come off, so I decided to use chalk. When I found out chalk paint was a thing, I used it to better get the effect of a painted look for my project. I started by making stencils from the previous words and making them the same size, so it would look as close to the real thing as possible. When I finished with the text I really wanted the project to be more distinct, so I decided to add a superman logo. Using stencils, I painted the logo right next to the words. I really like how this project turned out. I also like the fact that it was my first idea and came so quickly to me which I ended up using. I also noticed how postmodern principles can mix with each other, I could have gone with text part as my project, but I think that adding the superman logo made it appropriation.
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January 2016
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