A tentacled beast raises a crustaceous limb, grasping at an oversized copy of Yayoi Kusama’s work. Clutching the book, it pulls its inflated, meatballish body further down the library stacks, where it continues to strain itself, curling tentacles wrapping around anything in its wake. For this project, we were tasked with taking our Push/Pull Part …
FIRST HEAD My first object was a face. Before I began creating each piece, I sketched out the original ideas. I wanted to create characters because I like the different facial expressions I can work with. I was inspired by this pen I used to have when I was little. I wanted to …
For this project I was interested in creating objects that resembled those that were important to my everyday life. I have recently been following many artists that are working in recreating objects and they have definitely been on my mind. I also had been thinking about the pile of stuffed projects left in the back …
Push/Pull overall ended up being a challenge in craft and skill. By the end of the pieces, I had become a lot more confident in my abilities to work from and modify a pattern, as well as comfort on a sewing machine, and especially figuring out some of the quirks of the Brother machines. …
This project was a great opportunity to become familiar with primary shapes, but also challenge myself to try new sewing techniques. For my first form, I chose a square pattern. Without performing any alterations, I thought my shape wasn’t interesting enough to look at or hold, so I pinched sections of fabric and hand-stitched them …
Since this was my first time working with a sewing machine, I wanted to focus on building fundamental sewing skills and learning how to think through the design of structures made from textiles. I mainly focused on manipulations via combination of different primary forms while utilizing additional stitches to modify and add tension to shapes …
For this Push/Pull project, I knew that I was entering into unfamiliar territory, being introduced to using a sewing machine and to hand sewing. For this reason, I wanted to focus my time and energy on shapes that wouldn’t require advanced sewing prowess. The first inflatable I decided to make was a pentagonal cylinder with …
I really enjoyed this project because I got to explore how you can manipulate fabrics with thread to transform into so many different types of shapes. Through pushing and pulling in addition to my choices of fabric color and patterns, I could create create effects that can create feelings of tension versus calmness. Because I …
This assignment was exciting for me because we were encouraged to explore the forced manipulation of forms. I especially wanted to explore the literal meaning(s) of push-pull because there would open up an avenue to explore tension and have the form struggle with or against itself. All of my forms came from one specific idea …
This project was a good way to learn and improve my sewing skill since I don’t have any experience with sewing machine. And I was really excited to experiment with different patterns, textures, and various ways to manipulate them. I struggled with pre-planning in this project, it was hard to plan before actually making the …