Tape Shoes

For this assignment, the goal was to contract shoe using only one material...masking tape . My original pair of shoes were bought at Goodwill and were a size 7 metallic lace-up flat. I first started off by taking one shoe a cutting up all the individual pieces that made up the structure. I then created a paper mock up. To begin building the shoe with masking tape I started first with the heel and base. To manipulate and to create form and texture out of masking tape was the real challenge of this project. After both my left and right shoe bases were complete I moved on to the sides. by cutting up the original shoe I had templates to help guide me on the sides and tongue pieces. The project took roughly thirty hours to complete and boy will i never look at masking tape the same way again. 

Process Work

 

Final Work

Surprise

For this performance, I wanted to represent how life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises.  Life can be messy and fun, childish and scary. However, you will never know what will happen next in, and that is what in this artwork. By creating this "Surprise" around Flagler, I Repeating the same action on different classmates thereby created Rhythm and Variety in my performance.

Turned Upside-Down

This week I have had papers to write, homework to complete, work, classes to attend, my parent visiting and moving to a new home. It seemed like my world was crashing down on me and turning it Upside down. So to represent this emotion, I used Balance throughout the four place I performed.

Layers

When choosing my cloth in the morning, I tend to go for the most comfortable choices which happen to be the many t-shirts I own. For this performance, I what to show all my favorite t-shirt but in a way that would exaggerate this task of putting on a t-shirt. Upon doing this, I showed Rhythm in my action of put t-shirt after t-shirt on to where it eventually became uncomfortable.

Looking in the Mirror

When looking in the mirror every day it hard not to look at all the thing I consider flaws. To create this idea, I took ten close up shots of my face and placed them on the mirror where my face would have been placed. Overall this creates Emphasis, Balance, and Proportion/Scale in the performance. I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting and a part of who we are.