Spatial Dynamics Year 1 Semester 1 - Gabriel Feld

 Spatial Dynamics with our professor Gabriel Feld. We didn't get homework for most of the weeks which was nice, as long as we finished things in class. We would work all class basically, with different materials each week.

Paper

It's a little hard to see, but it's a dragon! With a ninja star >:D

Cardboard

Wearable

This one was a group task using any material. We had to be able to wear it and have some sort of theme. We had maybe four people and I think our theme was natural disasters?? I was a hurricane. It was one of those things where we just made stuff and decided the theme based on what we made.

Inhabitable Structure

Oh boy this one is big. A group project where we had to make a structure we could all be in. We spent basically an all nighter all together building this. Unfortunately we weren't fast enough and didn't have enough for the top to be stable, so a small section of it is held by a string from the ceiling.

We made it out of these little guys! It was the shape I made, and it honestly took a long time to cute and make each one of these. Never mind the amount we needed for the final.

We had a sleepover inside the structure :)

And by sleep we mean maybe a three hours since we worked all night lol.

Yippee!

We DEMOLISHED the structure after crit ended. :)

I can't say I made anything worth keeping in this class, but our professor was cool and I guess our inhabitable structure sleepover is an interesting Freshman memory to have.

Design Studio Year 1 Semester 1 - David Scanavino

 Design Studio with David Scanavino, aka Professor Scanavino. Funnily, the only professor at RISD that I've met who asked us to address him as a professor! His class was immensely fun and filled with variety. I genuinely think he has one of the best ways of conducting critique. I've had some classes with full day critiques that feel like an unproductive use of time but he makes use of the 8 hours we are doing critique in class worth it. 

Self-Portraiture

Memory

Hand written receipts of things I bought during travel. I wrote a personal account of the time on each of them from just what I remember.

Satire

During this assignment, if I recall correctly, we had to pick an art style and make a satire of it. I picked corporate memphis, which had several different names but I liked this one the most to describe it. I think my critique of it and the name caught on and resonated with the other students, since we are all familiar with this art style, yet never quite put a name to it.

Appropriation

My RISD Express box is genuinely really funny to me and I can't believe I have this somewhere at home now. I didn't even have a pizza box, I learned to cut one out of cardboard and it was weirdly difficult. Later, I was walking on the street with it after class and someone thought it was from the pizza company I was trying to imitate. Big W.

I also put a slice of pizza from the Met in the box to take to crit LOL.

Process Abstraction Test

This was a test for our actual piece, which was due the week after.

This video is so funny to me because I can't believe I was doing this haha.

Process Abstraction Final

Made this down in the homer workspace. There was always a lot of charcoal drawings on the walls. I was very tired throwing a stick, crouching down to pick it up and throw it again for hours. Each throw really does NOT put much paint onto the paper and this piece is LARGE.

I literally took dirt in the middle of the night from the area next to Market House with the trees. I don't think I even had a real bag to hold it. I taped some paper together and scooped it up with my hands. Then I mixed it with water and threw balls of wet dirt onto my piece as hard as I could. Surprisingly it stuck pretty well.

Close ups of dirt and sticks. There is no glue. Water and paint are my glue. I can't believe it stuck so well. Everything stayed on it when I moved it to the classroom and everything is still on there even after I had to roll this piece up.

Time

Ok so basically I took a walk around Providence and was drawing a line with a marker at the same time in the direction I was going. Whenever I stopped, the marker would bleed more ink on that spot of the paper. Not the greatest piece to look at lol, but it exists now. Also I learned it is very hard to walk while drawing, while your paper is being blown in the wind. Also it was so COLD my hands were freezing every second.

Documentation

As a Freshmen in Homer Hall, we had doors that could be drawn on using chalk. I went and photographed every dorm door in our building and assembled them like their floors. It's sweet seeing everyone's doors years later. 

My door was 312!!!

Installation Concepts

Ideas for an installation at RISD.

So I had more ideas but I'm only sharing these two. I ended up doing the first one, but it's so funny seeing the second as an idea. There was an instagram @risdasleep, which posted RISD students asleep in public. I was going to go to the spots in the pictures and put red tape on where people have slept to show all the places physically. 

Years later in senior year, I got a new roommate and found out she managed the instagram account!! And yes, I was posted on the instagram back in Freshman year too before she knew me! That's ME!!

Installation Final

I did not have wood blocks, so instead I got some cheap cans and taped strings of beads inside it. Then I hung it in the stairwell of Homer Hall. It was fun going to see the installations in class. Everyone got to push the cans I hung up when it got to my turn.

Professor Scanavino told me to consider doing installations in the future since I had a knack for it, or something along those lines. Don't think it's quite my thing but I did have fun with the projects and I appreciate the vote of confidence!

Drawing Studio Year 1 Semester 1 - Lucy Liu

My first drawing studio at RISD was with Lucy Liu as my professor. I really had to figure out how to use charcoal, but I'm glad I did. Didn't like the medium before but I enjoy it now. Although, it is very messy and hard to clean up.

Strange Sets

Generative Drawing

Drawing with Constraints

Schemas and Choreographs

In Class Drawings

Not sure of the name of this assignment but... BIG CAVE!! This piece is large and I am very proud. :)

Worldbuilding Project

I built a world located on a cliff, with a city on top, and an "underground" city of pipes that keep the top running. There is a comic on the side that shows the dynamic of the classes.

This was a class where I learned how I like to work with charcoal, and got the chance to see how others did as well. It was great seeing how different we could all be and I saw some that really made use of the soft qualities you can achieve with the medium.