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!
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