October 7th Crits

Tonight, I just feel like turning back in time, I really wish that was possible. Because the crit today was somewhat informal, I didn't prepare what I wanted to say on paper or on cue cards and I just thought out loud last night. When I got up to speak about my 'back wall project' today I didn't know where to start and blanked out and then got nervous and it was probably one of my most unprofessional presentation. The studdering, and the ums and the ahs...I tend to think out loud too and that didn't help, lol.

Okay, so here is what I wanted to say...

"This mesh in here represents the partitioning the man tries to hide himself behind because that was a key element of my story. My story has a sense of squeezing and closing in on the space and I communicated that feeling in my wall by creating this small, tight space with the walls of the drawing 'ballooning' into the space and the mesh arching over. The openings in the mesh are small to allow only little amounts of light in while still preserving the visibility of the 'man' and the '2 girls'. Collision is a recurring theme in my story, with the briefcase, man griping hand onto rod, and holding his other hand on his chest, so I took that theme and captured a 'collision' like a series of frames in my wall design. I played with subtlety and elements at the end are split and ripped apart from their regular forms. Finally, all that happens on that end is hidden from this particular view where everything is smooth and peaceful which is deceiving just like how the man entered the booth on his own will not knowing the consequences."

"My section in the Army Surplus Building has no basement and I only have a crawlspace and since that crawlspace was dark and isn't accessible from directly within my site, I focused on the roof and main floor. On the main floor I spent my longest time in this office space which I enlarged on this poster and on my drawing because the atmosphere was comforting. There is also this interesting colliding of different materials in this one corner that I could tie to my back wall. The back rooms were the complete opposite and the spaces were daunting. On the roof, I cut through the lattice structure that holds up the billboard and in order to experience my site, I had to go over and under and so I represented it in a series of plans that are stacked on top of one another. I organized them as ground level, waist level, and arm's reach. Any questions?"