Celina Leroy

I changed the video by making myself more present. I think it makes it a more truthful video of the night if I don't edit out myself out.

Austin Voll

octagonal cement columns cast in CDX plywood molds

coal has been ground from large chunks and sifted to a light particulate

Modes of organization– the group, bundle, pile, stack, tangle, dam, accumulations are seen as less of a true organization and more of a consolidation of space, but this consolidation is not a end all framework for making objects function in a space– it is personal. The studio is a prime example there is no set way that a studio can be laid out so that a drawing can be accomplished In other words, ideal vison of organization does not exist. Space is specifically consolidated. There are two types of function, which pertain to this work– structural function and conceptual function. The concrete object, which is a form of a support, such as for a bridge or highway, conceptually functions differently to its structure. What are we left with when a structure is not fully built? The piece, the support, is able to support weight, but its structural function is negated by it not supporting anything but its own form. The process of creating a support is important to the structural concept, but not to the conceptual function.

The functioning of the coal and cement together is seen as a type of gap filling. When two separate outside processes come together to form a whole there is room for complication and problems because of the inherent nature of saying– I want this and this to fit together and function either structurally or conceptually. The coal, the second outside process, literally fills the gap between two columns of cement, which is the physical act of covering something up (the reason molding is put in a house–to cover the seams where two surfaces meet) but this covering also functions conceptually as what it is to fill a gap.

Amanda Horowitz

Before Spring Break I tried to film people expanding and contracting (entering and leaving) within a space, I thought the metro would be the best way to catch this. I was comparing the footage I had from the train to the sponge video, trying to give it some sort of access point that was broader than just a sponge. I'm not sure how I feel about it, so this week I tried to find processes in which material growth and decay is caused from the combination of an uncontrollable source (water/liquid and heat). I made pieces of felt from wool sweaters- I really enjoy how the fibers in the sweaters bonded together to make a denser piece of wool, yet its new found strength has made the wool smaller and essentially ruined. I also tried to fill up the plastic tarps meant to catch paint with house paint. This process was an attempts to find a way to contain a liquid and put form into something meant to be flat.

Adi Shachar

Untitled from Adi Shachar on Vimeo.

This is an experiment mostly to investigate the relationship between a structure I have made and a projection of a street. I'm interested in the distortions of the projection due to the surface. I have continued working on the surface further (completely covering it).

Flannery Silva

I took apart a snow globe with a penguin in it from florida to replace it with tomb stones. My friend said a lot of people go to florida before they go to the grave. I liked that observation. I'm thinking about the sense of oasis vs. reality. The oasis is something that tends to reside in our imaginations~ a place of peace & calm & safety~ away from unpleasantness, and I think for a lot of people, death is an unpleasantness they want to escape from. The snow globe idea is a way to observe, in a contained and untouchable environment, these two extremes that aren't really accessible to us yet~death & our own sense of paradise. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Alesha Burk

Cracked, again. Either I need to give up or just accept the fact that I am basically making art about shattered glass. (moving on to acrylic next week)

Colin Foster

Velvet, Wood, Denim, Vans Halfcabs, Weather Stripping

As I continue to venture into personal experience I am beginning to create objects of decoration or more universal beauty. Creating "value" both through excess and brand(recognizable value evaluation landmarks)