So big change of plans, my project was thrown away along with the materials me and my teammate were using which of course was very unexpected. I don’t know if it was mistaken, along with the materials as trash-being that the materials literally were trash- but I do know that meant that I or me and my teammate had to restart our art piece. This was frustrating for a number of reasons, one it now puts me and my teammate behind, and two, though the art piece was not finished it was still very frustrating to watch something you spent hours working on being thrown away. It was however helpful in the fact once I restarted I had a clearer vision of what I wanted to do, and what the challenges were going to be, and way me and my teammate could deal with them One of the challenges faced was the sea foam on the waves. If you guys remember from my previous benchmark post I said that my teammate and I were recreating the painting ‘ the Great Wave of Kanagawa’ using plastic. The process is fairly simple, we started by gathering our materials,which was basically my teammate and I looking through both the trash and recycling for blue and white mediums-which took us less than an HOUR to collect. Our next step was to outline the basic shapes of the waves, nothing fancy, on our poster board, and then we just begin the long job cutting the materials with scissors and gluing them down,within the lines of the waves. This really only started to prove difficult when a couple of things happened- besides our poster being thrown out. Like I mentioned above in a previous paragraph when I came to the foam part I had a hard time choosing what I wanted to do with the foam part of the wave. I know this probably sounds ridiculous, and wasn’t a huge challenge so it was simply fixed by discussing the issue with my teammate. In the end as you will see in one of the photos we recreated the foam using rice crispy treat wrappers. Something that was weird, but still a challenge for ME personally was I kept trying to make the art piece look exactly like the painting we were recreating, which was probably why I had the first challenge because I kept trying to make the foam look like the paintings. I was getting frustrated that the waves weren’t looking the same , which since the artist and I both used different mediums and both have different styles it would be impossible for our work to look exactly the same. So in a way us having to start the piece over was good in the fact that it allowed me to step outside myself and look at the art, and gave us the opportunity to improve our artwork. We are almost finished with our art piece and as before what we are hoping the audience takes away a couple things from our work. We hope to make them realize our over consumption of trash, because fun fact each individual person throws away four pounds of trash a day. That’s a LOT especially if you multiply that by the number of people there is on the planet, and a reason why our art piece is good since we know plastic is difficult to recycle so this is one way to reuse it, that could possibly inspire the audience. We will mention this with our art piece including how long it took for us to collect the trash, and also give some tips on what the audience can do to reduce pollution. This would connect to one of my standards I chose which is “humans relationships with an ecosystems” the ecosystem being the ocean and the human relationships being the pollution we cause and ways we can reduce it. The actual trash/pollution part relates to my second standard “ecosystems”, the pollution causing a slight change in the oceans ecosystems and all its interacting organisms, that results in huge changes. Thank you for reading this and one final thing I would like to mention is my teammate and I said that we would only use plastic wrappers,since then we have broaden our horizons and are using other types of trash.
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