just finished an assignment for class

so the assignment was to respond to a painting (12"x12") and evolve from the idea. like a game of telephone. In a kind of leap frog action, the first was two dimensional, and the second is to have three dimensional elements to it so the one i had to respond to was a picture of a bird cage with arabesque pen and ink on a green panel.

my response was this this, I titled it "Don't cage things you don't understand."

process: I had to respond to it with the 3d elements so i incorporated wire, and these wood cut outs that I have been absolutely loving lately. For some inspirational stuff that has effected me with its awesomeness look at this guy,

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=30731223&albumId=2631201

also,

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=30731223&albumId=2739536


yeah hes awesome, I had the opportunity to work with this fine gentleman at snowboard connection. good times.


I cut out these birds with a jig saw (not the most delicate of tools). and painted them and mounted it with glue. The wire was applied to the panel with a drill and then i punched the wire through the holes and painted them with speed ball ink. the heart in the cage is done on tag board with water color pencils. I also made a wire lock and key to try and tie the wood cut outs back into the original panel to kind of unify it. I got this assignment on Friday afternoon and I finished it from scratch at 2:30am Saturday a personal record for me.