PROJECT 2: NARRATIVE LINES + SCRAP WOOD AND STICKS

Photograph: Lupita V Reyes

Location: CBE, Gould Hall
Date: Spring Quarter 2023 
Duration: 10 Weeks 
Level: Entry-Level
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Problem

• Using simple materials and assembly technique, create a specific representational form which, has structural stance and gesture.
• From found scrap wood and branches, model a chosen dog breed at actual full size.
• Fabrication to be self-supporting, structurally stable without base/support.
• Fabrication to explain itself, without additional narrative.​

Process

• Find a photo of animal, sketch your subject in 3D to understand dynamic forms. 
• Assemble found wood by investigating connection details such as wire, dowels wood glue, or wood screws.
• Introduction to drill, hand saw, band saw, needle-nose pliers and side-cutters as needed.
• Find a simple and strong way to join pieces of wood to form a stable structure, representing an actual animal at full size. Review fabrication strategy based on material and tool.
• Consider simplicity, economy of material, time and skill.
• Consider expression of marks of making and material
• Consider structure as form.
• Consider joint as expression and inherent articulation.​

Purpose

• Introduction to structures by building a self-supporting frame, which will function as a standing, expression of structure. At the same time, the representational objectives guide as functional choices. The resultant form will both be pragmatic and expressive.
• Understanding of scale. ​

Final Documentation

• Photography should consider composition, lighting, and background. 
• Process
• Overall views
• One detail

Precedents:​

Student Work & Images: William Charles Phillips​

Student Work & Images: Curtis Chuang​

Student Work & Images: Jasmine Madrigal​

Student Work & Images: Roger Uriel Rivero​

Student Work & Images: Mel Steppe​

Student Work & Images: Roger Uriel Rivero​