Christopher's Room Installation

This was the installation I did for my exit show. It's called Christopher's Room, and it follows the story of a young prince, Christopher, whose life changes when he is attacked by the great snake Ezra. Christopher defeats the snake, but takes Ezra's mask so that he is never hurt again. The mask gives him strange new powers, but renders him pretty soulless and zombie-like. The installation itself is a corner of Christopher's bedroom, in which the viewers can poke around and find goodies that expand the story. Here's me in the installation:



The snake Ezra:



Christopher's mother, the Insect Queen, doesn't recognize her son after he puts on the mask, so she collects pictures of him as he used to be:



A family portrait of Christopher and his parents:



Christopher's father, the king, uses Christopher's new powers to eliminate two potential assassins, the twin brothers Felix and Asher Orthrus. Christopher must send the king their tattooed hands to prove they are dead:



Each of Asher's fingers is in an individual box:



There are lots of little goodies in the cabinet:



Here's the little pamphlet in the cabinet that shows Christopher fighting the snake, and which I posted on this blog earlier:

Lithography Crowns

Hello everyone!
Sorry for the long hiatus; finals and holidays have flown by, and I am back in action! Here's a project I finished just before Christmas. I did a series of three stone lithographs and then built three crowns based on the prints, using the prints. Here's what I mean (and thanks to the lovely Richard, my expert crown model):



This is all three crowns in front of the print they are made from.

I made this print, and then made this dirigible crown out of many copies of it:









Print number two:











Aaaand print number three:











So regal!

Squid vs. Ship Mini Installation

Hello everyone!
So this project is based on the idea shown in this blog, the idea of making an installation in a tiny gallery space. I really encourage you to check the stuff out there; I love the idea of a tiny installation, and building this was super fun! I made my own box out of foamcore and filled it with stuff I had printed with an inkjet printer and screenprinted:



It's difficult to tell in the photo, but the space actually goes quite far back. And what are those four switches at the front for? They control the lightning, the most fun of the whole project! Here's a video in total darkness of my friend Patrick demonstrating how you can make your own lightning (and adding his own sound effects.)



I really enjoyed putting circuitry into this thing, so look out for more electronic things in the future! Here's one more 35mm photograph of my lovely friend Eric to rap up the post:

Screenprinted Animal Pelt Headdress

Hello all! So this past week I built this bizarre headdress. Everything on it is screenprinted and attached to the foamcore structure I built, and yes, you can wear it. Wooo!

First Video Blog and some Assorted Crap

Have you ever wanted to see me rambling sleepily right when I wake up? Of course you have! Well, now's your chance, in my (stylistically obvious) first ever video blog (or vlog as you crazy kids are calling it these days).



So here is the aforementioned ATC I did yesterday...I'm OK with how it turned out, although it doesn't really seem that original or anything. It starts out as the standard card shape and unfolds to reveal some sort of rock angel monster:




And, as a bit of a bonus, last semester I had a sculpture class and our first project was to make four sculptures out of paper. The guidelines were we had to use one big sheet of cardstock, and we could cut it, but we couldn't cut any piece off of it or use any sort of adhesive. So when our piece was taken apart, it would fold back into a full piece of paper. Then, we had to incorporate a black letter (from any alphabet) into our design. I've long since cannabalized the first three of mine for other projects, but here's number four, which has been lying under my bed for awhile. See if you can figure out how I did it without cutting anything off or using adhesive (hahaha, don't worry, it's not that hard.) Oh, and the letter I used was lower-case I.

Yep, not overly interesting, but hey, all I had was a sheet of paper and a knife. I hope everyone had a good Valentine's day...expect to hear from me again soon!

God and Devil Paper Sculpture

A paper sculpture of god and the devil fighting over a soul:

Paper Insects

So these are three insects I made out of computer paper. I'm a bit bummed because this picture is pretty shitty; I spent a lot of time getting the minute details of the insects with the paper but you can hardly see anything. Aahhh well. So these are the Hercules beetle, the stick insect, and the harlequin beetle. I got the opportunity to see these charming fellows alive when I visited an insect museum in Costa Rica last summer!

Plaster and Paper Mache Dragon Mask

So even though this is large, completely pointless, and takes up space, it's probably one of my favorite things I've ever made. It's a dragon mask made of a motorcycle helmet, paper mache, and those plaster bandages. The teeth are made of clay, and they glow in the dark, as well as the eyes. The model is my beautiful roommate, Lauren (thanks buddy!)