What Path Am I Taking? 3D Spatial Definitely

Unfortunately I was only able to participate in two rotations due to the fact I was in Mexico and my flight annoyingly was till the second of October. Overall I’ve only been four weeks at UALC which I have really enjoyed, and most importantly learned new ways and techniques to express and show my work. The two rotations I did were, Visual Communication and 3D Spatial. I really enjoyed Visual Communication, as I had never done anything similar to that before. I learned sometimes to make my work more interesting I have to be less literal and more abstract, which was hard at the beginning for me as sometimes I’m to square, but once I got the hand of it I realized my work got a lot more interesting and also it really help me being a lot more creative. I actually really enjoyed the first project, Ideas/ Images. It was really fun trying to tell a story or a message with magazines and newspapers’ pictures and words. At the end of the rotation I was very pleased with my work how it turned out. I am really happy I actually had the chance to try this rotation as it opened a new door of ideas and options.

My second rotation was 3D Spatial, which to be honest was the one I was most excited about, since I’ve always wanted to be an architect. Overall all I can say is that this project was very helpful and fun. As many students I suspect there is always the stressful doubts about what rotation you’re going to choose. But after taking this rotation it actually has made me more confident and comfortable of what I am going choose. I really enjoyed the sculpture I created with my group. I think we definitely accomplished the 3D map we were trying to create. I also really enjoyed making the three sculptures with the three different scales. One for the humans to walk through, another one for humans to kneel or sit on, and finally another one for a human to hold on hand and to keep something inside it. I really enjoyed this project because I had to think again of something which is not too literal.

I enjoyed doing both of the rotations, but I have to say overall I still prefer the second rotation I took, 3D Spatial. I really felt I was in the right place and doing my thing, which I didn’t as much on the other rotation, even though it was a very good and helpful experience. I’ve always wanted to be an architect since very young age. I’ve always enjoyed looking at different types of architecture. I really like seeing new shapes and ways of buildings. I also really like designing in Auto-cad and Google sketch up. I really am confident I want to choose 3D Spatial, as it will lead me to my future ambitions and wishes. Even though I didn’t take the other two rotations I still did go to the lecture which talks about them to get a good idea, and i still have to say I am still with 3D Spatial.



01/11/10 - Eadweard Muybridge

We were asked to do our own set of five pictures on three seperate formats so in total 15 pictures...

 

When I went to the Eadweard Muybridge I really felt he was born way too early for his time. His photographs are really intriguing and innovating. It really catches the eye how clearly the movement and live can be seen. I wouldn’t say he is my favourite artist/photographer out there but his work is still very interesting.

 

29/10/10 - Second Week 3D Spatial - Maps, Site and Space

Overall I think 3D Spatial was my favourite of the two rotations I took. On the last project of this rotation we were asked to create 3 small sculptures and take pictures of them out in the enviroment. We were also asked to replicate the best out of the three we created.

After these sculptures we had to come up with another three sculptures. But this time the sculptures had to have three different scales. One of them had to be big enough for a human to walk through. The second one had to be able for human to kneel or support against. The third one had to be a small scale for a human to be able to hold. They also had to have something repetitive about them. I made a mirror sculpture using triangles for humans to walk through. The second one was a 2 metre high sculpture for humans to come and sort of just lie on it and rest. The third one was a flexible and four way foulded wallet.

18/10/10 - First Week 3D Spatial - Group Work Map Sculpture

As our first assignment in the first day of the 3D Spatial rotation, we all got divided in groups and were asked to create a 3D map, with materials such as tape, pins cardboard, wood... It couldn't be to literal otherwise it wouldn't be as interesting to figure out. Overall I think we all did a great job.

15/10/10 - Second Week Vis Com - Audience

This was the last week and project of this rotation on Vis Com. This last project was about sending a message to an audience. The sender could be something or someone. I chose my sender to be a mobile phone. I thought if there is any object out there which has to deal with a humans behaviour is a mobile phone. My aim was to show with a group of images I developed, how a mobile has to carry all this lies and secrets its owner creates. I really tried to emphasise the mobile phone’s anger in the way it was being used.

8/10/10 - First Week Vis Com - Ideas/Images

The first week of Vis Com we had to send a message by a sequence of images created from newspapers, magazines, drawings... The point was that the sequence of these images had to give a message at the end. My message was about how us as humans are overpopulating and killing ourselves. Also how war is a business and how nature defends itself from us by using its own weapons. This project was a good experience for me, as it helped me show my work in a less literal way.

4/10/10 - Visual Communication

My first day at UALC, since I was late I was only going to be able to participate in two rotations. My first lesson in Vis Com “Visual Communication”. We got given a word each, and then we had around 10 minutes to draw many sketches of what first came to mind from the word given to each one of us. My word was fire. We then had to mix our word with someone else’s. I mixed my word “fire” with “house”. Obviously the first thing that came to my mind was house on fire, but I knew I had to think out of the box, so the message was more interesting. So my final outcome was a forest fire and a bird abandoning its nest.