Silkscreen Class Project - Missing & Murdered Aboriginal Women Part 6

I had my critique and many good questions came out of it. Like my lighting and sound, I wish I had it set up a bit better but I'm quite happy how it turned out.

 Here's the video for ambiance.

I'm not quite satisfied with amount of triangles I had cut out for my critique. However I realized that I am not done with this project I'll be interested with making the scale larger than what I have now.

Silkscreen Class Project - Missing & Murdered Aboriginal Women Part 5

My final critique is this Thursday so I'm finishing all the other components for my installation; the drum, dusting, setup and final pieces. During this week I'm just happy to have all the pieces cut out and ready to be folded. I'm not entirely sure how many pieces I have here but I'm going to guess at least 1000 triangles.

Here is the layout. I traced a template and cut everything out with an exacto knife. Nearly cut my own thumb off.

Slowly but surely getting there.

So...many...triangles....!

Supervised Independent Project - Movable Wave Project Part 5

Assembling and cutting the pieces for the boxes, has been put on hold till next week.

Stay tuned.

Silkscreen Class Project - Missing & Murdered Aboriginal Women Part 4

I've been cutting and gluing a lot of triangles this Friday.

Woodcut Printing - Oh my Deer Project Part 2

Working on my second layer I chose to go with a jaw dropping colour scheme. Blue over red, over orange. Slowly chugging along with this one.

Silkscreen Class Project - Missing & Murdered Aboriginal Women Part 3

Recently I've been having trouble deciding how the pieces would connect around the installation. However after looking around for thin wire, I choose to go with chicken wire to help me attach all these pieces from various angles and length.

Couldn't believe RONA was having a sale on garden wire!

One of the interesting parts of my project this year was the questions of why in my sketch book did my women look like they were screaming. I would say the inspiration came from De Schreeuw (The Scream) Memorial in Oosterpark (Amsterdam). 

Memorial/sculpture by Dutch sculptor Jeroen Henneman; Photo by User_talk:Gogh.

Something about this memorial both scares and intrigues me, the figures mouth slowly closing in to the point of speechlessness. The events that revolved around this memorial can be read here. On another tangent, the purpose of my installation is to create a moment where the viewer is subjected to this feeling of uneasiness. Creating a place where the viewer is engaged suddenly and spatially interrupted, is what I want them to experience. Using this sense of uneasiness, I want to create a mimicking feeling when these women were taken or murdered.

NEXT UPDATE: The Cutting and Assembling Saga!

Supervised Independent Project - Movable Wave Project Part 4

Boxes, boxes and boxes, oh my! After cutting, measuring, folding and gluing, my boxes are finally done. Half way done, next is the maquette for the wires and welding of the pulley system.

112 boxes in total but this is just 56 boxes.

They kind of look like miniature Chinese takeout boxes.

Supervised Independent Project - Movable Wave Project Part 3

Moving on to my assembly this week. I've cut so many pieces of paper it's literally making me crazy. There are 112 pieces in total. Wow! Here is the process... not done yet!