Memento 

In process pictures

Final Pictures

Artist Statement - 

The memory I chose for "Memento" was my childhood summers spent in my summer house in Cesme, Turkey. My three materials were paper, glue, and dried pressed flowers. I chose to use paper because I like the clean white surface of it reminding me of how clear and clean it was in my Cesme house away from the busy tourists. I used glue to varnish the surface and stick my flowers down. I chose to use these flowers because Cesme was always filled with wild overgrown flowers, and I wanted to capture the scents of nature in Cesme; jasmine, honey suckle, and many other clean fresh scents from the beautiful plants. The shape of my sculpture was designed to represent a few different things that I remember from this place, the sea gulls, wind surfing sails, sailing boats, and also windmills which are all things that I am reminded of when I think of Cesme.

Paper City 

Sculpture #1 In process pictures

Sculpture #1 Final pictures

Sculpture #2 In process Pictures

Sculpture#2 Final Picture

Artist Statement - Using only paper and adhesives (as long they were not visible) I created two sculptures with one visible moving mechanism on each sculpture. The first one I chose to create an elevator with a cut out design for the exterior. The second sculpture I chose a cylinder shape which rotates. These sculptures were created using folding methods with little glue to hold them in place.

Masking Tape Shoe 

In Process Pictures

Final Picture

Artist Statement - 

Using masking tape to create a 3 Diminutional shoe, designed to scale and in proportion to the original shoe size. 

Susan Steward 

1) "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."

2) "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."

I think this is true in many ways, we cary experiences and memories in objects whether they are supposed to serve that purpose or not. Objects hold a lot of sentiments no matter what they are. I like to keep perfume bottles from people in my family or my own, because they remind me of a time when I wore that particular perfume, or they remind me of a person. The bottle is significant because it reminds me of my experiences and memories. 


3) "The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."

4) "Nostalgia cannot be obtained without loss."  

As I child I moved from place to place brining memories from different cultures, growing up with, and meeting people from different cultures. I loved this experience it brought me great memories and important experiences but it also comes with loss because each time I moved, I lost something as well as gained something. 

5) "To have a souvenir of the exotic is to posses a specimen and a trophy."

We hold on to souvenirs tightly because they remind us of a place that is new, and exciting to us, we carry it as a trophy to remind ourselves that we visited somewhere special. 

Soap Carving Changes 

1. First I started by cutting all the sides of. (Subtraction)

2. Then I heated it with a lighter. (Addition) 

3. Then I melted in the microwave. (Addition)

4. Cut the head of. (Subtraction)

5. Then I froze it to cool it down. (Subtraction)

6. Then I scrunched the melted soap into a ball, to lose its natural shape. (Subtraction)

7. Then I added water to the soap. (Addition)

8. Then I covered it in blue and pink ink. (Addition) 

9. Rolled it in rice. (Addition)

10. Cut it up into thick slices. (Subtraction)

11. Added pins in between the slices (Addition) 

12. Finally I froze it again. (Addition) 

Soap Carving