Feb 24, 2011

Ughhhh finally Spring Break this weekend!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, this past week we had a snow day on Monday, so I stayed home in my warm bed and slept. It was wonderful. On Wednesday we basically just talked about cradle to cradle for the most part and first half of class, the second part of class we finished our books. So this week I believe we are writing a proposal for our next project along with 3 images or sketches. I honestly have no clue as of right now what I am going to do, so I have to think about that in the next couple days.

2/11/2011

This week we presented our kudzu killer projects, think mine went pretty well for the most part. The comments that I thought were interesting and worth changing were are to so something about the sections that we sticking out of the painting to make it blend in more with the painting rather than it being so obviously noticeable. We are also beginning to work on our little books we made, I have the element carbon so my idea was create things that destroy and are harmful.

Posting 2/4/2011

Since I destroyed my plant I guess I am just going to talk a little about my project due this Monday. First off the invasive species I found most interesting is the Eichhornia Crassipes, most commonly known as a water orchid. This is an invasive species because what it does is spread rapidly on the top ponds and lakes, suffocating the life underwater as well as blocking waterways. The reason I was so interested in this particular species was because it is such a magnificently gorgeous plant yet it is a killer and causes harm to so many other species. For my final piece, I decided to do a painting of these beautiful water orchids. The reason I chose to do a painting is because I think paintings really would bring out the beauty in these plants. On the back of the painting I wanted to show kind of what the result of these plants do, so on the front there's going to be the beautiful plant and on the back will be these dead morbid plants, really juxtaposing the two. I want to have it hanging up in the room so that when people walk in they only see the beauty of the plant and unexpectedly as walk around the room they will notice the dead plants that the orchids kill.