I spent my first two work days planning mainly, trying to create a pattern at first, taking measurements, and then cutting the first piece. The next few days (3-5) were spent creating additional pattern pieces, constantly re-adjusting and re-pinning the pieces. There was a lot of trial and error during these steps and I didn't make as much progress during the school work days, so while I was able to get the shape together, I ended up having to do the glueing at home. After I glued the pieces together at home, I also cut into the piece (after mapping it would with pen) and then added the foam clay pieces. It was tedious but I liked the look of the foam clay flowers a lot. Then during the final workday in class I did the base gray coat for the outside and painted the inside of the helmet. This meant I ended up finishing the detailing for at home completely.
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I interviewed Michael-Birch Pierce, a textile artist working in Richmond. I learned a lot from this conversation, but I was particularly interested in their processes, such in how they limited their color pallet with the beading and thought of the beads as if they were creating a surface, like sculpting. I also learned how they got into the fine arts, at first they worked in the fashion industry before they became more interesting how how a surface of a garment looked and eventually started to do fine art instead, with pieces focused on beading and embroidery. I think that the most surprising thing I learned from them was about how the most difficult part of their process was selling their work, as they found the actual process of creating or planning a work was easy for them, but selling work was much more difficult and they gave some advice for this part of the process, which I thought was interesting. I really enjoying being able to interview them, and was interested in how they came across their identity as nonbinary through their artwork, which I found exciting as I had a similar experience. It was also very interesting to talk to someone who was very excited about their work and was able to talk a lot about their thinking during their process.
Link to the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkYQOhCtQFE&list=PL84pGEk0cvDmBm9yQQ-P0TPsuONbSRi1X&index=4 |
Avarice StankiewiczHi, I'm Avarice, though I mostly go by Kace, I'm an art 5 student at Maggie Walker Governor's school and page is just a space for some reflection, research and progress photos for my work. Archives
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