Monday, March 5, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Mission Statement
Aircraft Design Engineer
(Company name) provides excellent serves in designing,
constructing, and testing aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft.
Bakery
(Company name) provides our guest with delicious handmade
cakes, cookies, and other pastries. We also provide our customs with consistent
and tasty food along with respectful and professional serves.
Welder
(Company name) goal is to provide our customers with the
best quality and serves available. We are committed to custom satisfaction,
honesty, and quality outcome. With a strong working team, we ensure that all
projects run as efficiently as possible, and we value creating and maintaining
long-lasting relation with our customs.
Tailor
(Company name) provides quality designs, alterations, and
construction of custom clothing. We strive for satisfaction of each and every
customer. (Company name) is designed to turn your idea into gold.
Radio
Our goal is to provide excellent serves in repairing,
installing, and maintaining mobile and stationary radio transmitting,
broadcasting and receiving equipment. (Company name) is designed to keep
communicational systems available at all times.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
BFA
BFA Proposal
Family
history is a fragile virtue that is passed down from generation to generation.
In my family, techniques like knitting, sewing, quilting, and also some
ceremonial traditions such as “jumping the broom” have been without. That phase
is a family ritual that has been throughout some African American families for
many years. It began when slaves were not permitted to marry, so they created
this customs to mark the special occasion. Other slave would place a broom in
front of the couple and they would jump over it together, which is symbolic for
the start of their lives. Quilts were made for every child that was born, for
the family members that left to find themselves, or for educational proposes. Throughout
the years the ethics of my family has been lacking. I would like to use this
information to display my concept of mend positive traditions and show the
essences of family in modern times.
In
researching how to portray this ideal I came across origami, which is folded paper
that forms at shape. It started as ornamentations for wedding ceremonies. They would celebrate by wrapping glasses of sake or rice
wine in butterfly forms that had been folded to represent the bride and groom.
Within each generation, origami has evolved
and developed more complex in planning and creating, which is expressed in
different methods over the year as well as some family traditions.
Utilizing
paper material to show how fragile the knowledge of the past connects to the
future. I will create an organic form that represents both the essence ones
family and self by the use of origami. There will also be a format on display
that would arrange the process of development.
BFA Research
The idea of origami came to mind when I was in class and a teacher showed a clip of the movie Between the Folds. I found the images interesting and began to research them. I would like to use this information to display my concept to mend positive traditions that had been passed down for generations to generations. This will show that I can change without leaving behind my family's history.
Origami history
I kind of thought of the idea of a pop-up books
Paper test
Notebook paper with letter
Newsprint
bond paper with stories
Pattern paper
Somerset paper
Copy paper
Larteshia Spearman ‘12_ Design
Ella
My family history consists of precious memories that
have been shared throughout many generations. Being raised in Senatobia,
Mississippi, I grew up with similar values as my parents and grandparents. Over
the years, members began to marry and move away from home exploring different opportunities.
As the matriarchs became
older they were not able to travel the distances required to visit their loved
ones, so annual family reunions were started. During those times, the elders would
share family stories of how they would spend days listening to music while
sewing, knitting, and quilting. Now that they are gone, those
remaining show the younger generations our history through physical and visual
presentations. These consist of praise dances, slide shows with tributes to the
past members and the newest arrivals, and achievements of the family. Jumping
the broom is a custom created by slaves when they were not permitted to marry
and signified the start of their lives together. This celebratory act has begun
to resurface within my family.
I am interested in the manipulation of paper as a material
and how it retains memories from its environment as seen in the internal rings
of its growth. Origami, which is a form of folded paper that creates shapes and
originated in both China and Japan, started as ornamentation for special
ceremonies. This art form, as a metaphor for my precious memories, enabled a three-dimensional
and interactive form.
Within each generation the physical crafts of sewing,
knitting, and quilting have evolved in complexity and pattern. Origami utilizes
the aspect of design and repetition to create an object, much like those used
throughout my family’s history. These techniques enabled my relatives to make
baby clothing, quilts, and other items for special events. In my use of origami
there are multiple triangular forms, which when combined produce a pattern to
form an object, much like the stitches used by the matriarchs.
I created an organic form by repetitively bending,
folding, and twisting paper to represent a piece of my family. The outer layers
contain allegories that define the memories and are meant to be removed, viewed,
and collected. The resulting gaps illustrate how a paper sculpture can become
fragile and begin to collapse— yet like my abundant family history still
survives.
Larteshia Spearman
Final results:
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