Week 15: Final Project Finished











Week 15: This is the final week in which we have completed our final project, a personal mini gallery based on our own preferences and styles. this has been the culmination of several weeks of planning and implementation. These are the results.

Craft: For the craft, I used the following tools: the Baltic plywood cutouts which were already glued, textile craft paper, a computer, print paper, wood glue, brushes, and acrylic paint. From the previous week, we used Baltic plywood, a sturdy and high-quality wood which formed the sides of the mini gallery. Craft paper was glued to the floor of the gallery to indicate the sense of a wood floor to the viewer. Leftover wood from the cutting were used as frames for printed pictures to allude the idea of miniature paintings that would populate the walls of the gallery. Brushes and acrylic paint were used to color the walls of the gallery. These components of the gallery played key roles in conveying the idea of scale in relation to the viewer. With miniature wood people inside the gallery as well, the sense of scale and place was affirmed and easy to get.This would play a key part in how large the mini art pieces would be in relation to the human scale inside.

Composition: For the composition I began with the fully constructed gallery. The walls were already glued together. What I first did was paint the outside of the gallery in white acrylic paint. Following this, I glued down a print of a wood floor onto the base of the interior of the gallery. This was to mimic a wood floor. After that, I painted woof frame cutouts I had from the previous week and glued printed images to them. These were to be the miniature paintings that would adorn the walls. After finish assembling them, I glued them in place on the interior walls. Following that, I glued the interior walls and roof. Once that was complete, I placed my 3D creature model that I had done before inside the building as sort of a centerpiece under the main skyline. I intended to paint the gallery a plain white so the focus is solely on the artwork. The wood floor would contrast nicely with the stark white while not intrude in the position of the art as the focus.

Concept: The concept of the assignment was to create a 3D wood sculpture of an art gallery that would represent us. For the art that will be inside, I wanted it to mirror that of the structure itself. As a result, the pictures the images are large, six and seven feet across in proportion. Each panel was created by me and each is of a figure which is a major subject matter that I focus on as an artist. They are all arrange to be a major focus point on each wall. And in the center, the creature 3D print I made will take center stage under the skylight. And with its scale, It would be enormous and serve as the centerpiece of this gallery. And with the 3D sculpture in the center, the space is meant to be reminiscent of the David sculpture in Galleria dell'Accademia. I wanted to create a gallery in which it would be a singular room of grand scale, like an atrium which to me is the architectural design that I enjoy the most. I love open spaces. I also wanted to utilize natural light as much as I can so that is why I added a large skylight and storefront windows. I feel much more at home and at ease with natural lighting. And from the galleries that I have attended, one in which natural light has been utilized have always been memorable and inviting. I feel less restricted which is something I wanted in my art gallery along with the massive images. I decided that a large room akin to an atrium would be the most appropriate setting for me as it would focus a lot in space which would transform the view of the person, the self, into a place which exudes an awe in the viewer for what art I would put into space. And with the massive figures in the paintings and the gigantic figure in the center, the sense that the self is less important to the grandness of the experiencing of the place is what I wanted to achieve.

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