11/2: Final Project

Dice Roll:

- Mapping
- Digital Drawing & Painting
- Sculpture

Mapping is a concept I hadn't ever thought about using in my work before and it gave me an interesting and new constraint as a starting point. I began by considering mapping somewhat literally - could I make a topographic sculpture or something that one viewed from above? - and then I started to think of what a working definition of mapping is. I defined it to be creating a sense of place through its relationships. With this definition I then knew I wanted to create the place of my family home, easily the most important place in the world to me as it houses all of my childhood bedrooms and memories and is a place I do not often get to visit and have not lived for the past twelve years. The rooms have now changed functions many times since we first moved there in 1990 and I want to map not only their physical sense of place, but also map their history over time. I will be creating simplified objects taken from all of the two rooms' various functions digitally, print them, and then construct the relationship between the two rooms in physical space, as well as the different eras the rooms have embodied  (above I have shown a few isolated examples of objects and furniture, but the final piece will have many more). These will be hung in space, and my current plan is to hang them in chronological order - however I want to see how the objects lend themselves once they are printed and cut out. This piece will be relatively small, as the subject is an incredibly intimate and personal one, and have aspects similar to a doll house.