My project has changed a lot since day 1. When I first heard about this project, I just thought of something easy to collect and that was soda cans. As I thought about what to make I thought I would just make some kind of representation sculpture of something that could help the environment. I would make that be out of soda cans to juxtapose how cans are usually littered and trashed but could be recycled for something good. As I went through the semester I realized that wasn’t very conceptual and I have become somewhat aware of concept in my artwork now. I don’t need to create work that is so easy to see. It needs to have meaning and people should have to work or use their brains to figure out what I am trying to depict.
For my accumulation project, I decided to do a continuation of my project 3. As I talked about in project 3, I have been doing study on urban sprawl and urban sprawl is pretty unplanned development on the big scale. Urban sprawl is a very big problem when it comes to the environment and I would like to really show how this is a problem. I would also like to make another sculpture to show a possible solution to urban sprawl, one that depict what we call “new urbanism”. This is a place that is has multi use buildings. For instance, one floor is a retail section and the 2nd and 3rd floors are high density housing units/apartments. There will also be single family homes that go in the well designed area, not just in cul-de-sac forms.
For my accumulation project, I decided to do a continuation of my project 3. As I talked about in project 3, I have been doing study on urban sprawl and urban sprawl is pretty unplanned development on the big scale. Urban sprawl is a very big problem when it comes to the environment and I would like to really show how this is a problem. I would also like to make another sculpture to show a possible solution to urban sprawl, one that depict what we call “new urbanism”. This is a place that is has multi use buildings. For instance, one floor is a retail section and the 2nd and 3rd floors are high density housing units/apartments. There will also be single family homes that go in the well designed area, not just in cul-de-sac forms.
general idea of what it could look like, just think about
a couple thousand more cans.
Site: the site I had last time was fairly good because it kind of gave off a gloomy feeling. I think I would love to make this project in a junk yard or a trash dump. This would give the real feeling or mood that I want to convey. I think urban sprawl is nasty and the city would be a much better place if it cleaned up a little bit. As for where I’d put the sculpture of the solution, I think I’d go with a construction site. This would depict the fact that we are starting over and trying to build something new.
Materials: for my sprawl piece, I will have tons of different cans and bottles. This represents the different kinds of buildings that come along with sprawl and they will be separated so you can see the division of the land. I will also have a crap load of cans to represent the problem that I see with it; that it is overcrowded, dirty, and harmful. Unlike my last project, the amount of cans will be overwhelming this way you will feel like you’ve just been hit in the testicles. Its not a good feeling. For my solution piece I will also use cans and bottles to show the different types of buildings, but unlike the sprawl piece, the new urbanist approach integrates the different buildings so there will not be a clear separation. Like the sprawl though, there will be a lot of cans, it will just be more dense and neat to show that there was some thought behind what was happening.
Materials: for my sprawl piece, I will have tons of different cans and bottles. This represents the different kinds of buildings that come along with sprawl and they will be separated so you can see the division of the land. I will also have a crap load of cans to represent the problem that I see with it; that it is overcrowded, dirty, and harmful. Unlike my last project, the amount of cans will be overwhelming this way you will feel like you’ve just been hit in the testicles. Its not a good feeling. For my solution piece I will also use cans and bottles to show the different types of buildings, but unlike the sprawl piece, the new urbanist approach integrates the different buildings so there will not be a clear separation. Like the sprawl though, there will be a lot of cans, it will just be more dense and neat to show that there was some thought behind what was happening.
this is the different kinds of materials i will use. notice the different size
of cans, differnet types of cans, and bottles; these will represent the different
types of buildings
Scale: I want these to be massive. I want people to walk around and through these “cities”. It should be experienced so that maybe I can make an impact in other peoples lives. This is a problem, and a big one at that so that it another reason. I really want it to be big so it smacks you in the face and you have to experience it. I want to have thousand of cans for just one sculpture so it is going to be one heck of a process to make this.
