Leah Gingerich- Assignment 6- Coloring Collecting

                                     

                                       
                                                                         black
                                     
                                       
                                                                       pink
                                     
                                       
                                                                      white

I gathered the materials that I use the most in my room. I love the color pink, so I have a bunch of pink things lying around my room! I enjoyed grouping my things in colors and it felt therapeutic to me. This also gave me the excuse to finally fold my laundry so that was a plus. I have been doing a lot of reading for some of my other classes and I realized that they are all the same color !!

Assignment 6- Coloring Collecting Jingnan Cheng

Different pinks

Something in the laundry basket. From light to dark. It's an interesting work, I became aware of the color diversity during my collection at home.

Black is my favorite color. With this exercise, I might want to collect all the black in my home.

Assignment 6_ Kris B

black

    

blue

  

yellow

Assignment 6 – John Teesdale – Color Collections

So when I got most of my object and arranged them by color I realized that my room never really had that much of a color palette. Generally, my room always had a more brown/black color palette, and the only other colors I could find where random objects from my childhood.

Assignment 5: John Teesdale – Topsy-turvy

So rearranging and moving everything around in my space wasn't too bad for me. The reason is that I am moving back home so I had to clean out my old room in my parent's house so I took this as a good opportunity to get getting out that I didn't need and also to catalog what I do have here and what I don't. While my room was in this disarray it did kinda suck that I couldn't really use it but because I knew it was only temporary it wasn't too bad.

Assignment 4_ kris B

here is me washing dishes and going to sleep after. 

Guangyu Zhang- Assignment 6 Color Collections.

White

The artist Giorgio Morandi believed that nothing is more abstract and unreal than the world that people see. Everything is taken back to its essential reality. I love white. When the white objects get together, I always ask myself, "What is pure white?" From the white objects, I can express the "real" that I want to portray. I think white gives people "calm", and "neutral".

Grays

Golden

I observe and explore the nature of objects as Morandi did, but capturing light is also part of my observation. With the light and white background, the yellow and green object seems like golden.

Assignment 6 – Natalie Strickland

This assignment was fun to complete. Grouping things by color is really aesthetically pleasing–it inspired me to want to organize my bookshelf by color. I think the black and white photo works the best because black is pretty much the same no matter how light or dark it is, whereas with the other colors, there was a lot of variety between different blues or greens or pinks. 

Assignment 5 Jiashun Zhou

Assignment 1

Assignment 5 - Leah Gingerich

 I am enjoying my afternoon while eating a delicious apple on some uncomfortable furniture. I personally wasn't too comfortable sitting in my chair. I was also very nervous that I would ruin the structure of the chair while I was sitting on it. I didn't mind my food rest all though I was also scared I would break it.
                                                    

Assignment 05 Jingnan Cheng

I put the trash can upside down, the trash can only be put on the surface.

I put the table on its side, the surface doesn't put things. I try to put food on the foot of the table. It's hard to put because the table has a slope.

Assignment 05 Guangyu Zhang

The table cannot hold anything.

I cannot eat on this table

Plus,

I cannot move the couch.

Assignment 6 - April 29th - Color Collections

Assignment 6 - Color Collections 
Glazing time! Greenware time is done! Lets move from the considerations of form toward surface and color for your final assignment.

Over the past few weeks you have become re-familiar with all your possessions. I have asked you to recognize your objects by their initial craft intentions, their main functions. Through reinterpretation, you have broadened your notions of the objects you own by attempting to deconstruct the functional intentions of pottery, fibers, and furniture. Through mis-use your functional objects have taken on the roles of the found object, considering new possibilities in purpose or aesthetic beyond their standardized forms. Hopefully through these acts you have gained a new appreciation for the design considerations that go into Craft Thinking at the onset of making.

Your last assignment is simple. You are to group all your possessions by color. (See the image example below.) There's more than you think! I want you to really look for color! I want you to look at your surroundings with color being your highest value of categorization. Organize your color collections in a manner you find most pleasing and document them in three or more images, post to the blog and write about the experience. How does grouping like color items together change the values of the objects in your collection. Does color homogenize form? If you play with the color settings of your image, do your color collections become more formless? Which aesthetic values are lost? Which are gained? Does an abundance of the same color suggest a mood or feeling? Are certain colors perceived with political or social connotations? How so? Ask yourself these questions and consider your opinions.

You have deconstructed your objects through mis-use, now I want you to deconstruct them in a different way. By rearranging the hierarchal values that each object possesses, we can change how we perceive them. For instance, design concerns itself with function. It places function on the top of the value list. But if we disrupt that value by placing color on the top of the list instead, that same object loses and gains other perspectives. We see it differently. We appreciate it for more than what it was designed for initially. What values can you disrupt in your work?

Also: Reply to at least two of your peer's Topsy-turvy posts from last week's assignment in the class blog comments. What stood out to you? Why?

This assignment is Due Wednesday, May 6th by 6:59pm EST. Please post to the class blog by this date and time to account for your class attendance.

Title your blog post Assignment 6 - Your Full Name - Color Collections.
Example: Assignment 6 - Caleb Widogast - Color Collections.

Portia Munson. "Pink Project; Table," PPOW Frieze London,
pink plastic and table, 30in high x 8ft wide x 14ft long, 2016.

Artist - John Bock

Artist - Michael Mahalchick