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.