South High School- David Olsen- Residency 4hrs
This week MCTC was out for spring break so I spent Monday working on my digital fabrication project. I 3D printed a hand that rested on top a box with a hand crank jutting out the side. As you spin the pointer finger of the hand also spins. Its rotation is off center so that it creates an even more eerie scenario of the finger not meshing with its self. It’s printed out of glow in the dark blue filament adding to its phantom esque appearance. I spent around 23hrs in total printing parts for it this week. It feels so amazing to have the final object finally working. At South High School this week I worked on the underglaze of my bat project. I painted recessed areas and edges with a hint of green that blended away to brown. This also created a phantom like appearances. For the nose I combined the green with a red in order to make the nose still have the flesh like look and the bright colorful pop it would have on a real bat. The green tied with the red also helped to unify the piece and make it so that the nose didn’t seem separate from the rest of the piece. A student today wasn’t liking their mask, but with both me and Meg talking to them about all the things they did right with the piece they began to appreciate it more and even added a few more finishing touches. It was a beautiful piece that covered the viewers eyes and had to sets of small curved horns projecting from it. It had a copper triangle set into the forehead and copper wire rapping around the horns. The copper complimented its deep red glaze perfectly. For finishing touches they added frayed rope along the edge of the mask, imitating hair. I also set a date with David for me to teach.