Kate Owens 2/17

For both Reagan and Julia’s class, I’ve started making sketches having to do with scale shifts. These include such things as turning my living room lamp into the Duomo along with manipulating buildings in the front yard of my apartment so that they appear as items lying within my apartment like sinks and TVs. I’ve been having a lot of fun sketching down these ideas but I’ve been having trouble deciding where to take them. At first, I thought it might be interesting to redraw them as bigger more finished drawings… but after talking to Reagan it was proposed that instead of drawing them, I could physically produce them in 3d materials.

I took this idea in mind when I began thinking about what I might do for Julia’s next project. I decided to use the scene from the film “Miracolo in Milano” where all the people huddle up under a small ray of sunlight coming down from the sky. This ray of light reminded me of my depiction of light in my subjective drawing so I thought it might be interesting to see how I could get the same effect using different methods in my current project.

So with all this in mind… I was sitting in my apartment living room one night (which is always freezing) and staring at my lamp and wishing that it could just be this giant heat lamp that I could sit under just like the ray of sunlight in Miracle in Milano. I began to think of ways in which I could illustrate this concept. There was the idea that I could actually create a giant sized lamp... but this wasn’t exactly practical so instead I decided to create a miniature diorama of my living room and use the already existing lamp.

As I’ve begun to start creating this diorama, I’ve been focusing less on this lamp idea and more on the specific creation of my living room furniture. I decided to create this furniture out of random objects and materials found within my living room. For example, I dripped candle wax to into a circular mold to form this modern blue and white Ikea table and I spent 3 hours of my Saturday night building futons out of linguini noodles.

As of right now, I’m not sure how I plan to present this project… it might end up taking the form of photography or an in class installation or maybe a combination of both. I also plan on playing with the furniture by placing it into different contexts and it might happen that my lamp idea might not be the main concept of the project in the end.