Kate Owens 2/24

I have decided to, as my final project in Julia’s class, to create a collection of “Florence” in the bookshelf of my apartment living room. This project will be an extension of the sketches and projects I’ve been developing for Reagan’s class along with a continuation of my most recent project-my living room diorama. So far, I’m not quite exactly sure exactly in what way I will end up accomplishing this. I know that I want to work with preexisting elements in my bookshelf like the lamp and books.. but I’m not sure if I want to treat materials exactly in the same way that I did for my last project. In my “living room”, I tried to keep the integrity of all the materials. However, in the collection, I’m interested in getting back to drawing and including a mix of both raw, recognizable materials and straight up drawings.

Because of traveling, this project is still very much in the form of idea stage so I really don’t know what will end up working and what will not. I want the end product to be layered so that discoveries in changes of scale and sizes cannot all be discovered and realized within the first few seconds of looking at the bookcase. I also want to personalize what monuments or places that I plan to create mini versions of so that the overall project doesn’t simply ending up looking like an objective version of a miniature Florence.