Final+Project

I chose my theme because of the personal connection I have too it. All my life my family has struggled financially and money is always at the back of my mind. As I have gotten older I have better understood and closely followed the state of the countries economy as well as general political state of the U.S. As my awareness grew, so did my concern. So in doing this project I hope to bring awareness to the current state our president and representatives in congress have put us in. From a creative standpoint I had many conceptual problems with the project as well as a time problem. My biggest problem as usual was coming up with the idea to start with. Once I got the concept that I basically developed based on the shape of the hunk of cardboard I was stuck with, I was able to build on the initial idea of a skyscraper. I also had a problem with the paint I had to use on the outside of the environment because it was far too runny. Because of this it took multiple coats to get a fairly solid look to it, which was very time consuming. This leads right into my last problem, the problem being time. It took me four days to get the starting clay figure done. I’m not to good with clay. This put me on a time crunch from the start which was added to by the time it took to develop the idea for my environment. I barely finished by staying after school for three and a half hours on Thursday. I think the flow and color scheme of everything works really well. The whole idea of it is a great representation of the message I’m trying to convey. Everything tied together well and the figure fits right in so I think almost everything works together well. I don’t think it is as good as it could have been though because there were a few things I wanted to add to it to really bring it up to the next level so because of that there are elements like the elevator and a side wall that do not work as well. If I could do it over I would have had much more urgency in the making of my clay figure and sketched out the idea for my environment at home in my own time. This way I would have had time to add the elements that would have really made this project pop.