Stage 2 and 3: A narrative art exhibtion
Project Description:
Our final product of this project was a prototype of Meow Wolf. We started off by visiting Meow Wolf and getting ideas for our project. Once we had figured out what we wanted it to somewhat look like, we started creating a story. The final story that we came up with was there was a mathematician that went a little crazy and wasn’t sure if his daughter was real. He ended up getting in a car accident and then going into a coma. While he was in the coma the questions he studied were playing around in his head. At the exhibition when you first walked in you were in his office where all of his work was. Some of his work was ripped and scattered on the walls. In the desk in his office was pictures of his daughter growing up and it turning darker showing that he isn’t sure who she is and if she is real. Then you go into the second room, the car accident room. There was a curvy road and flashing lights. In the middle of the room there was a sign and the crashed car with parts dangling down. On the sides of the car there were rocks and tree parts. If you followed the road it led into an ambulance. When you walked into the ambulance doors it goes into the coma room, where there many murals.
In order to make the final product we split into different committees. There was the artist's, tech, builders, and storyboarders. I was in the artist committee. We were in charge of creating all the rooms and the art that went into the rooms. I mainly helped out with the car accident room. We visited the junkyard to get parts for the car and even tried to tap a car to make a mold of the car. We ended up ditching our tap car mold and trying something else because we felt it didn’t look realistic. Once we finished making the car we worked the rest of the room. I helped build the road, dangle objects from the ceiling, and make the tree branches around the car. When I wasn’t working on the car I was usually helping paint. I was able to jump in on the fun with splattering paint all over a wall with our hands.
Our final product of this project was a prototype of Meow Wolf. We started off by visiting Meow Wolf and getting ideas for our project. Once we had figured out what we wanted it to somewhat look like, we started creating a story. The final story that we came up with was there was a mathematician that went a little crazy and wasn’t sure if his daughter was real. He ended up getting in a car accident and then going into a coma. While he was in the coma the questions he studied were playing around in his head. At the exhibition when you first walked in you were in his office where all of his work was. Some of his work was ripped and scattered on the walls. In the desk in his office was pictures of his daughter growing up and it turning darker showing that he isn’t sure who she is and if she is real. Then you go into the second room, the car accident room. There was a curvy road and flashing lights. In the middle of the room there was a sign and the crashed car with parts dangling down. On the sides of the car there were rocks and tree parts. If you followed the road it led into an ambulance. When you walked into the ambulance doors it goes into the coma room, where there many murals.
In order to make the final product we split into different committees. There was the artist's, tech, builders, and storyboarders. I was in the artist committee. We were in charge of creating all the rooms and the art that went into the rooms. I mainly helped out with the car accident room. We visited the junkyard to get parts for the car and even tried to tap a car to make a mold of the car. We ended up ditching our tap car mold and trying something else because we felt it didn’t look realistic. Once we finished making the car we worked the rest of the room. I helped build the road, dangle objects from the ceiling, and make the tree branches around the car. When I wasn’t working on the car I was usually helping paint. I was able to jump in on the fun with splattering paint all over a wall with our hands.
Reflection:
I actually wasn’t able to go to Meow Wolf. From what I heard it allowed us to plan what we wanted ours to look like and what the plot of ours would be. It made us look all the different aspects on what makes the design of the room interesting. For example, the sound, lighting, and style of things. It also allowed us to see how we could incorporate math and philosophy. Meow Wolf inspired our final product by making transitions from room to room and hiding all of the technology to make the sound and lights.
If this past month taught me anything it was that you can persevere through anything. During this project there were many times when we ran into a bump in the road and wasn't sure what to do, but we kept trying and eventually we figured it out. One example was the car; we had an issue with tapping the car and the paper mold we made. We were struggling with how it was looking and wasn’t sure what to do. We were able to collaborate with others and persevere through that issue. There were also moments when people were doubting our final product and thinking it wasn’t going to look good. We were able to persevere through that doubt and prove to others that we can create something so big and beautiful.
I think that I did my very best on this project. I put in a lot of time and effort on this project and I feel like it shows in the final product. I was able to work with others and create beautiful work. If we were to do this project again I would have liked to get our planning organized between groups. It felt at moments we weren’t really sure what was going on or people weren’t sure what they should be doing.
From this project a math skill I took away was how to use math constructions to create beautiful work. For example, the golden ratio and the faces on the wall, and the painting I made that ended up in office room. A humanities skill I took away was learning about perspective of time and reality. We examined different philosophers thoughts and found that everyone perceives things differently. A soft skill I took away was communication. We used communication to communicate to each group about what was going on and what needed to happen.
The time and space project definitely changed the way I look at Animas. This year I came into this project already having done a big project and it not ending out well. So going into this project I wasn’t really sure how it was going to end up. After doing this project I now see that with the right set of people and mindset we are able to make something so big and beautiful. The time and space project also helped me improve at collaboration. Since we were working as a whole class we had to figure out how to collaborate especially when it got to the very end of the project when everybody was stressed. Overall, I am proud of what we made and what it turned out to be.
I actually wasn’t able to go to Meow Wolf. From what I heard it allowed us to plan what we wanted ours to look like and what the plot of ours would be. It made us look all the different aspects on what makes the design of the room interesting. For example, the sound, lighting, and style of things. It also allowed us to see how we could incorporate math and philosophy. Meow Wolf inspired our final product by making transitions from room to room and hiding all of the technology to make the sound and lights.
If this past month taught me anything it was that you can persevere through anything. During this project there were many times when we ran into a bump in the road and wasn't sure what to do, but we kept trying and eventually we figured it out. One example was the car; we had an issue with tapping the car and the paper mold we made. We were struggling with how it was looking and wasn’t sure what to do. We were able to collaborate with others and persevere through that issue. There were also moments when people were doubting our final product and thinking it wasn’t going to look good. We were able to persevere through that doubt and prove to others that we can create something so big and beautiful.
I think that I did my very best on this project. I put in a lot of time and effort on this project and I feel like it shows in the final product. I was able to work with others and create beautiful work. If we were to do this project again I would have liked to get our planning organized between groups. It felt at moments we weren’t really sure what was going on or people weren’t sure what they should be doing.
From this project a math skill I took away was how to use math constructions to create beautiful work. For example, the golden ratio and the faces on the wall, and the painting I made that ended up in office room. A humanities skill I took away was learning about perspective of time and reality. We examined different philosophers thoughts and found that everyone perceives things differently. A soft skill I took away was communication. We used communication to communicate to each group about what was going on and what needed to happen.
The time and space project definitely changed the way I look at Animas. This year I came into this project already having done a big project and it not ending out well. So going into this project I wasn’t really sure how it was going to end up. After doing this project I now see that with the right set of people and mindset we are able to make something so big and beautiful. The time and space project also helped me improve at collaboration. Since we were working as a whole class we had to figure out how to collaborate especially when it got to the very end of the project when everybody was stressed. Overall, I am proud of what we made and what it turned out to be.
Stage 1: Slaughterhouse Five and Flatland
Project Description: In this project we ended up reading two books, Slaughterhouse Five and Flatland. Slaughterhouse Five is about a man named Billy that hs no concept of time. This concept was introduced to him from aliens, the Tralfamadorians. In the book Billy doesn't really care what happens to him because he believes that time is a constant loop. He doesn't care if he is looked at insane or if he dies, since he knows that he can just jump to a different memory. Slaughterhouse Five explores the themes of time, reality, and lack of freewill. Flatland takes place in a two dimensional world. It explains how they few each other and what there day to day experiences are. In Flatland Women are viewed as lines, where as men are shapes. The more sides you have the higher in class you are. Circles are the highest class and Females(Lines) are the lowest in class. If you are a irregular shape in Flatland you are executed. In Flatland there is square that ends up meeting a sphere and learning about the third dimensions as well as the first and zero dimension. He gains knowledge from these other dimensions and is able to being what he learned back to Flatland. This ended up changing how the shapes in Flatland looked at there dimension. In class while reading Flatland and Slaughterhouse Five we discussed the topics of time, freewill, and different dimensions. We connected it to our world and talked about if we truly have freewill. While reading these two books it really helped to have class discussions on what was happening in the book and talking about the themes. For Flatland I think it also helped to watch the movies, it allowed me to comprehend the two dimension world better.
Project Reflection:
1. Reading a book was a new experiment and was kinda hard. Usually in math you solve problems and questions. Flatland made me think out of the box on dimensions and shapes, which was new for me. This book allowed me to expand my learning on the different dimensions and how it would work if we lived in different dimensions. The connections I saw between the two books is that they both explore the idea of different dimensions. Also, how the people learning about the dimensions didn't have a choice in it . This brought up the idea that we don't always like the truth and even if we don't want to hear it, someone still shows us the truth. Both Billy and A square didn't have a choice in the matter of being told the truth, they were both dragged into the truth of the dimensions.
2. Our original idea was to have one side of the painting be black and white and the other sides all colorful. The side that was all colorful would represent the insanity and have irregular shapes. The black and white side would represent sanity and have three dimensional shapes. A peer and teacher gave us a the critique that the sides didn't totally represent the message we were trying to get across. They thought that insane people see things more black and white. They also thought that three dimensional shapes were all over the place, which represented insanity over sanity. My group agreed that this was true, so we decided to change our painting a little bit. We changed the sane side of the brain to pink, instead of black. We made the three dimensional shapes more organized by making it go most sides to less sides. For the insane side we made the brain black and added lines to create more depth. Our steps in creating this piece was we first drew a rough draft and got a critique. Then we started to draw and paint our canvas. After that we got another critique and refined our painting.
3. By doing the art piece I don't believe it changed my thoughts on Slaughterhouse Five or Flatland, but it allowed me to understand the themes of the two books better. it allowed me to explore and deepen my understanding of sanity and insanity. It made me think about how Billy represented insanity because he saw time and aliens, so others saw him as crazy. Then A squared represented the sane side because he was introduced to different dimensions and was able to see all different perspectives of things. For stage 2 the art piece set us up for understanding the themes from the books better. Moving forward I'm excited to analyze the books and themes with philosophy. A question I have is, How are we going to break down what we learn into what we want to include in our final exhibition.
1. Reading a book was a new experiment and was kinda hard. Usually in math you solve problems and questions. Flatland made me think out of the box on dimensions and shapes, which was new for me. This book allowed me to expand my learning on the different dimensions and how it would work if we lived in different dimensions. The connections I saw between the two books is that they both explore the idea of different dimensions. Also, how the people learning about the dimensions didn't have a choice in it . This brought up the idea that we don't always like the truth and even if we don't want to hear it, someone still shows us the truth. Both Billy and A square didn't have a choice in the matter of being told the truth, they were both dragged into the truth of the dimensions.
2. Our original idea was to have one side of the painting be black and white and the other sides all colorful. The side that was all colorful would represent the insanity and have irregular shapes. The black and white side would represent sanity and have three dimensional shapes. A peer and teacher gave us a the critique that the sides didn't totally represent the message we were trying to get across. They thought that insane people see things more black and white. They also thought that three dimensional shapes were all over the place, which represented insanity over sanity. My group agreed that this was true, so we decided to change our painting a little bit. We changed the sane side of the brain to pink, instead of black. We made the three dimensional shapes more organized by making it go most sides to less sides. For the insane side we made the brain black and added lines to create more depth. Our steps in creating this piece was we first drew a rough draft and got a critique. Then we started to draw and paint our canvas. After that we got another critique and refined our painting.
3. By doing the art piece I don't believe it changed my thoughts on Slaughterhouse Five or Flatland, but it allowed me to understand the themes of the two books better. it allowed me to explore and deepen my understanding of sanity and insanity. It made me think about how Billy represented insanity because he saw time and aliens, so others saw him as crazy. Then A squared represented the sane side because he was introduced to different dimensions and was able to see all different perspectives of things. For stage 2 the art piece set us up for understanding the themes from the books better. Moving forward I'm excited to analyze the books and themes with philosophy. A question I have is, How are we going to break down what we learn into what we want to include in our final exhibition.