ArtsXpose 3
Personal Story
Throughout my life basketball has been a key part of shaping who I am. I specifically remember one tournament game where I experienced just about every emotion. With around 8 seconds left in the game my team is down 5, I get the ball and hit a three, which gets me feeling pumped. The other team passes the ball, and I steal it and pass it to my teammate, but he misses and the time expires. I remember feeling so defeated because we got so close but still lost. I started walking to my bench only to see my teammates cheering and smiling. At first I was angry because my teammates were happy and cheering right after we just lost a really close game. This anger turned to confusion because I knew my teammates would not be acting like this after a loss. I was so confused that I looked at the scoreboard only to be surprised at a tied scoreboard. When I thought we were down by five points we were actually only down by three points. We were heading into overtime with so much energy and excitement. We ended up dominating in overtime where there was no doubt who was winning the game.
Key Words:
Pumped
Defeated
Smiling
Anger
Confused
Excitement
Energy
Dominating
Surprised
Cheering
Project 2 Ideation Collages
Project 3 Visual References
Project 3 Sketches
Radiolarian Maquette
Project 3 Writing Assignment
I watched the video on how dogs can smell cancer. I chose this video because my dog got diagnosed with lymphoma cancer two summers ago. Whenever I see my dog, I think she is the smartest creature in the world. In the beginning of the video, the narrator talks about how dogs can sense when humans are going to go for a walk sometime even before the human knows they are going to go for a walk. The narrator says that dogs are masters of reading body language, like a sixth sense, and they use this skill to do many things, such as sense when their human is going for a walk. The narrator then goes to talk about how dogs are able to read a human’s body language and even smell the chemical nature of cancer in a person. In the video, a woman’s dog randomly began acting lethargic when the dog was normally full of energy. This behavior from the dog led to the woman getting a biopsy on a lump that was considered benign. They found cancer in the lump, which was promptly removed, and the dog was full of energy again. The video then showed how dogs can be trained to detect cancer.
Thesis:
The intelligence in other animals has proven to be near the level of humans, and in some instances surpasses human intelligence. Animals have the capability to do things that even humans can’t readily do. This intelligence possessed by other animals will be valuable in humanity’s progression towards the future.
Jason Savas, Manipulations
Tony Cragg’s Manipulations Immediate Response When I first saw this piece I was a little disturbed by it because of all the smaller hands sprouting out of the bigger hand. I thought the hands continually getting smaller made the piece start to resemble a coral reef in the ocean especially since the color was like a rusty orange color that is similar to a lot of coral. From seeing just how small the hands get, I can tell that the sculptor had to work very meticulously to get the details perfect. Objective Description At the base of the sculpture are two very large hands that are an orangey-brown rusty color. These two hands are reaching upwards, but at the end of each of the fingers another smaller hand sprouts from the bigger hand. Each of these five hands is also sprouting one more hand from each of its fingers, and the hands continue to multiply until it gets too small to see the details. The hands at the end are much smaller than the two hands at the base of the sculpture. Technical Decisions In the Manipulations sculpture, Tony Cragg shows some meticulous and painstaking construction on the hands in the sculpture. He does a great job of showing the specific details on each of the hands. In each hand, Tony Cragg makes the material look as if it folds where the skin folds on the hands. He also manages to perfectly depict the knuckles, tendons, and palms of the hands even on the smaller hands. This sculpture is placed on a pedestal. It is not exactly clear what material is used but it looks like it is made of metal. The Work in the World This sculpture is at its core just a bunch of hands sprouting from each other. The hands made me think of how the first thing we did as a class was make models of our own hands. In terms of how this relates to the real world, I think of how humans exist. Two humans come together and have kids, and eventually those kids have kids, and it keeps going on similar to the sculpture where two hands come together to make even more hands, which make even more hands. The Story it Tells After looking at this sculpture for a while I thought that this sculpture was really trying to convey the idea of networking and influence. The first two hands are one person, and each hand that sprouts from that hand is another person that was influenced by the original hands. This influence can be good or bad, but it just shows the power that one person can have over many other people. Depending on how you look at the sculpture, it can seem comforting or disturbing, and I think that depends on whether you expect a good or a bad influence.