3-D Composition, Spring 2010

Squeaked into this class with a drop out. Very interested because of seeing wood-working projects made by the fall class: wonderfully crafted benches which were on display in the small gallery. The first assignment, dropping an egg from 12' without it cracking was a disappointment because I thought it an engineering project rather than a "functional" 3-D art object. There is certainly nothing "artsy" about the Egg Rocket, and neither versions kept the shell intact, but others were works of art: one being a fish of grey cardboard and glue embelishments.

Ceramics Spring 2010

No room for seniors this semester. Budgetary constraints are lessening classes, while student numbers are going up. Brad and Suzanne good enough to let me help as a lab assistant and will help John and Constance to make up slips and glazes and help keep that room clean.

My projects to accomplish:

• A 3" diameter cup (think wall), about 4" high for truck pens/pencils, to fit in cup holder. Make Red and white

• A water carafe, tall and narrow and simple as pictured.

• A 3 1/2" x 4"H thin-walled, green cylinder for shower tools.

• Something flat and matching for the soap dish.

Photography

Award-winning photojournaist James Pomerantz is studying for an MFA in Photography, and now you can read the books that he’s reading.

For example, Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image” ponders:

“if the image is in a certain manner the limit of meaning, it permits the consideration of a veritable ontology of the process of signification. How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is therebeyond?”

- excerpt from Photojojo (click on link below)

Photo Writings