Found Objects

This project was tough. I had so many different ways to go with it. I started out by looking at my images from the Go Project to find inspiration. There was one particular photo with the chairs in the street right after the snow that got me thinking. 

I decided to go in that direction with found objects. The idea was to create several tiny, makeshift chairs in the woods that represented someone trying to claim an unclaimable space. 

The structures are fairly minimal, containing mostly natural elements, although there are different themes to each of them. One is made of sticks and twine, while another is a rusted skeleton of some long forgotten building material, with a web containing the core of an apple. 

In the next few weeks, the structures will change and decay. More pictures will be uploaded.

Webspace

One of the tougher assignments in the class: Making a webpage.

In the past two weeks I have become very familiar with html code and Dreamweaver. I am still working out the kinks, but overall it is coming out alright. My biggest problems are finding ways to display photos and information without opening new windows or clogging up the space. It really is all about design and organization. 

Right now all that's included in the site is the structure for assignment one, the images of the Go project, and most recently, the found object sculptures, which has also been tough.

Here's the link: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~tt57732/ 

GO

Assignment Two "Go" 

For this project, we were required to take a walk around the community and find certain elements we had not noticed before.  I walked close to the UMBC campus in an area of Catonsville. It was a walk I had taken many times, but I never noticed how the highway divided the community between a friendly, family oriented neighborhood and cold, unemotional apartment buildings.  I documented with my camera how in front of the rows of houses there were gardens, lawn ornaments, and chairs.  On the other side of the bridge, there was nothing. A few bus stop benches and a sign stating "Private Property". The atmosphere had changed. 

The formal aspects of the project: a webpage, photographs, and found objects. 

I've had some trouble learning certain aspects of dreamweaver and html, but my site is coming together. For a while I was unsure of what to use as the homepage because I didn't want anything too flashy or too dull. I ended up using a drawing I made that was based off of a

 combination of photographs from the journey. 

Another thing I've had trouble with was limiting my photographs down to ten. I to

ok so many and there were so many different elements that I discovered in the walk.

Many of the "found objects" I had to photograph because we were not able to take them with us.