Letter

Dear Potential AP Art Student

Going into AP art was a lot different than what I thought was going to happen.  AP art is basically independent study all year long. You can converse with the teacher and she will guide you, but most of the ideas you have to come up with or find on your own. My independent study was body through art, my thought process went from painting body prints on my work to actually casting body parts and creating body part sculptures similar to my features.

When you are choosing an independent study you want to choose something that you can branch off in many different ways this was easy for my since I had a lot of options in sculpture.

Cellophane Taped Body Part

First; Choose the body part you want to preserve. Ex. Arm, hand, leg, foot.

Second; Wrap the body part in cellophane tightly.
Then you wrap in with clear packing tape, this is the outside layer.

Third; Slowly cut down the side of the figure until you can slip out of the cast.
Then tape it back up once you have taken your body part out of it.

Fourth; Stuff the now casted body part with tissue paper, shredded paper or stuffing.
Then tape the hole up.

Fifth; Choose a color scheme of tissue paper to cover your body part

Sixth; Water down the Elmer's glue or use Modge Podge.

Seventh; Paint the glue on the tape with add the tissue paper over top. Continue to collage the colors of tissue paper all over the body part. Let dry. 

Artist Statement

I have always been interested in art and arts and crafts. My dad always says that my mom had a crayon in my hand before anything else, and that I was constantly doing art projects. My mother is a great artist, she can draw, paint and always has creative ideas, she is mostly a graphic designer though.

When I was 10 I started a County Summer camp for clay and I fell in love with it. I think that I look up mostly to my ceramics instructor, he's the one who shows me how to do something when I don't know how, and I still am learning from him till this day. His name is Jason Alexander and he mostly does thrown pieces, all though I'm not nearly as good as he is I always attempt things he has made.

Lately I have been doing some work incorporating various artists’ work and themes. I have been working with my own body like Nan Smith, and Nature like Jerry Uelsmann. I am taking their themes body and nature and incorporating them into functional ceramic pieces as well as other sculptural pieces. After my 3rd or 4th year at the pottery camp I knew it wasn't just something I was going to do in the summer anymore, I wanted to do it all the time. I started high school and I was throwing at least 3 times a week and was getting better, by the next summer I had gotten so much better. This made me realize that this is what I love, and it is what makes me happiest.

Although I can't complete everything because I have limited recourses, my ideas are not limited. In the future I would like to grow as a better pottery that can throw 3x bigger than I do now, and into different sculpture materials. I would like to use metals, plastic, porcelain, glass anything I can get my hands on really. I would like to continue on body and nature as well as move to abstract. 

Right now I am working on a sculpture with tape, cellophane, and tissue paper; I am using my own body to make sculptures some hang, and some that light up. Originally the legs were going to be balloons but they were unfortunately too heavy to float, so I turned them into a mobile and happy with they way they turned out.  

Ultimately I would love to have my own studio, and become a well-known potter and sculptor, I already have my own wheel, and I use it every chance I get.  I am volunteering at the Tj art studio, I am learning about the kilns, mixing glazes, and different pottery techniques. The man I work with most wants to start some sculptures with me, show me how to bind/weld metals and glass in clay pieces. I will be moving forward in what I would like to do and learning a lot from him. 

Organic Form Sculpture

I would like or make organic round figures, into a sculpture. they will have colors of relation like blues and greens, purples and pinks, red yellow and oranges.  Cool and warm colors.

i got inspiration for the Organic forms from

Jae Hyo Lee's sculptures, she does sculptures with metal and wood organic  forms.




Ikuko Iwamoto also has some pieces with textures and bulges. Something i could add or incorporate to the sculpture,


Lærke Langballe aslo has pieces that have an organic form to them. 

Massive Pot Technique

Massive Pot Making 

Using wood and rope template that collapses when finished

Used in france today from the 16th century

"This method of making large pots with wood armatures wrapped in rope is a centuries old technique.  The form begins with a series of wood verticals that describe the height of the piece, and the diameter of the top and the bottom."

Lighting Artsits and Sites

Isabella Bramson

- Lighting fixtures
- Cut out forms

Wendy Jung

"Night Lights"

Gary Jackson

- Cut out, textured and slip painted votives

Throwing Pieces

I would like to throw bowls and create this texture inside of them, kind of an organic looking idea. 

I like how you can see the raw clay on the outside but then the inside is glazed with colors a set of bowls or cups or something where you can see the inside as well as the raw clay on the outside.

Forms that are thrown with elongated features, or not proportionate features. 

Textured bowls and plates that will be undergalzed, just like the mexican plate I have already made.