The Container Project
TO CONTAIN is 1. To have within: enclose. 2. To include: comprise. 3. To be capable of holding. 4. To keep back: restrain.

The Container Project has five parts, or stages: first, a clay sculpture made from live observation of an existing container and painted with graphic ‘seamlines’; second, line and value drawings made from the clay sculptures; third, fabric painted with graphic reductions of the clay sculpture; fourth, a pattern for surface construction made from the ‘seamlines’ on the form of the clay sculpture; fifth, a sewn soft-sculpture version of the clay sculpture made with the hand-painted fabric.

SLIDE SHOW—The Container Project

Variation on the Self – Relief Sculpture Project
This project began with collage made by combining photographic self-portraits with imagery of animal components – pattern, features, etc. The relief sculptures, as three-dimensional versions of the collages, were carved from balsa foam and painted with a limited color palette of a group of three analogous, or related, colors and their three complements.

SLIDE SHOW—Relief Sculpture Project

Collage Response to Literature
This project used six short stories from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities as a launching point for creative visual response. These collages will next be translated into oil paintings on canvas.

SLIDE SHOW—Collage Response to Literature

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