For the "teens inspired" I was asked to pick any piece from the collection at NC art museum that inspired my imagination and make a piece from that. In my searchings I found a very interesting pieceIt's a scroll case, specifically a "Torah Case". It is meant to be buried. This lead to a whole slew of ideas and possibilities. One that I specifically liked was the idea of a "book coffin" which can be used in a similar way except replacing the scroll with a book and the case with a coffin. For my medium I was set on using wood, and for my book I used "How to Get Pregnant" (over 400,000 copies sold.) I plan on keeping my how-to-get-pregnant-book-in-a-coffin in my attic until my firstborn is of age, then I will pass it down to him, and tell him that when the time is right he may open it.*Here's a carrot I drew for comparison.For this project I was asked to take a completed piece of mine and destroy it in any way I wished. Seeing as most others were simply tearing or breaking there piece, I felt I had to make the destruction of my piece special. By thinking this I eventually chose incineration as my destructive medium. To be specific, I put my piece in one of the school kilns, where I left it over the weekend through one baking. By the time the kiln was cool enough to open, there was literally nothing left of my charcoal drawing. |