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solarbirdOkay, so, we had this bio/botany assignment, it's due tomorrow, it's basically "take this clock-shaped geological timeline and make it linear." Oh, and "add a few other events to it." It's pretty empty-headed, quite frankly, and I think the only real point is to impress upon students who Don't Get It what the relative times are compared to things like how long human history isn't.
Anyway, the professor said to "get creative with it" and that one student had used a football field (I think by analogy - he said not to use a football field for real) and another had done their timeline on a roll of adding machine paper. So I kind of decided that it might be interesting to approach this assignment from a fabric arts viewpoint.
Timeline in Yarn and Metal
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spazzkat says I've certainly sandblasted that twinkie. Seriously, though, this was a 20-minute timeline assignment and I ended up giving it probably six or seven hours, and that's stupid. Enjoyable, but stupid.
Oh, the black wire stand holding the timeline sculpture in these photos was kind of an improvisation, but I liked how it came out.
Here, have the same thing from a different angle:
Timeline in Yarn and Metal
The tags were kind of amusing to make; I used leftover metallic paper from 2005's solstice cards. If this had been an actual art project for an actual art class, I'd have used actual metal - and, for that matter, a few other things would have been different too, and this would have been considered a scale draft for a much larger installation piece, and yadayada. But I still like the little tags.
Recent eras
Each tie-on indicates a new event, and they run all run forward to the present, as all the elements I included were fair game for that sort of thing. You can trace them all the way up to today, if you look hard enough. GET IT? ar ar ar ar ar. I used wire for eons, and yarn for everything else; the single-loop indicating genus Homo is some ofkathrynt's hand-spun wool, and is the only hand-created source material. It's kind of heavy-handed, but it's not like any of that's going to register anyway. Oh, and many thanks to kathrynt for letting me raid her Crap Yarn Drawers and giving me a little bit of leftover Very Good Hand-spun Yarn for the ending bit.
An Oxygen Atmosphere
You might be able to tell that as the eons change, the wrapping/binding direction reverses, too. I don't know if you can see that in these photos, tho'. It creates kind of a pseudo-kinda-double-helix pattern - it's not one, but it's as close as I was going to get for this project, and, like I said, heavy-handed anyway. Oh, and the prokaryotes and eukaryote appearances both get sparkly yarn, because IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVE! and such.
Back Towards the Past
And I just thought this out-of-focus in-construction shot looked kinda neat.
Under Construction
Anyway, the professor said to "get creative with it" and that one student had used a football field (I think by analogy - he said not to use a football field for real) and another had done their timeline on a roll of adding machine paper. So I kind of decided that it might be interesting to approach this assignment from a fabric arts viewpoint.
Timeline in Yarn and Metal
spazzkat says I've certainly sandblasted that twinkie. Seriously, though, this was a 20-minute timeline assignment and I ended up giving it probably six or seven hours, and that's stupid. Enjoyable, but stupid.Oh, the black wire stand holding the timeline sculpture in these photos was kind of an improvisation, but I liked how it came out.
Here, have the same thing from a different angle:
Timeline in Yarn and Metal
The tags were kind of amusing to make; I used leftover metallic paper from 2005's solstice cards. If this had been an actual art project for an actual art class, I'd have used actual metal - and, for that matter, a few other things would have been different too, and this would have been considered a scale draft for a much larger installation piece, and yadayada. But I still like the little tags.
Recent eras
Each tie-on indicates a new event, and they run all run forward to the present, as all the elements I included were fair game for that sort of thing. You can trace them all the way up to today, if you look hard enough. GET IT? ar ar ar ar ar. I used wire for eons, and yarn for everything else; the single-loop indicating genus Homo is some of
kathrynt's hand-spun wool, and is the only hand-created source material. It's kind of heavy-handed, but it's not like any of that's going to register anyway. Oh, and many thanks to kathrynt for letting me raid her Crap Yarn Drawers and giving me a little bit of leftover Very Good Hand-spun Yarn for the ending bit.An Oxygen Atmosphere
You might be able to tell that as the eons change, the wrapping/binding direction reverses, too. I don't know if you can see that in these photos, tho'. It creates kind of a pseudo-kinda-double-helix pattern - it's not one, but it's as close as I was going to get for this project, and, like I said, heavy-handed anyway. Oh, and the prokaryotes and eukaryote appearances both get sparkly yarn, because IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVE! and such.
Back Towards the Past
And I just thought this out-of-focus in-construction shot looked kinda neat.
Under Construction
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Date: 2007-01-18 01:02 am (UTC)You should probably save this for an exhibit at a con, or to teach science to kids in middle school, or something....
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Date: 2007-01-18 01:03 am (UTC)Somebody else knitted a scarf! I wasn't even the only fabric entry. But mine was the only sculpture. ^_^
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Date: 2007-01-18 02:59 am (UTC)Nobody did video. I did sculpture (above), someone else knitted a scarf and attached tags (which sounds like more work than mine, honestly), one took a gallon milk bottle and put a graduated scale on it, and somebody handed in something in a film canister that I can only pray was a single-exposure giant negative of a timeline, contact-exposed and then processed. That would have been cool.
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Date: 2007-01-18 05:45 am (UTC)neato!
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