Repetition and Rhythm

1000 Glass Chess Pieces!

Chess Pieces Origins:

Originated in Europe, adopted by Italians, Indians , and middle easterns.

While the old Indians invented chess, they designed a figure for each arm of the service. The king figure corresponded to the Indian emperor, the "Schah-in-Schah"or "King of kings

Each piece gain meaning as it joined more and more different cultures.

Pawn = Soilder
Bishop= runner, fool, Arabs said it to be an elephant
Knight= arabs and Europeans argued it be either a knight or stead, soon it was simplified to a horse.

Queen was given more and more power , more then the king by Spaniards, they were probably inspired by Queen Isabella.

By the year 1527 Vida, bishop of Albay, published a poem about a chess game between "Apollo" and "Mercury". The rooks were fortifications on the back of an elephant.

Definition.com : Chess(noun)
1) game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard.
2) one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge.
3) less common name for rye-brome
Related words :
Bromus secalinus, cheat, chess game

Famous Quotations CHESS
"When your house is on fire, you can't be bothered with ..."
"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes th..."
"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of ..."
"I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims ..."
"But compared with the task of selecting a piece of Fren..."

Under-structure

Unfinshed piece

Unfinished piece
After a lot of personal confusing with understanding what was assigned for the under-structure of our collage pieces, it was actually my advantage in problem solving. Being confused and just trying to build something, anything that can represent continuance allowed me to think out side of the box. I first piece was messy due to a lot of experimenting. I made a series of horizontal slides connecting disconnecting and continuing off the box. I then colored it black to give it a more dramatic look but it was the source of the messiness. To fix the mix i bought black spray paint and made the piece sold black giving it a clean yet dramatic look.
My second piece was my favorite. i used clean cuts and made a series of stairs and door ways, and tunnels. The series of structures let the eye down into the box, out of the box, through the box, and off the box. I was inspired by the stair maze paintings, when you view the painting your eyes cant tell where it starts or finishes, that gave me the interpretation of continuance or an eternity long journey. To finish this piece of, i collages over it which corresponded with one of the collages i made that will be attached to the piece.

Carlos's 3D Piece and Shelby's 3D Piece!

Caardboard Done.

Finalized project is done. After cutting out a simple geometrical shape out hundreds and hundreds of times i finished the primary piece, the magnolia seed. I constructed simple wasp like wings with clear hot glue trim and funny looking wasp wasp with huge eyes my piece was complete and ready to be presented. Craftsmanship 3.5, Object/body 4, and Presentation 4.5 was my overall score.

Newspaper Collages

For the following project, we took newspapers and made 4 to 5 collages. I did my best to utilize color , i found color to be more exaggerated and made things pop. Other then color, i found that font size highlighted certain areas and made parts of the piece look dense or more open. I my favorite was the 8x8. I used black background with white lettering on normal newspaper attempting to cover a red mess that i made previously. To my advantage the small red remains peeking out between the black and white newspaper gave the piece a little more excitement.

Proposals

For our 3D cardboard creation pieces i was given a mangolia seed . I decided on three different proposals.

A wasp - the seed with be constructed and attached to my butt and i would create a headpiece and wings to go with it.

Microphone- the area that you speak in will be the seed

Skirt - the seed would be constructed around my waist to my knees.

The class decided by majority for me to creat the wasp.

After creating the mangolia seed i ran into a big problem. The Construction was way to heavey to attach to my body. Therefore i needed a new idea.

I decided to create a spider. The see with be the butt of the spider, i will have to creat a torso, face, and 8 legs.