First Week of WASH

Our newspaper fashion show

Emily with her newspaper baby

Me and Emily posing, masking tape really stinks.

The first day of Wash started with everyone in the class creating an image of ourselves as either a nightmare or a fantasy out of a stack of newspapers provided. 

Considering that we only had two hours to work on our ideas, it was interesting how far people got into bringing their idea to life. After the two hours was up we had to strut our stuff on the runway and see how people interpreted our idea and be put into either the nightmare category or the fantasy category. My idea was to be a clown because I dont like clowns so I considered it to be a nightmare.

Once the fashion show was over everyone headed off to lunch and then 2D class started. Everyone was handed little scraps of paper with a quote on it that we had to memorize and then tell the class what the quote was and if we agreed with it or not. My quote was, "The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas" by Linus Pauling. I both agree and disagree with this quote because if you have to come up with an idea it would be better to create lots of ideas in case the first one is a complete dud, but then sometimes it is hard to come up with a lot of ideas. After that we discussed another quote that said "All art is fundamentally about tension" by Kathy and we discussed everything that involved tension. We then went over what composition was and gestalt theory and did a group project with the people who sit at our table. Every group was given a word that described gestalt and my group was given value, we thought about what we were going to do and came up with the word cha-ching which symbolizes value. After every group did their word we went over more pictures and were given homework to do.