Self Portrait in Plaster

The sculpture class at school was doing plaster casts of people's faces and hands. I was unable to do my hands because of how hairy they are, so she told me to do fingers. I was also given some broken hands that were left behind. I had been looking at the chicken wire all semester, wanting to use it and everyone got a board. I had already spent so much time on my electric garden that I just put the stuff together, added some black and red in a few places and called it done. I really like it because the class was appropriately shocked.

Electric Ikebana

An art teacher at school assigned her sculpture class to make art from items that are not art supplies. I had already done that quite a few times, so I decided to dispose of some of the giant container of broken electronics under my bed. Ikebana is Japanese flower arranging in which the spaces between the flowers are as important as the flowers themselves.

Reggae Bag and Book

I had made a custom bag for myself of hemp twine to use at school. It worked so well that I thought other people should use them too. My Jamaican friend was still nearby at the time and I figured that maybe he could talk someone into buying a bag, so I made it reggae-style. It's pretty self-explanatory, but I will list my materials in the labels as always.

Margins

During my final semester at college, I took easy classes to just get it over with. I hated the school that I had transferred to and had already taken the difficult classes that I needed. This left me sitting in boring lectures, so I drew designs in the margins of my notebook. When school was done, I scanned them all and assembled it.

Rabelais Bolt Book

In my bookbinding quest, I decided to use all of the printing funds in my college account to print like 600 - 800 pages of The Works of Rabelais and bind what came out, with the intention of reading it. I'm relatively happy with the resulting book. The cloth is denim from old jeans and the brown cover material is cheap packing paper with some of my best suminagashi. The label/title/logo was made by layering images of text in photoshop. Structurally, it stays together nicely. I wish I had folded over the denim on top of the suminagashi and installed brads to make it look more professinal. I also wish that I had used double cardboard glued together for the covers and marbled the edges of the text block. Regrets aside, this thing is a BEAST to hold while laying in bed.