Project #4 Exquisite Corpse
A Weird... Collage
This probably belongs to a supernatural species. Each of the three body parts was extracted from our three original sketches. They were put together into a whole new figure! What is it? I am not even sure.
But hey, doesn't the logo look familiar to you?
So here is a background story to it:
It probably represents each of us here: Parsons student with minds(heads) full of confusions and fleet-footed legs that help us keep up with the overwhelming schoolwork. Everyday we have to "run" from one point/assignment/class to another and keep running... Well I hope this isn't too frustrating :)
Design Process
Body: My Figure Drawing
sources:
face: @SDFZJ, a WeChat meme artist
logo: credit to @TheNewSchool
beautiful arms & legs: found in Google image :)
Background Stories:
This figure is a collage of multiple fragments I found online. Its awkwardness represents the overwhelming information we’ve been exposed to during online activities. Personally, I have been interested in collage as art and creating them since I learned about gender in my undergrad art history classes. I also have several projects back home that I have really enjoyed making. This genre, also sometimes calls pastiche, is the result of mass production and pop art movement. It often mixes different materials together into a whole new picture by the artist’s intention to reflect specific ideas. For example, my figure contains a significant The New School logo, indicating the iconography behind it.
Head: Sketch from Jackie Xia
Background Stories:
"Here’s my exquisites corpse. Actually one of the few of them. It doesn’t have a very deep background story but one of my creep hobby is to watch people on the street. I took a few quick sketches when I’m on the subway. Just trying to document New Yorkers in their lives during this time. When I was looking at people I was only drawing the ones on the subway without a mask lol so there’s that too."
Legs: Sketch from Angel Fan
Background Stories:
"My figure is of a young wolf who one day hears music coming from a human's house. Entranced by the music, she discovers her love for dancing, however, this is frowned upon by the other wolves in her pack. The young wolf still longs to dance, so she decides to go to the human's home and pretend to be a dog in order to convince the humans to take her in. She dances for the humans, and unlike the other wolves in her pack the humans are delighted by her love for music and decide to take her in."
Reflection
This assignment is a result of teamwork because the figure needs everyone's ideas to be completed. I had so much fun with my partners in exchanging each other's sketches. And I was impressed to see them creating funny drawings telling entirely different stories. Also, I found our final mix so hilarious (in a good way) and interesting. The self-defined functions I learned was beneficial, too, especially in the future, when I have to design lines of codes. The process inspired me of how to put together teamwork and how to create useful functions in p5.