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Lily FauntLeRoy – Project 2 – Part 3
Lily FauntLeRoy – Project 2 Part 1
I’m not sure which of my two ideas I like so I will be doing a write up for each.
- My health – mental and physical
One of the things I want more than anything is my health. I have struggled with my mental health or physical health or both for most of my life. Health struggles have been crippling in my life and have affected things that are important to me. The thought of waking up every day with a body that isn’t in pain and a head that isn’t overthinking is something I can hardly imagine. Physically I have spent the last 10 years dealing with hormonal and reproductive health issues, only in the last year was the word endometriosis even brought up and treatment still hasn’t come into the picture. Mentally I have struggled with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and some mood instability, as well as the mental effects of my ever-changing hormones since I was about 12. This is important to me because I am often debilitated by physical pain or plagued by intrusive thoughts that bar me from doing what I truly want or need to be doing. Our time on earth is so finite and the thought of spending so much of my time as a shell of myself scares me. There are a lot of obstacles for me in achieving my health:
- finding the right doctors (which has been very challenging)
- finding the time to drive how my doctors’ appointments
- lack of treatment
- finding the right medications
- it requires taking incredibly good care of myself
- learning disabilities sometimes make my mental health worse
- I had childhood epilepsy which led to a discovery of an overactive lobe in my brain which has been associated with my mood
- the looming thought every month that there will be 4ish days that month where I will likely be in excruciating pain
In my talisman I want to highlight:
- reproductive health and my hopes to have kids
- mental illness and the constant battle it is
- routine, and how much is helps me to maintain my help
- how far I’ve come with these struggles, how much more I could do without them
Keywords:
- health
- mental illness
- hormonal inbalance
- hopes for children
- imbalance
- feel the same every day
- pain
- resilience
- routine
- even
- help
2. “Perfection”
I have always had an imperfected, skewed version of what perfection is to me, and I have always strived for this ideal of mine. I am a perfectionist, which isn’t always great, but I have very high expectations of myself that I always aspire for. To be the “perfect” life I imagine begins with me being the “perfect” version of myself, to me that means being intelligent, successful, interesting, funny, passionate, loved, attractive, and challenged. I always strived to be an “anomaly”, someone who is unlike others.
There are many obstacles to this goal of mine:
- there is not such thing as perfection
- health and mental health issues
- unforeseen circumstances
- life happens
- the breadth of my goal
- my capabilities
Aspects I want to highlight in my talisman:
- success
- love & family
- finically stability
- that my version of perfect is imperfect
- learning
- challenges
- meaning
Keywords:
- perfection
- imperfection
- passion
- love
- intelligence
- success
- security
- happiness
- satisfaction
- future
Lily FauntLeRoy – Project 1, Part 1: Writing Assignment
My object is a blue ceramic bell with a crystal clapper on a metal chain. The bell is an object used to produce a sound, often the attention of another. It’s technically a percussion instrument.
A bell can represent many things in my opinion. One of the first associations that comes to my mind is church bells ringing, they usually ring at the hour, which is why I associate the bell with time and order.
Bells also commonly represent the beginning or an end, for example the bell between classes.
Bells also symbolize: a call to order, warning (fires), call to battle, schedule, call to worship.
I’m interested in multiple of the bell’s identities, the idea of somehow representing the bells symbolization of the beginning and end simultaneously could be interesting. I was thinking of somehow using the multiple casts to somehow denote a beginning and end. I think its representation of the beginning and end at the same seems full circle. I was thinking of somehow using a circle to represent this idea.
Lily FauntLeRoy, Wildlife by Tony Cragg
1.Immediate Response
This reminded me of Where the Wild Things Are immediately. The scale of the three limps compared to the table is really impressive. I think it’s interesting that there are two reptile looking arms and a human hand. The ornate table is interesting, the scales on the leg and the carvings on the table have an interesting similarity between them. I also think it’s interesting that the artist chose to use a human hand and not a leg, I also thought it was interesting that the scale of the hand is larger compared to the reptile legs.
2. Objective Description
The sculpture has 4 distinct parts. A dark wooden table with ornate carvings sits on a tiled floor against a white wall. On top of the table is a plaster reptilian looking leg it’s large and the foot stands on the table. On the right side of the table another reptilian looking leg made of white plaster, it looks like it almost protrudes from the side of the table. On the other side of the table there is a large plaster human hand with its knuckles on the floor and its palm perpendicular to the floor.
3. Technical Decisions
The use of the dark hard wooden ornate table as the so called ‘base’ of the sculpture has a strong contrast with the white plaster used in the rest of the sculpture. The detail throughout the sculpture through both mediums is consistently intricate. The title Wildlife is interesting especially with the collection of a table, two reptilian looking plaster legs, and a human hand. The human hand rests against the table with its palm facing inward.
4. The Work in the World
The piece relates mainly to animals and humans alike, putting a reptile leg above a human hand, both made of the same material. It’s interesting that they chose reptilian looking legs because reptiles hatch from eggs juxtapose with a mammal, a human hand to be exact. The table looks old, which is interesting, it could easily be a valuable antique. The so-called wildlife is placed on an old well-built table.
5. The Story it Tells
The piece, called Wildlife, places human and reptile limbs with the same weight within the piece. Wildlife seems to conquer the manmade in this piece with the reptile leg assertively placed on the antique carved table. The placement of the reptile leg above the human hand seems to place the reptile above the human hand metaphorically. This seems to place humans as a part of wildlife and does not place as at the top.