Project 2 Research Parts 1-3, Danielle Porter

Part 1

For this project, I want to do a shrine for water. Water, both fresh and salt, has shaped my life. I love rain and snow, and watching streams. My family, due to our original home in Rhode Island, as well as our life on my family’s boat, were influential to the places I’ve been, the games and things I did as a child,and in general part of my relationship to animals–many of my favorite animals live in or near water. 

I want to capture the dual identities of water–the fresh and salt–and their abilities of creation and destruction. My current idea would be a divided basin, each half representing the different forms of water, and how they are shared and differ. I’d love to integrate actual water in the work somehow, both fresh and salt. One image that keeps coming to me is of rain, and also of waves.

I think this work is a mix of my own desires, and desire to keep and honor my memories involving water. However, I think the shrine will also help remind me, and perhaps others, that water has immense power that is neither fully gentle nor fully aggressive, and not completely destructive as it is fundamental to life.

Part 2: images (from:https://creativecommons.org/)

Water
“Water” by christophedemulder is licensed under CC0 1.0
Water
“Water” by The-World-According-To-Pleiades is licensed under CC0 1.0
blue water texture
“blue water texture” by ErrorTribune is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Rain
“Rain” by Robrrt is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Rain Study 2
“Rain Study 2” by amandabhslater is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Whale Watching Hervey Bay Australia by eGuide
“Whale Watching Hervey Bay Australia by eGuide” by eGuide Travel is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Humpback Whale
“Humpback Whale” by rjshade is licensed under CC BY 2.0
White-capped Albatross (Thalassarche cauta steadi)
“White-capped Albatross (Thalassarche cauta steadi)” by Gregory ‘Slobirdr’ Smith is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Wandering Albatross.
“Wandering Albatross.” by Bernard Spragg is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Fish monterey october 09
“Fish monterey october 09” by Tim Pearce, Los Gatos is licensed under CC0 1.0
Waves
“Waves” by ahisgett is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Wave energy
“Wave energy” by kevin dooley is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Pisces Wave Art 10
“Pisces Wave Art 10” by PamLink is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Waves
“Waves” by Christine und Hagen Graf is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Isolated tidal pool, with the raging waves of the Pacific Ocean in the background, at Glass Beach, CA (glassbeach06xy)
“Isolated tidal pool, with the raging waves of the Pacific Ocean in the background, at Glass Beach, CA (glassbeach06xy)” by mlhradio is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Southern Leopard Frog [explored]
“Southern Leopard Frog [explored]” by trishhartmann is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
frog
“frog” by dchallender is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Duck mob
“Duck mob” by jf1234 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
River Otter
“River Otter” by Jon David Nelson is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
North American River Otter
“North American River Otter” by Jon David Nelson is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Part 3: Borrowed Strategy

10 Parts, 2016 Glass, collage, acrylic, resin, steel 85" x 245" x 17"
“10 Parts”, 2016, Dustin Yellin

For my work, I want to pull from the extremely aquatic feel of Yellin’s work, as well as the high level of complexity.