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Tolland High School
Tolland, Connecticut
Student Work
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Student Commentary
Briefly define the nature of your concentration project, the development of your concentration project, and the sources of your ideas. You may refer to specific slides as examples.
For my concentration, I've decided to focus on power cords and wires. The reason is because they are so ordinary yet interesting when thought about. They connect everyday devices to power, so they can be used for daily tasks. Plugs provide life to objects, in a sense, but are still obscure and thought little about. So maybe when one is plugged into a wall, it can represent life, energy, and activity. When unplugged and on the ground, one can represent complacency and uselessness. A tangled ball of them can display unity or chaos, and a single plug can show loneliness or individual strength. They can have personalities if woven around objects -- playful, lost, or on a set path. Wires can show a variety of emotions and can be interpreted in many ways. Different colors and usage of the media can symbolize different moods and themes, and provoke ways of interpreting the image. I want to make a piece of artwork that really makes the viewer think about it in many ways. I want one person to see happiness, perhaps, and another to see sadness. I feel that would be challenging to achieve but can be done when observing power cords in many ways.
So, if power cords can represent so much, maybe they can represent whole individuals. Putting a slew of cords in an everyday environment can say something about people in general. People provide to society, and some don't and everyone is possibly held back by something, attached to a common goal.
What medium or media did you use?
I used a large range of media, including acrylic paint, watercolor paint, charcoal, colored pencils, paint-pens, oil pastels, felt-tip pens, and pastels. Not only did I work on drawing paper for much of the concentration, I also decided to work on frosted Mylar. I used a range in media to further the idea [of] each cord being unique in its own way. The paint on some of the pieces was handled loosely to convey a message of greater levels of energy and activity within the piece, and pieces with relative calm would be shown with linear, unenergetic lines.
* Important Note:
The numbers of the slides run from top left to bottom right.
- 24 x 18, charcoal, colored pencil
- 24 x 18, charcoal, colored pencil
- 24 x 18, charcoal, colored pencil
- 24 x 18, pen, Sharpie, colored pencil
- 24 x 18, pastel, colored pencil
- 18 x 24, Mylar overlay, charcoal, colored pencil
- 18 x 24, colored pencil, Mylar overlay, pastel
- 18 x 24, paint, pen, pastel, watercolor paint
- 18 x 24, pastels (oil), watercolor paint, Mylar
- 18 x 24, charcoal, colored pencils
- 24 x 18, colored pencils, watercolor paint, felt pen
- 24 x 18, charcoal, colored pencils
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