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Exams: 2004 Studio Art 2-D Design: Concentration -- Yoko Kasai
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American School in Japan
Tokyo
Student Work
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Student Commentary
Briefly define the nature of your concentration project.
I was stuck on ideas when my teacher suggested [to] me the theme, "holes." A lot of times people walk into holes within their lives and do not know how to get out or where these holes lead to. The goal of my concentration was to explore these ideas -- where the hole leads, what are in the holes, and how people fall into them -- through collaging. I was used to drawing from life using pencils, and I thought it would be quite a chance for me to practice craft-work and to develop my imaginative skills as an artist.
Briefly describe the development of your concentration project and the sources of your ideas. You may refer to specific slides as examples.
I have assembled my slides in an order that shows the development of ideas throughout my concentration. 1, 2, and 3 show a road that is representative of "life," and show figures falling into holes. Slides 2 and 3 are close-ups of slide 1 where I rearranged the colors. For 4 and 5, I produced multiples of my pencil portrait drawing, and used that to show the bewilderment of the people who have fallen into the holes. The reason I used the same images of the figures repeatedly was because I wanted to emphasize the point that trap-holes in life exist equally for everyone and not to particular individuals. How could one avoid falling into holes? You could be lucky and reach the other end of the path, but that rarely occurs. So I thought that people would wish they could fly (7). I created an image of a large eye (8), an eye searching for the way out. But once people fall in, there is no getting out. They are trapped, caught, and distorted (10/11). In my final work, I created an image of the other sides of the holes. I incorporated the sky image to show the bottomless feeling. It was a challenge for me to build new ideas and perspectives for my theme. Although I am not satisfied with my overall work, it was a worthwhile activity.
What medium or media did you use?
I mostly used paper: regular white, colored, patterned, and cellophane. I found paper to be extremely inflexible compared to other mediums such as pencil, pastel, and paint. Despite the difficulties though, I was successful in creating rigid, straight-edged images that I wished to emphasize throughout my concentration. The copy machine was useful for manipulating and reproducing many patterns and images.
* Important Note:
The numbers of the slides run from top left to bottom right.
- 21 x 14, collage
- 12 x 8, collage
- 10 x 14, collage
- 21 x 15, collage
- 10 x 15, collage
- 14 x 17, collage
- 14 x 14, collage
- 10 x 14, collage
- 14 x 10, collage
- 14 x 10, collage
- 15 x 10, collage
- 15 x 10, collage
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