Material Exploration Eradication

The Unhappy Birthday

My intention with this piece was to create something through the destruction of its mass using fire and my hands. The piece reads 'destroyed' really well which makes me feel that it was successful. I feel that the burnt parts and the mixing of the glass were more effective that the tearing of the paper or the tacks.


Destructa-Art- Recreation

My first destructa-art piece was a recreation of a paint which had been broken down into many pieces. I first tried to rearrange the parts into a new piece. The work looked better rebuilt as it as though. The gaps and spaces give this piece a really broken feel while the congruence of what is displayed brings it together to make it look complete.


Destructa-Art Found Pieces

After destroying my large painting. I examined the pieces from the wreckage. This broken piece seemed the most like a finished piece of art to me out of all the parts. I got a christmassy mountainy feel from it.   Like an abstract grinch clip.

Charlie Sheen sneezed on my Art and made it illegal!

The object was to erase the image underneath using something that is almost 97% the time erased. Chalk is a very impermanent medium and I thought it would be interesting to flip the role and use it to cover something up.


Destructer-piece

This was another attempt to create something new by destroying an old piece of work. I wanted to ad some depth and space to the flat painting. It was very linear and I kept that in where I chose to break it. The changing of the angles though really changed the feel of it to something that is inviting and disregard-able.

Taking it a step further

Cutting and stabbing were already a big theme in this painting. However when I made it and after I 'finished' it; I did not feel it as done. I wanted to add something physical and more emotional to the piece to really give it the fast upset feeling I was going for when I painted it. The knife helps illustrate that well as does the hanging strip.