Critical Analysis Name:_Michael
Muscatello_________
Space/wearable project
1. What
is the subject matter of the work?
The
subject matter of the work is a cardboard cage, made out of boxes from popular
food and beverage brands. It was made to resemble a haphazard version of the
hanging cages in pirates of the Caribbean.
2. What stands out the most when you first see your piece in
it’s environment?
I think the disheveled nature of the cage, and how awkwardly
it fits my body stands out the most. In the nature picture, it looks ugly and detracting.
3. Explain the reason you notice the things you mention
in number 2.
The reason is the no rhyme or reason way in which the
triangles, rectangles, and circles are built up along the frame of the cage.
The top bars are uneven, and the circular bar going around near my head is not
completely connected.
4. As you keep looking, what else seems important?
The
hook at the top brings the piece together at a point. The disconnected bar, and
the broken piece of it still attached to the cage are fairly important. The way
the hook on top of the cage is just barely connected. The uncomfortable
structure to the cage.
5. Why does the thing you mention in number 3 seem important to
your piece?
It adds
to the disheveled, and irritating nature of the form of the piece. Those shapes
are what give it structure, and define how it fits me.
6. How has space been used?
The space around my body has been
uncomfortably restricted. The form of the cage isn’t quite right for a human
body. In addition, symmetry is aesthetic to the human eye, so the lack there of
is unsettling.
7. How/Why did you choose your alternative setting? How did it
relate to your piece?
My alternative settings related to my piece in two ways.
Number one, the vending machines served as an example of the limiting and
unhealthy diet provided for us by big industry. And number two depicts the
negative effect big food industry has on nature.
8. When worn, how does your piece evoke a reaction? ( describe
physically)
It looks uncomfortable, it isn’t very pleasing to look at
because of the lack of symmetry. The cage fits the body in an awkward abrasive
way. Most of the emotions toward it are probably negative.
9. Explain
what techniques you utilized in making your work (hot glue, corrugation,
sewing, etc)
I bent
the corrugation in all of the skeletion strips on my piece in order to create a
bent circular effect. The rest of the project was just tedious cutting and hot
gluing.
10. It
is only by pushing a project to its “limits” that’s its potential can be
fulfilled. List what you have done in order to push your project to the
“limits” (money, time, energy etc)
I chose
specific boxes that were advertising products from big food. I really spent a
lot of time and energy on it. Working almost all the way through two nights, as
a result of me changing my idea so many times. I blistered and burned the crap
out of my hands cutting and gluing the piece.
11. AS
you worked on this piece describe what has changed, developed or been lost/added
in the work from the start to finish. As you processed the material did
something change?
Well
for one thing the whole idea had changed twice. Strangely enough, for all my
ideas, the structure was fairly similar. The material processing was all pretty
congruent. It definitely developed its haphazard shape as I built the cardboard
up around it. Putting the top of the cage on really brought it all together as
well.
12. What
grade would you give yourself? BE CRITICAL!
This may not be the grade you get.
I think
I probably deserve somewhere in the B- range. Maybe a bit lower. I worked hard
on it, but my craftsmanship just isn’t that good. I took a lot of time and
still couldn’t manage to keep everything straight, neat, and lined up. The
point of it was to be haphazard, but you can still see where it lacks in craft.
However, the idea behind is a meaningful one (at least to me). I think a
created what I set out to create.
