wednesday 5/23 - revised expectations

Despite my hurried efforts, it has become clear over the past few days that I did not have time to complete four pieces in the amount of depth and detail that I planned. Instead, I am only capable of completing 2 whole pieces in the time of senior projects. This is wholly due to my drastic misjudgment of the time required to create what I imagined from scratch, not a lack of effort or persistance.

The threading process continued for most of the day on wednesday. I slowly added more layers, thickened the colors, and experimented with different stringing patterns (you'd be surprised how many different ways you can create the same curve!)

This is how the final mathematics piece looks (better in person):

I periodically took time to pull prints of the coins for the nixon background. After 3 pulls (drying in between), the background was covered using a silver and gold blend. After finishing these prints and cleaning, I added the last major message to the piece. This is the anti-war slogan that I painted over the 60's outer space scene. The letters read "GET THE HELL OUT OF VIETNAM" in sloppy font that is supposed to mimic a hand painted picket sign.

This is how each looks:

the last thing to do is attach borders to the wood!