End of the School Year.

It's crazy.

<- What I look like at 4am doing homework.

<-what homework I make at 4am.

City Completed Design

Night Lighting

Day Lighting

All Student Exhibition 2010

I submitted Upstream to the Student Art Show here, here's to hoping it goes well!

The text on the title:

Teresa Dennis

Undergraduate - 2nd Year

Upstream

Metal Work

Upstream is a piece that is made as a response to entries in my own journal. My writings express the feeling of me being spread all over, losing grip on myself. I am torn between work, school, and my personal life, which all feel to have become more demanding this school year. In my journal, I have been questioning my ability to make it through this year. I created a sketch in it, of a fish swimming upstream, and afterwards, realized that is how I have felt since I have been enrolled in college, especially here in the busy and fast-paced art school.

Upstream was a great learning process. To complete this piece, I had to learn many new techniques. The body of the fish is hammer textured copper, the tail is chased copper, the chain is hand-made bronze wire, the rings are cast sterling silver, and the body parts are tumbled sterling silver. The long hours involved in learning for and creating this piece became an example for what it is trying to represent. During the time of its creation, I was spending days of 12 to 13 hours in studio, in an attempt to finish it in a week. This is what art school has become, and there are parts of me that enjoy it, while the rest of me needs a large break to catch my breath and pull myself together.

Spoke Too Soon

My computer is back to doing what it's supposed to, so I have pics yayyyyy!!!

Here are the rest of the progress pics of my fish, and the finished result:

3-D printer making the rings

Finished and filed down wax models

Wax mold

Sterling Silver rings right after pouring

Finished Product

About 33.5 hours spent in studio over a course of 2 weeks.

andddd Artist's statement:

Upstream is a piece that is made as a response to entries in my own journal. My writings express the feeling of me being spread all over, losing grip on myself. I am torn between work, school, and my personal life, which all feel to have become more demanding this school year. In my journal, I have been questioning my ability to make it through this year. I created a sketch in it, of a fish swimming upstream, and afterwards, realized that is how I have felt since I have been enrolled in college, especially here in the busy and fast-paced art school.

Upstream was a great learning process. To complete this piece, I had to learn many new techniques. The body of the fish is hammer textured copper, the tail is chased copper, the chain is hand-made bronze wire, the rings are cast sterling silver, and the body parts are tumbled sterling silver. The long hours involved in learning for and creating this piece became an example for what it is trying to represent. During the time of its creation, I was spending days of 12 to 13 hours in studio, in an attempt to finish it in a week. This is what art school has become, and there are parts of me that enjoy it, while the rest of me needs a large break to catch my breath and pull myself together.

Uber sad face

As much as I was getting into blogging, my camera no longer is recognized by my computer. So, I cant put up progress anymore :<

CFC City Project

We filled a sketchbook over a process of 5 days, with a prompt of 'Grassroots vs. Branded' culture. We then handed in our sketchbooks, and inside of them, our teacher wrote a sentence response to them. These responses were prompts for our next project. Pretty fun, if I do say so myself.

My prompt was to create a my ideal world, where I would like to be. So, I decided to make a lasercut rendition of a skyline, with lighting and a bit of metal work. Here is the progress so far...

The front of the construction

The back of the construction

"Generate  simulacrum of the place where you want to be"

Metal Hand Ornament

I'm starting a new project, a metaphor of my school year thus far. A cheesy, very cheesy one, but it'll do.

Little fishy bar, hammer textured copper, and bronze chain

The most recent mass of pieces 

Articulated fish and chased tail bracelet, Copper

Bronze Chain

Sterling Silver Parts

Rhino Models of the 4 rings

Techniques learned:

1. Hammer Texturing

2. Chasing

3.Chain Making

4.Rhino

Apparently I live in the middle of nowhere

I walked outside today and looked down my driveway. It looked like a forest, and you couldn't really see any signs of civilization. Perfect opportunity to test out my new camera!

Fluffy Dogs

They are so.... why can I not resist them....

The Time Traveler's Wife- Brooch Project

For a recent project I decided to create a physical metaphor for the book The Time Traveler's Wife. The finished project was a brooch, a practice in cold connecting with rivets.

The construction has 5 layers of metal, copper, bronze and steel, with a copper chain and two copper figures. The chain runs through the middle of the piece, and is partially visible through the clock face. The broken clock face represents time distortion and the time on the face is 12:24, the date of an important death in the story. The deer and bird represent the two main characters in the book, and as one is moved, the other is effected, even through time.