Topographic Archive
Prompt
Create a project that approaches paper dimensionally. Perhaps you work with altering books, or manipulating purchased or found paper by stacking, encapsulating, cutting, carving or folding. Perhaps you use the laser engraver or an Exacto to create an elaborate paper cutout structure. Imagine the ways you can work with the inherent qualities of paper, yet push the medium dimensionally and conceptually.
Project Guidelines
Work through a number of ideas and create some sketches of how you might approach them to share in class. You may need to create a sort
of working prototype for this project. This will allow you to experiment with how you will construct your piece, and consider different options.
The size, material and method of creating or manipulating is your choice. Perhaps this is an installation, a book, a video or photos showing documentation of a performance, artifacts that must be housed in some kind of container, a bass-relief wall piece, or a free-standing sculpture
in-the-round. Be inventive! And remember to pace your work so you have ample time to experiment with possible ways of constructing and time to make the final work.
Grading
30 points total
10 Conceptual Development, 9 Craftsmanship, 8 Topographic /Sculptural, 5 Completion
Deadline
Critique: 2/16
Create a project that approaches paper dimensionally. Perhaps you work with altering books, or manipulating purchased or found paper by stacking, encapsulating, cutting, carving or folding. Perhaps you use the laser engraver or an Exacto to create an elaborate paper cutout structure. Imagine the ways you can work with the inherent qualities of paper, yet push the medium dimensionally and conceptually.
Project Guidelines
Work through a number of ideas and create some sketches of how you might approach them to share in class. You may need to create a sort
of working prototype for this project. This will allow you to experiment with how you will construct your piece, and consider different options.
The size, material and method of creating or manipulating is your choice. Perhaps this is an installation, a book, a video or photos showing documentation of a performance, artifacts that must be housed in some kind of container, a bass-relief wall piece, or a free-standing sculpture
in-the-round. Be inventive! And remember to pace your work so you have ample time to experiment with possible ways of constructing and time to make the final work.
Grading
30 points total
10 Conceptual Development, 9 Craftsmanship, 8 Topographic /Sculptural, 5 Completion
Deadline
Critique: 2/16
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