Modular Madness Instalation; Presentation Topics

Materials
1. The overall form of this piece responds, in a contrasting way, to the matches. The form illudes to the form of water being poured from bottles and splashing to the floor, the likeness of water with materials that create and sustain fire responds with the material through contrast.
2. The piece could be made from virtually any object, whether on a larger or smaller scale, however the use of fire making materials resembling water adds an element that other materials could not give to the piece.
3. The matches provided an interesting challenge, since we could not break the materials or change them in any way i had to play with bonding adjents and different ways to place the matches together so the the solid lines could resemble the free flowing forms of water. Using the glue in abundance and in seemingly careless fashion rather than the nice, clean, and pristine (no glue showing) normalities, the piece took on the forms of water with the clear hot glue even looking like water frozen in time with the piece.
4. Bonding materials dont have to be cleanly places, sometimes just drizzling the glue on there makes the piece work better than if no glue could be seen.

Process/Ambitiousness
1. My piece may not be 6ft tall, or hanging from the ceiling to the floor, but in placing it upside down in a gravity defying manner rather than using the floor as a security blanket, the piece's scale or lack of large scale becomes irrelevant. Using a grand total 6500 matches to complete this piece, that small scale matches are a more ambitious material than some might think. Meticulously gluing thousands of matches together, despite its rough (yet intentional) nature still took quite some time, and getting the piece to hang upside down mearly using thumbtacks was a challenging effort all its own.
2. My initial thoughts for the piece involved several more bottles and multiple, but smaller streams of flowwing matches changes to only two bottles connecting to one stream splashing into a pool of matches, all while hanging upside down.
3. The initial idea had more streams and bottles, however the final piece was more ambitious due to its gravity defiance in hanging upside down, its placement in the bathroom for a unique feel, and the lighting used behind the piece, which had never been in my initial ideas for the project.

Craftsmanship
1. In the 3D dot structures  intentially used rough gluing to add to the tattered newspaper collaging, however the intention was not seen by my fellow classmate critiquers. In this piece I used much much more glue and it is even more obvious to the eye, however it is not distracting. Hot glue looks like water, my piece is supposed to resemble flowing water...lets make the connection people. No person in their right mind would use as much glue, as obviously as I did without it being intentional, so if any students end up critiquing, think please, its quite obviously intentional.

Form
1. Line, shape, and texture are the major formal elements in my piece, these elements are important in the way that the view is aided by them to help understand (if needed) just what it is the piece is ressembling. Line and shape both contribute to showing the relationship with flowing water. The texture element also helps in this aspect. The abundance of glue on the piece makes it look and feel like water.
2. Contrast and gravity are the dominating principles in my piece. The contrast in the piece is how fire making materials are used to create the shape and feel of flowing water, strengthening and providing depth to the piece rather than just "yeah I thought it would look cool." Gravity in the piece takes your perception of how water should be flowing and what direction it should be falling and flips it on its ass. The change in gravity causes the view to think and makes the piece much more interesting than just sitting one the floor.

Concept
1. The piece provides a contradiction to the objects purpose and function.
2. I took an object that is normally lit on fire, and used to start fires and I took the form of fire's polar opposite in nature; water, and i combined the two creating an intersting contrast.
3. The look and feel of flowing water along with the gravity defying display allows the viewer to look at and question the normal boundaries of a seemingly understood object.
Presentation
1. I placed my piece in the bathroom to continue with my idea of flowing water but also add a sense of discomfort in being in a bathroom to view the piece.
2. The work mimics the space around it. In the bathroom you have sinks, toilets, urinals, showers, all of which use flowing water. My piece imitates the flowing water and blends with the space around it.
3. The bathroom elements surrounding the piece help the viewers understanding but also brings forth a sense of discomfort helping them to view the piece for what it is and what its supposed to be.
4. The piece responds to the surroundings by mimicing water flow which is used in multiple aspects within the bathroom.