Textiles

Thread was used to fill in the hairy parts of the animals. Sorry for the bad picture quality, it was nighttime.

As you can probably guess, textiles was my least favorite category.

Thread making a grid pattern on a bent coat hanger.

Thread wrapped around black foam board. The first one was done after this, which is why it looks more organized.

This?....I don't know what this was supposed to be...

Water

 

A 30 second monster movie involving water. Was originally going to be classified as wood, but I thought the boat was too simple.

 Paper towels use a method called "capillary action" to absorb water up tiny channels in the tissue. If ink is in the way, it will be absorbed as well

(NOTE: ABOVE MOVE COUNTS AS 3 SEPARATE PIECES.)

Made by drawing on paper with markers and then leaving an ice cube on top in order to leach the colors. Two of them were given an ice theme, the other two are just abstract forms.

Wood

Cork people!: I could have made them all the same, but I decided to have them in different posses. The remind me of tiny robots.

Toothpick furniture: The first two didn't come that great, but I slowly got better at it as I went along.

Tape

Tape patterns: The last one looks so terrible because I thought it would be a good idea try to weave the tape.  Note to self: it is impossible to weave tape.

Tape animal sculptures (and a helicopter) these were really fun to make, I wish they could have been bigger, but I don't have enough tape.

Gravity

 

I tried multiple angles to try to capture this falling confetti. I decided the best idea was to put the camrea under a plastic lid, and record it from below.

Various clay men hanging off things.

Blots of ink dropped on a paper which I turned in various directions to produce the angles.

Glue mixed with ink dripping down a page. The ink was added so you could see the glue after it dried.

 

Pouring water into a glass in slow motion.

Ok, there's a story behind this. I wanted to splatter paint on a paper, but was afraid I would wreak the sidewalk. I thought that if I but the paint in a plastic egg, it would contain the splash enough that I could do it in my bathtub.

......Needless to say, it did not work as planned.

Erasure/Eradication

Eradication through fire: Instead of simply burning some various pictures, I wanted the pictures themselves to look like they played some part in the burning.

I took some pictures of me holding an eraser in mid air and then photoshoped them to look like I was erasing reality.

Two pastel drawings wiped over to partly erase them. I chose the Tasmanian tiger and Chinese river dolphin because they are two animals that were permanently erased from the earth by the hand of man.

You can't see it well in the picture, but the parts that were cut out I sketched back in. It seemed to easy to just make a bunch of holes in a picture so instead of erasing the image entirely, I just removed some of the information.

Transparency

I got this weird pair of "3D" glasses at a Christmas light show last year. The don't really make anything 3D, but if you look into a light, it lets you see all the colors of the spectrum.

I happen to have a large number of colored jars lying around my house. I used the light from a window to show the colors the produced. 

The effect was made by the plastic lid of a candy box I had been keeping for some reason. The surface of the box is broken up into diamond-shaped angles, producing this effect.

Paint smeared in plastic baggies. I wanted to colors to remain partially separate in order  to make a swirling effect rather then just turning black.

I was getting really desperate at this point, so I put some bubble wrap on top of a picture from a calender....