Assignment #1: Street or Garden

October 22, 2018

Assignment #1: Street or Garden

Topic Four: Landscape--Representation, Intervention and Body-as-Site

Assignment #1: Street or Garden.

a) Street.
Step 1-
Choose a street.
Walk the length of it, as far as you can.
Find a place to sit and observe.
Record all the sensory information you can take in: sights, sounds, scents, tastes, and textures. In your sketchbook, write for 30 minutes (on-site), and then draw for 30 minutes (on-site).

I chose to walk down Ives Dairy 12 Ave. The street before my condominium.

Sketches and Notes:

Observation Photos:

Step 2-

Use this information to make an imaginary creation in your studio. Size: 10 inches minimum, shortest dimension, media of your choice.

I had some spare parts that I took out of a computer so I decided to experiment with the orientation to try to make an Ariel map of my street. Once I got the view that I wanted, I used wood glue to secure the parts to wooden blocks that I bought from Michaels.

The green motherboard represents the displaced land surrounded by homes my neighborhood. The black bar represents the fences the goes through it. The Blue represents my condominium as it matches with the colors scheme of one of my observation photos. It also relates to the ocean relative to Florida.

I wanted my piece to convey the gentrification between nature and urbanization within the landscape by having an aerial map depicting how much is covered by human activity and actual nature.