Margot+Storch+Spring+2013


 * Hello, I'm Margot!**



I am an Art Major because art is what I love! I have a decent amount of experience with computers but I would not consider myself an expert. I know my way around Mac computers and can manage on most levels for that. As far a software goes, I'm fairly comfortable in stuff like illustrator, so for the most part I can work my way around most computer art applications. My experience with art... I've been doing in for most of my life? Sculpture is my tenth studio class and thirteenth class overall in the Art Department if you include my Art History courses. I have taken: Design Principles, History of Western Art I & II, Digital Approaches to Fine Arts, Drawing I, Topics: Buddhist Art/Art History, Ceramics I, Printmaking I, Intermediate Drawing, Experimental Watercolor, Ceramics II, Topics: Ceramics 450 - History & Practice. I am most fond of ceramics, watercolor, and photography - which I had my beginnings with in High School. Something interesting about me... I am OBSESSED with Cirque du Soleil and have been since I was little. If I could have a dream job it would be helping with any sort of behind the scenes work for any one of their breathtaking shows.

__**Project 1, Cube Research:**__

__Below is my cube structures and process research__



Mary Button Durrell's Website



Adam Bateman's Website

__**Project 2, Presence Absence**__ __Part 1: Technical Process__

__Part 2: Visual Vocabulary__

__Part 3: Site Specific Installation__

Dimensions of the space I'll be using: Central Wall of Elevator: 80"w x 56"h Side Walls: 65"w x 56"h









__**Project 3, Kinetic Sculpture(s)**:__ **Video Response: Maker Profile - Kinetic Wave Sculptures on MAKE: Television (Artist: Reuben Margolin)** I found this video to be quite interesting and inspirational. Reuben's products have a very smooth fluidity to their movement, capturing your attention with their pure beauty as they move in a wave or through their shape and waving movement create the illusion of a rotating object/thing. His process appears to be very meticulous and mechanical and I find that to make it more appealing. His work takes so much patience and time and in my mind that's what it often takes to make a successful piece of art. Besides being meticulous and overflowing with beauty, you can see his passion for what he does in his work and therefore better interact with and enjoy it. In the video, he discusses how even as a kid he really enjoyed building things and being very hands-on, and I believe his journey in practicing this is evident. Margolin's process is so refined and he appears to have it down, yet he still seeks little challenges in construction and movement and wants to experiment with things he hasn't tried yet. One final thing I really liked to see in the video was that he does not depend solely on the construction of one version of the piece. He really observes it and looks for flaws and ways to make it better, and even reconstruct it more soundly if necessary. I believe that shows a great level of dedication and love for what he does as well as for those who will view his work. I felt his process and products displayed a long and detailed thought and work process and I found his products to be stunning and unique.