4D Intermedia Blog

For this week's project, we were given the opportunity to do a ritual performance. Our task was to choose a specific site and create a ritual that we would repeat for 5 days. I chose to purchase two flower plants from a nursery in Goleta and grow them as my ritual performance. Originally, I was going to use both the white daisies and the yellow flowers, but the white daisies ended up not blooming as fast as I wanted to. I wanted to depict the growth that I have gone through during my time here at Westmont. Along with growing the plants, I chose to pray during the 5 days for different things like peace and strength. For the first two days, Wednesday and Thursday, the plants were in the budding stage, so they weren't blooming yet. On the Friday, I watered the plants and they seemed to start the blooming process. I ended up going home for the weekend due to a family situation and I just felt I needed to go home, so I took my plants with me so that I could continue the pro...

This past week we got a new project, where we had to make an installation. We had to find a forgotten space on campus that not many people remember and change the area in some way. My partner C.C. and I chose the little cove right by Professor DeBoer’s office window and decided to focus on the idea of homelessness. We wanted to express the fact that we see so much homelessness around us, under the overpassed, on sidewalks in downtown Santa Barbara, etc. Our intention was to show that we here at Westmont are not really aware of how much we have, especially here in Montecito, where we don’t see any homelessness at all. In order to do this, we found a sleeping bag, blanket, hoodie, and we put together a bag of water bottles, and a sign that says “Will work for food”. We installed our items under the little cove by putting the blanket in the sleeping bag, and then surrounding with the sign, water bottles, and hoodie. We chose to name our piece “Walk By” because lots of people tend to just ...

For this project, we had to discover new materials and find ways to assemble them together. When we were first introduced to this project, we looked at examples of assemblages that people have done in the past. We then went to Westmont's Ridley Tree Museum to view Tony Askew's work, in which he creates a lot of assemblages with varying themes. To get more inspiration, we viewed the recent exhibition at Sullivan Goss, where we found more assemblages made by artists here in Santa Barbara.  After getting some creative ideas from the shows, we visited Alpha Thrift Store, where our mission was to find miscellaneous objects that we could put together in an assemblage. From that little trip, I found a package of seashells and a ceramic cup. At the beginning of the project, I struggled with figuring out what I wanted to assemble using the shells and the cup. I decided to paint some of the shells using acrylic paint and design some cute patterns on them. When we had our first group crit...