Artist in Residence Week 2 - Finishing Boards

     

       My second visit to the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center was rather uneventful. The goal walking in was to try and figure out what tasks I was going to be doing throughout the duration of my residency. Unfortunately Gayle was not available all day as she was at some appointments with family things. The other volunteers did not want to try and negotiate anything while Gayle was away. It was also extremely busy as some exhibits where being moved and there was an event later that night. The whole museum is changing up their displays so there were a lot of volunteers moving things and organizing the back room.

       Even though Gayle was not present, I took my time there to take note of some of the locations of the storyboards I was working with. I transferred the content from the old storyboards to my personal drive and began moving the information to the new board design. I tried to make sure that the content remained the same with slight modifications as needed. I was able to spend several hours working on moving content from one board to another keeping an eye on the typography as it relates to the design. I was making sure the content was clear and legible. I sent the boards over to the main email for review. Next step with this is to try and get a test print and see how the new boards look from a large format print.

       Hopefully this Friday the heads of the board will be available so we can discuss what needs to be done and what direction they wish to take with these projects.


Revised Boards:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SnFg8mhub8A6VKjsc0Mb_T7-r7NffZVq/view?usp=sharing

Artist in Residence Week 1 - Getting Started

Week 1

My first visit to the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center was more of a research day. The hours That I attended were spent taking pictures of the current storyboard designs while waiting for Gale to arrive later in the day. Working with other volunteers we were able to look through the archives and find the assets needed to re-design the storyboards. After gathering assets I began to decide what kind of visual identity these boards should have. I began looking through the current website and started to pull colors and patterns through there that flow with other designed elements throughout the museum. at this point I began creating a board template that will act as the intended layout for each board.  Once Gayle arrived I displayed a mocked up version of the board design for approval. Once approved I was then given the confirmation to move forward with the design style and content layout.

Gayle and I discussed one of the major projects that she would like to have done which is the website. Gayle wishes to have this site be more informative and up to date with events in the community. Gayle had told me the things she would like to have done with the site and I told her what I would need from her to proceed. This next visit will hopefully be planning our approach to give the Lincolnville Musuem a stronger online presence.

3D to 2D

Parts of the map relief were cropped down and made into a digital pattern. When the pattern is zoomed out it creates this effect that give the visual effect if 8-but scales seen in the earlier renditions of video games. 

Masked Identity

Memento

A circle was cut rom a piece of old wood. I chiseled a triangle out of the center. I chiseled an identical triangle out of a piece of fire brick. Using layers of copper sheets I used a propane torch to meld the copper down into the basic shape. I then proceeded to heat the copper and then hit it on the anvil and cooling it. After that I chopped the edges to clean them up. The piece was then sanded and polished. I put a layer of vinyl over the wood and applied a mix if gel medium and ink. the wood was then treated with polyurethane and then waxed and oiled to improve durability. 

Map Relief

2 Large sheets of paper were cut to size. Lines were set 1 inch apart vertically and 1.5 inches horizontally. Paper was folded on those lines and new lines were drawn from intersecting point and alternated from left to right. those were the folded. Once folding was complete the paper was mounted on poster board and moved around to get the effect of a low polygonal mountain range. pushing 1 end of the mounted sheet will change it's entire formation. The effect of changing formation along with the way light plays on the different faces makes this piece dynamic. 

Balsa Wood

The Idea for this was to create these geometric shapes. One of these shapes had negative space in the middle, the smaller one is filled in. This was used to represent scale trying to maintain a similar shape from the smaller shape to the larger shape. Balsa wood legs were put in place to sandwich the wooden elements between to support them. 

This was sort of interactive piece which stood on 2 legs and rotated on the center pins. There are a series of triangles all rotating on the center pointy. This was to represent repetition. Similar elements were placed throughout the center point. 

This has a backing of glue supported by 3 legs and a spiraling piece of paper.  The paper is the lightest part of the piece spiraling on 2 set pins. This piece is to show focal point. The eye is drawn towards the center lightest value making the paper the most noticeable part.