Rhino: Metamorphosis (process and finished piece)

 These sketches show my process of thinking and the numerous times that my ideas were transformed or changed to achieve a successful piece.

This is the project that I selected to work with, I'm transforming pillows and sheets.

Sheets turned into a rope

Materials: frame and spider wire

Using the pillow stuffing material

Gluing the pillow stuffing to camouflage the structure

I think that this assignment has been the hardest in relation to process (building the idea). It really pushed me hard to find the best option, unmarry ideas that I liked, and solve ways for technical problems in the piece.

The objects that I transformed, as you can see, were pillows and sheets. My intention was always to create a piece that could transmit the oneiric content that the parents objects had. The piece works as a metaphor where the magic and surreal takes place. I used the pillow stuffing to create what it seems to be a cloud. I chose to make a floating rectangle because I didn’t want to literally represent a cloud shape; I wanted to abstract myself a little bit more. Also the shape reminds a pillow, a pillow made of clouds. The rope coming out of the rectangle mentally invites the viewer to climb and enter into that ghostly space. However, the rope could be read in two directions, going up to heaven or coming down to earth; it is up to the viewer to freely interpret the way is seen. Also the rope has traces of clouds, which could be read as if the rope had come out of the cloud for you to climb it. The essence is that the piece functions as a portal to another world like in “Jack and the Magic Beans” where the beans are transformed into this “rope plant” that takes you to another world in the sky. I like how the piece has an embedded narrative and poetry. I chose the color white for the whole piece because, in this case, white is a color that communicates peace and comfort. Also white is the color that we see in clouds, and that we relate to a comfort in beads. I think that the color also gives this ghostly and heavenly atmosphere to the piece.

There are a few details that I want to improve in the piece for juries that I think will help even more.