3D Materials and Concepts: March 2015

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Kailey Jewell, Masked Identity, Student Work

Kailey Jewell, Tennessee, Masked Identity Assignment, Student Work

Kailey used personal memories from her home town in Tennessee to guide her ideas for this assignment.

Alex's concept inspired by "Meshes of the Afternoon" by Maya Deren (1943), action figures and the sea.

Materials to make the mask - wire, tracing paper and gel medium.

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is a short experimental film directed by wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The film's narrative is circular and repeats several motifs, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper–like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook and an ocean. Through creative editing, distinct camera angles, and slow motion, the surrealist film depicts a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality. In 1990, Meshes of the Afternoon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going into the registry in the second year of voting. In 2015 the BBC named the film the 40th greatest American movie ever made.^{[2] -Wikipedia}