Today in class we had an experience using food. We entered class and picked a place to sit. We were then prompted to chose a spot to sit. After we picked a place to sit we were allowed to pick one big plate, one small bowl or plate, a fork or spoon and a napkin. When we chose those items we then had to trace our objects onto the paper that covered the table. Next we were told to go get coffee or orange juice and mingle with out classmates. After some preparation our professors brought us back to spots in pairs. Our spots were not the ones of our original choosing. Instead we were placed in someone else place. This was interesting because it wasn't anything any of us were expecting. We thought we would all be put back in our spots. After that we ate out food which was really good. We got into some nice conversation. Our professors then told us we has to stand up and sit down for every 5 chews while we were eating. It made us more aware of the action of chewing. This also correlates with another thing we did during the class. We all had one orange slice and we had to chew it for 5 minutes. This caused all of us to have different outcomes. Some chewed it too earl, some were so slow that they didn't even chew the whole slice. Next we were told to keep our trash and make sculptures out of it. Each time we were prompted to make them smaller and smaller and make sketches. Then we were told to start collaborating with my partner and were told that the materials left were going to be used to create a project we would cast in glass. I was really excited to see what we would create.
My partner Kayleah and I met up to create our project. We decided to take a bowl and create little utensils to put around the outside and put spirals on the top. We knew that the piece was gonna burn but we didn't care because we knew this whole experience was an experiment.
Glass Casting-
Glass casting was such a cool experience. I really appreciated the fact that our foundations class got to have this experience because I've been told many times that freshman don't get to do this. It was very anxiety inducing being around all of the hot materials but it was also very awesome. I loved taking our piece and putting glass on it. It went up in flames to start but it calmed down and we added some spirals on top.
We got the casts back today (10/12/17) and they turned out so cool! I really liked how the bubbles formed in it and the way the spirals fell. We talked about our pieces in class today as well and wrote about them in our sketchbooks.
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