User:Kaylacosta

Bio
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

I have always lived my life inside the box. I worked 3 or more jobs since I was 14 to take care of my mother until she died. Every decision I made in life was based on the approval of everyone else. It is time that I do things for me and discover myself. I am trying to be open minded and want to learn and experience new things that I wouldn't have otherwise. I am really excited to see what the next chapter in my life will be.

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

Learn to Blow Glass.


 * Research Component


 * week 1


 * week 2


 * week 3

Research the history of glass blowing. Find out what the original purpose of glass blowing was.


 * week 4

Continue research on the history of glass blowing. Also research some local places that offer glass blowing classes or would let me observe them at work.


 * week 5

Continue studying the process and techniques. Start to get hands on experience.


 * week 6

Attempt to make my first piece of glass. Figure out what worked and what didn't for week 7.


 * week 7

Take what I learned with my first piece of glass and improve on the second.


 * week 8

Apply what I have learned through this process and use on final piece that I can present in class. Be able to explain the history, process, and my likes and dislikes about glass blowing.

Why Do I Like What I Like?
Wake by Richard Serra is not a single sculpture or form, but rather a series of five masses of steel which work concurrently to produce a visual and emotional statement, unique to each viewer. Approaching the Wake, I felt no sense of understanding. There was no feeling I generally find when viewing a work of art. Instead, I felt it was such a huge amount of space which could be used for several less intrusive and more appealing works of art. At the same time, it wasn’t just the space. The resources had to have been able to offer a useful or at least something besides huge walls. Even the color of the Wake was not anything I’d want to surround myself with, yet that is exactly how it felt as I walked through these metal walls. I found that the Wake by Richard Serra was surprisingly very well-known and read several commentaries from magazine articles, newspapers, blogs... I knew it was big in size but was surprised at the large following of viewers. I gathered a lot of information and the Wake began to have meaning and a positive impression when I continuously recalled the images and experience at the Olympic Sculpture Park. After my interest in this artist, the Wake, and other works by Richard Serra, I ended up really wanting to research more and more even though not necessary. So when I returned to the Olympic Sculpture Park nearly one week with my new knowledge, I immediately wanted to walk through the walls of the Wake. And wanting to do it instead of doing it and thinking of it as an assignment, was amazing. The curves now mimicked a gentle ocean’s movement. The size of the walls symbolized the depth and size of the ocean. I also had a feeling of just how small I am in the spectrum of the world. I felt humbled. I was just one of a countless number of visitors who walked the same path I had now experienced twice. I really didn’t feel like I was returning to view the same sculpture. It looked the same in terms of physical traits. But now I was going to look at this spectacular Wake as a new and completely different experience. It was as though it wasn’t even the same. I wasn’t returning, I was discovering the Wake for the first time.

How Am I Manipulated?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trzJ3Y-i5-Q