Express

Engage and Persist

Sketching and Drawing

Identity Vessels are intended to help you learn about me by looking at and interacting with them. I made three objects, each of which relate to a memory and identity of mine. The first object is a box with sharp, colorful confetti inside and represents struggling with homework and being emotion-y. The second is a model of a D20, and represent playing Dungeons and Dragons and being a nerd. The third is four paper stick figures tied together with string and represent the time period in which my parents were splitting up and being a child of divorce. The divorce object and in particular the homework object went through many different designs before I settled on the final object.

In this studio I did a lot of sketching and writing about my ideas and the feedback my coaches and peers had. That all really helped me turn my nebulous brain swirls into tangible things I can say to or share with others. I struggled quite a bit with finding ideas I liked that I could see working out, but I did succeed in developing three concepts that I liked, the box, the die, and the people, just in the nick of time. I sketched all of my concepts, and made paper prototypes of them, which helped me know what I wanted for my final model.

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Concept Development