The image below describes what I feel is the best way to crimp the fishing line to hang it from the top of the acrylic disc. The pink line with the arrow represents the direction of the fishing line as we should wrap it around the crimp, shown in lavender. That loop around the crimp holds the line in place really well without even crimping it, so the crimped piece would absolutely secure the line. Having a loop like this around the bottom of each piece would work great as well.

I recommend we print the 3 inch models with one hole straight through the top to the bottom in order to secure the pieces on the line from their bottoms, as opposed to making the singular loop on the top of the models (the loop on top was harder to get the line through and I cannot imagine having to do that hundreds of times over). We can print the holes to fit the line if we are concerned about the pieces wobbling or looking off-balance.

I have contacted a few local fabrication companies regarding the pricing for producing the circular piece of acrylic from which our suspended objects will hang. Some are not equipped to cut a 4 foot diameter circle and I am waiting to hear back from a few places as of now.

Orange County Industrial Plastics got back to me with a quote for $400 to produce a clear circle or $410 to produce a white one with approximately 500 1/16 inch diameter holes scattered throughout it. If we decide on a different color/number of holes/size of acrylic, that would likely affect their pricing.

I will update this post as I receive new information from the other companies.

Promo Team Progress

Google Slide Original:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gk_Qh85ymYTG0ZYvdsVez3tGJ5tzVc-rd3imE9x8M3g/edit?usp=sharing

Powerpoint Copy:

Mesa Court Locations 

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Infographic showing top 5 halls in the plastic collection competition!! Can be posted on our social medias to keep everyone up to date.

***Feel free to edit this or not even use it lol. Just wanted something easy for everyone!

Hi friends! *This is for my fellow UCI-ers lol*

A group of art (& non-art!) students and I are creating a piece of public art using digital design and fabrication tools for Mesa Court housing. The exciting part is that we are using recycled plastic #6 to create this public work of art, and need your help! You can win super gnarly prizes for collecting a lot of plastic. For more info on our competition and progress, follow our Instagram and like our Facebook page.

Instagram: @OurEarth_UCI https://www.instagram.com/ourearth_uci/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurEarthUCI/

Plastic 6 Entry 3. 6

Click here

This is what Patrick has collected from the Mesa Court Residents. 

Hey ya’ll these are the links for the colored filaments discussed in class:

Teal: https://www.amazon.com/3D-Solutech-Filament-Dimensional-Accuracy/dp/B00PF7GNPO/ref=sr_1_15?srs=16009070011&ie=UTF8&qid=1520377015&sr=8-15

Green: https://www.amazon.com/3D-Solutech-Filament-Dimensional-Accuracy/dp/B00N9OU6J4/ref=sr_1_11?srs=16009070011&ie=UTF8&qid=1520377489&sr=8-11

Could ‘t find the exact green color because the searches showed greens that were too light or too dark and so we decided to go with the one linked above because we didn’t want a super neon green.

Hi guys!

Below are the notes from today’s class.

• A sphere will be the main shape (created by the cumulation of all the 3D objects)
• Price task→ if we are going to make it out of acrylic, we need to see how much this would cost us
• Task 2: finding a teal and green in the right right filament
• 1 sitting anteater (green), 1 sitting raccoon (green), 45 halls (black), 45 ornaments (teal) 
• We would make the figures all the same volume
• We still need to decide on the scale
• We also need to decide where we want the holes to be for hanging purposes
• Task 3: Prototyping the hardware –> Ivette and Sharon

Sitting up (cuter): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:45471

Standing (less legible): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:182256

I sent this poster to the printer and will need help posting these around campus to encourage participation from non-Mesa residents.

Possible colors for the 3D filament:

I was thinking maybe something like this? But the outer black spots will be the floor plans, characters, etc.

He lives! Somewhat. Should probably work for our purposes but if it needs to be changed, better to know before I start converting him for Rhino.

Here is a sample idea of what I had proposed on Thursday for the modules that can be hung to make up our overall shape. I used the hall theme of Playa 2, which was Studio Ghibli, as well as the RA’s name and the year. I also added holes in each of the ears so that we would be able to use them to hang the object. I think the text’s size should be larger so that it’s more easily legible, and the text that we add could change according to class input.

Here is an initial Bill of Materials/Parts Order list for some hardware that could be useful for hanging/stringing together the individual pieces of the sculpture

Bill Of Materials

Josh = Grasshopper
Claudia = Anteater

Promotion:

• Go out and promote—Fliers & Stickers
• Share Links
• Lecture halls  (Everyone: start contacting professors this week)

Hardware = Makayla
Timmy & Jacky = Fliers for taping places
Everyone: Contact professors
Jillian, Faiza, & Timmy = Prize photos
Everyone: continue with collection boxes
Everyone: promotional photos

Plastic collectors (Mesa): Patrick (helped by Makayla)

Ivette & Sharon: CLP photos/videos

Locations to install: Nina (go to Josh’s map, maybe contact Lou and walk around; base/hanging design ish)

Ivette & Sharon: List of community icons, examples

In other news…

Email Jesse independently if you are interested in taking independent study next quarter, in order to keep the project going between now and Tuesday.

https://sites.uci.edu/art130aw18/2018/02/27/green-team-final-proposal/

https://sites.uci.edu/art130aw18/2018/03/01/red-team-project-proposal-image-version

https://sites.uci.edu/art130aw18/2018/03/01/black-team-proposal-we-are-mesa/

https://sites.uci.edu/art130aw18/2018/03/01/blue-team-proposal-images/

. . . by the smallest of margins, the Red/Anteater AKA “big anteater out of small hanging parts, Korean artist-style” is the leading proposal.

Campus-Wide Competition

We will open up the competition to the rest of the campus.  The students who want to register for the competition must fill out a google form with their contact information.  The students must take a picture with the box and post it to our social media, siting which box they dropped off the lids and how many lids.  We will be using the same facebook page, but we will be clear in our posts to distinguish between the campus-wide competition versus the Mesa Court competition.

Boxes

A few locations for boxes have been secured.  Those who haven’t found a place for a box, continue hunting!  Let Josh know where you’ve put one and send a picture to him as well!  There’s currently only one sticker left in the room, so let me know if you need more printed.  I will bring my paper on Thursday.  If you need it beforehand, let me know so I can print a few for you before class.

Boxes needed:

• In our classroom (big enough hole for more than just coffee lids)
• Aldrich?  (Still need confirmation on that)
• Of course, wherever you can

Some notes from proposal discussion

Seon Ghi Bahk was mentioned as a reference for some of the hanging proposals.

Laser cut site models were also mentioned as reference for the puzzle proposal.

Also…

Something I forgot to mention that I meant to bring up in the discussion….  I noticed at Java City this past Friday, the cup insolators had a sticker for Soulstice on them.  This got me wondering if anyone knew how they might have gotten permission to do that and if we wanted to take that approach to spreading the word/promoting the plastic collection.

-dna helix model will be filled with plastic bottles

=blueprint for others to recycle

-recycling project in public art form

-LED lights towards the bottom to illuminate bottle

-shape of helix/direction is modifiable

-height; 8.75 inch

-question: how does it free stand?

-how to power LEDs?

——solvable, jesse can donate solar panel

——Mackayla; operational, can turn lights on or off

-how to clear up bottles if the helix fills up?

——building process of the sculpture

-jesse’s thoughts-

–voting on prescription not presentation

–model is irrational for printing, but solvable

–rotate to spinal cord direction

—question of accessibility? Gravity problem?

—instead of helix, print vertebrae like shape that clamps onto the top of bottle

—-vertebrae attach to each other and as bottles are collected, bottles raise higher and higher and is maintained at eye level

—horizontal can be suspended, but occupies a lot of floor space

–main concern, very plastic intensive but fixable

Hi, Timmy and I thought of making stickers to help promote with the plastic collection (see attached image). This is the website Timmy found for printing them. They’re relatively cheap – about $10 for 288 individual stickers.

Final Proposal

Hi everyone! We are the Red Team.

Our proposal is titled “Mesa Love”, and below is a link to our PDF presentation.

Thank you 🙂

Red Team_ One Love, One Mesa

-Rebecca Rosso, Isabella Mendoza, Timmy Nguyen, and Sharon To

Here is our final proposal for the sculptural project: finalpdf_and_spaaaaace

Hey y’all!  Maddie and I have a proposal for you.

It’s been brought to our attention we need to address the policy of non-Mesa Court students helping & eagerly participating with the hopes of entering the competition.  Maddie and I have put our heads together to try to come up with a possible solution.  Please look it over so we can discuss it in class soon:

The individuals who want to participate in the competition will need to register on a google form of our making (so we have their contact information and we have in a nice spreadsheet a place for us to keep track of numbers in an organized fashion).  Each time they dump lids, they must post on our social media a picture of themselves with the box and all lids they are dropping off.  This way we can also count how many lids they have without having some other complicated system.  This would also act as promotion for our social media sites.  However, in doing so, to prevent confusion between the Mesa Court competition and the Campus Wide competition, we will need to create a separate facebook page for the rest of the campus.

Thoughts?

Here are some rough notes I took during Tuesday’s 3D printing class for reference! 

• Open STL File in CURA by clicking load model file
• Most likely lay down flat by clicking rotate and moving it 90 degrees
• Scale it and when you do so, keep the uniform setting locked
• Change the default settings in a few places:
• Change layer height to .2
• Change shell thickness to 1.2
• Fill settings can be 1, and density around 15 or 20
• Make filament printing temperature 215
• Click overhang to see the places where it’ll overhang. The red is overhang
• Under support, select touching buildplate then select brim
• Save it as Auto0.g ***MUST BE NAMED THIS. Put this auto0.g file in a folder that is named a relevant name. Then put the file on an sd card and then eject it
• Unplug printer and insert sd card and re-plug in. If you want to re-print the same thing, just unplug printer and it’ll start printing the same thing again. Just make sure the previous object is removed
• Right click on object in CURA while in normal view and then click multiply if you’d like to print multiple modules together

Partners: Alexander Hung and Rebecca Rosso

Building: Gateway Study Center

Shown here is an example of a sketch we took of the building module, and measurements we calculated.

Lastly, here is a photograph of the building.

For our proposal, we decided to settle with creating interlocking building blocks. The object will be placed in the Court study lounge. Each of the blocks would be shaped like the modules of the units 1 through 4 floor plans plus the towers of varying sizes. The blocks can be attached to each other in various ways that are directly reminiscent of Lego blocks, encouraging students to play around with the structure by taking it apart and putting them together in different arrangements. There will be a default sculpture used as the initial arrangement, plus a number of spare parts to indicate that the object can be modified. The purpose of its positioning in the study lounge is to provide the students a form of stress relief with a fun and interactive object.

Our team decided to focus mainly on Jilian’s hanging art idea, but at the same time try to incorporate elements from everyone else’s ideas as well. Our art piece consist of a core with tree branches hanging around it, similar to a chandelier. Things can be hanging from the tree branches or from the center; the piece can be interactive by having students hang their own items, or it can be non interactive by hanging puzzle pieces to form an anteater. We have not yet decided what the core piece will be.

Our group proposal is to use wire to suspend four mobiles and one anteater. We will 3D print a large scale anteater in parts and then connect them with wires/hardware to create an eye-catching anteater that serves as the center of the art work. Hanging from the anteater form will be 3D printed letters that spell out “Mesa Love”. On either side of the suspended anteater, we will hang two mobile-inspired pieces. We will 3D print the outlines of the four building phases of Mesa in small pieces and connect them like puzzle pieces. Each outline will hang as a distinct mobile and will be white. From these four outlines that are suspended in the air by wire, small 3D printed symbols of Mesa such as raccoons, anteaters, trees, etc. will hang. In theory, students could add more objects to the mobiles and/or as more buildings are built, more mobiles could be added to the collection. This art work would hang in the Mesa Community Center.

-Sharon, Rebecca, Timmy, and Isabella

Here are some concept images for the idea that I proposed last week! I’ll paste my proposal here for ease of access.

What are we printing?

A module slot that can fit a standard-sized water bottle. The backside of the module slot will follow the circumference and curvature of a standard trash bin. The modules will be printed in two sections: 4” x 2.5” with a semicircle opening to fit together to form an open tube in which LED lighting can be fitted. The modules will then be encased in plexiglass.

Inspiration: Hanging wire mobiles (reference photos can be seen in the link below)

https://www.google.com/search?q=hanging+mobile&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT49rb8KjZAhULyGMKHQNMCEAQ_AUICigB&biw=1257&bih=617

Concept: Repeated 3D printed spheres/balls that are printed with a single plastic loop attached at top that will allow for attachment to wires to create playful and interesting hanging Alexander Calder-esque mobiles. Half of the spheres could be in black and the other half in white since these are plausible colors for the plastic. Wires will be arranged in various forms to make uniquely shaped mobiles. The number of mobiles and spheres will be dependent on how many spheres we can make in the time frame

Relation to Mesa Court: The sphere’s hanging in tandem and yet individually are like freshman students free-falling for the first time and yet surrounded by others doing the same

Relation to sustainability: The result will be reminiscent of Earth and planets hanging in space, in order to allude to big picture thinking and encourage thought about how we are affecting the Earth

Materials needed: Repeated 3D printed sphere/ball, durable wires, hooks

Location: Lobbies of the two Mesa Court Towers, hanging from ceiling or in Anteatery

Practicality: The number of spheres and mobiles is flexible and dependent on timeline and progress. There will need to be time set aside before the launch to construct the wire elements of the mobile and then secure spheres to the wires

I was thinking that our project should be some sort of a chute for recycling collection, with a system that could count how many things are being recycled( like the water filling stations that count how many bottles we save from using it. It could include elements of the modules in there, if we want to for the sides of the chute. If you think about a kids playground and you slide down those different slides, you enjoy it right? Then when you get older you kind of just find yourself interested with anything that involves something “sliding”. Waterfalls, tea kettles, water filters to name a few. With an open chute (as shown in the picture) people would be more inclined to recycle their plastic. With motion sensored LED installed, it could be an aesthetic thing that prompts awareness of our piece as well as the significance of it because everyone would want to toss a recyclable into the chute to watch the colors light up. If we look down at the lights we have in the UTC, many people take pictures of it and stare and the colors change just because there are colored lights. People want to see these, as they go to LA and such to have pictures with colorful things like the pink wall in LA, or lights at LACMA, colorful water fountains, and even the train station. If we were able to collect more of the water cups (like the ones at Gogi) we would be able to make the chute look icy, and the installed LED lights would be visible when installed! To sum this up, by creating attention to the project, we will prompt people to come visit the place and recycle in order for them to satisfy their aesthetics. The most important thing about this is that we will be recycling more!

Not the greatest idea but something I really like about the school is the top down views of the earliest student housing and trees. These places offer cool shapes and the dorms look like puzzle pieces or legos of some kind. I think in terms of interesting shapes you could create small, interlocking shapes based on the top down views of these houses.

You could stack or arrange them in any number of ways and it ties directly into Mesa. They could be arranged to fit a number of locations and we could do anything in terms of color and size.

I don’t know what we can do with the tree maps but I love them.

What are we printing?

This thing!

Where will it go?

Ideally, it would be just outside the mail room/office where the mural is also located. This will allow residents and visitors to take notice and draw comparisons between the two designs.

Why is it interesting?

It takes inspiration from the previous mural project. Various elements of the mural’s design have been incorporated into this proposal such as the use of circles, bars, and representations of stairs. Alternatively, we could hollow out the inside of the sculpture and turn it into a large recycling bin to promote sustainability.

Mural design for reference

How will we explain it?

Its positioning being close to the mural should make the design self explanatory once a viewer sees both projects.

How does it relate to Mesa Court?

The shapes on top of the sculpture are meant to represent the towers, housing units, and the trees around the community. There’s quite a bit of space left in the sketch where we could possibly incorporate more motifs relating to Mesa Court such as different tree species, the different unit 1-4 buildings, and more design elements from the mural.

What are we printing?

A geometric, module built anteater. The shape would be built out of triangles, or any other design oriented module. Surrounding the anteater would be a diversity of other polygonal creatures.

Where will it go?

This sculpture would most likely fit best on a platform of sorts mimicking a similar polygonal style.

Why is it interesting?

It offers an interesting spin on the typical anteater mascot.  The digital anteater would be artistic, computational, and aesthetically pleasing.

How will we explain it?

Once all the components are sketched out and the process of building the structure out of models, we can physically present how each module would build and eventually take the shape of the anteater.

How does it relate to Mesa Court?

Kind of self-explanatory, being the mascot of our school.  It also sort of plays on old art styles, how a larger figure holds more importance.  The anteater in relation to all the other creatures in scale would also have a detail of hierarchy of our mascot over other animals.

reference images

*Key words:

• community
• residential/home
• protection
• impact

My idea is to 3D print all the layouts or forms of the Mesa Court Halls, and piece them together to try to form an anteater. I imagine this piece to be quite large, and should be placed against the wall. Alternatively, the pieces can also be hanging but the form of an anteater will probably be ruined by the swinging of the pieces. Since most of our 3D printed pieces will be black, gluing them onto a white wall will be really good for us. We can carve or label each of the pieces with their respected hall names. Students can actively look for their halls and see that they are being represented. Community and unity is a big thing for Mesa Court, and this piece demonstrates that idea by having all the “halls” put together to form one piece. I believe this is doable but some challenges would be accurately modeling the buildings on Rhino, or putting together all the pieces into the form of an accurate-looking anteater. Below is a picture of all the halls, as well as, an image of the anteater as reference.

My main proposal is to sculpt elements of a landscape inspired by the names of 4 particular Mesa Court halls: Mariposa, Estrella, Selva, Arroyo, and Cumbre. In English, the translations for these hall names in order are butterfly, star, jungle, stream, and summit. Each hall represents a different type of building design and together the first letter of each hall spells MESA C. Using shapes inspired by the floor-plans of each hall as our printed objects, we can create the imagery of the natural environment suggested by the 4 selected hall names, perhaps in the form of a hanging wall sculpture. One cohesive sculpture can adorn a wall in the Anteatery or Community Center, or any place where students from all halls may typically gather.

Another rougher proposal I have is to create for each hall a small hanging sculpture of their hall’s name imagery to go in the hall’s trash disposal areas, using multiple 3D printed models of their hall’s building shape to convey the hall’s name-image.

The top images are art references or inspirations.

The Idea:

Focal Point

• One object that is bigger than other hanging objects
• I sketched the earth since this is a sustainability project (kinda) but it can definitely be something else especially something that relates more to Mesa Court

Details

• Hanging objects representing the years Mesa Court has been up and running (1965-present)
  • representing every year would mean 53 hanging objects (1965-2018)
  • representing every 5 years or decade
  •  what I like: 5 years; having insignificant shapes all the way down to the symbol representing that time period
• The objects can either be symbols of popular things that happened in that time or a major event that happened in Mesa Court

Location: We would have to find an area with a ceiling that we can hang things onto

Interesting?: I think it would be visually appealing and different from doing a sculpture. We will be mostly working with white and black plastic, so if we decided, we can get colored string to make the art pop. Also, if we award a hall with a 3d printer, they can add to the installation every so years with symbols they believe represent their time.

Explanation: It is a hanging art installation showing the longevity and continuing life of Mesa Court.

Relation to Mesa Court: We can bring memories and important events that happened within Mesa Court to life.

Practicality: We would be printing the hanging pieces and this is doable because they won’t be any bigger than 4″x4″x4″. The focal point may have to be built in pieces as I think it should be substantially bigger than the rest of the pieces. The time consuming part would be maybe modeling on rhino and thinking of objects to 3d print.

What are we printing?

We would be printing floor plans of the halls(rectangles).

Where will it go?

This idea could either go as one largish abstract sculpture in a common area or individually in their said halls.

Why is it interesting?

It shows how blueprints/floor-plans can be seen as more than that, such as contemporary art. Residents would be able to see and compare their living spaces in the sculpture. If we simply interlock the floorpans, there could be an infinite amount of compositions. Residents down the line will also be able to relate to it.

How will we explain it?

This art project shows the differences but similarities of the living spaces, but would also show how they can easily adapt and connect with each other.

How does it relate to Mesa Court?

It includes the idea of what makes Mesa different, their living arrangements. Everyone is connected. Here all the floor-plans could be touching each other, similar to the same way that residents live a very closed knitted community.

Is it practical (but don’t worry too much)?

I think this is doable because it would just be snap fit rectangles that would not take too much labor in putting together.

I drew inspiration from a past project of mine, where I took the hospital delivery floor plans of where my family was born (as far back as I could research) and welded the metal rods together. Here is an image of that.

• What are we printing?
  • Panels in the shape of the different-phased buildings that exist in Mesa Court (Phase I-IV, Towers), raccoon silhouettes, trees, anteaters. Also included are the number of residents originally in Mesa Court with an arrow that rests on each of the phase building panels leading up to the current number of students living in Mesa Court, placed on the towers.
• Where will it go?
  • It may be able to be hung on the wall at the entrance of the Anteatery, or at the front desk in the mailroom if it were printed as a large piece. We could also potentially print smaller versions of these and place them in the common room or at the entrance of each residence hall.
• Why is it interesting?
  • It displays the changes that Mesa Court has experienced since it began as well as the growth of its community. The “Mesa Love” banner is present because at the RA meeting, the RAs mentioned that one of their mottos was “Mesa Love.” It also includes (and may include more) raccoons in honor of the loved raccoons of Mesa Court.
• How will we explain it?
  • The piece can be explained as a depiction of the evolution of Mesa Court to show how it has changed but also how it has managed to remain the same coherent community.
• Is it practical?
  • If desired to be a single large piece to placed in one location, each panel can be printed in multiple parts that can be pieced together like a puzzle. If chosen to be a collection of small pieces to be placed in all of the residence halls, each panel can be printed as a whole piece, so either way, this would be doable!

 I don’t have an exact location for these just yet, but I feel that these should go in the mail room or the study room, it will need a single large space. The piece is modular in the respect that more can constantly be added; in fact, I would encourage that the residents add more to the piece itself to let it grow with time, especially since now two residence halls will be given a printer. The base currently is fairly boring. I was thinking of spicing it up by using lights in the base to light emit from the top. There could also be engravings or something of the sort since the sides are long and flat. The main appeal is that the tops of We could make as much as we want, but ultimately the residents will make most of them. There are three levels of towers to represent Mesa’s three…well… mesas. Coincidentally there are three towers. Also I would like for it to have 45 main towers, representing the halls. I would like for the shortest to be maybe about 30cm tall. I’d say that it is fairly practical but it is banking on resident involvement.

What are we printing?

A module slot that can fit a standard-sized water bottle. The backside of the module slot will follow the circumference and curvature of a standard trash bin. The modules will be printed in two sections: 4” x 2.5” with a semicircle opening to fit together to form an open tube in which LED lighting can be fitted. The modules will then be encased in plexiglass.

Where will it go?

Ideally, they will be stored inside residential halls, since there is an electricity component in the piece.

Why is it interesting?

I am an advocate for seeing the progress of matters such as recycling or “accumulated amount”-oriented tasks. It keeps me motivated. So I’d like to go for an approach that incorporates lighting to attract passersby, invites the viewer to participate, and allows the process of saving up bottles for recycling to be observed over time.

Is it practical?

Well, yes! Because this proposal incorporates the idea of a modular aspect, making a ton of identical 2 piece objects and fitting them together should not pose a problem (once we work out the initial printing process, of course). The reason why I suggested printing in 4” x 2.5” pieces was because the dimensions of a standard water bottle are 8” x 2.5”.

The ideas presented below in picture form are a rough draft and do not reflect my final gathering of ideas in this post.

Initial Draft

Reference Image/Inspiration

So… I have two ideas that are probably too complicated, but I’ll still share them.  Both of my ideas come from a few points I think would be important to hit with the sculpture no matter the design:

• Some sort of “wow” factor (whether that’s interative or attention-grabbing).  The importance of this (beyond the obvious of traffic) is to get people excited and more likely to talk about it, increasing its impact on the community.
• Some element that relates to the earth or sustainability.  Since part of the administration’s hope for this project is to encourage the continuation of recycling and the like.

Idea 1: Fiat Lux

Adding on to the information I have jotted down…

I have not thought of a location for this other than somewhere outdoors (mostly for the sake of the bird houses).  The actual pieces of it can be completely abstract.  I realize this may be a bit complicated, so a bit of a backup/option b sort of idea I had was instead of actual bird houses and full raccoons, we could have hanging sillhouettes of animals sort of “living” in homes (or within) the tree.

Idea 2: Building Together

In case you can’t tell from my rough drawings, there are two raccoons (one in the trash can, one with a construction hat) and one anteater (the other creature with a construction hat on the far right).  They’re working together to make something.  So, this piece would be interactive—the pieces the critters are putting together can be rearranged and put together by the audience.  Most parts would be 3D printed, but some could be “found” pieces that would be cleaned recycled pieces or “trash” that could be added into the mix (thus encouraging rethinking waste).  As for location, it would need to be in a place of high traffic.  Indoor or outdoor could be done, but probably best indoors.

   Although this might be difficult given the time that we have, my idea is to create a human out of blocks. This figure would be holding up the world in his/her hands. Another idea that I had was to make a tree with various branches, which would hold symbols of Mesa Court (i.e. a tiny raccoon). The location would be difficult to decide upon for both of these ideas because they are both only one sculpture. Thus, it would need to be in a central area that gets a lot of attention. As of now, I am not 100% sure on the location. Both of these ideas would be visually interesting because they are engaging and hold a lot of symbolism. In terms of my first idea, the sculpture itself embodies exactly why we are doing this project, which is to try to save Mother Earth through sustainability. If we wanted to have a piece with more of a Mesa Court influence, we could make the figure’s arms like tree branches, since trees are a huge part of Mesa Court. The message with this first piece would be that we can hold up Mother Earth together if we all pitch in and do our part. I feel that within our 3D artwork it is essential to convey this message because we want it to serve as a reminder to students that their sustainability efforts are going to keep our one and only home from being destroyed. This message should be carried down to generation to generation. In terms of the second idea, I feel that this piece would be visually interesting as well because it carries more meaning pertaining to Mesa Court. By hanging “pieces” of Mesa Court from the tree branches, it would be more emotionally appealing to the students. Again, given the time frame, I am not sure that it would be as practical as I would hope.