QUESTIONS GALORE

1) You've worked on a group film and on your own. In which situation are you most comfortable - group or solo? Which do you work best in?

- I'd like to say that I'm good at communicating with people as well as myself. This being said, I enjoy working in both groups and flying solo. In groups, you have the ability to bounce ideas off of each other and the ability to build on one another. Working solo, you have the gift of having to listen to yourself and yourself only. That could be a good thing and a bad thing. The same would go for working in a group. 

Now I think I'm only saying this when it comes to working in a film. If you're talking about working on an art project (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.), I usually prefer to work alone. Other people tend to mess things up.

 2) What did you learn that you expected to learn?

- Pretty much everything. That and well, just working hands on. It's an interesting experience since I'm so used to working 2D. It's a different type of experience when you move from the flat planes of 2D to the tangible aspects of 3D.

3) What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn?  

- The technique that you can use a fan brush to get rid of streaks of paint.

4) What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?

- Nothing really. 

 5) Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.

- My project is witty, smart and nasty as well as being incredibly well done given the fact that I completed it in a mere 5 days. It really gets the message across of it being a snarky political remark. Even my name for the sculpture is fantastic! GOOP being a play on word, of course. GOOP in the sense that the sculpture is literally constructed from trash, and GOOP in the sense that it's sending subliminal messages about the Republican Party. I couldn't have done it better, and neither could have anyone else.

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1) How much time did you spend working?

- I spent around 5 days working.

2) How much time did you spend thinking about the work - sort of sitting there and staring at it, or listening to it over and over again, etc.?

- I spent, I'd say around two days thinking about it and completing some preliminary sketches. Three days if you count buying all the supplies I needed in order to execute the project.

3) How much time did you spend doing other stuff that seems like work to that make you think you're working but you're not?

- None. I slammed through the entire project.

4) How much time did you spend socializing?

- None. Nada. Zip. Just me, my sculpture, and some good ol' music.

5) How did you use your community?

- I used my cheerleaders to continuously confirm that what I was doing was good. I also bounced ideas off of Luke, which was good because after talking to him, things morphed.

6) Rip apart your awful project and how did such a disaster happen?

- It was messily put together. The plaster gives the elephant such a gritty and uncomfortable texture to stare at. I should've used plaster to give it that smooth quality I was looking for. I should've also used masking tape to tape off what I wasn't painting so that all the lines were crisp, clean, and straight. The stars on the elephant were also a complete and utter mess. And don't get me started on the actual structure itself. It's jagged. It's not even balanced. One leg of the elephant doesn't even properly touch the base. It's so shitty.

7) You've completed a step on your path. What is your next step?

-Keep workin.