A HUGE Cinnamon roll

Collection&Collecting Collaboration Project.

After we went to Roger Brown’s collection museum house, we started to working on this collaboration project. We had to choose a partner to work with, and Nick and I became a partner because we both did not have a partner.. It was good experience to work with someone I did not know well, ..but I guess I did not know anyone well in our class.  We came up with some various ideas like collecting some stuff looks like a human body pieces and put them together with fake blood to make it gory, or collecting little toy cars to make huge go-cart car that you can actually ride on it. But He’s new rules that you have to find and collect stuff out side of the loop, ruined our few options, so we just decided to go somewhere and explore.

so we decided to go Belmont. I went there before  just to get cinnamon rolls. they are big as Yoda’s face (that’s what my professor described..) and very very delicious. It was early in the morning on Saturday so we treated ourselves with Cinnamon rolls before our journey begins.

It does not look great in this picture.. because I almost finished it. there is a story. we were sitting on the side of the street and had these cinnamon rolls and this one homeless guy came up to us to talk about how his life was screwed, and asked us for a dollar. that’s why I don’t carry cash anymore. homeless people in the city ask for changes or a dollar and I don’t feel like giving money to them but I feel bad when I had cash and just passing by them. So I decided to not carry it and since I did not have cash and Nick did not have either, I had to give rest of my cinnamon roll to get rid of him… very very new experience.  Anyways, the moral of the story was that the Cinnamon roll is really really good.

this is what it looks like the Ann Sather’s cinnamon roll before you have a bite. very very delicious.! good stuff.

We were digging every single dumpsters in Belmont,(because we did not want to spend so much money on buying stuff to collect.) and we found huge amount of egg cartons from this one dumpster.  We did not realized until later but this dumpster was behind that Cinnamon roll place, Ann Sather restaurant.

I went back there few more times to get more of egg cartons because we needed more.  we collected them over 100s..what we decided to do with them was painting huge cinnamon rolls on the surface of the egg cartons.  we had to make a piece that relates to the neighbor hood and all we can think of Belmont was the cinnamon rolls we had in the beginning even though we walked around a lot after that snack. our professor said, “Make it Beautiful!”

While Nick was putting them together, I gessoed some egg cartons that we were planing painting on them

1/4

I cut the edges to make them fit well.

the outline of huge cinnamon roll.

start painting them

It was funny. I was drinking monster while I was working on painting, which I thought it was huge to drink everything,   and Nick came up to studio later with that humongous Monster in his hand. It looked cute together so I had to take a picture of them.  they are like a father and a son.

I never had this before I came to college. Even red bulls. But I realized that we need them to survive the night before the critique.  or night before the exam, or the paper due or anything.

Done. Done on time. well, not quite.

Now it’s done. I was really really proud of my self when I finished up the last touch. We would have been really mad if we could not finished it because we did not have time. but we are done..!

we had to put them together in class room for the critique and it took us little over time, but it was cool. out professor was generous enough to wait for us to hang that up on the wall.

I took horrible picture, but it looked much much better on the wall.

Critique went really well. He mentioned that this does not make fun of anything or criticizing anything. He said this could be a good public art. I wish we could sell this huge painting to Ann Sather’s Restaurant.   now it looks more like pop art too. It is very interesting how it looks different than it was on the floor, while I was working on it.

we did great job.

I could have just upload this picture and the one before this, but I really like to show how it was progressed.  It was not easy as it looks on these pictures..we started on sunday and worked on it almost every day before Thursday after noon.  Yeah, I spent all day on the 16th floor just to work on it last five days.. After this huge painting, I learned so much.  maybe not just this painting. maybe every project I have done in this school.  before, I used to think ” pshhh I Can do that” when I look at some art works that’s pretty lame or some cheesy  murals. No. it’s not that you can do easily. it takes time, and takes energy. as it gets bigger, the harder it gets. but the accomplishment you get after you done, and feeling after getting some good feed backs from people, are payless.  when it was on the wall, I was like

“SWEET!!”

good work, good work. it was fun project.: )