Interpretation – Shannon Malone

Hand Drawings

Here is a collection of some of my hand drawings from my first year Communication Skills course. Each of our drawings, minus our Michelangelo piece, were 16″x16″ and completed in various mediums, such as pencil, micron and charcoal. This course allowed me to pull in techniques I learned from my high school Studio Art program, an advanced art curriculum that allowed select students to learn sculpting, painting, hand and figure drawing.

Name: Hand Drawings

Mediums: Pencil, Charcoal

Completed: First Year, Spring Semester

Tags: Hand Drawings, Interpretation

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Invisible Cities

Fedora, the city of unfinished desires.

This assignment required us to read and choose a city from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” and draw the city based on the description. I chose “Fedora”, which described a museum in the middle of the city that contained a snow globe in each room detailing each civilian’s version of “a perfect Fedora”. Using context clues such as the “minaret” and “medusa pond”, I concluded that the inhabitants of Fedora were possibly Muslim. Therefore, I decided to incorporate a societal aspect into my piece as well, focusing on the human conditions of their current city and their envision of their ideal utopia.

Analytique

For this assignment, the first year students of SAID visited the Cincinnati Art Museum and documented various aspects of the museum that captivated their attention. We were then instructed to collage these ideas into one composition, that analyzes various aspects of the building and the content in which they are displayed. Our analytique needed to include a materialistic detailing, plan, section cut and elevation of the space. I focused on the architecture found in the Alice Bimel Courtyard.

Michelangelo

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course" -Michelangelo

This assignment was a group collage of Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment”. Each first year in the School of Architecture and Interior Design was assigned a small portion of the painting to duplicate in charcoal. Each individual piece was then collected and assembled together to create the full painting.

Folly

The Experiential

Crafting the inhabitable

This required us to build an inhabitable 8’x8’x8’ construction that relates to the pieces surrounding it while still maintaining it’s own identity. Our folly was centralized, and therefore was designed as an open construction and a place of rest. The precedent for our design was a tree, as a tree “branches” out to the items surrounding it. The folly was constructed from MDF Plywood and Wood.

This group project consisted of nine individuals (Shannon Malone, Trista Davis, David Prentice, Trenton Walker, Faith Denny, Nolan Dalman, Eliza Ehlen, Matisse Grootmyers and Jordan Novak).

My role throughout this project was to document the process of development and construction and to produce a four minute film.

Name: Follies, Follies-Go-Round

Completed: First Year Spring Semester Capstone

Materials: Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Woodshop, MDF Plywood, Wood

Tags: Digital Media, Interpretation, Physical

Brief

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.’

Kahlil Gibran

The precedent for our folly was a tree; we reflected the precedent through the design of the grid, the supports and symbolically. The design of our wooden grid mimics leaves and branches while the middle cage mimics a trunk. Our piece was central to the remainder of the folly’s; we designed our folly to branch out to those surrounding it while still offering a welcoming place of rest.

Follies-Go-Round

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior. -David Fincher

My contribution to the project was documenting the development and construction process of our Folly and constructing a film that displayed our journey throughout the project. We used Shirley Clarke’s “Bridges-Go-Round” as a precedent, which used color and video overlays in addition to instrumental music to depict the mood of the images being shown. Inspired by the short film, my group decided to incorporate the method into ours.

The Industrial Show

University of Cincinnati alumnae, Joel Beeby and Samuel Cook, designed “The Queen’s Map”, a map intended to showcase iconic bars, restaurants, cafes and events to visit in the Cincinnati area. They asked if they could use our folly as an installation piece in their show. Our folly was decorated in lights and wrapped in spreads of “The Queens Map”, and used as a centerpiece for their exhibit.

Hand Drawings

Hand Drawings

Invisible Cities

Analytique

Michelangelo

Folly

Folly

The Experiential

Brief

Follies-Go-Round

The Industrial Show

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