Sculpture- Caroline Hedrick

For the word "droop," I had a difficult time finding a good idea for a sculpture. I came up with a few thoughts of things that naturally droop: a jester's hat, a squirrel tail, a fountain, rainbow, flowers, clothes, ect. However, I wanted a positive connotation and also something that would be obviously drooping. I chose a fountain. To begin with I just had a fountain that was completely vertical. Realizing I could make improvements, I edited it. I added supports to one corner of the fountain structure. I wanted the effect to be bizarre, abstract, and eye-catching. I added the water pouring out of the fountain to make it ironically realistic.

Mini Saga 4 Panel Drawing

Jeff and Alice were newly-weds on their way to the airport for their honeymoon. Minutes after leaving the church, Alice has to go to the bathroom. After trying two bathroom bottle options, Alice screams that she is high maintenance and he should pull over immediately. Good luck, Jeff.

Silhouette Portrait

At the beginning of this project, I wasn't sure what colors I wanted to do or how I wanted to be portrayed. As I looked for blocks of colors in magazines, I found that I was skipping over a lot of blue (this is odd because my favorite color is blue). I started forming the idea for my portrait but still was unsure about my background. I know that I am disorganized and unclear in many aspects of my life and thoughts. However, I put on a calm facade to fool even myself sometimes. In tennis, I am constantly concerned every point and scared that I made the right shot selection. A player doesn't want her opponent to know that she is nervous so I must control my bodily gestures and face. This has carried over into my everyday life. As portrayed in the picture, the blue is very thin; this depicts that the nervous and disorganization can escape at any time. I guess I didn't realize how nervous and disorderly my thoughts and life were until I had to depict it. The shapes are amorphous in the portrait, though they look geometric at first (part of the facade). The background is black and white stripes that are geometric made of smaller geometric shapes.

I used reds and oranges for the center of my portrait to show bright distracting colors. This symbolizes disorder and confusion going on in my life. I used amorphous shapes to add more confusion in the mix. The blue border is thin representing the barrier that I use to hide what I really am dealing with. The blue color is the calm façade that I display when I am stressed and don’t want to let anyone know. However the barrier is thin showing that it can be disrupted at any minute, symbolizing my explosions of stress and disorder. The border is amorphous showing its fluidity depending on my mood at the day. The portrait appears geometric at first glance which is part of my disguise. The background is made of black and white stripes that are geometric and made of smaller geometric shapes. Of course black and white combination is intimidating and the stripes are similar to prison bars. I believe the society today has certain expectations that are hard to meet or are just silly to try to be. It is hard to break free from this societal prison that has pressure on me to act, be, and look a certain way. The smaller parts that make up the bars are symbolic of the smaller aspects and people that form and modify these societal rules. For example, actresses are (generally) all skinny, tanned, and wear a lot of eye make-up. Society expects us to be that way when we “dress up” to prom or formal occasions. However shows like Jersey Shore depict the casual views of society: too tight short shorts, tan, the “bump” hairstyle and muscular guys with gelled hair and who go through girls like alcohol. What happened to being yourself? Society has transformed all of us into something we may have never been. We are all imprisoned to some degree by society.

Fashion Reflection Blog

1. I learned that a lot of girls prefer the brighter colors along with black. Pink/red gives the person more color so it was a common choice. Black is a dressy color so it was also a widely accepted color choice. Also in many of the examples of clothing people brought in had jewels or sequins to add shine. However, most of my favorite pieces of clothing were unique dresses.
2. I chose this dress because it is completely unique and original. My line of clothing would mostly be dresses or dress clothes and would be called Yours Unique. It is directed towards 16 to 24 year olds (as younger, usually unmarried and starting a job). The colors would include black, pink and gray. I chose these colors for my line because they are professional and look good on most people.
3. For a work outfit, I would probably choose a black, sequined tank top with a gray jacket. Black high heels would be a must. The pencil skirt would be gray and longer (to be more appropriate for work). My goal for the work outfit was to be cute yet professional. To wear to play/relax in would be light blue jean shorts and a simple white "babydoll" top with simple jewelry and flip flops. I wanted my outfit to be simple and comfortable.

Caroline Hedrick- Public Art Pitch Reflection

1. Which project would you vote for besides your own and why?
I and a Butler alum would probably choose the group who had the "Ask Blue" group. This idea was very similar to the project that our group came up with. Both addressed the same problem that seemed evident to a majority of students on campus. The projects had a central location for students to find out about events ahead of time to improve attendance. I know that in the past, knowledge of events was hard to come by, especially without a centralized email.
2. I believe our project (the books and planner) would cost the most. With the large digital thirteen foot planner would be fairly costly just by itself. In addition the books and chairs would only add to the price of the entire art piece. However, it would be worth the hefty cost with its beauty and efficiency.
3. Would you revise your pitch? If not, what was the best part of the pitch?
The best part of our presentation was probably the uniqueness of the video created by Carly. It definitely turned some head and grabbed people's attention. The video showed the drawing process and also focused on the location of our project. On top of all that, it showed each individual part of our project (the planner, books, lounge chairs, and the bookmark desks). We met and made changes in our speech and practiced. Everyone worked hard and had fun making ideas a near-reality for our campus.

Public Art Project

Radha Patel, Carly Sobolewski, Caroline Hedrick

PCA Public Art Project

The Butler Planner

At first when we were told we have to come up with an idea or plan about public art we can put on out beautiful Butler campus, we had no idea what to do. Caroline started it off by giving an idea of putting a big diploma or graduation hat on campus in which people could study or just “hang out.” Later, we came up with an idea of building a gigantic basketball with a graduation hat on it signifying how important basketball is to Butler as well as academics. The big basketball would have a couple basketball courts inside of it and it would have a wall of fame showing the history of Butler’s men and women’s basketball team. Another idea we came up with was making a big sculpture of a paintbrush that would be leaning against Lily Hall (the building). There would be a pallet on top if the paintbrush located above the roof and there would be tables on this pallet shaped as different colors of paint. On a nice sunny day students would be able to study up there and see Butler’s campus. In the end we decided none of these ideas were extremely appealing because we wanted to come up with something all Butler students would find somewhat useful and is also artistic.

We set out four different criteria for out public art project. The criteria are site specificity, how interactive it is, whether it holds significance to Butler, and how functional it is. As we were going through out list of projects and seeing how the criteria worked with them, we started talking about how we never know what is going on throughout the week and weekend because we either skip over the emails we receive or we do not know because we didn’t notice the banners around campus. We decided there should be some way students can see what is happening on campus; therefore we decided to make the “Butler Planner.” It would be located on the open space between Atherton Union and Jordan Hall, right in front of Starbucks. We chose this area because many people pass this location throughout their day and it is not far from the main buildings on campus. Students could just stop by the “Butler Planner” for a moment and see what is happening on campus.

The “Butler Planner” would have each day of the week on it and under each day it would list the activities going on throughout the campus or even at Broad Ripple. The board would light up once it gets dark. The screen would be black with white lettering and at night the outline of the planner would light up neon blue so it is easy to spot and visible. The Planner would be made out of fiberglass and the books would be made up of stone and painted with shiny paint to somewhat correspond to the fiberglass. The “Butler Planner” would look exactly like out real planner and would have the same design on the front of the cover. The books in the back of the Planner where we can sit and study would be different colors, which include green, purple, red and yellow. The green book has a saying that says “The Butler Way” and a map on it because it is leaning against the tier of books. This map would be useful for anyone who doesn’t know where everything is located on the campus. The other three books have words the Butler students either represent of strive to achieve: courage, respect and values. They are strong words and they would remind Butler student of what Butler University believes in. Also, throughout the lawn we have books that are propped open so students can sit and eat or read. These books would be different colors depending on what color fits best with its surroundings. We decided to add more to the books we could add bookmarks to the books where students can still sit and enjoy the sun and nice weather.

As a group, we loved this idea, which is why we were so passionate about it. We, as Butler students, would love something like this on campus. By working on this project, we accomplished our goal of making a public art display and making is useful to the Butler community. It fits all of our criteria pretty accurately and best of all, we loved this project and coming up with the idea. We actually had fun with this.

Caroline Hedrick- Paper Value Project

With the picture, it's difficult to tell what my paper creation is; it is a chain of paper people circling an outlined paper person. The phrase that's on the piece of paper is "you will always be surrounded by those who love you." A combination of the quote and the simplicity of the design has many added values. Artistic/childish value was evident with the simple uses. Emotional/sentimental value was obvious with the quote itself. The red heart stands out and farther demonstrates the quote.