Katie's 4-D Projects

  I love accessorizing. Anyone who knows me knows that I can’t leave my room without my rings, necklaces, and earrings. Although I love it mainly in a fashion sense, a lot of my jewelry was gifted to me by family members, so it holds a special place in my heart.   However, for this project, I wanted to think about jewelry in terms of excess. There is so much makeup, clothing, and other items produced that perhaps experience the joy of being used once or twice. What would it be like to lay out all of the items that we own, perhaps that we previously stored away in a closet, all in one room? In this case, what would it look like to wear the excess of a jewelry as an outfit, or tie it all together into a multiple-foot-long necklace? In this project I played with various iterations of my jewelry to show how much many many people are drowning in an excess of objects without even realizing it.   What would it look like to wear jewelry as clothes? Inspiration: Barbara Iweins -- ...

  I had a very positive experience reimagining Jada's cherished object, which was a small purple scrapbook filled with photographs with descriptions that her seven-year-old self threw together. At first, I was intimidated by the prospect of recreating a scrapbook because it is an object that is incredibly personal. Although Jada gave me some helpful descriptions of some of the photographs and the captions her childlike self wrote, I did have to exercise significant creative liberty in imagining what it might have looked like. One of the most interesting parts of the entire process was imagining that I was a little kid putting it together. When I found myself becoming frustrated that the edges of the pages weren’t lined up, or the drawings were not proportionally accurate, I had to remind myself that these sort of imperfections are what would be most necessary in translating the memory of this lost object. I didn’t find any significant challenges when it came to materials, as the el...