Project 3 Reflection

The idea behind this project was a sort of reincarnation. When I drew my original sketch I was thinking that, at least from a scientific point of view, everyone is reincarnated. When you die, your body decomposes and eventually even molecules are decomposed and recomposed, recombining to make new things.
I wanted to use the rocks in correlation with the human form to show that in the end everything is made of the same stuff, and even rocks and people have a lot in common. The form was originally designed to be coming out of a hole in the board, representing a grave. But in the absence of a saw, I had to rethink how I wanted to portray the grave. Making it more abstract worked out really well in the end, as it still has the basic shape and overtones of a grave, but also looks like ash. Using the painted rocks as ash works really well to, as it multiplies the implications of the metaphor. The figure is rising from both the grave and from the ashes, which are rock, which means there is both a human and rock rising from rock, creating multiple levels of circularity and recycling of ideas and materials.