Progress Oct. 18-25

This is a model I sewed to understand the construction of my first pillow before creating the final piece. I discovered that I should place velcrow on the bottom of each pillow for the purpose of being able to open the pillow in order to stuff it to form the shape. I felt velcrow would create a more clean look instead of a simple hand sewn stitch. Over all, the sewing process was fairly simple. The most difficult part was making sure each shape was symetrical:



Through various psychology readings, I designed my third pattern. It will be scribbled lines much like the image below. These lines represent axon terminals found in the REM sleep-triggering region of the brain. The axon terminals have synaptic contacts with the medullary formation of cells that send signals to the motor nucleus. I wanted to create designs that would visually represent scientific explanations of what occurs in the human mind while asleep. I thought it would be interesting to contrast science with my own subconscious thoughts:

http://research.vet.upenn.edu/tabid/2887/Default.aspx


This is a new pattern I created in illustrator for the center of helicopter propeller. It will take 4 screens to complete this design. The design is based on the same dream as the tornado. This particular square pattern I recall seeing in a pizza restaurant I visited the dream:


Continued working on tornado print for the wings of propeller design.