Transmogrifier Project

Overall, I think our class did an amazing job with the Transmogrifier project. When we all walked in, there were materials organized by category on all of the tables. This setup was extremely useful and organized, and made it much easier to navigate around the room. We put the door up and had two items already from people who could not make it. Each item was carefully crafted by 2-3 students working together to recreate what they saw from the items available. The flow of items were really slow at first, but Sammy and Jackson went out and recruited so many people to come! At one point, there were at least 5 items waiting to be created! The process of combining our ideas with those of our classmates and using only what we had in front of us was very challenging, but I think all of us found it super fun. This project reminded me of Jeff Koons' balloon animal sculpture because he took such a useless, bland object and recreated it with a different material on a very different scale. His sculpture is larger than life, whereas a balloon animal is usually able to fit in one's hand. A lot of us experimented with changing the scale of these objects, especially if they were really big (e.g. the huge tree leaf). I think the whole process was really smooth and the class did a great job of collaborating and on different pieces and allowing for everyone to work on several different items. We were all very proud of our creations and the reactions from the people receiving their items made it worth it. I think we can all agree that we liked this project!

http://www.jeffkoons.com/artwork/celebration/balloon-dog-0