School Project for Golden Section class

For this project we were asked to make anything we want which represents ourselves using any of the properties of the golden section and some part of the human body to provide sense of proportion. I chose to make a pirate's chest using the golden section rectangle for the sides. To make the chest I cut some foam core to form the shape. Then I cut balsa wood into four narrow strips for each side of the perimeter of the chest. For the inside I covered the walls using a dark violet velour-like fabric and filled it in with gold coins and jewels (which are hard to see from the photo). On top of that, I made a hand, as my part of the human body, with self drying clay and placed one of my conche shell necklaces in it's palm.

I Am Not These Things

I am not these things

I have made myself from stronger substances.

Wielded my roots deeper than what you see

Shaken my hair in places you cannot return to

Screamed my feelings with words that will never be reordered in that same structure.

- I am raising my voice from sounds roaming only in my heart.

Lessons I have bore into my soul I do not share through the clothes I buy, the food I eat, and the way I do my hair.

I have been too tarnished by publicity, media, those who I thought were cooler than I should have thought, and pictures I think I comprehend.

But I know better than to believe the spackled surfaces I face to make me feel incomplete.

I am a hopeful person. I share with you, what I hold, from the engrained rings, that ripple out bergoening within my raw, capsulated, free standing, and concrete being.