Home Test for RISD Undergraduate Application
Prompt
• deconstruct | ˌdēkənˈstrəkt | verb [with obj.] | reduce (something) to its constituent parts in order to reinterpret it
Prompt
• deconstruct | ˌdēkənˈstrəkt | verb [with obj.] | reduce (something) to its constituent parts in order to reinterpret it
- Select something.
- Deconstruct it.
- Make a work in response to the process or result of the deconstruction.
- Create a title for the work.
Whenever I paint, I always feel like my palette creates a more appealing picture and feeling than my own painting does. I grew accustomed, after the paint has dried, to peel off the layers of paint, as if trying to preserve that aesthetic feeling. What I found from doing this is that, although the top of the paint peeling may be a dull, solid color, the bottom of the paint peeling could be filled with designs and color of remnants of the paint from before. To accentuate that concept, I created a juxtaposition of two images, one of the bottom of the paint peelings and then other of the tops. The right side is more dull, simple, while the left side is more intricate and detailed, despite being the same paint peelings.
The act of peeling paint from a palette may not immediately seem like a deconstruction. I defined deconstruction as disassembling a coherent whole into distinct, individual parts. My palette was the original coherent whole, and by peeling of the paint on it, I created distinct individual parts that could be put together again to create the whole once again.
The act of peeling paint from a palette may not immediately seem like a deconstruction. I defined deconstruction as disassembling a coherent whole into distinct, individual parts. My palette was the original coherent whole, and by peeling of the paint on it, I created distinct individual parts that could be put together again to create the whole once again.