Thomas Diamanty

Thomas Diamanty

a lifetime of little knots

2019

found fabric (clothing, scarves, tapestry)

67" x 9" x 8"

While traveling with work I was constantly challenged. Rethinking perspectives, doing work that was difficult in nature, and operating on little sleep didn't quite help. I pushed myself outside of my comfort zone. While my body occupied this space, my mind went elsewhere. My mind focused on my connections. The bonds I had made all over the world. I reminded myself of my 'Why.'

Why do anything we do? It is some amalgamation of the people we interact with. 

And in that, is so much power.

When you can see the power in others, you can see it in yourself.

Even the smallest of connections can be impactful enough to change a person's life. It certainly did for mine.

Of all of the wildly different humans I've befriended during my small amount of revolutions around the sun, each and every person has made me the person I am today. Better for it, and filled with gratitude.

Thomas Diamanty

Thomas Diamanty

Untitled

2019

masonry cement, wire, found clothing

18" x 28" x 33"

This work's inception was found in a need to expand. I felt like I needed to expand my materials and work in materials and techniques that challenged how I currently thought of "Sculpture" and the 3D medium. This piece I do consider complete, but I intend to expand my efforts in this direction as I feel there are feelings and ideas yet to uncover.

Esther Lee

The dancing girl and her hair

2019

variety of paper, yarn, thread, ink, wood

21.5"x23.75"x81"

For my third and final project I decided to make a big book, focusing on traditional Korean book binding. The technique I used was side binding, where the spine of the book is exposed and you can see the signatures and the thread that binds the pages together with a loose cover. To create an older look I dyed all the pages one by one in tea and air/blow dried them. For the content of the book I wanted to try embroidery again, but making the braided yarn the focus to talk about what it means for a girl to have long hair, not only in Korea but all around the world. For most woman, their hair symbolizes virtue, beauty and a part of who they are. In Korean traditions, a girl with long braided hair meant she was a young beautiful maiden. And, when her hair was up it meant that she was a married woman.  

John Sebastian Velasquez

"Used and Abused"

2019

MDF, steel, concrete, grease, hair

Aprox. 7 feet tall, 4 feet wide, 4 feet deep


  Just as the delicate psyche of humans, physical and emotional abuse begins to take its toll on the soul of tools and objects, rendering them obsolete, trashed, and forgotten.  This sculpture is a physical representation of the sadness that seeps and festers itself within the very core of a soul that has been used and abused.  It serves as a reminder to care for even the most miniscule of objects like tissues, Q-tips, or a bar of soap.  Practicing the appreciation and respect of small items becomes a springboard for appreciating objects and relationships in your own life.

Amethyst

OCTOBABY

2019

2' x 10" x 5"

Clay, paint

This was a social experiment/performance piece to entice people to pick up the baby despite it looking different. Conclusion: people love babies, regardless of species.

Amethyst

The birth of seeds

2019

4" x 5" x 1'

Clay, paint

This depicts the process of a seed creature being born through an unknown species. 

Amethyst

Reflecting 

2019

1' x 7" x 2"

Clay, paint, resin

Reflecting is an attempt to represent the pressure people put on each other and ourselves in everyday life. It is a symbolic trophy that represents your struggles, stress, and confinement to the "normal" standards of living. 

Victoria Acevedo

Victoria Acevedo

House with a story to tell

2019

books, acrylic paint

24" x 20" x 4"

For my third sculpture I choose to work with books to create architecture inspired greatly by my collagraph houses for my senior show.  I wanted to work in a medium I could easily manipulate with my hands and that I had an abundance of. For this reason I chose to work with books. I chose to also focus greatly on textures and depth off the wall. To make it I cut the books using the band saw making a variety of heights, depths and shapes. I also tried to splay some books open to see open pages and illustrations and make the piece more interactive. To make the house I focused on a doorway and a window while making most of the books into stones on the house. To further this piece I plan to add more books and details on the house. 

Jeff Kim

Jeff Kim

Rumination

2019

Sheet Metal, Leather, Sand, Aluminum

31” X 37” x 17 “

This piece looks back on this semester’s work and the constant hammering of sheet metal to shape and form something beautiful and meaningful. It was incredibly satisfying to see what comes from the weeks of sweat by slamming the hammer. As the semester comes to a close it also gives me a sense of sadness and destruction which the broken tree symbolizes.