Faux Sunflower Seeds

"Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei has filled The Tate Modern art museum's turbine hall with millions of life-sized sunflower seed husks made out of porcelain. The collective effort of a number of specialists from Jingdezhen, China, the hand-crafted seeds were individually formed and painted. The installation encourages visitors to touch and walk on the carpet of tiny replicates."

Images courtesy The Tate Modern © ai weiwei - story via Dude Craft via Design Boom.

Faux Sunflower Seeds

edward cullen: portrait of a {post}modern anti-hero

Three weeks. One hundred hours {give or take}. One BIG book, papers, paints, and much modge podge later...here's the end result of the Edward Cullen curated exhibit. I presented it in class with music from the Twilight soundtrack playing on my laptop {hidden behind the exhibit}. I also created a mini Zine of the exhibit information--it is not pictured here as I submitted it for my final grading.

The photos in this post are presented in the order you would view the exhibit in reality. Please click on the images to enlarge.

{Disclaimer: The original art in these photographs, and the photographs themselves are copyright Tina Pfeiffer 2009. I do not hold any copyright nor do I claim ownership of any of the images from Twilight used within the project.}

edward cullen: portrait of a {post}modern anti-hero

Exhibition in a Box: Edward Cullen

The subject of my Exhibition in a Box project is Edward Cullen, the main vampire character in the Twilight novel series by Stephanie Meyer. I chose Edward not because he is a character I particularly like, but because he is such a complex and intriguing character. Because he is a vampire, he is fictitious, and because he is such a major focus in the current phenomenon which Twilight has become, he is undoubtedly a character of popularity in this era.

The character of Edward Cullen has been compared with a number of male protagonists from classic literature, including Mr. Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Heathcliff from Bronte's Wuthering Heights, The Beast of Beauty and the Beast, and the infamous Stanley Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire.

Some items and images I am considering for my exhibit include:

• Grand piano - To depict Edward's love of music (he is an accomplished pianist)
• Trees - The vampire coven live in Forks, located in the Olympic Peninsula rain forests located in the state of Washington.
• Glass - To represent the Cullen's home in the forest, which is largely made of glass.
• Books - Edward has been well-educated in the 108 years of his suspended "life".
• Images of WWI - The period in which Edward lived as a human prior to his transformation.

I believe a chronological arrangement of items and images may suit this project best. I'm not sure yet as to how I will contain or transport the end result--I am still fleshing things out and considering possibilities for best dimensional arrangement.

Image via Wikipedia.org.

Exhibition in a Box: Edward Cullen