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Artist Statement

The piece that I am using for my project is a meaningful and artistic. I realize the design for the piece and including the circuits is a little complicated, but it all fit my criteria for what I felt needed to be submitted. I am hoping my project is a success in the end, and that I will get a very respective and kind grade for my efforts.

My artistic and meaningful piece is a hand-made wall flower/wall wreath. It is made up of rolled up book pages to express the love for books and reading. I connected all pieces with hot glue, attached from bottom layer to top, by length. The bottom layer is of longer rolls, and going up and to the center, they got shorter and thinner.  

I chose this design because books are meaningful to me. I love reading, and one creative way to incorporate my passion for reading into our Electric Art Project, is to make a piece of art out of what I love. What I mean expresses not only the love for books, but a passion for creativity incorporated into the learning environment.

Abdul’s reason.

I chose to do a game controller and light up the buttons because games actually bring allot of fun to my life. I love playing games in my free time and enjoy playing it with my friends and family.The game controller is like a pathway to the game and it has tons of different combinations that allows you to do tons of cool stuff ingame.Games have been apart of my life since forever.Playing games even reminds me of the good times I had with family members that I haven’t seen in forever.Playing sports and video games affected my personality in which it made me more competitive..I chose to light up the controller sort as a tribute and I thought it would be really cool.

Aedans reason.

I choose to make a video game controller light up for the project because playing video games bring me much joy and happiness. When I do nt have school or when I’am done with my homework I will always be playing video games, either on my xbox 360, wii, 3ds, tablet, or computer. Without video games for more than 5 hours I get bored out of my mind. Also I thought it would look cool with the buttons lit up on the controler.

Why we chose to work together and our similar reasons for doing this.

Aliya and Chloe

12-11-14

For the Physics art project we chose to do a painting of a flower. we chose this because it shows both of our artistic characters. Our love for art basically defines us, and we would not be able to go through life without it. We each like to paint and we both like color and nature.  

For my design, I chose to do this design because I wanted to make something that made a story. When I was in the 3rd grade, I used to go to my neighbors house after school because my mom worked late and my neighbor was willing to take care of me and my older brother, Nicholas. One day my brother, my neighbor’s son, and I were hanging out outside in my neighbor’s backyard when I noticed they had a skateboard. Beforehand, I had never seen one and was very interested in trying it (Oh, trust me, like all stories… it gets dark) so I jumped on it. As soon as I kicked the ground to start, I slipped off and fell right on my elbow fracturing it. After 4 months of wearing a cast and pretty much ruining my baseball life, I got my cast off and vowed never to ride again.

Two years went by of no skateboarding and honestly didn’t pay any mind to it until my brother came home with a longboard telling my mom that he found a new hobby. Being the little brother that I was, I wanted to be just like him (still do by the way) and decided to go back to skateboarding even if it meant going back to risking of breaking any bones. After a couple of weeks of my brother teaching me everything that I needed to learn to at least ride a skateboard, I was finally able to ride without falling. Since then, skateboarding has been my favorite way of transportation.

When people see my project, I want them to hear my story and know that I am a person that is willing to give second chances, even to those that harm me the most.

Artist Statement:

For our project we decided to use a junk ball wiffle ball:

When we first started the project we decided immediately that we wanted to do something related to sports because it was something that both of us could relate to. We both play a lot of sports but not a lot of them were in common. The one sport that we had in common was baseball however. So we decided to use a wiffle ball since it is baseball.

What the item means to Cinque:

It reminds me of all the times that I played baseball. In 2012 I won a championship and it brings back the good memories of that. I decided this would be a good idea since me and Jake can both relate to it. It also brings out and shows the athletic side of me.

What the item means to Jake:

This item is a very important part to me. This same ball was the one that I used my whole childhood to play wiffle ball. Also since baseball is the one sport that I really love to play and enjoy. This brings back a lot of memories whether it was playing wiffle ball in the local sandlot or all the years that I played little league. It also brings back memories of the several times that my team won the championship.

Syed Jamil Artist Statement

Answers To Essential Questions

Our universe is enclosed with different types of flow of things. Most timely, we see and feel what's go around us. However, sometimes we don't see things that create a great effect in our daily life as for example the flow of electricity. We do experiments to prove our inference. All  in all, we are able to  know things  by making an inference or observing or proving our hypothesis as a valued experiment.

We know things by seeing or observing,but sometimes my assumptions can be wrong. For these reasons, I carry out different experiments based on what I want to know. In addition, we can collect data and analyze them. We clear out  perception by the processes and change of our  understanding. Therefore, we know things by having an experimentation  or observation and these change our knowledge of things or expand the knowledge of the things what our  have known before. The Reasoning

I chose to make this sculpture because it symbolizes, to me personally, the life of someone, and the way that light plays a vital role in our everyday society. Light is one of the major aspects that enables us as human beings to survive in this world. In addition, I would also like to say that anything involving math and/or electricity will catch my interest. It doesn’t matter what the project is; I’ll try with my utmost effort to complete the project and try to exceed expectations because my major is electrical engineering. Even if I start the project at the last moment, I’ll exceed expectations because I’ll put my heart and soul into completing it to the highest extent possible.

For my Physics project, I had to decide what I thought would be the best definition of me. Family is very important to me. I have always considered myself a family person. I feel that family is what helps me be a better person. Family will give me the best advice. I can be positive that they won’t tell me anything that would be harmful to me because I know they have my best interest at heart.

There have been many times where I needed advice from my family, and their advice proved to be helpful. For example, when I was in seventh grade, some of my family members motivated me to keep my head up and do the best I can when I wasn't doing too well in school. Without my family, I would not know what to do in some situations. They up build and encourage me to do my best. Family, in my opinion, makes me a better person.

This sculpture does include dolls. However, the purpose of them is much more essential. The display shows a family at a table. That is my message; a loving family member is one way to describe me. I value the importance of family because they are always there for me. I know that if I talk to my family, they won’t deliberately say anything to hurt me because they have my best interest at heart.

Electric Art Project

Michael Tran

Artist Statement

Every since I was a little boy, I always like the idea of learning new things about life. This can be anything new or anything I have forgotten. I love knowing more about the things that surround me. I would not be the person I am today if it weren’t for education. This is why I decided to do a binder as a Electric Art. It is the most useful learning tool I can think of.

I truly believe that education is the most powerful tool that can change the world. Education is the key to overcoming big barriers. Once you know it then you can break. When I grow up I want to make a time machine. I want to be a billionaire and the president of the world. I can only do this through many years of learning. And I feel as though a binder is a good symbol of school.

Because of education so many things were invented.  Things like cars and houses. And as I mentioned before, I want to build a time machine. Though this will be hard work, it will be worth it. As the roots of school is terrible but it’s outcome is amazing. My only barrier is laziness. This is a big barrier because I know that I will be learning my entire life. I know that I will never be the master because education never ends. But if I wasn’t lazy, things would be too easy!

Overall I decided to do my electrical art project on a binder because I feel like it represents school. I meant in school, binder is very necessary. Everything else is somewhat optional except for a writing stick. Education is my life. I would be nothing without it. And the binder tells me that I am hardworking student when I am not lazy.

My Artist’s Statement: By Zack Waxler

This unit was about expressing ourselves individually & in a group by making a video. It was also about how people can express themselves in different ways with different things in their videos. Our video gave a look into how people with different interests and backgrounds can manage to get along. Our video also showed several ways in which we interacted with each other.

2b. For each video, there had to be a certain topic to it. We had, “Fringed topics.” Since we had a tricky topic to work with, we had a difficult time making the video. We decided that we should just express ourselves in the video. After making the video, we looked at it together and found out that the video would reflect on fringed behavior rather than fringed interests.

2c. As explained in the previous paragraph, our topic was “fringed topics,” but we changed it around to make it fringed behavior. Key points & focuses of this topic were self-expression, honesty & interest in the actual assignment. After having writers block & collaborating, we finally decided to focus on the self-expression part.