https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy’s work is transient and ephemeral. Through non-destructive rearrangement he creates magical, visceral experiences.

Emma and I started out by knowing we wanted to do a project that was on the more artistic side. We thought covering the fishbowl with sticky notes would be a cool idea. In the process of researching we came across a whole world of sticky note art that really caught our attention. We liked that you can't tell what the picture is at first glance, but after stepping back you can see the picture. While brainstorming we also talked a lot about the idea of bullying and how it has personally effected our lives. We thought meshing the sticky note art idea and bullying could result in a really influential art installation. We both really love the idea of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" and thought this perfectly coinsided with the idea of ending bullying through art. We decided to put an eye, an ear, and lips on each glass wall of nuvu. After measuring the walls and calculating how many sticky notes would be necessary, we turned to photoshop to make our exact design. We picked the pictures we wanted to use and pixelated them to the exact amount of pixels as stickie notes per wall. After this we changed the picture to be just 4 colors. This photoshopped picture became our exact guide for where to put each note on the wall. We were expecting the posting process to be pretty tedious but it did take much longer than we were expecting so we ended up only posting the wall with the eye. This actually turned out to be a benefit because we had morfe time to perfect the wall and add more ideas to the project. We spent a day at our school and collected stories from the studnts about times they had been bullied. People were much more willing to share than we were anticipating and we collected a great amount of stories. We put these on the back side of the notes for 2 reasons; first, we didn't want these stories to distract from the picture of the eye and second, we wanted to take advantage of the fact that the wall is glass and could be seen from 2 sides. While doing research about bullying we found some statistics that were really powerful. Immediatly, we knew we wanted to incorporate these into our project. We used the stories on the back wall to artistically respresent the statistics that really hit home for us.

Overall, we are very proud of our installation and think it depicts the message we wanted it to in an artistic and educational way.

I started by creating fake calipers to fill in empty spots in the shop so that when people look for tools, they see a bunch of fake tools, thus sending a message for others to put away their tools when they're done with them. The message changed by the end of the project. In the end, the fake calipers represented each of the calipers that have been broken and when someone is looking for calipers and there are none left, they will see the fake ones and see how many we would have if people were more careful and didn't break them.

I'm happy with the way that the installation conveys the new message, although, I would still like to find a better way to send the original message of putting away tools.