Design-Build-Measure Fall '09
  
Francis Bacon Paintings

 

    
       
   

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Endersession 09)

This installation was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych entitled “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. A triptych is a painting, which is composed of three panels which hinged together. Bosch created this piece between 1503 and 1504, and it is considered his most influential and well-known work. “The Garden of Earthly Delights” resides at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, which has been its home since 1939

For our interpretation of this piece, we wanted to create an installation that was true to Bosch’s idea but with a new sense of depth and realism. To start we painted the background of the garden as a simple landscape. From there, we chose images and figures to trace onto wood panels. Next, we cut them out and painted them to resemble the original work. For our final step we suspended them from fishing line at varying distances giving our installation depth.

Joelle Burilla, Yvonne Byers, Alyssa Cook, Carolina Jimenez, Dorian King Emily Mckinna, Sara Sanchez, Garden of Earthly Delights, May 2009, Acrylic on Wood

  
   
Endersession 09
Display Monitor Chair Rail

Wainscoting
Poster of Cancer for Sharp Hospital  
   
The Blood Bank Project

This project was a collaboration betweenthe San Diego Blood Bank and High Tech High seniors. It was also a collaboration between the Biology / Multimedia Teacher and the Art teacher.

The students learned about blood, blood diseases, blood in the body, blood banking and blood politics. They also educated the community and brought awareness to the issues that surround our San Diego Blood Bank.

 

Plein Air San Diego

During the two week intersection class (winter 09) I took my 26 students (24 girls) around San Diego to paint Plein Air. That is French for painting out side in front of the subject, with limited editing in the studio. This was more difficult than I had imagined. No one was injured and only few people cried. We all had a great time by the end.
 
Analog Flash for Windows

This project was meant to focus the students' minds around the concept that they are either making art about Physics and Engineering or using physics and engineering to make Art.
We decided to use the school’s interior window boxes as a constraint and to display their work. The 24 x 24 x 5 inch windows were perfect for: Analog Flash for Windows. Analog: because most of the projects are mechanical. Flash: references the program for interactivity. For Windows: not for PC but the actual windows at High Tech High.