Wines With Personality

The thoughts that inspiried this project were contradictory. The light from a scanner is supposed to reflect off of an image instead of going through it. I really thought about the mechanics of light and how the lines of objects almost disrupt a light's softness. And to make a contradtion to the light, I picked pieces of broken glass. I started collecting what I knew I could get my hands on (meaning empty alcohol bottles) becuase of the different shades and textures of glass to give the peices more texture.

I then took the cork from one of the wine bottles that read "Wine With Honesty" and that's how I completed the ideas of the pieces. I wanted each piece to have personality; to make the audience relate to the point I was trying to get across: something so ordinary can have an extrodinary human-like connection to the lives in which we live. (And let's face it, alcohol plays a small part in that for most of us at one point in our lives or another.)

The first piece, Wine With Character, has kind of a quirky, smart-ass feel to me. I wanted to incorporate like shapes with the caps becuase I found that the arrangement of patterns was relatively interesting. It makes you look at each peices of the project separately, instead of the entire thing in one, big, swig. I wanted the audience to capture the connection of written words of "advice" on each cap, and to be familiar with the cork that is standing upright in the middle of the piece. This peice happens to be different from the other two becuase of the title I wanted to give it. To me, character means something that stand out from the rest, tells a story, has, y'know, character.

The second piece, Wine With Integrity, was all about being complete from beginning to end. According to Webster's Dictionary, the definition of integrity is:"...the quality or state of being complete or undivided." This spoke to me in a sense that each fragment in this peice is different, but is arranged in a way that creates a like-minded image. As you can tell is a bottle. I feel as if this is the older brother to the previous piece becuase it is more dignified and mature; like it doesn't take any shit from its younger smart-ass sibling.

The third, and final piece sets the tone for the other two. Wine With Honesty is about containing togetherness between the different types of glass to create an image. The cork in to top, right-hand corner is the key part of the piece that ties each separate piece into each other. The word honesty is actually a synonym to the word integrity. It is about being honest, complete, just as it is, untouched. It tells the story of some of the most desired qualities that someone can have in a person. And that seems to be honesty, integrity, and character.