Emma Hampton

In this project our goal was to make something new out of a map. Initially we were to destroy a map by doing whatever means we chose, but my map seemed rather resistant to any changes short of burning (and I had no matches, nor a lighter). The ink refused to run when I poured water over it and it would hardly stain in tea or coffee. So I ended up tearing my map into pieces, arranged it in the shape of the county I grew up in (Boyd County, Kentucky), and laid tape over it in the shape of the distribution of coal and shale in my county, something that shapes the economy of the place I come from. I also wrote a letter to my hometown and incorporated it into the map (which is of the state of Georgia, the only other place I have lived in my life).

I neglected to take process photos, but I do have a final photograph of my work.

This project was about taking photos of objects around us that resembled the entire alphabet and the numerals 1-9. I neglected to get 5 of the letters/numbers (F, Q, 3, 5, 7).

Our project was to re-interpret the story of Jack and Jill using design elements and clip art. Our interpretation was that Jack and Jill were robbers and went to steal a crown from a museum. Jack gets shot, hence “Jack fell down and broke his crown”. Jill ends up in jail. One of the problems that we had was that our museum didn’t come across as a museum, and that the panel with Jack being shot was a little unclear, as other people said it seemed as if Jack was shooting other people, because which one was Jack was ambiguous. Below is our final product.