I continued my work on my 100 objects project. I have the paper plates with food drawn on them in sharpie, but I added napkins over each one. On the napkins, I wrote the reasons each person chose their last meal in sharpie as well. I put the napkins over the drawings to make the installation piece more immersive. Since the drawing is hidden underneath, the viewer can walk up to the plates and lift the napkin to see food item the napkin was referring to. I had to collect and draw 22 more last meals and reasons because some people didn’t get back to me about their reason and I had to have those to complete the sculpture. For the third part of the sculpture, I changed the composition of my installation piece and added 4 more plates to make the concept more clear. I researched different methods of suicide and drew those methods on the paper plates with a napkin over them with the percentage of people who use that method annually. The four methods were by firearm, suffocation, poisoning, and other. I arranged them using the percentages of each method of suicide. For instance, about 51% of suicides annually are committed by firearm, so I arranged 51 plates around the plate with the gun. I think having the installation arranged in a more interesting way makes it more inviting to the viewer. Rather than just having 5 rows of 20, the shapes I made the plates in are now more fun to look at. Each group gets bigger from left to right. I wanted to make the viewer think about the issue of suicide because it’s something that effects so many people yet it’s so rarely talked about. By associating the last meals with people who committed suicide, I made the piece more emotional and less fun to go through. Now the viewer is seeing the meals as the last meal someone would eat before killing themselves. I think the concept for my piece is much stronger and more obvious now. A weakness in my piece is that I should have made the sculpture more inviting somehow. I would have liked it to be more obvious that the viewer is supposed to lift the napkins, so if I were to redo it I would have exposed part of the drawings on the plates so people would know to lift the napkins. I don’t think I would have changed much else because I really enjoy the way my installation turned out once I made the concept more clear and changed up the composition. I liked working on this piece, but I will definitely not be working with paper plates during the second half of the semester.
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