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In fine art artifacts in paintings like runs, drips, smears, and brushstrokes may not only be visible but in most instances seems to be preferred as it shows the artist's hand. However, in the trades paint jobs that have these artifacts are seen as sloppy. This could cost the painter their job, money, time, and or clients. This sculpture represents a speed shape, a painting buck used in autobody repair. The speed shape is modeled to appear to have a paint run, something that outside of art would normally be a defect.

Each cube is mounted specifically in a spot that represents a memory, item, or marking left on a specific object. However, the negative space the cubes occupy does not give enough info for people to understand what this object is. Instead, the intention is for the viewer to connect the dots and map out their own object. Much like a star constellation.

In WWII when the US dropped the atomic bombs on Japan anything under or near the explosion was disintegrated. Leaving the silhouettes of someone or something that should be there. In contrast with these silhouettes, we drive down roads and streets that have been bleached by the sun. This halftone cutout of a tree is supposed to over time leave a sun-bleached print on the ground in a place where a tree shouldn't be (i.e., a parking lot or road)

An 8-inch plywood cube has been painted and finished in reverse order. In many fabrication jobs, the paint and finish work is done to bring a piece together by hiding any human involvement and making it feel like a machine did it. We spend so much time replicating machines that the time and effort are often lost in the near-perfect quality of the finish. To show this often-overlooked process. I followed a standard autobody/model-making painting process in reverse order. By Polishing the wood, then sanding from 5000 grit down to 1000 grit, clear coating, then painting and again sanding from 600 grit down to 400 grit, then priming and sanding and filling from 400 grit down to 120 grit.

RIGHT TO REPAIR

The right to repair is an idea most people believe in. People want to be able to fix the items they own. However, companies have engineered it, so it's cheaper and easier to just buy a new one. Some of these items are designed so well that they're cheap and don't last long, so people are forced to buy more. On the other hand, food has been modified so much that it seems like a slice of bread may outlast the table it lays on. This sculpture is designed to fail purposefully dripping alcohol on the seam, eventually dropping the fake bread, and breaking it. Once it falls and breaks it'll be replaced with a new slice using the glue mounted on the display.

THIS IS YINMN BLUE

Just about every piece of media consumed online is presented from a single point of view that is a couple of seconds or even just a snapshot long. As viewers, we tend to instantly form a view either in support or against this view; however, without witnessing the subject matter firsthand, we cannot prove or disprove what is presented with guaranteed certainty. This piece presumably presents a pipe in both physical and digital format that is supposedly painted with the yInmn pigment, followed by two different claims. However, we cannot study the digital pipe to prove or disprove its claim. The physical pipe, however, can be inspected. You can observe it and either prove or disprove the given statement.

IMPOSSIBLE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION