By Justin Bernardy
Our most recent guest speaker, Paolo Tossolini, took a very interesting creative approach to his work. The concepts of “mashups” and “prototyping” in particular were mentioned quite often. In Tossolini’s words, ‘prototyping’ is the act of experimenting with new technology and tools to develop new solutions. A facet of prototyping is the ‘mash-up’., which includes factors such as relevance and timely application. These two concepts together inspired my project.
We were tasked with creating a literal mashup using 3 mediums to describe our current experience in our respective programs. After much thought, I decided to do a piece which effectively illustrated ‘prototyping’ as well. The idea of this piece is to illustrate that we, the students, are essentially prototypes of who we will become in time. To convey that, I started with a charcoal drawing of my hand, and then moved to digital, and finally an actual photo. Once finished, I combined all three to form one hand. The idea is that the charcoal represents us in our least developed stage, the digital medium adds a bit more, representing our intermediate phase, and the photo of the actual hand is representative of the final product.
