Guest Speaker :: Mara Stokke, Experiential Designer
I chose the front left nook when you first enter the fifth floor,
no shade but I remember my first day and walking into the minimal modern floor making me sad, it’s a floor full of creatives yet few of their influences were present upon greeting.
the medium I used is procreate and within said program, two brush settings, the round one and the flat paint brush. I originally wanted to make a very comforting forest scape. Cottage core has been a term popular over the last couple years and I was intending that but then hated it as my ideas started being vomited out. And while mulling over my bad ideas the demon slayer opening started playing while I was illustrating and I thought of the wisteria scenes.
so I chose to lean into the more whimsical fantasy nature of it and create a more finished scenery piece. The wall would have the pond aspect be flat with the fish raised from it to create visual texture. And post installation, the next graduation class would have each member fold a paper crane to be strung together and suspended with the wisteria (which is a 3D suspended element of)