Grade 12 Visual Arts!
Altered Book
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Final project choices! Altered books have been a sculptural art form for many years.
Students choose their own book from discards, used book stores or their own shelves based on their particular interest. The theme from the book or an interpretation of the message must be reflected in the visual material used to enhance the sculpture. Using more of the text and pages from the book to highlight important scenes, words or passages is encouraged. For more information go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_book http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/alteredbook.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_book http://www.ebsqart.com/Education/Articles/Mixed-Media-and-Collage/9/Live-Studio-Altered-Books/35/ http://www.altered-book.com/niche.html 
The Last Samurai Media: Clay, Wire, Masking Tape, Cloth, X-Acto Knife, Paper Dimensions: 9”w × 12d” × 14”h The story of The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt follows a child prodigy, named Ludo, who is raised by his single mother, Sybilla. Throughout Ludo’s childhood, Sybilla plays a movie called “The Seven Samurai” to fill in for the lack of father figures in his life. Because of this, Ludo seeks out a “potential father” that has Samurai-like qualities but never finds one. Throughout the book, Ludo matures and becomes more independent. He stops looking for a perfect father and instead begins to possess Samurai-like qualities himself. The face of the Samurai in this piece is non-specific, because the Samurai does not represent a specific being, it symbolizes the qualities of a “genuine samurai” which Ludo strives to attain. For this reason, the phrase “Even though I look like this, I am a genuine samurai”, is glued to the waist of the figure. The river flowing across the corner of the piece represents the journey Ludo took to find himself, in the sense that, a flowing river is comparative to the rocky journey life may take us on. Another major concept in the book, is the importance of education. This idea relates to the ‘Freedom to Read’ theme in February because, through the freedom to read we have the freedom to educate ourselves about whatever we desire. This concept is important to the piece because the samurai‘s sword symbolizes the power of knowledge, and the root that has grasped the samurai represents the sometimes unfortunate situations life brings us. The fact that Ludo used knowledge as his weapon to defeat the obstacles in his path, shows us how lucky we are to freely choose our own armour. By: Tiffany P. You need to develop your own project, given the materials and interests you have!
Here are a few ideas to prompt your imagination. 2020 documents to give you an idea
of projects created previously.
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