Exhibit Artifact Rationale

Type seen in photo above:

‘The arts and crafts movement founded by william morris was born out of the pure desire for furniture and the entirety of interior design to be viewed at a higher quality.  The luxurious, artistic expression implemented onto the forms of furniture rather than it be a sculpture and/or a painting, it truly shifted the view of art.  ARt did not have to be hung up on a wall, art could be sat on as well.  The idea of creating comfortable and beautiful interiors inspired two young men, Arthur H. Mackmurdo and Selwyn Image.  This inspiration led the two of them to create The Century Guild.’  

There is a saying that goes ‘In every artist’s life, they will always end up working with a chair’.  With that quote in mind, that is exactly what I did.  

The moment this project was announced the first thing I could think of was creating a small model of a piece of furniture-a chair in particular from the Arts and Crafts movement.  The piece that I had in mind as my main form of reference and inspiration for the project was  Arthur H. Mackmurdo’s chair that was created in 1882.

Sadly, I dove head first into this project without thinking and was so immersed in the creation of the chair that I completely forgot to write out the rationale, and so I sit here on the eve of this project being due typing away. If I were to give myself a mark out of ten, visually based off of the sculpture I created I would have to give myself a solid eight since my efforts in creating it were definitely pulled off. On the other hand my research and writing on this project would have to be seven, I believe my process was much quicker and fast paced compared to my peers which has led to my writing coming off as a tad sloppy but still retains the information asked to be featured.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this project.  I felt much less restraint and was happy to work with another art medium that wasn’t paint.

Thank you professor Judy Snaydon for assigning a project that made feel good about my about my art again.