Unintended Consequences
Through individual and collaborative methods, Sarah Lemmon and Meghan O’Connor explore diverse printmaking and sculptural processes. “Unintended Consequences” speaks to play, control, and trial-and-error, within studio practice and human behavior. The artists’ inspiration derives from collaboration, relationships, the human condition, and the use of alternative materials. Interactive edible opportunities add a performative component to this exhibit.
For this exhibition, we unwrapped and melted roughly 6,240 jolly ranchers. We calculated the number of jolly ranchers per cast carrot (small, medium, and large), # of carrots per square foot on the wall, and # of jolly ranchers per pound to calculate how many pounds, and therefore, how many bags of jolly ranchers to purchase. We spent many hours on math and planning for this project! I knew a lady at the farmers market that gave us their "reject carrots" which we used to create the molds for our carrot castings. Then we split the workload and began casting. With these cast carrots, we created a jolly rancher carrot wall that participants could walk up to, lick to claim, and then place a red dot/ sold sticker next to their carrot. During the exhibition the carrots changed their shape and began to droop, due to the humidity and temperature changes.
In addition to the carrot wall, we also collaborated on two other pieces, where we traded materials, each starting a piece, and handing it off to the other person to finish, and we also curated the rest of the work for the exhibition.
Through individual and collaborative methods, Sarah Lemmon and Meghan O’Connor explore diverse printmaking and sculptural processes. “Unintended Consequences” speaks to play, control, and trial-and-error, within studio practice and human behavior. The artists’ inspiration derives from collaboration, relationships, the human condition, and the use of alternative materials. Interactive edible opportunities add a performative component to this exhibit.
For this exhibition, we unwrapped and melted roughly 6,240 jolly ranchers. We calculated the number of jolly ranchers per cast carrot (small, medium, and large), # of carrots per square foot on the wall, and # of jolly ranchers per pound to calculate how many pounds, and therefore, how many bags of jolly ranchers to purchase. We spent many hours on math and planning for this project! I knew a lady at the farmers market that gave us their "reject carrots" which we used to create the molds for our carrot castings. Then we split the workload and began casting. With these cast carrots, we created a jolly rancher carrot wall that participants could walk up to, lick to claim, and then place a red dot/ sold sticker next to their carrot. During the exhibition the carrots changed their shape and began to droop, due to the humidity and temperature changes.
In addition to the carrot wall, we also collaborated on two other pieces, where we traded materials, each starting a piece, and handing it off to the other person to finish, and we also curated the rest of the work for the exhibition.
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