- Thursday April 21, 9:30 AM
- Student Showcase, 103 Holmes Hall
Emerging Designers: Mac Collins – Design Museum London – Jeffrey Gibbs
- Mac Collins
- March 16th, 4:30 PM
- Design Museum London UK
Step 2 – Distorted CNC – Jeffrey Gibbs
I have chosen to work with and modify a standing model of a rhinoceros, a land mammal known for their powerful horns on the front of its head and their tough, armorlike skin. The rhino is featured on a pedestal, in a position of power and high regard, with great detail in the thick skin to articulate the great strength of this large animal. Similar to statues of great warriors in which they are shown in military dress, more specifically their armor, the rhino is depicted here in plate-like armory skin. The elevated position of the animal suggests respect amongst other animals on the savannah as if the rhino is not one to mess with. Unfortunately, the rhinoceros, although not completely, has largely been killed off due to hunting, poaching, and the loss of habitats. In my distortion of this work, I want to express the tragic story of the larger population of rhinos as a whole, including the horrible story of the ivory trade and the dehorning of much of the wild rhino populations. There are many ways to do this, many involve the inclusion of bones or the removal of layers of the rhino’s flesh to reveal a decaying existence. Specifically for the horn, I could remove the horn and fill the hole with a fleshlike mess of material.
Simulations – Studio Art Senior Exhibition – Jeffrey Gibbs
- Angela Meckey
- Monday 2/28, 5:30PM
- Holmes Hall Exposition Room
5 Drawings – Jeffrey Gibbs
5 Items – Jeffrey Gibbs
Metaphorms Part 1 – Jeffrey Gibbs
It’s Not Just A Boulder… It’s A Rock
For a little over a week, I ventured south to the nation of Peru to explore the high altitudes of Cuzco, experiencing Machu Pichu and the lives of those living in the Andes mountain range. I stayed with an older woman in a village at the base of a mountain range throughout my time, each day making the trip up the cliffsides to a different village that was looking for workers to help bring running water down the mountain from home to home. One of these days the entirety of the village was working on the trench lines for the plastic piping with pickaxes and shovels until they realized a portion of the trench would run directly through a boulder too large to move by hand. As I stopped digging and began cracking into my PB&J for lunch, many of the locals came over to sit with me and enjoy the springtime weather while many of their families brought lunch from the center of the village. Aside from some slight teasing as to the weirdness of my diet, many insisted I tried their homecooked breads and homegrown meats. One of the men leading the construction effort came up to me asking for my help in removing the boulder blocking the bath of the trench and the entire village followed us as we walked over to look at the large rock. Many of the children ran ahead, all of them at one point giving their best effort to push the stone out of the way. One man walked by with a small felled tree and I asked him if we could borrow it to help move the rock. As he obliged, all those previously working on the digging project gathered around the stone to help as we wedged the tree between the rock and the embankment. We began to pry the boulder up, using the tree as a lever arm and quickly more and more people began to file in towards the rock to push it with their legs and backs. Slowly but surely it began to move, finally rolling down the hill a ways before coming to its new resting place. The children quickly rallied behind those that helped with the effort, running around and yelling about their strength and grit. The water began to flow the next day as we completed around 3 miles of trench laid with plastic piping.
10 Keywords:
- Peru
- Pickaxe
- Boulder
- Lever
- Effort
- Strength
- Teamwork
- Language
- Mountains
- Tree
Creative Careers – Curating Exhibitions for Contemporary Artists – Jeffrey Gibbs
- Thursday February 10, 6-7PM
- On Zoom
- Curator Lecture and Question Time
Jeffrey Gibbs
Major: Mechanical Engineering & Studio Art
Interests/Activities: Bucknell XC&TF, Product Design, Woodworking
Reasoning: To learn more in the realm of industrial design and discover ways to communicate ideas. Very excited to learn new software and take a 3D static model through a render.
Contact: jrg032@bucknell.edu |||||| 860-315-7165 (AT&T)