Author: Julia Bruno

Step 1

List out five dangers you’d like to protect yourself from

1. Dangerous animals (sharks, bear, etc.)
2. Sickness / disease
3. Rain / wind / bad weather
4. Anxiety and negative thoughts
5. Failure

List out five ways you’d like to extend the capabilities of your body

1. Be able to breathe underwater
2. Never get tired
3. Be able to make decisions instantly
4. Improve immune system, never get sick again
5. Mind reading 

Choose one of the ten items you listed above.

As someone who gets sick very often, whether it be migraines, colds, etc., I want to create wearable art that protects myself from sickness and disease for my project. While there are preventative drugs, vitamins, and other remedies people can take to prevent them from getting sick, there is really nothing that can truly guarantee protection from illness. Sickness could derive from many triggers, like germs, weather changes, lack of sleep, poor diet, or just having a poor immune system, so the wearable device would be able to defend me from sickness caused by all of these things. For this project, I will create wearable art that protects me from germs and sickness, and that improves my immune system to allow me to never get sick again.

List out 10 tangible people/places/things that are associated with the purpose of your project.

1. Mask

2. Hasmat suit

3. Medicine

4. Plants / Nature

5. Doctors

6. Bad weather

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7. Gloves

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8. Tissues

9. Pharmacy

10. Sleep

Step 2

Title: Pulse

Artist: Jan Van Der Laan

Inspiration: I like the free-flowing, organic form of this piece that almost resembles a filter, and its theme of unattainable purity, so I plan to borrow these aspects as I make wearable art that “purifies” and “filters” the human body from sickness. 

Step 3

Step 1

Selected Sculpture: Aphrodite

Artist: Roman copy of Greek Sculpture by Praxiteles

Step 2

The sculpture depicts the bust of a woman who appears to be wearing a headband and loose top, with curly hair and an indifferent facial expression. Upon further examination, this is not just any woman, it is the Greek goddess of beauty, love, and desire, Aphrodite. In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is a strong, powerful, well-known goddess and just her bust alone represents the passion and longing that accompanies love in relationships. Anyone who knows Greek mythology would recognize this head, and associate her with the idealization of beauty, motherhood, desire, and femininity, and her indifferent expression shows how powerful of a symbol she is, that she could even be understood with a straight face. Through distorting this sculpture, I aim to explore the theme that beauty lies in the eyes of its beholder. There is no one definition of what beauty is, but it is a concept that can be interpreted in many ways. What one may see as garbage, another may view as a masterpiece, and vice versa. I plan on warping the face through twisting and stretching it, then adding components to the bust that others may view as ‘gross’, to create a juxtaposition between beauty and disgust. I may line up three versions of Aphrodite’s bust alongside each other, the first one being the original, ‘classically beautiful’ sculpture, the second being slightly morphed, and the third being completely distorted, to show how beauty can take many forms. 

Step 3

Julia Bruno

Markets, Innovation & Design

Interests:

• Sports – I play club lacrosse and volleyball
• Art + Design – I love to draw and paint and am especially interested in interior design
• Being active, outdoors, the beach, travel

I am taking this class because I am very interested in interior design and am familiar with the physical/visual aspects of it, but not the more technical side, like CAD and other computer design software, so I would like to become more familiar with that. I am also excited to use the 3D printer to make models.