Shaya's creations

For this assignment we were prompted to find a way to measure our personal stories. I drew inspiration from examples we were shown that used quantifiable and mathematical measurements to record experiences. I decided to write down every place I've lived, and then calculated the distance in miles between each place, adding them up to get a grad total. Because I wanted to highlight not just my own histories, but those of my parents as well, I asked them to do the same. When I finally had all these distances recorded, I came up with a ratio that I could use to represent these distances on a smaller scale. I converted each of our total distances to inches and used those new measurements to cut out cut three lengths of twine. Each black dot on the twine represents a different place lived. I then used a different ratio to convert the original distances in miles to minutes. I drew us each a portrait allowing myself only the amount of minutes we each had corresponding to our distances trav...