AP 2-D Art and Design Portfolio

Arianna Kim
2022
Image 1
Sustained Investigation

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Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i, pane

of glass, water

Process(es): Glass represents the

invisible barrier, feeling trapped.
experimenting with angles, lighting,
colors

Image 2
Sustained Investigation

Height: 10.8 inches

Width: 7.22 inches

Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i, pane

of glass, water

Process(es): Spray glass with

water,hold light at the side of
face,hold glass above face.
Represent cold barrier
Image 3
Sustained Investigation

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Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i, pane

of glass, water, childhood photos

Process(es): Experimentation:
submerge younger photos under
water. Visually show my experience
of almost drowning

Image 4
Sustained Investigation

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Material(s): Acrylic paints, gelli plate,

printed childhood photo, cyanotype
paper, image negative

Process(es): Revision of cyanotype

but failed. Inspiration drawn from
cyanotype to gelli plate of the same
image
Image 5
Sustained Investigation

Height: 10 inches

Width: 10 inches

Material(s): Acrylic paints, gelli plate,

printed childhood photo

Process(es): Used primary colors to

show primary experience.
overlapping childhood images that
was at the time.

Image 6
Sustained Investigation

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Material(s): Cyanotype paper,

Negatives of Images, Reflections of
water

Process(es): Experimenting with

different images for cyanotypes.
Image 7
Sustained Investigation

Height: 10 inches

Width: 6.67 inches

Material(s): Reflection of water,

Canon Rebel T3i

Process(es): Used the reflection of

pool water to create art, looking a
the surface and not just underwater

Image 8
Sustained Investigation

Height: 10 inches

Width: 14 inches

Material(s): Cyanotype paper, image

negative, bucket of water.

Process(es): First successful

cyanotype with people. Developed by
being submerged in water. Pretty art
from water
Image 9
Sustained Investigation

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Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i

Process(es): Practice:Emphasis on
spiral to represent a developing
journey and vitality of water with fish
living

Image 10
Sustained Investigation

Height: 10 inches

Width: 6.67 inches

Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i

Process(es): Used rule of thirds to

line up model. Fish swimming in
spiral shows my journey with water.
Image 11
Sustained Investigation

Height: 10 inches

Width: 667 inches

Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i

Process(es): Show jellyfish living

well with other jellyfish underwater,
prove that water is so essential to
life

Image 12
Sustained Investigation

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Width: N/A

Material(s): Crosstour Underwater

Camera, Pool

Process(es): Used an underwater

camera, submerged myself into pool,
experimented with positive and
negative light
Image 13
Sustained Investigation

Height: 10 inches

Width: 7.22 inches

Material(s): Crosstour Underwater

Camera, Pool

Process(es): Submerged myself in

the same pool, where I almost
drowned. Realized it is actually very
enjoyable.

Image 14
Sustained Investigation

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Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i, old

homework papers

Process(es): Development of inquiry:

represent how I currently feel like I
am drowning metaphorically.

Written Evidence
Sustained Investigation
1. Identify the question(s) or inquiry that
guided your sustained investigation.
2. Describe how your sustained
investigation shows evidence of practice,
experimentation, and revision guided by
your question(s) or inquiry.
Image 15
Sustained Investigation
Height: 10.8 inches
Width: 7.22 inches
Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i, old
homework papers
Process(es): Currently drowning in
schoolwork, blue filter relates it back
to water and stresses the loneliness
Response 1:
How did my experience of almost drowning as a child affect me? How has
my view of water changed as I learned to overcome my fear? How has it
stayed the same? Almost drowning as a child traumatized me and began my
fear of water. This fear stopped me from participating in any activity
regarding water as a child and I often felt left out. I felt no one could relate to
me, making me feel trapped and lonely, shown in 1.Then I show my
experience of almost drowning with 3,5,8,13.Then I show that water creates
art with 7,8 and is vital with 10,11.Finally, I still feel like I am about to drown
with 15.
Response 2:
Throughout my images, I experimented with blue filters to represent the cold
and loneliness of being underwater. In 1, I expressed how I am trapped by my
fear with a piece of glass. I submerge myself or images into water to
demonstrate my experience. I revised my perception of water as something
that's beautiful and necessary with experimental cyanotypes (2), artwork that
develops by being submerged in water, and photos of fish living underwater
(10). 4 shows revision of a cyanotype, although I failed. I experimented with
both current and past by showing how I feel like I'm drowning now (15).
Work 1
Selected Works

Height: 6 inches

Width: 10 inches

Idea(s): Show contrast between

peaceful, just floating, jellyfish and
the sting of tentacles when
provoked.

Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i

Process(es): Contrasts between the

jellyfish with dark water. They are
peaceful until provoked, show
contrast.

Work 2
Selected Works

Height: 6 inches

Width: 10 inches

Idea(s): Flowers look weak but the

red contrasts and shows power as
they persevered with the other few
flower

Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i

Process(es): Rule of thirds. Leading

lines to the red flowers of the plants.
Work 3
Selected Works

Height: 6 inches

Width: 10 inches

Idea(s): Represents a journey, a

pathway to an unknown destination.
Green represents truth and
goodness.

Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i

Process(es): Bamboo acts as

leading lines to the top where there
is a hint of light. Pathway also leads
viewers.

Work 4
Selected Works

Height: 10 inches

Width: 10 inches

Idea(s): Represents how life

develops with more layers of
childhood as the image has more
depth and meaning.

Material(s): Gelli plate, childhood

images, acrylic paint.

Process(es): Overlap blue, red, and

purple childhood images with Gelli
plate.
Work 5
Selected Works

Height: 6 inches

Width: 10 inches

Idea(s): Recreation of a pool with

blue filter.Shows how my fear of
water is an invisible barrier trapping
me

Material(s): Canon Rebel T3i, pane

of glass, Photoshop

Process(es): Sprayed glass with

water to decrease visibility, held a
glass above face, and light to right
side.