For this project, we were place into groups by our professor. These groups were then given around 6 classes to create an "installation" or, a site specific piece that is made to make the audience think and feel different emotions while looking at the piece. My group was comprised of myself and three other people. We had decided initially on a Halloween like design, but quickly had it changed due to a Halloween installation looking more like decoration than an installation. For our second day, we had all talked about a new idea of what we wanted to do, which was focus on the largest aspect of our first idea, which was the pumpkin. It would be here that we decided what our project would be, but how we were going to make it different was still a mystery to us. Eventually, one of us decided that the pumpkins should be blue as the complimentary color of orange is indeed blue. This is when we decided who would gather what supplies for the group. I myself ended up picking up the spray paint and clay for some of the pumpkins that we were to create. The rest of the group had divide up some of the works for themselves in order to lighten the load on me as I had already offered to get a lot of the supplies. For our third day, we had finished creating some of the pumpkins that were needed. We had decided what pumpkins would be painted and what ones would not. This was also the day that we had decided to move our display from underneath the college staircase in our "C" building to outside, as we had thought that it might end up as a possible fire hazard or other type of hazard. We had tried looking for some spaces such as underneath some tree's or near the college's corners, but to no avail. Day four was when we had finally started painting our pumpkins. This part was one of the most enjoyable as we were able to go outside and enjoy the nice weather while we were painting the pumpkins. By this day, we had started to develop a theme of an exterior location with an interior design. We had moved some of the benches to make it look like a patio setting in front of a house, but that did not work. During our final day to work on this, we had talked about how we wanted the power-point to look and also how to finally create a good spot for our piece. We ended up placing our installation piece near a table and a set of chairs to make it look like it was on a porch and it looked really well. All we were missing was one more important interior object that would complete the piece, a blue desk lamp. I had taken a lamp from my home, spray painted it blue to fit the rest of the theme and placed it in the center of the table, shining a light on some leaves we had spray painted blue, while having some more surround the lamp. From many different angles, the installation looked good and all of my group had tried our best on it. What I learned from this was how important it was to convey idea's to each other, as we had all had different idea's, but sometimes we were unable to make an agreement on how to do them. However, for the most part, we had all been in an agreement with one another, and were all able to create designs that we had all enjoyed in the end. This project taught me that even when working in a group of people I don't really know, teamwork is key, and it really shows how hard we had worked in the end. Photo's above show the process of making the piece in order of appearance. Yayoi Kusama's art was also a larger inspiration for my group, as her constant theme of objects working together by a common thing. In her case, her constant use of polka-dots were able to tie some of her objects together, making environmental installations, which is what our group had used as a reference.