Friday, January 29, 2010

"Mario's Legoland"- More on Modular Madness

I absolutely love where this is going. If it wasn't for the fact I have to carpool to the wash building, I would work on this piece every waking hour I had. I love the colors, I love the shapes, I love the towers, and I love these pipes.
It doesn't look just like that as of now, because I worked on it more tonight, but I swear I have the smell of spray paint still rolling in my nose, wait no that's my air freshener. All I have to do know is figure out if I am going to put it on a board or in a black box with lights.
.... I am out of fluorescent yellow spray paint


Here are some pics of my yapping partners working on there projects.














Awesomeness ;)

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"Scratches and Scars"- Testing Textures


So my internet decided it want to work after having me use my ninja awesome hacking skills to get it to work...
To the Point however I decided to post some of my textures and the final one I decided to choose for my dots. Not all of them because that is over ten and I don't wanna push the picture limit.I didn't find much when I put my practice dots on the samples. In all honesty I know that I wanted something simple that wouldn't compete with the dots. While I made 11 textures I wasn't really fond of any but one that's to the right. My style is chaotic, it has always been that way, I've always been that way. Nature Is chaotic I naturally am drawn to the order that seems to come from it. With this one I, I like how its pieces come from the advertisement section of the newspaper, a form of communication that seems outdated in relevance to our world and is given out for free and then trashed, or used for art projects :) . But how even useless a newspaper might seem important information in put inside hoping to be seen, such as the Missing article in the corner, placed strategically next to the Viagra advertisement. The final one below is the on I plan to use for my dots. I like it because as stated above it seems interesting enough yet subtle enough to not over power the dots.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

"My mind Deconstruct"- Modular Madness the beginning... Sensitivity

Compassionately controlling the forces we can control it essential in mind manipulating world of art. In other words being sensitive to the choices we make as artists strengthens our work, and message we are trying to convey. I guess it can be hard though, as being a young artist I myself am unsure of the motives of my pieces often until its the end... But no more I say I will not be a slave to poor judgments of ignorance of my motives. Forward I must go
in better understanding of power in choices.












These cups are not mind they are Jessica's but I was truly inspired by her building of the cups, so these are my altered versions of them. I wanted something epic that would draw you to piece in the first place but everything to be connected maybe like land. As I was doing this I had a cityscape in my mind but I believe now it represents land much better.

"Sordid Interpretations"- Thoughts on the Painting and the Quilt

So My Internet has decided to grace me with its compliance, and allow me to update and post.
And so for now I would like to talk about that dingy quilt and the homey painting. Now they really aren't that bad, and as we were asked to evaluate them with our senses I decided to write a poem on both pieces.The Painting
Yes Painting to the right,
with your huge and bright spotlight,
Illuminate your world at will,
Dark Shadows you cast,
with Impressions that last,
Your Maker does tell me,
so obvious but not so well,
seen through the canvas detail
ages since hidden
your back tells me secrets
but I cannot decode them

As for the quilt I couldn't get a good picture of it but I believe I got the sentiments from it much better

The Quilt
The first thing that I let drift across my eye,
Is that you seem to lie unfinished,
in that cornet there is but a snare,
Of a fabric the resides in tears,
Diagonally so,
with squares in multicolored rows,
Each telling a similar tale,
your age still undiscovered,
but its been years since you've covered,
a warm soul to spread that possible love

I wrote these in the time given to examine both pieces, and while I am not a Virginia Woolf in my writing, I guess in these I relied more on my sense of sight than anything else.


Wednesday, January 20, 2010

"Shreads of Shards of my Mind"- Text as Texture

So this happens to be the one I choose to use this one. I think its dynamic enough and not as so overpowering as the one with the giant dot. I really don't think I should alter it much. I Might just universially increase the size throughout. As for examples of some of the texture I might use for the newspaper, Here are some of the samples I came up with during class.

"And the Winner is...."- The final 4


I decided to take the opinions of other to heart ( something I do not do often), because I believe that If I am going to make a valuable statement with any work I do, other people will have to be able to get the message as clearly as I do. With that said these are the final 4 of my dots that were selected. With the first one, It was my personal second pic, but a favorite among everyone else, I decided to go along with this one because the size would work well with the final project should I choose to use it. My group suggested that I should increase the size in the small dot next to the gigantic one, But I know I intended for the smaller dot to be washed out by the larger one, so who knows what will happen. The one to the left is simple enough and still conveys the message best, this one was selected by the group and I prefer this one, most of my contiunace wasn't that well anyway. I believe a way I might alter this is by changing the size in one of the dots, but honestly I intended for the simplicity of size convey the concept easier. For closure, it seemed to be rather difficult for my group to pick one as it seemed they liked most of them. While I personally believe they all lie in suckage, they seem to create their own images in the dots I never intended, like a Rorschach Test. How I might improve this one is alter the proximity of the island dot. I quite honestly like this one as it is, my group picked it and although it was not my first choice it is growing on me, and it remains in my mind well, whatever that means...

Monday, January 18, 2010

"Close your Eyes Open your Mind"- a lesson on Closure

In order for closure to work you would have to impersonate and already known meme to the viewer's mind. Starting simply below, I didn't have specific objects or symbols in mind. I only had my knowledge from my past psychology classes to know that the mind naturally want to complete things, save for a few individuals like me who could have sketchbooks with incomplete everythings inside.


I'm starting to have less and less to say about these...








I think I will leave it to the viewers to decided what they think. A quote I heard from an art critique was "I am skeptical of art that has paragraphs of explanation, art is the non-verbal way to communicate." Now isn't that just contradicting for me?

"Why... just follow the path Alice"- a lesson in Continuance


This one of the more difficult ones for me to do, why? I hate giving people what they expect. Its in my bones to leave others with a sense of confusion to mull over to gain a better understanding of themselves. Where's the satisfaction of establishing a predictable pattern that the mind can follow. But believing however that it is important to do the things you don't like to grasp more about yourself as an artist, the significance of learning the contiunace properly is that you can manipulate the viewers mind path to achieve a sense of completion or not, this concept when used creatively can do both. To the right I followed a basic pattern but still wanted to dynamically increase the size for the following BANG! Maybe I should have done it bigger? To the left I kept on with the same idea, I wanted each sequential dot to be 20x the size of the preceding one, I absolutely loved it. Henry Flott not so much when he looked at it he remarked that he preferred a gradual change in size. I of course am not so much of a people pleaser, but I am glad to know that I am getting the mixed reviews. Next I went simple very simple, I wanted to see the effect of a simple pattern predictable. Or maybe? I intended a semicircle and to allow the mind to finish it but what one can see will depend on them now won't it? The last one? Well I just ran out of ideas really, but I still went with something I believed that people could follow and decided on their own what to do with it.

"Confirmation Conformation"- a lesson in Similarity


I believe something can be said about spatial reasoning with relation to size. I like to see things that don't make sense put together to explain a new reasoning in what it means to make sense of the patterns our brains put together. I wanted these dots to not have to much in common and if they did it was rather deliberate. I notice that my similarity won't look to different than my proximity probbably because my first and foremost goal was to create in each square not something that only adheres to concepts but something that stimulate my mind as well. In order to create a more dynamic composition you often have to fully utilize more that one principle, so I found it rather hard to stick to one at a time, and even when I was finished with one I would find that it could easily be interchangeable with other concepts i.e. the example to the left. While goal in this was actually lack of similarity I recall only two of the dots being the exact same in size but with the spatial composition the sizes between the smaller dots look the same even though they are not exact. To the right, a magnetic pull is what was my driving force as I did this one. I myself was wondering why is that dot all the way out there by itself? But I guess the question itself is much deeper than the possible answers to it. The next one seems rather simple to me yet I still do like the variation in size in the corner. The last one is an explanation to my facisnation with the slight deviation of what I might expect. I didn't want it centered, but not so far near the edge, I also didn't want that big dot floating in the middle ground in between. I wanted something new from the rest of the pieces, so I off centered it. Whether I was successful will be up to the viewer.

"Give Me Personal Space" a lesson in Proximity






So the first of this dot series is on Proximity, or in this case the location of an objects in relation to one another. I personally like this topic the best. In my opinion it allows for the most interesting composition in comparison to the other topics, maybe because in all good work the placement of certain objects is key, and determines where the viewers eye is going to move. In the one to the left I wanted to experiment with different dot shapes but focus more on the placement of them next to one another. It is decent they all seem to be in the center so that doesn't create to much drama, or not enough in my opinion, but it was one of the better ones mostly due to the dot size and not placement. The one to the right seems to be similar in style to the one above except this time I focused more on placement other than dot shape keeping them all in the medium range in size. I however like dynamic size change so I find this one more boring than the one above even though I believe it stays true to the proximity task better. The next one is my personal favorite it seems simple enough yet dramatic in the size and I wanted to achieve proximity with larger size dots, but given the 6'x6' square thats near if not impossible. I think with this one however explaining the proximity of something that doesn't even allow proximity was the goal. Almost contradicting itself with its size. Maybe like a huge ball in a box barely large enough to contain it.The last I believe might be the most successful at visually describing proximty. I thought at first the negative space to the right might have something to do with it. Quite honestly I cannot explain it to well, but what I can say is that I find it very powerful. Do you agree?

note ~ unfortunately the quality of lighting in my dormitory and camera are not all that great I apologize.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

I hate blogs.









So let me recap the first day of W.A.S.H, Newspapers and Cinder blocks. Well sounds like a Destination Imagination project from my youth. A tower Three feet, and able to withstand the force of a 40 pound or so cinder block. All of this to save the unfortunate astronauts who were lacking in some sorta rocket booster needed to get back to earth. Maybe I am devoid of any sympathetic altruistic streak because the first thought I had was "sucks for them".








But to the tower itself with the excuses of lack of resources, time, and education of engineering, I tried to accomplish something learning, and watching my own environment to grasp the lovely concept of a newspaper tower. Knowing from the start that I did not have enough paper to make the height requirement, I tried to understand how I alone was going to make this happen, I do not like to give up even if the task seems impossible. I picked one sturdiness over height, and saw that joining other groups was going to be a necessary tactic, one I believed to be cut off from option. To get to the point the base of the tower was not stable enough and in turn collapsed. Obvious result to me. The truth however which I saw quickly was not the tower itself but the thought process that lead to its birth. It is these abilities of quick logic to solve problems that is needed anywhere, even in art where some are lead to believe its just the misguided strokes of a brush.