After speaking to Jeff, I've got some ideas on my mind for my final.
feedback loops.
LCD in front of tv's or mirrors.
minerals. books on minerals. minerology.
how to make a fractal.
diptychs, triptychs.
making my own images/replacing the screen with my own hand:
shooting tinfoil
ice
broken glass
mirrors
cellophane -->material balloons are made of
Star filters for my lens...
INFINITY
FACETS
LCD when you point it at itself
ebay-broken video cameras/screens
FANTASIA-DISNEY
Disney World...the reproduction of other parts of the world, artificiality.
Synthetic world view..the idea that Disney can simulate and pre-package the rest of the world and present it in a theme park in order to make a profit.
Disney fantasty is always grounded in reality. The animations are always based loosely on real life with human beings as the lead roles. Fantasia strays from this...it's one of the more artistic Disney films, incredible imagery.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday post. 11.5.
I popped into Paul's office a few days ago, before my presentation because I hadn't met with him since my first meeting and he hadn't seen any of my recent work. We spoke about the images I showed in my midterm critique and to my relief he said he liked the concept and images better than my original idea! This was a huge relief! Paul had some great ideas with what I could do to further the concept, this included making my own images to show alongside the screen shots of LCDs and Planet Earth. This was a great idea, because it allows me to get more innovative with my shots and even create some sets, which I love doing! Anselm Reyle really comes to mind while I'm thinking about making this work because of his use of foil. The pvc foil he uses looks insanely crystalline when photographed from certain angles. Paul suggested continuing the illusions and photographing through something, such as a glass window. I think it's important for the work I set up and shoot to maintain dialogue with the other images I'm going to be showing...I want it to appear as if it could have been a shot from Planet Earth. These illusions are important to my work and the conceptual conversations I want my pieces to have with each other.
Thursday Post. 10.29.
I am interested in the way that staring into a screen gives people a sense of accomplishment and productivity. Specifically, the documentary Planet Earth, because it gives a viewer the illusion that they can travel around the globe without ever leaving home. Setting foot outside the door is no longer necessary, because the wilds of the world are now unfolding on your television screen. I have been playing the Planet Earth documentary on my computer and shooting it so that there are visible pixels and warped lines from the screen. The subtle additions that these elements add to the already abstracted images is my current aesthetic. These images are to read as commentary on human interaction with the image and the screen. We regard the screen as it's own entity more often than an object of our own creation.
The ways in which humans imitate and try to duplicate processes of the natural world also feed into my imagery. Specifically, in terms of crystalline structures. Crystals are fascinating because their molecular structures are so unique, but for years scientists have known how to create crystals and gemstones in labs around the world. Human beings are working to create alternatives to all living things. It's as if we are turning a cheek to the natural, because we can make it better. Nature left us a map, and we follow the roads, but we are constantly looking for short cuts.
For example, China has the worlds leading weather manipulation technology and scientists are currently working to create a resolution clearer than even the human eye.
The ways in which humans imitate and try to duplicate processes of the natural world also feed into my imagery. Specifically, in terms of crystalline structures. Crystals are fascinating because their molecular structures are so unique, but for years scientists have known how to create crystals and gemstones in labs around the world. Human beings are working to create alternatives to all living things. It's as if we are turning a cheek to the natural, because we can make it better. Nature left us a map, and we follow the roads, but we are constantly looking for short cuts.
For example, China has the worlds leading weather manipulation technology and scientists are currently working to create a resolution clearer than even the human eye.
Thursday Post. 10.22.
Day after mid term crit.
In my critique, I showed 25 different 4"x6" images. The images were split about 50/50 between Planet Earth stills and broken LCD screens. I love that I have been able to keep abstraction as a main focus in my project. This is also a way for me to explore color without being vibrant without a purpose. I plan on developing this project further by focusing on fractals and where they exist in nature as well as the way in which they are produced digitally. Crystals have been a big inspiration because they are so complex and yet scientists have been making them in labs for years. Another inspiration in making this work is the developing Weather Technology being produced in China. This technology is wild, men were literally shooting rockets of silver iodide into the clouds to prevent rain from interfering with the 2008 Olympics. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-29-china-rain_x.htm)
The way in which humans are duplicating nature is mind boggling. There is very little that human beings actually need to survive. Food, Water, Shelter. Greed and capitalism have pushed human beings to drive mother nature farther back. As a species we have lost touch with how things are made. Look around your living room, could you duplicate any of the objects in it? We exist in a world of digital communication, email, blogging, the majority of us have no respect for our planet.
I know I'm throwing out a lot of blanket statements that can't possibly apply to everyone on the earth, but in my work I am looking to explore the appeal of the show Planet Earth and why it makes it's viewers feel so much closer to nature, when in fact we never set foot outside of the living room.
Planet Earth is the only documentary that I have seen about the Earth without obvious human involvement. Typically the format is a rugged looking man jumping from rock to rock and teaching you how to safely drink urine if trapped out in the elements. Planet Earth shows the untouched parts of the planet in a way that makes the viewer feel as if they are personally communing with the scenery. In addition to my screen shots, I would like to show images that I shoot on my own...equally abstract and somewhat indistinguishable from the other images, except lacking pixels. Paul's idea was to shoot through window glass, with water drops on the surface. This comparison between real life and life that exists on the screen compared to moments that never truly existed, such as the broken LCD is what I've been thinking about. It's really overwhelming to dissect all of these elements at once, it's easier on my brain to think about it in pieces.
In my critique, I showed 25 different 4"x6" images. The images were split about 50/50 between Planet Earth stills and broken LCD screens. I love that I have been able to keep abstraction as a main focus in my project. This is also a way for me to explore color without being vibrant without a purpose. I plan on developing this project further by focusing on fractals and where they exist in nature as well as the way in which they are produced digitally. Crystals have been a big inspiration because they are so complex and yet scientists have been making them in labs for years. Another inspiration in making this work is the developing Weather Technology being produced in China. This technology is wild, men were literally shooting rockets of silver iodide into the clouds to prevent rain from interfering with the 2008 Olympics. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-29-china-rain_x.htm)
The way in which humans are duplicating nature is mind boggling. There is very little that human beings actually need to survive. Food, Water, Shelter. Greed and capitalism have pushed human beings to drive mother nature farther back. As a species we have lost touch with how things are made. Look around your living room, could you duplicate any of the objects in it? We exist in a world of digital communication, email, blogging, the majority of us have no respect for our planet.
I know I'm throwing out a lot of blanket statements that can't possibly apply to everyone on the earth, but in my work I am looking to explore the appeal of the show Planet Earth and why it makes it's viewers feel so much closer to nature, when in fact we never set foot outside of the living room.
Planet Earth is the only documentary that I have seen about the Earth without obvious human involvement. Typically the format is a rugged looking man jumping from rock to rock and teaching you how to safely drink urine if trapped out in the elements. Planet Earth shows the untouched parts of the planet in a way that makes the viewer feel as if they are personally communing with the scenery. In addition to my screen shots, I would like to show images that I shoot on my own...equally abstract and somewhat indistinguishable from the other images, except lacking pixels. Paul's idea was to shoot through window glass, with water drops on the surface. This comparison between real life and life that exists on the screen compared to moments that never truly existed, such as the broken LCD is what I've been thinking about. It's really overwhelming to dissect all of these elements at once, it's easier on my brain to think about it in pieces.
Thursday Post. 10.15.
I have been in Chicago, Illinois for the past 5 days and trying to think about my work has been difficult. This was a poorly timed trip, because so much work is due when i get back but it's hard to find my focus.
At this point, after talking with Jeff, I have been instructed to shoot more and move away from building for a moment. I was watching the popular television series Planet Earth, not expecting a concept to come to mind, but the beauty of what I saw on screen made me pause the show and just stare at what was on the screen. I was thinking to myself that I needed to have a still image of the moment. It was too beautiful to let it go, so I started shooting the documentary in all of the places I was compelled to pause it. This got me thinking about how taken I was by an image on a computer screen. I wasn't accomplishing anything at my computer, in fact I was probably procrastinating from my blog, but suddenly I felt productive and enlightened. The way I was shooting the show, still spoke to my abstract aesthetic and to the origin of the Earth. I felt almost guilty taking images from the documentary, but
It was at this time when my friend Ben, broke the LCD screen on his computer. The color display on the computer was amazing, because the screen broke into a series of vertical stripes and crystalline shapes. I asked him to let me shoot it before he took it in to get fixed. He obliged me and so I now had two separate series, one of the Earth through an LCD and one of a broken LCD. Strangely, the two sets seemed to complement each other. The vertical lines found through both repeated in the natural state as well as on the LCD. Also, I had images of crystals found far below the earth in caves and the crystalline looking structures in the LCD we're eerily similar. I was beginning to think that I was onto something.
At this point, after talking with Jeff, I have been instructed to shoot more and move away from building for a moment. I was watching the popular television series Planet Earth, not expecting a concept to come to mind, but the beauty of what I saw on screen made me pause the show and just stare at what was on the screen. I was thinking to myself that I needed to have a still image of the moment. It was too beautiful to let it go, so I started shooting the documentary in all of the places I was compelled to pause it. This got me thinking about how taken I was by an image on a computer screen. I wasn't accomplishing anything at my computer, in fact I was probably procrastinating from my blog, but suddenly I felt productive and enlightened. The way I was shooting the show, still spoke to my abstract aesthetic and to the origin of the Earth. I felt almost guilty taking images from the documentary, but
It was at this time when my friend Ben, broke the LCD screen on his computer. The color display on the computer was amazing, because the screen broke into a series of vertical stripes and crystalline shapes. I asked him to let me shoot it before he took it in to get fixed. He obliged me and so I now had two separate series, one of the Earth through an LCD and one of a broken LCD. Strangely, the two sets seemed to complement each other. The vertical lines found through both repeated in the natural state as well as on the LCD. Also, I had images of crystals found far below the earth in caves and the crystalline looking structures in the LCD we're eerily similar. I was beginning to think that I was onto something.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Thursday Post. 10.8.
SO. This is in response to my meeting with Jeff 10.7.09. Which I will write about later today, when I can post my images.
I need to stop. Stop trying to build weird stuff and start looking for colors in nature. That was Jeff's suggestion; finding the root of what I want to be shooting. This is going to be good for me, getting back to the camera, because I haven't been shooting a huge amount this semester, it's been more about trying to put things together, cohesively. In fact, all I desperately want to do right now, is get off the computer and start wandering around with my camera. Permission to do so? Granted.
Words that come to mind.
Compulsion.
Compelling.
Electricity.
Transference.
List-making.
Artificial.
I need to stop. Stop trying to build weird stuff and start looking for colors in nature. That was Jeff's suggestion; finding the root of what I want to be shooting. This is going to be good for me, getting back to the camera, because I haven't been shooting a huge amount this semester, it's been more about trying to put things together, cohesively. In fact, all I desperately want to do right now, is get off the computer and start wandering around with my camera. Permission to do so? Granted.
Words that come to mind.
Compulsion.
Compelling.
Electricity.
Transference.
List-making.
Artificial.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Thursday Post. 10.1.
So, I just wrote my idea blog for this Thursday and I continue to do this backwards, but this is my idea right now, but to apply to last weeks blog.
FIRE. So, I just rambled about water for a while in my previous entry and now it's time to talk about fire. I'm fascinated by what human beings are fascinated with. You follow? Pre-history is so good to me, I think that the early beginnings of human kind are some of the most interesting texts out there. What is in all of those texts? FIRE. Human beings are obsessed with fire. Even today, when electricity has overpowered everything and our senses have become dull and our bodies are soft, we can still sit around a fire and be completely captivated by it's beauty. Fire is timeless and treacherous and it stops for no one. Water can smother fire...that's interesting. Look at the fire/water thing I've got going on...
So I've been so curious about what my precious neons will look like underwater and now I'm dying to know what they will look like inside of a fire! Getting burned. The transition from bright to black. The ash/soot finale. The blazing beginning and middle. Fire would also give the piece the motion it needs to pop. The moment of the thing catching on fire...I can't wait! That's my idea for this week. I'm excited!
FIRE. So, I just rambled about water for a while in my previous entry and now it's time to talk about fire. I'm fascinated by what human beings are fascinated with. You follow? Pre-history is so good to me, I think that the early beginnings of human kind are some of the most interesting texts out there. What is in all of those texts? FIRE. Human beings are obsessed with fire. Even today, when electricity has overpowered everything and our senses have become dull and our bodies are soft, we can still sit around a fire and be completely captivated by it's beauty. Fire is timeless and treacherous and it stops for no one. Water can smother fire...that's interesting. Look at the fire/water thing I've got going on...
So I've been so curious about what my precious neons will look like underwater and now I'm dying to know what they will look like inside of a fire! Getting burned. The transition from bright to black. The ash/soot finale. The blazing beginning and middle. Fire would also give the piece the motion it needs to pop. The moment of the thing catching on fire...I can't wait! That's my idea for this week. I'm excited!
Thursday post. 9.24.
Happy October!
Todays word is movement. motion. What it is and how it is effecting my work and what I want to do with it and what I'm trying to prove by incorporating it into my artwork. How's that for a run on sentence? My use of motion in the past was me moving the piece in front of the camera to create a blur of color. Paul had said that I need to make the motion more relevant to what I'm making. I think Paul is exactly right. I want my piece to become more of a part of the nature, not just sit on top of it. I want to SUBMERGE my work in it's surroundings. Well, what I've been thinking about a lot is water. The way water moves, the way the Earth is made up of it, many creatures have their beginnings in water, humans are full of water, etc. Well, water moves. And the movement of water is one that has been around forever...people love hearing the ocean, the sound of a river, watching running water...all of these things have fascinated mankind forever. I want to try and shoot my work in the water...being moved by water. I want the motion caught on film to come from this primordial beginning. I think that makes my use of color more relevant as well. Who's to say that the Earth didn't erupt from a burst of neon colors? No one fully understands, except for scientists and maybe fundamentalist religious people who think they know...so I'm going to tell everyone. It was neon colors, under water. and FIRE. Ooh, fire.
Todays word is movement. motion. What it is and how it is effecting my work and what I want to do with it and what I'm trying to prove by incorporating it into my artwork. How's that for a run on sentence? My use of motion in the past was me moving the piece in front of the camera to create a blur of color. Paul had said that I need to make the motion more relevant to what I'm making. I think Paul is exactly right. I want my piece to become more of a part of the nature, not just sit on top of it. I want to SUBMERGE my work in it's surroundings. Well, what I've been thinking about a lot is water. The way water moves, the way the Earth is made up of it, many creatures have their beginnings in water, humans are full of water, etc. Well, water moves. And the movement of water is one that has been around forever...people love hearing the ocean, the sound of a river, watching running water...all of these things have fascinated mankind forever. I want to try and shoot my work in the water...being moved by water. I want the motion caught on film to come from this primordial beginning. I think that makes my use of color more relevant as well. Who's to say that the Earth didn't erupt from a burst of neon colors? No one fully understands, except for scientists and maybe fundamentalist religious people who think they know...so I'm going to tell everyone. It was neon colors, under water. and FIRE. Ooh, fire.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Just a Thought!
Paul and I had talked about movement and how that will effect my piece.
This is a good segue into next weeks word.
PLANES
TRAINS
AUTOMOBILES
RUNNING WATER-UNDERWATER
RIVERS.
BOATS.
RAFTS/CANOES/KAYAKS/FLOATING LOGS.
Some other words that I would like to include in my artwork in the future:
Hermit crabs.
dreams.
facets. as in the facets of crystals. multi-faceted.
I love brainstorming.
This is a good segue into next weeks word.
PLANES
TRAINS
AUTOMOBILES
RUNNING WATER-UNDERWATER
RIVERS.
BOATS.
RAFTS/CANOES/KAYAKS/FLOATING LOGS.
Some other words that I would like to include in my artwork in the future:
Hermit crabs.
dreams.
facets. as in the facets of crystals. multi-faceted.
I love brainstorming.
Thursday Post. 9.17.
Paint.
I'm going to pretend that this really is last Thursday and that I did the assignment on time, so if that was the case I wouldn't have had my meeting with Paul yet and I would still be thinking about paintings. So my word is PAINTING!
I'm so excited about making these 2D paintings! I think that the paintings are going to combine the color and theory of my Concepts project with the portability of a panel. I've been building my panels and gesso-ing and I think I'm in a really good place to get started. My doodles and drawings that I have been making are little illustrations of what I want to be painting in the long run. I'm a little bit nervous about how the paintings will transfer into photographs, because I don't want to lose the dimension that my other piece had, but I guess there is only one way to find out. I'm not sure if I want to begin by painting color stripes or if I want to dive in head first and create a free for all of geometry and color. I guess you'll have to wait and see!
I'm going to pretend that this really is last Thursday and that I did the assignment on time, so if that was the case I wouldn't have had my meeting with Paul yet and I would still be thinking about paintings. So my word is PAINTING!
I'm so excited about making these 2D paintings! I think that the paintings are going to combine the color and theory of my Concepts project with the portability of a panel. I've been building my panels and gesso-ing and I think I'm in a really good place to get started. My doodles and drawings that I have been making are little illustrations of what I want to be painting in the long run. I'm a little bit nervous about how the paintings will transfer into photographs, because I don't want to lose the dimension that my other piece had, but I guess there is only one way to find out. I'm not sure if I want to begin by painting color stripes or if I want to dive in head first and create a free for all of geometry and color. I guess you'll have to wait and see!
Thursday post. 9.10.
Thursdays word of the week is 'literal.' I touched on this word slightly when I was posting on the critique blog and now I want to touch on it more. LITERALLY. Puns aside, I have wanted my work to be more literal for over a year now. I started by cutting up my photos in Photoshop and moved on to sculpting those early images with wood, paint and nails. I placed that creation into an environment and photographed the effects of color on the surrounding areas. With Paul's help, I realized the disconnect between the object I made and the area around it. We decided that it would be a good step if my materials connected more with the locations. In this way I would be taking the things that I found, that were either discarded by humans, animals, or left naturally and appropriating them and them re-entering them into their environment in the form of sculpture and photograph. I want to make things that relate to the environment on a literal level. I want to take things out of the frame and add objects in and weave them in and out of the picture. I want to continue shooting long exposures because I love the movement and what it does to shape and color. I don't want to completely turn away from neon colors, so I want to add pieces of my own creation to the things that I find. Like holograms and shiny fabric maybe. I love holograms and I was super into the hologram effect that my last piece took on. Scale was another thing that I want to influence and change. INTERESTING! I'm thinking really small. Get ready for next week because I think that word will be MOVEMENT!
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