4.28.08

Last Class WooHoooooo!!!!! Sorry Malena, but I love summer. I am feeling really behind on everything at this point in the semester and I am realllllly stressed out. I was up all night changing my mind on things that I wanted to do for this project that was due at 2...bad, i know. But I figured it out and worked most of the night. I didn't even get to present...oh the irony, but it was ok really. I hope I scored some brownie points however, haha. See everyone for finals!!!!

4.21.08

We were starting presentations today for our site-specific pieces. Haha, half of the class didn't show up. It is afterall, crunch time and everyone (myself included) is incredibly busy and just didn't get around to finish it. We made tallies on the board. :) The people that did go really stepped it up on this one I think. Ray always makes me wanna hide...she does such a good job on everything.

4.21.08

Wow, now these were photos that a student doesn't expect to walk in and see on the screen. But they were funny. I am not the most timid person and sexuality humors me instead of making me uncomfortable. As a photographer, I tend to look at all the elements of the photo instead of just the content and I found them quite lovely. Controversial type photos such as these are really my favorite. I think that the human body (in all of its different composures) to be a beautiful thing. Its such a shame the way that the body is viewed in our society these days... everyone is too fat, too thin, too this and too that, it is sickening...However so easy to fall into this, I have....but only about myself, sad.

4.16.08

Oh, Barbara....Interesting little lady. Very accomplished, but I wouldn't have gathered that upon meeting her. Its a relief to see and artist who can make it without the work being super neat and precise...like an academic style of painting. I like all of her tiny little drawings, very witty. Also very tedious...I would have trouble painting so small and in such bulk. I love it when you can sneak adult humor into childlike scenarios. I really need to remember to subscribe to her list serve...maybe I can find an internship or something.

4.9.08

Go Will....it is so encouraging to a student artist like myself to be able to go out in the surrounding community and see others who are not much different than myself in goals, circumstances, and age to be even somewhat accomplished. I thought his paintings were great and I loved that they were all in a similar style. That is one problem with my own work...I don't have anything that I could put into a collection because everything seems to kind of be all over the place. Coming from a really artistic atmosphere (asheville) to charlotte is kind of a downer for art. He kind of got my hopes up a little more and hopefully I will gain the inspiration to continue practicing when I graduate, even if I am not working in it.

4.14.08

Andy Goldsworthy!! His works are just so beautiful...I'd love to meet this guy and just have a conversation, I bet he has so many brilliant things to say. I love works in nature and I wish that I could venture more into that area. They are simple, natural, and oddly balanced with the surroundings. Unlike him, he discussed Christo and Jeanne Claude. With the umbrellas and everything else, I don't think I could do something so monumetal in size. It is really amazing how these things can be accomplished, especially in public spaces. This may be really silly but I think I would either worry that noone would notice it or that it would interrupt the daily lives of people. Guess I won't be doing any of those cool fabric pieces.

4.7.08

I presented today. I feel like I've had this project over my head for weeks so it was a real relief to get rid of it. I am surprised that the class always seems to find some sort of positive in everyone elses work...its really encouraging. Even when Im embarassed to present something, afterwards i dont feel quite so bad about it. I had trouble with this and it always seems that my work is just so crafty, its annoying. Im not quite sure that im capable of installations and things of that sort, or at least not yet in my artistic endeavors. I dont think that I did the best job ever but now I dont have to think about it anymore, yay.

4.2.08

Today we started looking at the time-based projects. I must say that they weren't quite what I had expected to see. For some reason, the quality of work from others is always a little less than I would have thought. However, Im not complaining because then it makes me feel not so bad about my own shitty work. I did thoroughly enjoy Sheldon's piece on the swing. It was so simple and relatable..It just kind of felt sweet. Nicely done. It makes me jealous that I'm too technologically challenged to make a decent video.

3.19.08

Brainstorming in Ritazza today for the time project...just how much brainstorming got accomplished, I don't really know. I left feeling just as hopeless as I did before, but it was ok because I am sure that everyone else was feeling the exact same way. I don't know why I am having such a hard time thinking of anything creative to do. I had an idea to do something really silly and funny but I'm pretty sure that got shot down rather quickly. I am stressed out I think. On the bright side...I got free coffee!!! :)

3.17.08

McColl Center again today. The young blonde girl that works in there is really nice, I wonder how much money she makes...haha. Fantasmagoria....interesting to say the least. Although the "smoke and mirrors" chair about choked me out, I find the concept of the whole exhibit really excited. It has a way of making me feel kind of like a kid again. I especially enjoyed the mirrors that you blew on. The piece on the wall that made noises upstairs.....I wanted to shoot myself in the face! I don't know how people listen to that crap all day long. It's fun for a minute but then... Cute little museum, I enjoy it every time.

3.10.08

Wow, Theo Jansen almost scares the crap out of me. His pieces are so lifelike and technologically saavy. It is hard for me to grasp concepts like that, I guess maybe I am just not that type of artist. I find the stamina of these things so interesting...I would be washed away much sooner than they would. The things that humans have learned to do using technology is beyond me...although it is just considered art, I kind of wonder just how far it will go?!?

Its on the way Malena....I prooooomise!!!!!

Site Specific- Rowe

For my site specific project, I decided to make a "spider" web. From artists to children's stories, they have been used to relay messages. These messages can be political, emotional, poetic, etc. Having what seems to be a creative block at the moment, I had a really hard time thinking of something to do. And once I decided on the web, I still had difficulties thinking of what to say in it. It is the end of the semester however and at this point I feel like theres not too much to lose so I might as well suck up. Malena joked about wanting a raise while we were doing evaluations so...why not advertise it, the extra input can't hurt. I wrote "Give Malena a raise." Enough said. I did it in very subtle colors that blend, but when you're close enough you can see the bits of gold that spell out the words. This took much longer to make than I thought, so in theory...I would make many of these and post them up all over the Rowe building because the students and faculty in that particular building would know who I was talking about.
Web of Persuasion
2'x2'
100% cotton twine

Time Project

GOSSIP GIRLS
I took a spin off of the popular game TELEPHONE to show how fast that news travels and how quickly the information can get mixed up. We all know the all to true cliche of how girls are so very gossipy...I chose to comment on a rumor that I recently heard about myself this semester, and I have to say that I was surprisingly intrigued and humored. I took electrical tape to represent the phone cord and connected it to photos of girls on their cell phones, connecting their conversations. I heard this rumor from 6 different girls so there are 6 different comments posted on the doors.
Gossip Girls
3'x18' (flat objects strung on flat surface)
mixed media

http://www.clichesite.com/category_results.asp?which=time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers