Andy Goldsworthy Handout

Andy Goldsworthy is by far one of my favorite artists. I love that he works with nature and his compositions are always so beautiful. It is unique that he was chosen to do this Holocaust piece. And that he can represent this historic occurance with natural materials. Reading through the description of it all, I think personally I would need an explanation of it or else it would just be a piece that I would pass by and think...Oh, thats fun. What a great concept, I love that the piece grows increasingly important with time, and its creepy to think of the things in the piece killing each other in representation...who thinks like that?!? But then again, I guess nature and human life in itself works that way, feeding off of each other. Hes amazing.

Unofficial Manifesto

This lady makes some really interesting points and she makes them all sound very goodd. After all, arent they everything that a serious contemporary artist wants?!? But whats a bit confusing is her use of the term public art..what is public art anyways? Something seen everyday on the street, something in a gallery, something as insignificant as a piece of pottery in someones house?!? They are awesome goals for an artist, but lets face it...the public isnt going to see half of what the artist does in the piece. I especially like the one that says, "i am for a public art that doesnt pretend that everyones story is intrinsically interesting to everyone else." haha, thats so true. She is bold and humorous, I like her.

Final Thoughts

From beginning to end, I really struggled with this project. Not the actually collection of objects, but rather why I was collecting them....I suppose it was all just for fun, no deep significant meaning. I kept trying to change the direction that I was going, but it was all no good...In conclusion, this was the worst thing that I had to do all semester long. Why do I think this project was assigned?!? I personally think that it was a really good assignment, but that I just chose the wrong thing to do. It is important in a lot of art work to accumulate things. It could be the whole meaning to a piece, it gives you things to work with and could end up changing the piece throughout the whole process.

4.11.08

This is the last week that I will be documenting on these silly horoscopes...wooohoooo!! Honestly, I dont feel like I have accomplished anything with this type of accumulation except for a feeling of burden on having to find them, keep them, and try to document on them. At the end, i just ended up with a pile of different types of paper and the thought that it is just a waste of time. Where do they find all of the people to write them anyways and where do they get their information from?!? I'd like to know, maybe I can get a job...I've read enough of these over the last couple of weeks to know the drill.

4.4.08

This one for this week is mostly just a thought. Part of the reason that I was so interested in this is because of a friend that I had in high school. He truly believed in this kind of stuff and was so in to all of the astronomical things that went along with it that I couldn't even begin to understand..kinda cool. He always said that he was gonna do mine for me one day and I was really excited, he was in an accident and passed before he was able to. It was actually freaky at how he seemed to predict things...even his death which was an accident and definitely not his fault. After, it definitely made me question the realness in the whole subject...and if any of it was true, though I dont really know what "any of it" means. I hope you are following me on this.

3.28.08

Horoscopes are purely for entertainment, duh. I know that I have been so bored with this the whole time and quite honestly...it took all of the fun out of it and made it into a chore. I stopped even reading them and just started cutting. I went back the other day to them along with some old fortunes from cookies and read them. They make you feel good, I guess which day that the one I was reading could have came from and if that is actually how my day went. And those silly fortune cookies have the ability to lift your spirits a little bit....yes, I will have great success in life soon!!! Thanks cookie for the encouragement

3.21.08

So this past week, I started asking around to people about what they think of horoscopes and I got a couple of different responses. Most people just think that they are something fun to read, noone actually goes out of their way to find it though. However, I have noticed an increasing number of my friends on facebook who have added the horoscope application. Some people actually think that it is of the devil...haha. And it was also compared to fortune cookies, ouji boards, and magic 8 balls. I guess you basically get out of it what you want to and you just let it tell you whatever it is that you want to hear. That is what this whole thing is about, evoking an emotion.