This is the plaster piece that I first created.

 This is the piece that responded to mine.This is the piece that I was responding to.This is my responding piece.

Visit to SAAM

The relationship between the space and the object, or rather the video, was very tense for me personally. I found myself in a perplexed state of mind deciding which screen to look at. At first I looked at one then turned my head to watch the other but the second time around I gave each video more time and it was a more peaceful feeling than changing my head from side to side. Though it was only easier that way because I had already watched it one time beforehand if I had done that in the beginning I would have been so confused. I think the artist did a great job using the space she was given to portray her videos, she really put the viewer in the piece as opposed to just showing a piece on the wall.

October 7, 2012

How would thinking about the person viewing your art piece help your art? Thinking about the person viewing your art can help you understand what you're doing good or bad in how you keep the viewers attention. For instance, having a too personal meaning behind a piece may confuse the reader but if it were a meaning that the general people could comprehend then that would keep more viewers attention at hand.

October 1, 2012

Last Thursday we had two art contestants from a Bravo show on TV and I found it very worth while getting to know another artist's perspective on how the connections you have can effect what kind of offers you could be presented in the future. As well as that I found their advice to be worth while as well. Such as when they had been talking about "cutting the fat", I completely agree that the environment we're in really effects what we create and cutting the fat would clear the air and our minds so we can focus on what we came to college to do, master our skills and make some money!

September 27, 2012

During the store fronts thing that we did last week I wrote about Perri Lynch's piece on the side of the wall. To me it was portraying different levels of elevation. It really put me in the piece when i realized that because the elevation I was at completed it. I like when the artist does something like that to incorporate the viewer into their piece.

September 16,2012

During Ruthie’s presentation, I was overwhelmed of how many different ways she chose to use her inspirations and intertwine them with her art pieces. Taking into consideration that most of the pieces that were shown to us were 3D figures, I thought she chose her materials very well concerning each different piece. The materials themselves were not only interesting in a way that caught your eye but they also developed deeper thought of how each piece came to be. Such as the “belly floor” piece made from tubes, the material itself really got me trying to think what she was thinking as she was making the piece. Along with the pieces were she collected objects and arranged them in order to create a harmonic piece. Looking through her drawings I found it fascinating that she utilized the sun’s presence in most of her pieces. I thought it was awesome how she’d use the natural light to light an object and trace its shadow to create drawings, I honestly would have never thought of that.

September 6, 2012

I got the privilege of going to The Henry Art Gallery for my first time today. Gary Hill’s pieces were very interesting, at first one of the video seemed like a flashing picture but as I continued watching it proved me wrong. For my Video Studio X class we were told to read a little bit of “New Media in Art” by Michael Rush, in the book it mentions time as a very important piece of video and Gary Hill’s pieces really portrayed its importance. Along with the flashing video I also got to see a video of Gary Hill that seemed to be of him tripping out, but what really got me was that the same video was playing on like 5 different screens except they were each playing at different times. During my creative writing class in high school I learned that repetition can show an importance in something, and for me the videos of him tripping out told me that there is no clear explanation as to what’s going on in the world because we’re all just trying to make sense of what we’re hearing but there is mass confusion because we’re trying to pay attention to so many things at once. Besides Gary Hill’s pieces I really enjoyed all the vinyl pieces that were around, especially the drawn pieces by Taiyo Kimura . It was awesome looking closely at each one mostly because of the idea behind each one, not that the drawings weren’t cool themselves. I’m really excited to know what else we’re going to be seeing in the future!