01/09/07

During the discussion of the course syllabus my creative opened up for the first time in a while. It reminded me of how much fun and inventive art can be. I took 3 studio art classes at Virginia Tech and all of them were surrounded by so much pressure and guidance and not a lot of free projects like this class has. I havent been given this much freedom on projects since high school which is where I really grew in my artistic abilities. As you were discussing some of the examples of crazy projects some students did like working with the human body, my first thoughts were how cool body painting could be a how neat photograph would turn out, and then how much my rooomates would hate me and think I was weird for doing something like that! I also thought of a discussion with my professor in which he mentioned an artist that did ice sculpting and self portraits and used his own blood(that was frozen) for a sculture of his head. Also it when u were talking about how the internet is a good tool to put youself out there, I thought about how I am always on the internet and I never look up artists and how many awesome interesting inspirations are probably out there. I am glad we have a text book that are about artists that are still living! So many Ive had dont have current artists in it and I am excited to do the reading. The projects kinda scared me though just because it involves so much thinking, and I totally agree with you when you said it was hard to make your vision for something actual come out what you want it to look like. The accumulation project made me think about my uncle who always collects junk- and doesnt do anything with it. I liked the examples I really liked the opinion ones becasue that is thinking outside the box and thats omething I really admire. The material invention expeiment is super confusing like I am not sure how to transform so many objects it will definately be a thinker! I have no idea wat my objects wil be and how I will compose them!