1/23/08

Today we had a guest speaker in class. I always love when we have guest speakers becuase it's always more interesting and much more inspiring. Mary had many different intrepretations of her work than I did. For most of her work I interpretted childhood- for some reason being scared of death reminds of me of a child. I guess I was scared alot as a kid- maybe her work scared me. She was very interested because she was talking aobut ghosts as though they were real. The afterlife is still something Im not sure of and it fastinates me to meet someone who does,

2/27/08

Wasn't in class today


Art in America June/June 2005
"Taiwan's New Bunker Museum"

This museum was founded by a artist we viewed in class recently, Cai Guo- Qiang. This museum he created is meant to represent the bunkers created for Kinmen to prevent invasion of Taiwan. Cai msut have been greatly affected by the wars going on. In the video I remember it said that he was a soldier. The museum have a very interesting interior, resembling mud on the walls, and very small windows. I can only imagine how being a soldier would afffect your artwork. He is most famous for his gun powder works- His work is alot like mine. He takes his personal experiences and shows them in different ways to the public.

Identity Project

For my Identity project I created a video. Someone that has had a profound effect on my life is my friend catherine. I met her in 7th grade and thought she was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I had just moved to a new middle school and was meeting all types of people and had never met anyone like her. She was just a badass- she had already done everything! I wanted to be just like her. So I started smoking, drinking, doing drugs, and having sex. Yes I was a bad kid- and at a really young age. But even though my lifestyle was unfavorable- it made me into who I am today, I never would have met some of the people I did, and learned life lessons so early. In my video, it begins with a picture of me under a blanket to represent me before I met catherine- I didnt really know who I was, and that why I was so drawn to her- So the blanket represents me before I met her. Thoughout the video Catherine offers me cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana. The white outs represents peer pressure and me giving in to it. -the whole video is a progression of how she affected my decisions in life and how it got to even doing illegal drugs. At the end of the video is a picture of me now (without the blanket), to represent how even though I did these things in my life it made me into who I am.

I basically went over to her house and filmed her in my perspective offering me these things. And edited the clips into a video all on iMovie.





This project I had many more illegal drugs in it- but I thought that the 3 that I chose were enough to convey my point. The others would give people the idea that it was a video about drugs- in which it wasnt - it was a video about how my life was changed through peer pressure, and I am not trying to blame my bad choices on anyone-My process was pretty simple and actually pretty fun! It was like filming things that we usually do (smoking and drinking) and not really acting what so ever- I just called her and asked if I could come over and if she had the materials- of course she does! It's weird how now I dont look up to her what so ever- its liek this girl that I was best freinds with is addicted to drugs and doesnt have any life goals- funny how people grow up, or dont....

2/22/08-Accumulation Project

This Wekk I went to Galax, VA. again to Bonaparte Antiques. There is a vendor there that always brings in jars of buttons they range from 5 dollars to 15 dollars becuasethe jars are valuable(Usually some sort of mason jar). I cannot wait to begin working on my picture with all these neat buttons.

2/15 Accumulation Commentary

This week it was Valentine's Day and my bf (who knows Im collected buttons) made me this button heart with a really cute poem to go with it- heres a lil snip it of the poem; ". Our love has traveled great distances and many buttons have taken their place. Now together they have formed a great bond and stand with passion and grace. This is Love. A dance of moments great and weak. A dance I love to have each day and every week. However let us not forget, there are many buttons in this world. So let us not stop now and let us gather more buttons forever more." But he figured I could use it in part of my project- not quite sure if I will use a heart image in my overrall piece but I will see as my vision for this project progresses.

2/8- Accumulation Commentary

So I finally figured out what Im going to do for my accumulation project. I am going to collect buttons- all sorts of buttons! This week I went to Galax,VA, home of many antique shops. And as I was looking around I found this awesome mason jar of buttons and I tohught to myself- I bet I could make something really neat with that!

2/4/08

Malena mentioned an artist residency in Greensboro called Elsewhere, which really excited me because Im from Greensboro. As I mentioned before I had never heard of an artist residency before this class. I looked it up and they have an exhibit going on that I am going to visit over spring break. But during class we discussed how identity changes thorugh history. I find that particularly interesting becasue now its so free to interpret who you are- and you will find someone that is like you- like for example, a goth in the 18th century- I dont think so, but now a days some people look up to that particular stereotype. For me I dont think I fit into a particular stereotype- maybe preppy- cuz of my clothes, but if you saw my freinds and got to know me, you wouldn't think I was preppy anymore.