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Non Representational Sculpture

I think this project so far was the cheapest one I have done. I didn't pay for anything I used in this project. I found that using natural objects from outside can make an out piece so much better. I used the rocks from outside the WASH building to make my non representational piece. At first I didn't know what to do, but as I began to look at these rocks I found them more and more interesting because of how they were shaped or what was one them. In some if you look closely you can see imprints of where sea shells used to be or fossilized sea shells that are now rocks. I decided that I was going to make a shape that showed off the way these rocks looked. Instead of making the shape straight I gave it curve to have more flair to it. Then i began placing the rocks to have the more interesting parts on them stand out and to where the bigger more stable rocks were at the bottom. Now Bill told me in class that my piece reminded him of a fort wall and told me to put tiny soldiers and all on it, but that is not what this piece was about. It was to show off the beauty and natural being of the rock. To have surprise after surprise in it. To make you look and keep looking, searching trying to find the next thing that I put in there. The piece of plywood under my project is very useful. I knew that I would be having to move this piece so I needed something very sturdy to hold my project. I had a choice to make whether to keep the wood at its' natural state or spray paint it black. I chose black to go against the white of the rocks. Now I think that both spray painted or being natural works for the piece. What I really wish I could have done and would still love to do is mount the piece on the wall, but I am not quite sure how to do that without my project falling to pieces. I also think in order to get a better view of it it shouldn't be hung up because it is meant for you to walk around it.

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Critique for Marks

Today we did critiques for our marks. My group was very helpful on one particular piece. They really liked the marks and the words, but told me to get rid of the spacing in between the words. I am going to take their advice and play with the words to see what I come up with. I was also told to use the words as lines to go with the small poster. not have them in a block because it takes away from the piece.

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Mark making at its best.

For our second project we had to create marks and come up with some very interesting yet new ways to make them. Not using your everyday ink or painting devices, we had to create a device that would work to make marks. Think inking was very interesting to me. I have never inked while holding something in my mouth and using that as the tool to make marks. I have also never used air or wind as the source of my tool. While making all these marks and using different tools I came up with the device that I would create to make marks. I started out by using just one simple fork in class, then that gave me the idea of using more then just one. While in class trying to put together four forks to make this device, I realized that just stringing them together was not a great solution. So then I thought about gluing them to something so that the forks can be drug across the paper better. I used the flat side of clothes pins for that. Then I was going through some of my stuff one day and I saw round foam in my art supplies and I thought I could use those for wheels and turn my forks into a car that makes marks. Much to my surprise the idea worked.

Now my quote is a lyric from a song. I got the idea of using white lines on black paper to match the quote. To me it seemed very proper in the sense that it matched it very well. As I went to make copies at the place I went to I found out that they could not help me transfer the copies of black paper with bleach on them over. So coming up with a new plan I chose 5 of my other designs and copied them.

To me, 50 copies seemed like a lot, but when I got around to putting the text on the pages I realized that we needed that many to come up with a great solution. In my approach I tried every angle and every possible place to have the quote before just settling on one particular place.

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Repetition Repetition Repetition

Artist: Robert Motherwell
Painting: Elegy to the Spanish Republic
Abstract Expressionism
I feel this piece is slightly more harmonious. It has a good flow through it. When I first saw this piece it looked very pattern like. It repeats not only thing but two. It made it seem more interesting to me because it has this break between each pattern where the other pattern is.

Omar Chacon
Untitled
 Acrylic on Archival cardboard
2005
This piece is in between harmony and chaos. There are so many bright colors that draw you in, but the colors can also work against the piece if done wrong. When I first saw this piece I saw the repetition in the way paint is done. it is the same way all across the board. The way the paint is going also makes you follow it like it is falling off the board. So you could always say it has closure along with movement/motion.

Minimalist

Sol Lewitt
Concrete blocks and mortor
1999
This piece I believe is very harmonious. It is very balanced out. It also looks very well thought out and very well placed. Like it was calculated to be just like that. This piece is so huge and stable. You can definitely tell it is repetitive just with the over use of concrete blocks stacked up. They are the exact same in size, shape and color.

Allan McCollum
Plaster Surrogates
1982/84
I believe it is balanced between harmony and chaos. It isn't working for each other but it also isn't working against each other. When I saw this picture I thought SQUARE project all over again. The good thing about this is how it is done. It is repeating the square shape, but in different sizes. So it's like it is done differently. Having the tiny squares in with this gives it extra. You actually have to look to see them. It is not like you are looking at the same square over and over again which can get very old.

Post Minimalist

Won Ju Lim
Blue 1
2003
35 Plexiglass pieces, 1 light box, and 5 flourescent lamps
I think this piece is very harmonious. It is not only repeating in color, but in how many things there are. It repeats the glass and the lamps. I think the light in the sculpture adds to this piece so much more. It allows you to see more of the glass then with out it. The piece really stood out to me just from the way it looks.

Richard Serra
Inverted House of Cards
1969
4 pieces of steel
It looks more on the the side of chaotic just because the way it is placed. it looks like it could fall at any moment. It is repeating the use of steel even though it is only four pieces. To me this piece doesn't really look like cards, but the way they are stacked is like how you could stack playing cards.

Ink Everywhere

Second project for 2d was has started. I like ink and trying new things with ink. This project is all about mark making with ink or paint. By the end of this project we have to have 50 sketches, a poster with a phrase on it, a tool for mark making. I have done my 50 sketches. I have also come up with a quote: We're only chalk lines on the concrete. This is from a song. Now the tool making is going to be a little more difficult then the whole ink process. I am not sure what to build yet.

Performances

For 3D wash class we had three assignments that required us to do performances. I can say I am not the person to get up in front of people and do anything. I am frightened of even speaking in front of people. Doing this project took a lot of time and practice. The first one was our own uncomfortable video. This video made everyone uncomfortable doing it, not making someone else that way. I truly do not believe any one wanted to do this project for the simple fact that they didn't want anyone to watch their video because they would get embarrassed. I think by the end I got over it. I had fun with it. Mine was a story about how I almost got hit by a car.

Second project was the uncomfortable video. This one had to make the audience uncomfortable. This one was a little easier. Many different things bother people. Things like showing your food while eating, throwing up, going to the bathroom, etc. Mine was me pretending to throw up a shake I was engulfing. I must say BRAIN FREEZE. I did not actually throw anything up. I held the shake in my mouth, ran to the bathroom and spit it out then made the gesture of throwing up and poured water into the toilet to make it actually look like i was throwing up all the shake a just ate. My friend videoed it and he had a blast.

Third project was to get up in front of everyone and do a live performance. I can say that was very hard to do. I helped out with Hunter's project on Wednesday. Then on Friday it was my turn to go. Nervous does not describe how I felt. I got out there and did my performance. My prop was my MP3 player and my word was distraction. Now for all of you reading I actually did not pay any attention to the noise outside. I drowned every thing out once i sat down. I never knew that stuff was going on outside until Bill pointed it out. Now the faces and the gestures part of it. I guess i got lucky that day with the noises.

Circle Critique

When we got critiqued some of us had to change groups so we could get better feedback. I honestly think this helped us. We actually talked better, well at least in the group i joined. My project was the first to be critiqued. A little nerve racked, I listened to what my group said. Most of it was good. Some of the feedback i got was: just clean up the edges, make circles more round, clean up my book. Other then that the group loved the way my project contrasted itself with the way the circles went one way and the text went the other.