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Brainstorm Blog 1
​​For the Zine Project 1 I plan to create a zine that describes a day in my life. It will display my passions in fiber arts, music, and reptiles. I also plan on describing some of the struggles I go through daily with anxiety and chronic illness. As inspiration for this project I will be drawing upon vintage 90's grunge images, pictures of my bearded dragon, images of nature and the mountains. I also plan on using photoshop to play with the vibrancy of photographs as well as make some photographs appear vintage for the desired grunge effect. I also plan to have images that depict the process of creating fiber arts (knitting, and crochet). I don’t plan on using many words but I do have a few favorite song lyrics or lines of poetry I might add to the collages. I also want to play around with texture in my collages, especially since different fiber creates texture as well as reptile scales. I don’t want the focus of my zine to be on people but rather the relationship between people, nature and animals. Most of all I want my zine to accurately represent my life and personality.
Pictured above is a collage handmade by me, a picture of my bearded dragon and some pictures I took back in 2012 on a hike in New Hampshire with an old disposable camera
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Reading Blog 1
The article "The Most Expensive GIF of All Time' Is Being Sold for $5,800" by Megan Garber discusses a GIF or electronic moving image that repeats every few seconds. This specific GIF is an image created by artist Michael Green of a balloon dog deflating which is a nod to the artist Jeff Koons large sculpture of a balloon dog which sold for 58.4 million dollars in 1994. The original balloon dog sculpture was very controversial and labelled as "not real art" by some who think he was copying a common American childhood image. The message Green is trying to say through his GIF is that the market for giant sculptures like Koons is deflated or over and the new trend will be buying internet images or GIFS. This article was published 7 years before the current NFT craze and accurately predicted the art trends. The evolution from sculpture to digital art in the time span of 20 years shows how much technology has evolved and how the art world followed along with evolving technologies needs. Adaptation is an important skill in life, especially in an era with rapidly changing technology. It's nice to see that artists can adapt and move along with the technological changes the era brings. I'm eager to learn more about digital art and adapt to the changing times as well. I know the skills I learn in this class will be valuable in my future careers as well as help visualize my future ideas.
Zine Project
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Zine Artist Statement
The Zine Project Entropic Tendencies is inspired by the chaos of my life as well as the things I enjoy outside of art that inspire me. The style is colorful, overwhelming and surreal. I love creating subtle and not so subtle surreal images examples are the subtle overly long and swirly tail of the sleeping dragon to the more over dramatic scenes of a lizard taking a bite out of a mountain range and a teddy bear fighting off another using it's laser eye beams. The images might seem goofy but I especially want the images of the lizards acting fierce to be goofy because many people view bearded dragons, reptiles and other unconventional pets as dangerous and harmful and I want to prove how untrue that is through my pieces. The image of the two stuffed animals fighting is based on two characters: Rilakkuma and Cinnamoroll. They are significant to me because I used to own a huge Rilakkuma collection, and enjoyed the simple yet almost creepy aspect to teddy bears (especially Rilakkumas because they have a secret zipper in their backs hinting that they are something else disguising as a bear). I enjoy bringing out this creepy or mysterious aspect of the bears by telling stories of them through images. Lastly my Nirvana piece represents a big part of my life. In high school when I first started dealing with a chronic health condition I was depressed and even a bit suicidal. One of my only joys was making art while listening to grunge music, Nirvana being my favorite. The image of the circles of hell kind of represents how music helped me escape my own personal hell. Though these images seem like they have no correlation they each tell their own story they impact my life, thus representing the title Entropic Tendencies.
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Brainstorm Blog #2
For Project 2 I plan to create a piece of audio that utilises sounds from nature as well as voiceovers of poems/quotes to make the listener contemplate their humanity/existence as well as what they are listening to. I am inspired by nature in most of my art and would like listeners to contemplate their relationship to nature in the piece. The one emotion I want to evoke with the piece is fear and confusion. The fear and confusion comes from recognizing our humanity and accepting the many unknowns that come with living. I would like to use the softer and more quieter sounds of nature that we don't notice compared to the louder noises in our everyday life such as the wind, bird noises, scampering and movement of small animals, rustling of tree branches, dripping of water etc. The piece should also show the passage of time and frailty in nature and how nothing lasts forever. I consider the song "Time" by Pink Floyd as an inspiration for this piece. Especially since they used everyday sounds like the ticking of clocks at the beginning of their sound to get their point across as well as create suspense.
Reading Blog #2
The Article "Searching for Silence" by Alex Ross discusses the muscial piece "4'33" by John Cage. The piece itself is a conceptual "silent" piece that causes the listener to observe the sounds around them. The piece was performed on a Woodstock stage multiple times by Cage and others, each time making listeners aware of their natural arboreal surroundings which can be referred to as "the music of the forest". It is said that pieces such as Cage's "blur the boundaries between art and life". In my opinion pieces such as Cage's show that there are no boundaries between art and life. We are art and so is nature, by paying attention to small inconsequential things we may find joy in life as we find joy in art. Still people dismiss Cage's piece as a joke. Other music artists notes that there is a significant difference between the musical art forms and other art forms. I feel like unlike visual arts which transitioned slowly over time from a skillful nature to a conceptual nature, Musical arts never transitioned away from being skill and aesthetic based. Still many years after Cages death, we as a society still haven't transitioned from following the strict rules of the musical arts such as beats, keys, time signatures etc. To truly view music as a conceptual art form these rules must be discarded and sound must be used to convey a meaning that is not clouded over by the aesthetic order of the sounds. This new form of musical art cannot come into existence in our world until society readily accepts it, and all transitions take some time, perhaps Cage was too early and we as a society must grow before we are ready to accept it.
Exquisite Corpse Project
Artist Statement
In Project 2: The Exquisite Corpse Soundtrack I used a variety of sounds layered together as well as the echo and reverb effects to create a tone of intense drama, fear and confusion. This effect was further heightened by the intense sound contrast I used (Which could have been a bit softer, but it's really hard to predict how it will sound on a big speaker when listening to the piece on your small computer speakers where everything doesn't sound that loud). I want to use the tones of intensity, drama, fear and confusion to show how it is for us to contemplate our own mortality and existence. I was inspired by music that has a philosophical approach and includes deeper quotes in the background of instrumental music. I used sounds that have meaning to me or sounds in my everyday life such as typing, knitting car noises, me playing the violin etc, and distorted them increasing the volumes, and adding reverb and echo effects. I also used clipped parts of songs from dramatic parts of anime I watched to enhance drama, while further muddling the sound by overlapping the clips and adding echo effects. I also added two quotes about death in the piece one about how death smiles at us and all we can do is smile back and the other about how life is all about fighting and when we stop fighting we die. Overall the piece has four parts or movements the 1st being the suspense builder, the suspense is carried along with the violin movement, then it relaxes in the everyday sounds movement which also has the quotes in it, ending with more dramatic music and the sound of a ticking clock getting faster and repeating over and over to symbolize the passage of time in our lives.
Project 3 Brainstorm Blog
For project 3 I plan on using my bearded dragon Jojo as a film subject and inspiration for the animation. My idea for the project is Jojo's daydreams. I will film Jojo going to sleep and waking up, and in the middle I will animate Jojo's daydream. It will consist of Jojo escaping her tank when she's home alone and doing silly things such as watching tv, raiding the fridge, trying on my clothes/playing with my stuff, and going outside and fighting squirrels and house cats. Jojo wakes up and is disappointed that she was only dreaming. I want to use a goofy comic style for my animation with colorful childish colors to make everything appear cute and childish like Jojo. I think It will be really fun to do an anime of Jojo since she's really important to me and a big part of my life as well as I love drawing cute things in a cute unrealistic style.
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Project 3
For Project 3 I chose to tell a goofy tale about what my pet Bearded Dragon dreams about. In the dreams I choose subjects that I thought would bring out Jojo's sassy and outgoing personality and devilish side with the witch and hell scape scenes. I know doing a project on Jojo would allow me to be playful and funny as well as bring out my imagination. I hoped to show the varieties of moods Jojo can be in from peaceful, lazy, calm, to silly, cute, sweet to sassy, grumpy and spiteful. Bearded dragons are smart animals with amazing personalities and I'd like to use this project to display that (of course in an over exaggerated form). Jojo is very special to me as she is the first pet I have had and she has helped calm me during mental health struggles as well as comfort me while enduring pain from chronic illness. Some people find reptiles scary, gross and or dumb, and I would like to show the world the impact reptiles have on the world and their amazing personalities.
Brainstorm Blog Project 4
For Project 4 choose your own Web Adventure I have a few ideas on projects. First Idea is just kind of a crazy, psychedelic-like experience. I plan to include little words and what words I include don't make sense grammatically or literally. I want to include things I like such as bearded dragons, music, books etc. and have people choose between them and that leads to different portals or places and none of it will make any sense whatsoever. I want the viewers to be confused with some bits of comedy, I want the experience to be existential and a little nihilistic and very overwhelming. Another Idea is based on the "My Body" website idea except instead of it being my body I want it to be the anatomy of a bearded dragon. None of it will be scientific or correct it will be using words like salad rejection claws, or poop swisher (to describe the tail of a bearded dragon). When they click on the part of the body they will be led to a page that describes how bearded dragons use that part of their body in a comedic way. It would also be cool to make some goofy bearded dragon gifs with my bearded dragon Jojo.
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Reading Blog #3
The term "Net Art" is relatively new coined in 1995 by a Slovenian artist. The definition of Net Art is online art discourse such as websites, links, emails, and exchanges that make up more of an experience than just an image or text. Net Artists took advantage and showcased unique aspects of the internet in their art such as its immediacy and in-material nature. Many Net art groups formed on the internet with email lists. Their was also political messages behind net art with many changes occurring in Europe at the time. An example of internet art is on created by British "Artivist" Heath Bunting. He created a webpage full of numbers of phone booths in King's Cross Train Station that when they call will receive music. This type of art is very sweet and uplifting and adds a bit of mystery and happiness to people's daily lives. The internet was also a good place for alternative publications though little money was made from these. These people were motivated by enthusiasm and the new, large audience who desired their works. Everything on the internet moves at a quicker pace websites gain popularity and die quickly. Another web project is My Boyfriend Came Back from War, where people submitted pictures of their web browsers which held their backgrounds and different hints of their personality and is surprisingly deep looking at all the different personalities and secrets of strangers. Internet art is and was full of interesting experiments from examining society, politics and people to trying to lift our spirits.
