I think that was a good time to look back and look forward for both me being able to get through this semester as well as being to improve on my art by opening up to new styles and adapting to putting more color within my works that have ink and graphite. Performance Art has really worked well with me and I’m glad to have taken a part in doing performance pieces in 2 classes in one year! I enjoyed this class a lot more than I thought I would and the best thing about was the freedom of our abilities. I hope encounter more classes like this in the future of my work.
For my final piece of work in class I wanted to share all of my best pieces from various art classes including this 4D class.
I don’t think I’ve ever thought that my art would go anywhere else than just a drawing and I never wanted to paint when making art because I always thought that I was terrible painting or anything that proceeds forward of color that isn’t black and white of graphite and ink.
I’m very proud of my improvement because overall it tells me that my range of abilities is continuously growing and that I’m becoming better at what I am interested in. Almost as if it’s a checkpoint of my overall goal for future.
In devising this piece, I kept thinking about the concept of crossing over. I constantly hear “Remember to look both ways!” in the back of my mind every time I encounter a street crossing. I think it’s a remnant from when I was a kid learning to ride a bike.
Sometimes, even if you look both ways, something bad still happens. Sometimes, you won’t look both ways and nothing will happen. Sometimes you’re on the sidewalk when your life changes…sometimes you find yourself in the middle for the street. All we can do is look both ways and hope for the best. I wanted to convey that tension in my slow deliberate head movements. I wanted to unsettle the viewer and make them uncomfortable with me in the middle of the street - poised as though I’m ready to spring into motion - but remaining absolutely still except for my change of focus.
In this piece, I am wearing the clothes I would normally wear running (when I cross many streets). The actual action of the piece was slightly longer than one minute, but this is the condensed version.
The idea for this project came to me sporadically. I had just ordered $50 worth of takeout food for myself and on my drive home I envisioned a low lit room with faint tv noises and the emphasis of food. When I began recording it felt right to indulge, so I did. I enjoy this video and it makes me slightly uncomfortable
I wanted to convey the reality of time and how much it means to us all while at the same time putting an aspect of somewhat fear or concern how much we have left. It comes and go very quickly and I don’t think people stop to think how much time they have left to live especially at this age. Most people will call off anything just to do the next time when in reality it’s a tomorrow you problem and that’s when it hurts you the most. Those of us who are aware and try to keep track, try to do our best to spread around enough time throughout our day to do multiple things whether it’s with friends or family or something personal for yourself as you come to honk it’s earned. Whatever it may be, time is a gift that given to us at the responsibility of how we choose to use it when it means the most.
My goal was to contrast these very painterly scenes against something that is trying to more closely resemble reality. I wanted to embrace the ideas of dreaming and anxiety and how they interact with one another. I wanted to focus on these instances of creativity as sparks throughout the day, remnants of dreams, as the contrast with reality.
I went back and forth between a couple of ideas for this assignment. I was interested in exploring the evolution of someone or something over an extended period of time. I decided to go with Akira Kurosawa’s use of weather throughout his films. It’s present in every single one of the films and something he continually developed over his 50-year career. Turning it into a sort of trademark of his. Such uses include adding dynamic motion, enhancing the atmosphere, or even reflecting the moods of his characters. Giving him a unique style that no one has come close to mimicking.
In my cut I wanted to put together a collection of clips that each including that piece of media’s ending for the praise in which it received. I enjoyed doing this kind of project, because it’s letting us get loose with our creativity and see where it takes us with what we see, what we already know, and what we can do / create. Just as what’s needed or what’s supposed to happen. I liked this idea of mine because I can put so many different emotions of endings into one which I feel has combined to the result of the feelings of joy, pain, laughter, and hope. The characters that applied to endings attached to many people as I was doing my research of what to be added as there was only so much time of what to be used. Many other concepts and movies I were so close to being added, but I felt that this captured the emotions that I wanted to present as well as wanted the audience to feel. I hope we can work on a project like this again l, as well as pick up on sharing these projects more often with those who are interested.
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