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newphotographical · 3 years
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Your photos were very nice! I liked how whimsical they looked, and the planets in the distance really gave the project a "sci-fi" feel! The pictures looked like something I may see on the cover of a book! One thing that I think could improve your project is if the skies were clear in the images that you took, or if the planets were peaking out from behind the clouds. Other than that, I thought the photos you took of the landscapes were good! My favorite is the second one. The tower(? not sure what those are called) on the left and the planets on the right really balance the image.
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Final portfolio Project
For the surrealism prompt I edited in planets into regular landscape photos that I took. I got the inspiration from Star Wars were the planets would have multiple moons or other planets in the background of shots. I thought taking this idea and using it with our mundane world would be interesting. It hits the surrealist aspect but it also has a science fiction vibe to it that I enjoy.
This was also a cool way to practice some photoshop skills. For the planets I had to use layer masks and adjust the effects to make it as close to realistic as possible. I probably would have gotten better results if the sky was more clear during the day I decided to take the photos. Having this many clouds messes with the effect a bit but it still turned out how I envisioned it. Overall, I am happy with how this project turned out and I hope you guys enjoyed my take on this surrealism project.
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Your pieces really stood out to me! I loved the repeating imagery of the clocks in every photo, it gave the pieces a very dreamy feeling. I don't know why, but the lighting and contrast of the photos also reminded me of the dark fantasy genre. And while I don't think this was on purpose, I liked how as you looked through the pieces, the lighting became brighter and the color pallette became more warm. If there was one thing that I think could improve your pieces, it would be in the first piece. There is a blurry spot in the middle right under the clock image that pulls focus away from the subject. If you cropped the image to where only half of that spot is showing, I think it would really improve it! Overall, I really liked your project! Both the theme and the images!
Final Portfolio
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Artist Statement - 
For my final project I have created a series of photos that represent mood through a progression in contrast and value. In these images I also composited clocks hidden in each picture. This overall project represents how someone’s mood can change if you just give it time. Whether that is depression or a temporary mood, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel if time is taken into consideration. The first image consists of a dream catcher next to a bouquet of dead flowers. This represents a dying dream. This is the darkest and coldest image of the group. Next is a red chair in a dark room. Some color is introduced. We then have a flower bed with more color progressing. The last image consists of a colorful beach theme which gives happy vacation vibes.
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I found your portraits to be very lovely! The connection between you and your plants both physically(in the photos) and emotionally really gave your project a bigger impact. The contrast between the desaturated image and the colored plants really made them pop out, and the texture of the monstera leaf on your skin gave the images a nice flow to them as they wrap around you body! My favorite one of these four was the last one where the succulent is popping out of your wrist. I thought the effect was really well done! One thing that I think would enhance your work would be to give it a little more variety, such as changing the placement of the dots in your background or to make the difference between your poses be even bigger! Great work though!
Final Portfolio & Artistic Statement
Final Portfolio
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Artistic Statement
My work is a series of four surreal portraits showing the connection between indoor plants and humans. I got the inspiration from my healthy interest – growing and nurturing indoor plants. Since the beginning of the pandemic, most of us have spent most of our time indoors. Hence, it would be a great idea to get some indoor plants and enjoy the benefits that they offer. They can be seen in the way that the beautiful curve of a tendril inspires art or is the source of numerous mental and physical health benefits. I use portraits to represent the idea because I consider the plants as important parts of my inner thought and body: Philodendron in my arm; Snake plant in my heart, Succulent in my bone, and Asplenium in my cheek. Moreover, I also want to show that Monstera appears in each of my muscle cells, so I add the leaf’s texture to my skin. I turned myself into a plant woman to examine the plant-human relationship.
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Your photos were very beautiful! By making your subjects your son and your cat, two things that you clearly love, it gave the pieces so much more meaning. I especially liked the first and second piece; the one where you are holding lights that tiny versions of your cats are sitting in, and the one second one with the hands. The lighting is really well done, especially in the first one where the contrast highloghts the cats in the light bulbs. I also liked the last piece with the cloud cats! If I had to point out something that could be improved, is that maybe the cat with the luna moth wings was a little out of place, but even that is getting a little nitpicky! Overall, I think your project was really well done and meaningful!
Redo of the Final Project
I had to make some changes to 2 of my final images since they were not as consistent with the theme. Here is a redo, so I hope you guys like it :)
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Yekaterina Grebennikova
ARTS 3379, Loving
July 31, 2021
                                            Artist Statement
My art is a window that allows the audience to look into reality. Some of the windows are curtained, some are bare. Some have spidery cracks that causes discomfort to the viewer. Others serve to refract light and create colorful reflections that create joy. In these dualities, particularly those of conscious and subconscious-mind and symbolism, allow me to create images that can be interpreted to have multiple meanings and to cause diverse emotions. The mind, conscious and subconscious, can influence the audience’s perception of an image; the process motivates me to build duality in my works.
One of my biggest art influences is Frida Kahlo. Her works deal with duality, not only of the mind but also of the symbolism she painted (Haynes, 2006). She chose colors and objects that make the audience question what she seeks to communicate through these images (Kettenmann, 2000). In the same way, I want to affect and influence those who view my art.
I attempt to dive deeper into the duality of the mind, the absurdness, or joy that my art may trigger. I often put on a “brave face” in order to hide my emotions and not disappoint others. I want my artwork to inspire my audience members to question themselves as to why they feel and react as they do.
My latest project has been inspired by my dreams and ideas. I often have a reoccurring dream where I am desperately collecting and searching for white cats. In these dreams I am ether walking around or looking through small spaces trying to pick and collect in my arms as many cats as I can possibly carry.
Seeing cats in a dream usually has positive meanings, however, desperately trying to collect them does not. The color of the white (cats) can signify light, truth, and search for unsolved answers. Not to make this project into a boring interpretation of my dreams I would like to add interesting details using small figurines, or images that appear like figurines in varies shapes and sizes in order to convey a state of serialism. Though these tiny figures, I visualize different worlds on different scales and vantage points.
Another idea I would love to experiment with is the use of various light sources. I love the ambient light the is released from a burning candle, a nightlight, string lights or any other calm light source. I love the color and the shade that these light sources produce. I want to somehow incorporate these lights into few of my pieces.
I have taken a lot of the bright, outdoor photos, and have hoped to use these images as the background for my final project. I would like to create my first serialism photos which could be a little obnoxious, creepy and hopefully a little dreamy, requiring the viewer to wonder.
I want the viewer to experience something unanticipated. I want them to question the meanings behind the images. I love art because it allows me to gain experience and express emotions that I may not have in my personal life. I want art to be a window that is accessible to anyone willing to peak into it.
References:
Haynes, Anna. “Frida Kahlo: An Artist ‘In Between’.” Identity and Marginality, eSharp 6 (2006): 2.
Kettenmann, Andrea, and Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954: Pain and Passion. Taschen, 2000.
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Final Portfolio
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Like all my projects, I approached this one with a very open mindset. My creative process is very “go with the flow,” with things changing along the way as I’m working on it. The idea for this project all started because whenever people would meet my cat, they would always comment on how large he is. Then, as I was working on the images, he started looking like a weird celestial being in these surroundings, so I started drawing halos and swirls of light around him. I’d like to think that there is a deeper meaning to these pieces, but really, I just like creating anything that makes me happy. And with my cat being someone who has brought me a lot of joy and comfort, it was very fun having him be the subject of many of my photographs throughout this class. 
I don’t have much experience with editing photos, so I did struggle a bit while working on this project, but in the end, I’m pleased with the results. I made use of different layer settings like the multiply layer and glow dodge layer. I also made use of some effects such as the ripple effect for my cat’s reflection in the water, and gaussian blur.
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newphotographical · 3 years
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Virtual Tour
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Jamal Cyrus's piece Nuwaubic Connections (2020) is a translation from paperwork and posters and advertisements called "The Kings of Africa", a massive corporation catering to and depict African pride leading to Jamal redistributing that text. These Budweiser advertisements were marketed towards African Americans and the company commissioned African American artists to make the artwork for the advertisements as a nod to the history and culture. Because these products were found everywhere, from grocery stores to bodegas from the most marginalized neighborhoods and otherwise, the installation shows the transmission of cultural capitalism. Jamal quilted the posters and translated them into a new form by stitching them together with prayer talismans. He had it photographed at extremely high resolution for the installation. It references the African diaspora in relation to cultural capitalism and capitalism's relationship to the life cycle of a city (the site of the exhibit was a former Budweiser warehouse which has since transformed into something else, an unintentional coincidence but bears meaning nonetheless).
African Cosmologies, Public Life: Distance and Diaspora was an exploration of the interconnectedness of global African diaspora through works depicting shared geospecific traditions, cultures, communities, and sociopolitical issues. Public Life was a series of outdoor art exhibitions, presented on street-facing building facades in the Arts District of Houston. It was composed of large-scale vinyl photos from global and Texas artists of the African diaspora. The exhibition featured works by Jamal Cyrus, Eric Gyamfi, Zina Saro-Wiwa, and Aida Silvestri and held themes of social activism, visibility, and solidarity. 
The Public Life exhibition series examined the interwovenness of time, publicness, and community, and how these relatively mundane and taken for granted concepts have been redefined by recent events such as the coronavirus pandemic, political unrest, and civil rights movements across the world. Cyrus, Gyamfi, Saro-Wiwa, and Silvestri document snapshots and stories of tenacity in these trying times, steadfastness against oppressive ideology, and showcase the history of politicization of the personal (given the highly politicized identity of the African diaspora). The exhibition questioned the role of the public and what publicness means in 2020 and 2021. 
I found the exhibit to be very powerful. Giant murals, splashed across streetside building walls so that all of the people who drove or walked by the Arts District in Houston could see it. And the themes exploring the barrage of news about the pandemic alongside news about systemic racism and the brutalization of Black lives was powerful -- the large-scale photos similarly drew the attention of the public just as the televised and covered news regarding Black pain. Public Life reflects cultural, political, and social ideas, more specifically civil rights and how the media circulates and how these dynamics have shifted and changed over the course of the pandemic and are reflective of current times. The exhibit grounds people on an international level with the fundamental shared experience of quarantine. I think these themes of publicness, time, and community and the exploration of these themes in relation to social justice make photography and new media the perfect medium for this series. Photography is accessible, photography captures a still moment in time -- a photo captures a snapshot of reality. New media is reflective of modern day virality and that in itself bears relation to the pandemic.
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newphotographical · 3 years
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Blog - What is Video Art?
Video art is an art form that utilizes videography as a visual and auditory medium that emerged around the late 1960s as video technology became more readily available outside of corporate use.
A few of the highlighted video artists were Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, and Nam June Paik. Video art changed the way art could be presented from the everyday artist. It provided an inexpensive way for artists to have conceptual, performance, and experimental art in the form of film. It shook industry standards and provided a dynamic new form of art that was highly different from traditional painting and sculpture, thus giving more space for different types of artists to emerge and allowing for people who haven't studied fine art to also have a platform untethered to traditional art standards or mediums. Video art challenged what constituted art and what kinds of people could create meaningful or impactful art. Video art has paved the way for modern technology, and now we can film things from our phones or at the tip of our fingers.
Warhol's Sleep (1963) had themes of intimacy, repetition, and duration, and was an example of his 'anti-films'; he would place his camera on things and just leave it alone, highly stylizing the video and creating art rather than film in a way to upend Hollywood's conventions of narrative and strategic manipulation of real-time through editing. Nam June Paik was the founder and father of video art, and he brought video art to the level that it could be considered a serious artistic medium. He used everyday items such as the domestic television and subverted its normal usage to create art. I enjoyed both Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik’s work because it felt very unique and conveyed meaning that questioned the very aspects that could be considered fine art. For me, personally, Vostell's Sun In Your Head was a little too chaotic with the flashing and flickering images.
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newphotographical · 3 years
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Blog Prompt - Passage
My interpretation of passage was the passage of time. In order to show this, I decided to take a slow-mo video of my friend’s cat, Cotton, drinking a bit of milk off the counter. By slowing the video, you can notice details that you wouldn’t normally.
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newphotographical · 3 years
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Blog Prompt - Sequencing
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They didn’t used to sell these chocolates in the stores around here! (At least, I couldn’t find them if they were selling them!) Last time I went overseas, I bought a whole bunch and gave them out to my friends. NOw thet sell this at Mitsuwa!
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newphotographical · 3 years
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These pictures are so lovely! The perspective in the first picture makes it look like the lines are all pointing at the silhouette in the middle. The secnod picture is really fun too! I like how you put together the montage. The image is reminiscent of something one would see during the 90s or early 2000s!
Visualizing Identity and montage
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newphotographical · 3 years
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These pictures are so pretty! I like your use of focal point, where the background is blurred so the viewers eyes are drawn to the clear portions. I like how you decided to make the first picture black and white while the second has color. 
Visualizing Identity
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This photograph I feel is one of the best ways my identity is represented. This guitar represents my passion for the arts in the medium that is music. 
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Another similar style photograph that I took of my keyboard. This represents my life and how much computers are integrated into it especially with photography when it comes to editing. 
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newphotographical · 3 years
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I love the composition of this photograph! The monochromatic surroundings contrast with your colorful art in the middle, making it pop! The symbolism you applied to each element of the picture makes it much more meaningful too.
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Visualizing Identity #2
This piece represents how I am a perfectionist workaholic who wont give myself a break.the Colored portion represents when I’m done, and the black and white around represents the journey I endure to get there. Even made sure to give the mannequin and lamp a hunched over tired vibe, as i tend to obsess over finishing things till the break of dawn.
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newphotographical · 3 years
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Blog Prompt - Visualizing Identity
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The first picture I took is of a view I often see in my day to day life. As an artist that works mostly with digital media, I’m often found staring at a screen. I think this picture is very representative of me, as being an artist is very ingrained into my personality. I see my tablet and pen as an extension of myself.
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This photo of me holding my stylus up at the buildings across from me symbolizes how I view the world. I am often looking at ways to improve my art, and I take a  lot of inspiration from my surroundings. 
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newphotographical · 3 years
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Blog Prompt - Glitch
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Photos featuring my cat Beans and my friend’s cats Willa and Bandit
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newphotographical · 3 years
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Blog Prompt - Joiner
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Combined pictures of my friends cats Willa and Bandit on their cat tree! Only Willa was willing to sit still for the majorty of this photoshoot!
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newphotographical · 3 years
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PHOTO PROMPT 1 – IDENTITY: Real or Fictitious
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To be honest, I wasn’t sure what I should post, as identity is something I still struggle with even today. So instead, I decided to put together a few pictures that I think may represent me the best, at least right now. In the top left is a picture of me during the snow storm. The bottom left is a picture of something I spend most of my time doing, drawing. To the top right and middle right are the subjects of which I take the most photos of: my cat Beans and my dog Lucky. And finally, the bottom left is a picture of a sculpture that I recently receieved an award for.
I think this montage sums me up pretty well because not only does it show who I am, but also who I love and what I love to do. And while it may not be as complex as other people’s montage, I think simplicity can be a good thing. Everyone always thinks that there needs to be a deeper meaning to everything that we do, but it’s perfectly fine to just do things because you want to. That was something I always got caught up on, but ever since I stopped worrying about the “deeper meaning,” I started having more fun with my art. Though art blocks can still happen, they certainly happen a lot less now that I have this mindset. 
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newphotographical · 3 years
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Photo Ex -  Composition & Perspective
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Divided Frame
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Perspective 1
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Perspective 2
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