Mark Making with Music

Mark Making

Story Revision

     I've always tried to stay in line. I always did what I was told to do with no questions asked; however, this line I was always told to stay on was constricting me. I tried to do what I wanted to do, but staying on the line was what I was told I must do. So one day, I decided to take a step off of it.
     The feeling I felt at first was foreign and slightly awkward, but soon, I began to smile in delight. The pressure on my shoulders was gone and the smell of freedom flowed through my body. I was able to say no to the things I was not able to when I was on the line and felt no consequences from my actions.
     However, one day, I went to far. Instead of listening to my mother's words of wisdom about the use of fire, I went against her orders and grabbed the matches out of the cabinet anyway. I wanted to know what it was like to strike a match and let the dangerous substance dance in my hand like I had seen my father do many times in the past.
     The situation went from fun to disastrous in a matter of seconds.
     My hands were burned by the red and orange demon as the wooden pole holding it up fell from my grasp and onto my skin. At that moment in time, I kept telling myself that I should've listened to what my mother told me to do. I should of stayed in line. That was when I realized that, even though it is difficult, staying in line is what prevents people from hurting themselves or others.
     So after I was able to get my wounds healed, I vowed to stay in line once again...at least...on occasions.

Mapping Life Lists and Theme Ideas

Menil

The Menil Collection was interesting; however, it was way to stretched out. We had to walk through people's backyard's to get from one building to the next. Also, the chapel with all the black canvases was depressing. I felt as though my soul was being drained with every passing second. My favorite area had to be the Egyptian section because I'm in love with that time era. I also loved the Witnesses's room because of all the strange sculptures that make your eye study every detail. I was beat with exhaustion when the day was over, but I learned alot about how certain arts are somehow put on display.

Lecture 2 HW

Richard Sierra and many artists and critiques look upon the Tilted Arc as an amazing work of art, while citizens working inside the same building as the sculpture think that the piece is nothing more than scrap metal. Sierra created the piece so that people could become self-aware and so that the environment around them would change as their perception changed. The workers in the building; however, felt that the sculpture took up too much room in the plaza and that it attracted too much unwanted attention from not only humans, but animals as well. The artisans and critiques were right about the piece being a work of art. It warped the eye of an individual and created an entire new scene all together. The men and women working at the plaza could have just dealt with the piece being where it was. It had caused no harm and it gave a whole new meaning to its surroundings. Sierra did not want the piece to be moved to a different location because it was built just for that spot, if it was placed elsewhere, the feeling of the art would not be the same. Sierra was right about his piece. Without it in that spot, then it gives away the feeling of the arc protecting the fountain on one side from the buildings on the other. To take apart the piece during the day would have angered many artisans and citizens alike, so the sculpture had to be dismantled at night. In order for oneself to experience new horizons, they must leave their comfort zones, and artists make this happen through their work.

The futurists wanted to rid of the old and bring in the new. They sought for speed and violence along with the expansion of machinery. They no longer wanted museums and libraries and the thought of morality was diminished. The speed of automobiles has increased drastically in the last 100 years and machinery is now apart of almost everyone’s everyday life. Violence spreads like wildfire because of the improved machinery and speed that man has accomplished.

Throughout the entire Menil Collection, I was really interested in the Egyptian pieces within the primitive age displays. The culture of that time attracts me with their use of limestone as a medium and hammer and chisel as a tool. Like all cultures at the time, the Egyptians used pictures to describe words; however, their civilization had a more advanced system compared to others. Even their sculptures were advanced with all the grooves and fabricated details carved into the medium. Although they made marvelous works, the Egyptians hardly ever used repetition and rhythm within them.
After studying all the pieces, I believe that I would love and maybe would make the Louis XV Display Table. The display was an old desk scattered with trinkets and gizmos that corresponded with one another perfectly. Being a pack rat myself, the desk reminded me of how my own room looks and how I never let things go no matter how old they may be.
Joe Goode’s Untitled (Cloud Photo) fits into the idea of Kissed by Angels because of the painted photo of clouds lingering in a warm colored space. Like the rest of the art work in the display area, it was light and seemed like you were actually staring into the sky.
Both the Kissed by Angels and the Television and Disasters displays were created to deny the observer a straightforward reading of the composition while the artists tried to show something outside of themselves. Although the two displays have a common element, the presentation of it is performed completely different. Where is the Kissed by Angels has transcendence and atmospheric ethereality, the Televisions and Disasters is more aggressive and shows the reality of life.

Human Dots

As a group, we gave each other a 3 on craft and doc, but because all the photos were printed differently and Donovan was not there that day so his was completely different. We gave each other a 4 on the use of white space because we think we could have done a better job at showing no cracks in between our fingers. We chose a 4 on our dots because the dots are not all the same and there is a bit of white on the dots. Our human element was a 5 because we chose the part of the body that everyone needs and uses all the time for everything. We gave our meaning a 5 because we played with texture within the paint and balls. All together we were a 4 in group process because we worked quickly and had fun with it, but we really got to know each other with the way the paint would stick to one another.

Madness sketches

Movements

Minimilism- visual and music art-work is stripped down to its most fundamental features.

Post-Minimalism- attempt or go beyond the aeshetic of minimalism

Arte Povera- modern art. Attacked the values of establishment in government, industry, and culture.

Process Art- the end product is not the main focus. The process such as gathering, sorting, collecting, associating and pattering is the main focus.

Object Research

Sweetgum Balls:

The sweetgum tree appeared to be a spainish work by F. Hernandez in 1651 when he described a tree producing fragnant gum resembling liquid amber. It was introduced in Europe in 1681. Was once used for smoking in France, but is mainly used as a seed carrier to plant more Sweetgum trees. The shape of the seed was used as a design for the super monkey ball game.

Dot Pics

Final Modular Madness Piece

This is my final piece to modular madness and I'm surprised at the comments I recieved on it. Everyone seemed positive about my piece and I believe Kathy was the only one who gave advice on how to change it. She said that the slight extension off to the right did not need to be so sharp.

Process Pics

These are some images of the night before the modular madness presentation. I had just finished applying the sweetgum balls and I actually thought I was done, but I still made more adjustments in the morning.

Moduler Madness

The objects (sweetgum balls) were placed together to make giant rings to represent the spheric shape of the object. The piece could have easily been made by another object, but the texture of the sweetgum ball gave it a better image. There was no problems with the materials except for the occasional poking problem with the texture. I discoved that gloves are necessary when working with sharp material. The scale of the peice could of been bigger, but the materials seemed perfect. The peice was supposed to be perfectly circluar, but because the object weighed down the structure, it gave it an imperfect shape. It seems the final peice is more ambitious because my ideas for it changed so many times that when the final idea popped into my head, it just seemed right for it to be that way. Because the peice isnt perfectly shaped, it seems to help it; however, I'm iffy about the peice reaching for the water. I think shape and texture are the dominant elements in my peice because they play an important role to how the object appears in its surroundings. I think repetition plays a big role in my piece because of the continuing circles and sweetgum balls. The object itself is a dried out seed just stacking up on the ground and the piece shows it stacking up and reaching for water like how a seed would. Viewers probably dont look at the seed as dried out and reaching for the water and they probably dont think of the peice as stacking like how the balls do in nature every year. The piece is reaching for water so that is why I placed it by the sink. The piece responds to the water flowing from the sink so that it can be reguvanated.



Staying in Line Rough Draft

I've always tried to stay in line. I always did what I was told to do with no questions asked; however, this line I was always told to stay on was constricting me. I tried to do what I wanted to do, but staying on the line was what I was told I must do. So one day, I decided to take a step off of it. The feeling I felt at first was forgein and slightly awkward, but soon, I began to smile in delight. The pressure on my shoulders was gone and the smell of freedom flowed through my body. I was able to say no to the things I was not able to when I was on the line and felt no consiquences from my actions. However, one day, I went to far. Instead of listening to my mother's words of wisdom about the use of fire, I went against her orders and grabbed the matches out of the cabinet anyway. I wanted to know what it was like to strike a match and let the dangerous substance dance in my hand like I had seen my father do many times in the past. The situation went from fun to disasterous in a matter of seconds. My hands were burned by the red and orange demon as the wooden pole holding it up fell from my grasp and onto my skin. At that moment in time, I kept telling myself that I should've listened to what my mother told me to do. I should of stayed in line. That was when I realized that, even though it is difficult, staying in line is what prevents people from hurting themself or others. So after I was able to get my wounds healed, I vowed to stay in line once again...at least...on occassions.

Line Pics

A vent

Our In the Making book

Blinds

Read between the lines

Tiles



Cardboard Proposals

These were the proposals for the cardboard project and I find it disappointing that coming up with ideas for doorknobs was a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Gumball Madness!!

It's really hard to see in the photo, but they are stacked in twos and will begin to from an arch that you can sit under.

In this photo, there are two rows and they begin to climb like stairs and they will wrap around until they make the never-ending staircaise.

I have four of them bonded by the stems to make a diamond which will then be used to...well, I'm still looking into ideas for it.

This was actually my first photo that I took. Apparently if you crush the sweetgum balls together, they stick together quite well, (as well as the carpet). However, I think I'm going to stick with hot glue in fear of the balls falling apart during the building process.  

It is really hard to see in the photo, but the sweetgum balls are actually twisting into a DNA like shape.