Thursday, December 13, 2007

elements crit





it felt so good to bring this all together into a culmination. the entire left side of the elements room was glowing yellow. (which was really so important. i had documented everything in a yellow sketchbook with pictures & such, but instead i opted for making 4 trips back and forth from the commons to main.) shamelessly sunny. (which helped off set such a dreary day. it was very reflective of my current emotional state... wondering what i'm going to do with myself for five weeks and already missing this place.)

throughout the course of this semester, all this yellow became a lifestyle. i had high points and low points with projects and kept pushing even when i had probably already taken it too far. it was an invaluable way of investigating my creative process and who i am as an artist and individual.

which led me to finding my spine. this has been the basis of everything we've done this semester. starting with an object, making 10 pieces, 5 pieces, 1 piece. moving to an idea, making 10 pieces, 5 pieces, 1 piece. finally just using whatever process worked to do whatever project you wanted. i realized how much i had been beating around the bush. yesterday, it just all seemed so simple. this is what i have been interested in through the medium. it all goes back to that give and take.


one thing i've been honing in on is the idea of plans. i've been thinking so monumentally about them, that i forgot the most basic artistic association with plans... architectural blueprints. my next project (winter break!) will be investigating that. (i mean, there had to be some reason that i collected house plans and kept binders of them when i was 10.) imagine, graphite plans on yellow tracing paper...

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