Sunday, October 11, 2009

Collection Part 2: Russia 2008

On a rainy bus ride to school, a young Russian girl and her friends happened to sit next to me, looking for help to the library, so I did and in return they gave me this.

Collection Part 1: Italy 1985



Sifting through a pile of fluff and rubbage basically, trying to find something worthwhile to print, I stumbled upon this old Italian lira. I knew it was special because of the two medals, so unique. It was lira. They don't make that anymore.

Self Portrait

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Lecture #6

This lecture held my interest. The speaker was a man named Bradley Litwin. He was interesting. His work was interesting. He talked about mechanics and the history of computers and how he used it to create his work.

I found it absolutely fascinating that his work was displayed in the Tyler atrium. It gave us a tangible resource and make me feel more personally connected with the artist. I loved how interactive the work was. They were visually and aurally interesting as pleasing and invoke an awe as to how perfect and impossible they seem. I think every artist, or every person really, is interested in machines, fascinated actually, because of their perfections. When an artist can make a machine and make it work efficiently, and make it do something interesting, they've got their audience. The idea of making a machine is so daunting and to have it done well is impressive.

Bradley made lots of jokes. His work had a sense of humor. I really enjoyed the collapsable guitar that was "for sale". I like that he really hit home how much the computer has evolved in such a short time. From the computer just being able to write to being able to make images to being able to make movements and images with lifelike qualities and machine like pristine.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Patterns






Theses are my patterns applied to different shapes.

First Friday

I recently went to first Friday on a whim. It wasn't what I expected. It interested me, people dancing and singing on the streets, groups of anxious people young and old bustling in and out of open galleries. Some of the galleries really impressed me. There was one with paintings done in a hyper realistic way. Those were beautiful. It made me appreciate some artist's skills while also remind me that I have a long way to go to reaching that level of skill and intellect.

Dogs