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Lovely people during a lovely night

Working towards the END

A start to what will hopefully result in my final project.
A birds eye view of the final(ish) project

Nity Crity Part 2

Just had another small critique in order to really start bunkering down for our show which is coming up soon. I have started playing with my colored film more and incorporating it with some plain film. My critique group liked but thought that I could take it to the next level by incorporating the film with canisters, or the boxes I previously colored. They had the idea to pop the film out of the canisters and incorporate the film with the canisters. We will see where this takes me as I continue to finalize plans for the final show

Whats up?

So I just looked over all that I have put up on the blog, and realized that it is a bunch of the same stuff over and over. I really like what I have done so far, but not all of it is up on the blog. I think those pictures that I have put up have been the most fun because they are very colorful and those objects pop out, and have been sitting with me for a while. But I have been doing other things too. In alternative processes, we have been playing with solvent transfers, so I have also been trying to incorporate that into what I have been doing in sr. studio. Another thing I had the idea of playing with was photo chemicals. I will make sure to post pics later, but right now I have little cups filled with all the different photo chemicals. some are for film and others for paper, but I am having fun playing with the concentration of the chemicals, and the order for which i develop the paper. I have also been doing the playing in the light, so that is another aspect of my experimenting that changes the image up. I added acrylic paint to the developer to see if that would affect the final color they paper develops to be. Ms Burman also had the awesome idea to add minerals or other chemicals and see what happens. She suggested asking the science department if there would be any minerals, even salt, that I could steal a little of and add it to the chemicals. these minerals could have a bigger effect on the paper then the acrylic paint did so I am anxious to try those out. I also had fun playing with the color the photo paper has become since it has been exposed. Some of the paper I got from freecycle was green when I took it out of the package, so it has been cool to play with that coloring. Hopefully all this messing around will result in beautiful art, but as of now, I am just having fun. we will see where this takes me...

More Pics

The film canisters I have been playing with in therms of color and texture. The one on the left is decorated with colored masking tape, a fun material, and a great way for me to get away from the paint markers. The one on the right is decorated with a collage of magazine cut outs.

A cool view of my colored film. I just finished coloring another strip of the film, so together they look AWESOME
The whole collection of photography things I have been using to make up my project. We will see what happens with them as we get closer to the show date.

More pics from around the studio

Critiquing
Helping Riki with some new ideas for her project.
Working hard

Alternative Exhibit Formats

The sideshow we saw was super interesting. It was cool to see that it is not just that art that you can control, but that you can also control how it is displayed. Many of the artists had instilations that took up the entire gallery, and some put their art directly on the wall and not in a frame. Sandy Skoglund sets up WICKED cool instilations and then photographs them like the picture of snakes and eggs above. SUPER COOL. Barry McGee also has super cool ways of displaying his work. he also does insitltions but they are directly put in the gallery as opposed to a gallery as opposed to a photograph of one. He collects random frames and clusters them together to make a super cool display. I def. am thinking about these different ways of displaying my art. I think they add another level to the show, and kind of mix it up from the usual.