Rachel Meserve

May 7, 2008

Malena Burgmann

Accumulation Proposal

High Flying Thoughts

For my accumulation project I collected people’s thoughts, and in order to do so I utilized my Facebook. Each week I would post all the wall posts I had received that week from friends; those were there in the moment thoughts and were meant for me to see. But little did they know that by posting it on my Facebook where friends can see what they wrote, I was going to display there thoughts very large and in public.

My proposal is to take peoples thoughts that were originally meant for my eyes and (whoever creeps around Facebook reading wall posts) and display them in public in a non conventional manor. I want to design banners that are approximately 150ftx15ft for planes to trailer behind them over campus. This would show people that by placing things on the internet it is not always a safe and secure way of relaying a message.

I think that by doing so, people would realize that when they write a quick note to someone, they are not only writing to that one person, but pretty much anyone can see what they said. This project would be light hearted and a tad humorus, and at the same time who doesn’t like seeing those cool banners in the sky?

how my thoughts changed over time...

At first I wanted to collect people's thoughts, but I couldn't quite find a good or efficient way about doing that. Then I realized that by utilizing my facebook I could take thoughts of my friends at were posted on my facebook and use those, because they are quick thoughts in the moment made by my friends towards me. Then I could not decide what to do with these thoughts... so as the weeks passed I began brain storming, and I realized that these are comments and thoughts for me from people, but they post them on my facebook wall for all to see. Sometimes people assume that when they comment a person others dont take the time to read what they wrote on that persons blog. Theis got my brain turning and I began to think up some ideas to really throw these thoughts into the public. This could create awkward moments and emotions and sometimes those can be quite fun :)

Why I think we were assigned this project...

I think that the reasoning behind assigning us this is because we are used to our art projects taking shorter amounts of time. Malena was trying to get us to evoke thoughts about our piece over the course of the semester. By creating a project that slowly progresses over 3months we as the artist are forced to view our project in different states of mind on a weekly basis. This gives us better perspective and more ideas of where we could take it.

China Adams

China Adams

Why does so feel she has this big obligation for the viewer? She is an interesting woman, she focuses her art around humanity and people in their element. I really like that shetaps into mythology for a lot of her work. I love mythology! I would really enjoy doing a project the focuses around mythology, and all its symbolism.

She does end to work with dead bodies, which is intriguing but disturbing at the same time. I don’t know how I feel about that… Why would she want to work with the bodies?

It’s interesting that she uses her own z-rays and body sometimes in her pieces. She says that she is using her body that will some day be deceased but now she is alive and she is uses her live body on these dead bodies.

Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing- I really think that Gillian’s work I important, and that she address important issues in every person’s life. My question is though, why does she do it? Does she feel better from other people venting out their deepest emotions and thought to her cameras? She has everyday people express their thoughts and/or emotions in written text and then they become the subject of her art. I think the contrast is interesting… she is having these people pose with their deepest thoughts and emotions in text with them, but they most likely don’t know her which probably makes them more comfortable to vent. These pieces are then her art work and seen by millions. So people are allowing their deepest thoughts and emotions to be displayed for others to see. Brave? I think so. I was just curious as to what motivated her to focus her work on other people and their problems.

April 28th acc.

I collected about 30 thoughts this week.

eating ads

6'x3'x2' mix media

I decided to do my piece on advertising and how it attacks us wherever we go. It is always in our faces. I decied to do my piece as an interactive piece. I installed it in my friends house where 4 girls live. Everyone uses the fridge to eat, but the ads are so in your face that sometime you might just lose you appetite. I meant for people to realize how rediulous ads can be and how americans are so gullable to comsumerism.

Arnaldo Morales

its cool that Arnaldo pulls his art from his one life experience of being sho in the head and he explores fear, aggression, etc. I mea it is terrible that he went through what he did, but it's cool that it instantaniously changed his views on art and his own life. His art seems exciting! I like that it either evokes the viewer to run from it or join it. I would like to see how i would react to his work, i would be the kind to back off from his work.

Daniel Joseph Martinez

I like that he not only creates he evokes emotions and thoughts through his work. Many artists like to focus their work on social issues, but Martinez wants to involve his audience. He wants to involve their emotions in his work. I really like that he incorporates his aud in his works. The piece he did called "The castke is burning" was very intriguing. I wondered why he choose to write "In the rich man's house the only place to spit on his face." I like that he allowed latino faculty and students to vent complaints about discriminatory school policies. Overall, I respected his work, and the menaing behind it. I found him to be an intersting artist just becasue he is SO unconventional, and he likes to be known as the, "Tactical Media Stategist." He defies rules, and he disrupts convention.

Accumulation April 25th

My friends have gotten extremely random through this whole accumulation thing. I mean not that they're not already weird, but...seriously! im enjoying my chice to sccumulate there thoughts.

Accumulation April 18th

collected 52 quick thoughts from friends this week:)

Accumulation April 11th

i collected a little over 30 thoughts this week

April 28th

Today was fun to see everyones pieces. I found this piece to be the hardest to decided what to do. I had the hardest time, and it seeemd like I was not the only one after talking with everyone. Everytime we walk in to a critique everyone says theres are terrible, but really they are actually good and interesting. I really liked my feedback, and I completely aggree that I need more to push my idea on being eaten by ads in life. Plus I thought the idea to place a mirrir in my oiece to show that "look u are the comsumer." so you havnt fun!

April 23rd

I missed today and I will do an article...

April 21st

Todays class was fun; but it made me feel uneasy. The images we looked at were a little over the top, and intense. The use of the body is always in interest to me, I find it so georgous. When flesh is shown through in a piece of artwork manys times will it be charged with being pornographic. I completely dissagree; I find that when nudity in done in todays work is out it is classy. Its out out there to use the function porn does, it is displayed better

April 16th

Barbara Schrieber came to visit our class today. I think that she was my favorite of all our visitors in class. I enjoyed her bubbly personality, and her extremely interseting work. I love how she does smaller paintings, she seems to be so practical. If she doesnt have the money or health for some materials she finds another way to get her job done. I really enjoyed watching her show she children pieces. I love her humor through art, there is always a time to be funny:) she seemed like a very cool lady. everyone in class that day seemed to be engaged and intersted by her work, and if she could keep all of our attention for that long; she must have been intriguing and talented.

April 14th

In class today I was so relieved to hear our blogs were pushed back. To be completely honest I don't remember what we did in this class:) I think we had a discussion like we usually do, and this may have beent he class we talked about our schedule, and our next project.

Yeah, I think that was it. I was happy to see our final wasn't on May 2 like the syllabus said, because I am going to be out of town. Anyway, I'm pretty sure we just discussd the plans for the end of the semester. It was nice to get organized.

April 9th

I had so much fun in class today. I loved visiting the Picket's house and seeing his work environment. It gave me great insight into how an artist lives, it was fun for me because I knew his wife Lauren from my graphic design meathods class. I also, got to go to smelly cat on my way and I thoroughly enjoyed my coffee. I found his mural to be ASTONOSHING, it was beautiful. I had fun asking questions about the prosess and juust racking his brain with little questions I had. It was an overall beautiful day and we were outside and enjoying the art. It was fun!

April 7th

It was a nice an relaxing day in class for me. I got to sit back and just give classmates feedback on their work, since I presented mine on the wed b4. I enjoyed seeing everyones work; I really enjoyed Sheldon's piece about his childhood.

Accm.

these are the thought i collected this week

April 2

I really enjoyed seeing how other students intrepreted the assignment of time. Everyone seemed to have a different twist on things. It was fun to hear, and see; but when it came for me to present I felt confident with my piece. I had been told to not be so literal, so I stepped out of the box and was definetly not literal. I was kind of disapointed with my critique; hearing what everyone had to say kind of put me down. I am used to critiques and not taking things personal, but for some reason it kind of bothered me. I'm worried I'm not going to get a good grade, and I really tried to take my last projects critique and utilize it. I guess I just still didn't do what I needed to.

March 31

I thoroughly enjoyed the guest speaker on Monday this week. His work was very different from anything I had seen before. I had trouble understanding it at first; he was explaining it but for some reason I just didnt understand how wedging clay made those images. I think I kind of understood it by the end but at the same time I was still a little confused. I found that to be fun abouthis work. Not always being able to understand art makes it fun to look at. I also thought he was an intetesting character, I like how different his style was.

accum.

YAY i found a way to post them!!!!! I ahve collected over six hundred posts from people on my page. They are all thought people had in that very moment the wrote to me. I am thinking once it comes time to turn this project in I am going to cut all of them up and turn it into something. Not too sure what that something is yet.

March 24th and 26th

We didn't have class either day this week, feel better Melena!

Growing Pains(project2)

18x22x2in paint, and fruit

I was inspired by Cai Guo Qiang, and how the media he chooses to use is unpredictable. I wanted to try something new, and while I was watching the movie Accross The Universe the main character(an artist) uses fruit in one of his pieces. Those were my new sources, and I also wanted to make sure I could relate my piece to me without being too literal.

I decided to create my piece to describe my childhood. I am from Chicago, and I moved here to go to school in Aug of 07. I like it here a lot, but I do get homesick. With summer right around the corner I was thinking of things I did as a child back home over summer. My mom would grow raspberries and strawberries in our backyard, and after a good swim in our pool her and I would go pick the beautiful red berries and eat an entire bowl. I loved spending that time with my mom, and for some reason our raspberries and strawberries always tased the best! I decided to use blackberries to represent the negative events that occured in my childhood thats are dark and messy. And I tried to cover them up with the raspberries and strawberries(good memories) in order to make myself feel better. At the same time no matter how hard I try to cover those bad memories up with good ones they will always be there like a stain of blackberries. I started my picec out with a canvas and some paint markers. Since I like desin I did a little design to guide the rest of my piece.

I related it to time by doing it in layers. The first day I messed with the blackberries(the bad mem) and let them soak in and stain the canvas. I wanted the berries to rot a little. Then I waited two days to finish by placing fresh raspberries and strawberries on to cover up the mess.

March 19, 2008

Today was kind of an uneventful day in class. I did get some feedback about my idea, my classmates liked it but Maleana told me I need to stop being so literal. I spent the rest of the class trying to think of something I could do, and all I became was frustrated. What is the line between literal and non literal? I must b a fine line because everything I think of I find some way say is too literal. I am extremely frustrated with myself, and my ideas for this project.

I decided I wanted to do something dealing with me being so far from home and missing my close friends and family. This will bring my piece close to me and more meaningful. Thats pretty much all I have, I am completely stumped!

McColl Center March 17, 2008

The last exhibit we saw at the McColl center was interesting, but really didnt tickle my fantsy, if you know what I mean. This exhibit was REALLY amazing! I loved it! I was so cool that we could interact with a lot of the pieces, and the artists had somewhat of a goal to scare us as the viewer. My favorite piece was the one with plastic plates raised off the ground with water and an engraved mirror inside. The mirror created somewhat of a skull image on the wall and it was on a platform that we as the viewer were supposed to walk on. When you attempt to get closer to the skull image to investigate, it disappears. Just like when I was a child and I thought the boogie man was under my bed and I would create it all in my head, and when I would look he would be there. "He was uncatchable" if that's a word? I would the concept very intriguing. I had a nice time talking with an artist named Howard upstairs, and all in all this was a very enjoyable trip:)

March 12, 2008

I found Cai Guo Qiang work to be very exciting and beautiful in the end. His work seems so planned out and organized. He is very skilled with an unpredictable media such as gun powder. I loved his work, I would love to try something like this someday. I love the element of surprise; I mean you think you know what it is going to look like once the explosion occurs but the media is so unpredictable that you never can quite tell. I find that so interesting; I could see where in some cases it would be frustrating and in others amazing. I also enjoyed the way he works, with a team and collaborating. I could see myself doing something like that.

It was nice to get outside today, and receive those magazines. I thoroughly enjoyed getting out of the class room.

March 10, 2008

Today we viewed some interesting artists on the projector. I really enjoyed the graffiti art! For the longest time I have been into doodling words and phrases, I love text! I was doodling one day at my job, making a sign for the store. And my boss really like it, and decided to let me design all he signs in the store. He decided to go an old fashion way and use chalk, I LOVED it!!!! I took it from there, I had about 12 boards labeling the store in neat fonts that didnt repeat themselves, with little drawings on them. I would get complement all the time, I had a blast! I would love to work in advertising where i can play with text and mess with design. I really enjoy manipulating lettering into showing emotion or a topic of some sorts. Graffiti has always been really neat for me, I just think its so beautiful and intriguing.

Accumulation Project4

I have had a hard time figuring out a way to loud images of the thoughts onto my blog. I placed all of them into a wor doc, but it wouldnt upload. I hope to figure something out by next week. I have now collected over 200 since this class started. I think that I might print them and cut each of them out, and arrange them into one of those thinking bubbles they use in cartoon to emphasize that that character is talking. I think it could turn out really neat, yay!

The Art World Expands

This piece was an eye opener to the speed of change in our art world, and how hard it is to anaylze works with the rapid change. I realized how hard it is going to be to keep up throughout my life and adapt to new and amazing technology and techniques. I find it somwhat intimidating to think about. In the future I am going to ahve to keep on my toes,a nd become a little more spontaneous with my art get outt here and try new things, sounds like fun

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

This piece was uplifting and good for the soul. I had begun to doubt myself and making it in the art world. I think people ouside the art world take it all for granite and don't understand the hard work and time put into it. I have poeple kind of look down on me because I am an art major, and people think my life and school are so easy when in reality they are not. It really frustrates me, and when readig this piece I got some mor ehope instored in me. I think its a nice piece to read when I sometimes feel that way about my major and what I want to do with my life. I have a lot of friends in the science department and they tend to be narrow minded and sometime i feel like they are talking down to me, and that pisses me off more than anythig else.

I am a stong willed person who hates to be looked at like that. I work very hard through my art and I'm excited about my future. I like that not everything is going to be planned out in my profession and i like the mystery.

Julian LaVerdiere

Julian compares himself to Faust. Faust to Julian, His idea to create art infused with the perennial power to inspire original achievements in others. I find it amazing he just makes art for others and not for himself. I know that I make my art from my life experiences and from thing close to my heart, friends, family, etc. Things that not only have meaning for me but for others as well. I like the way he creates is art for others, that is inspiring. Why? is my question. What is his benefit, and how does it make him feel?

Kim Jones

What is his works purpose?
how does his work relate to him?
who is his audience?
I found him to be weird and somewhat disturbing. I don't really find the idea of multiple persons within one very interesting. By changing his appearance in many odd ways he shows his different persons. I find it gross. I think he has a good idea behind it, by trying to show how people have layers but thats the direction i saw it from. Does he get pleasure out of doing these things to his body? has he ever hurt himself? has he ever incorporated multiple people in his work?

Scott Greiger Text

what media does he work with?
what makes him good enough to be published in our text?
what makes him unique in the art world?
I enjoyed reading bout Scott because I want to go into graphic desgin, i love logos. I found it funny that he goes, "against the vocabulary of of corporization." I love that he takes the big ad logos like the nike swoosh and pokes fun at them. I find that hilarious! I think its impotant that he brings issues to the table through his art. He shows consumerism in a different way, and its always good to have that core meaning in work. My questions were answered through the reading, he works with design, fabrics, etc. and he calls attention to consumerism, and casues a lil stir up. what else has he done? what other meaningful pieces has he done? is he still activly making art? how else has he incorporated his anthropology into his work?

ACCUM. 3

So far I have colected a ton on facebook messages and wall post I have a range of boys and girls and millions of dif topics. I like that this ties into my life as well, because they are wall posts from and for my friends.

accumulation2

My accululation project had been put on hold for a little bit but I have since got it started, and I am a little frustrated because I am having trouble collecting peoples thoughts, because when I get them they are normally my friends and they arite down something immature and stupid.

So I had a new idea, of collecting facebook messages and my stealing people thoughts. Because in turn those are peoples thoughts in that place and time. I think i will prink them out in dif fonts and colors and mount them on something.

Feb18&20

Monday I thought that our identity project was due, becasue I had not been there the week before. The benefit was I was done, but the down side was that we spent this class time discussing our ideas. This could have been very beneficial for me in my ealier stages. Not that it wasn't beneficial because I was able to toy with my piece and make it better from thers advice in class. I enjoyed getting out of the class room and getting to know more of the people in my class. It was nice to sit outside with our coffe and talk about art.

I thoroughly enjoyed our visitor on Wed. I found her stuff very cool. I love all of her references to the renissance. I love the renissance! She was very comfortable with us and she made me feel welcomed, and comfortable to ask questions. I think I took a lot with me from what she talked about with making her art help her travel, and how she has done so much in the art community. You just have to get yourself out there, and make things.

Feb 25&27

Monday I enjoyed seeing everyine's different takes on the identity project. It was my first time really participating in such an open assignment, so to see all directions people took was astonishing. I was really impressed withthe people who do video and sound stuff, because I have never been taught anything like that and it kind of sparked my interest in maybe trying it sometime. I'm glad that we got the first critique out of the way, and i kind of have a better understanding of how the class is going to go the rest of the semester.

I was upest the we didn't get to see the guest artist on Wed. I was looking forward to it becasue Melana spoke so highly of him/her. But maybe another time:) I did enjoy looking at the archet. stuff bc I hav never gotten a chance to see their stuff, and I know we have a great program. The washer and dryer I found weird because I thought it was just an experiment someone needed ot do, i didn't think it was reall meant to be a piece. I found it odd that all it was, was a washer and dryer taken apart and labeled piece by piece. My favorite part of the day was definetly when we saw the barbie project. I found it hilarious!!!! It was also great to get feedback on my piece. I'm glad I got my main idea accross well, and overall I am happy with it. I really appriciated the reccomendation to continue adding things onto it as I grow. I think I might just do that.

The Story It Tells

why would melana want us to read this piece of text?
what points are they trying to get across?
how can i use this piece of literature to my benefit?

Meaning has always had it huge positives and huge negatives in my book. I feel like I have placed so much meaning into my piece yet how will my audience understand or relate to it has been my question. When I analyze others works I don't always appriciate it until I hear the background and thought from the artist behind it. Once the artist explains the pieces significance I appriciate it a lot more. On the other hand I do like in some cases that meaning is left up to interpretation. So I'm torn back and forth on the topic of meaning.

Denotation and cannotation are very important. The example used in the text hit it right on the dot. They said if we see a sculpture of an axe and wheels, we see it as an axe and wheels. If we are asked what is means, we would unlikely ahve an answer diverting from its and axe on wheels. We llok at something so simplicit, and we as artists and viewers need to understand there is more meaning behind the simplicity.

This piece of literature has helped me to understand the importance of perception and keeping an open mind, a REALLY open mind.

I'm still not fully comfortable with nudity Learning about it in art history is one thing but critiquing another classmates painting of a nude woman is a differnt story. I would ahve trouble critiquing a painting like that; especially if the painting was a self portrait or a portrait of an ex-girlfriend. I wouldn't want to hurt a persons feelings. I think I would have a hard time wih that and it would take some getting used to.

Why is nudity so popular?

'The Happiest Day of My Life'

1. I remeber hearing that he destroys "everything" what is it that he is destroying and why would he decide to destroy something as a work of art.?
2. Is he trying to prove a point to everyone about a certain topic like, consumerism, conformity, etc.?
3. Why is it titled "The Happiest Day of My life?" is it really the happiest day, and why?

notes
He decided to have his piece take place on the most popular street in Britain, for all to see. He says that it's not about consumerism but he did it to see how dependent he was on all his consumer belongings. This is interesting, because I always thought when i heard of pieces resembling this one that its some sort of rebellion. I like that he was doing this to test himself and I could inacuratly assume that this was liberating. I imagine this piece being good for the soul and liberating. I COULD NEVER DO IT! I'm completely impressed that he could shred his fathers coat and his car keys. If I could talk to him I would ask him how he benefited from this piece, how did he feel while doing it? What was the point is getting rid of it if sooner or later he was going to have to buy new possesions? that seems a little expensive and ridiculous. Did it create a burden in his life since he had nothing when he was done? I guess the answers to my first questions were answered by the text. It was the happiest day of his life because he felt completely liberated when done, but i just want to know how he felt when it came time to need some of his possesions. I found it interesting that he was destroying something and it was considered art, when "normally we create new things and call it art. I think it was very creative, but I guess that is what makes him a great artist and unique; is the way he dieverted from "normalcy"

Read Between the Eyes

1'6x1'x6in photo media, and branches
I created my work world. My piece is a photo collage of my daily life. I had a photo down the aisle way of the barn- showing one point persp. I cut it into 4 pieces, and split them up. Then placed everything else inside of it. My piece is a clash of commercial show riding and horses in their "natural" environment. The branches reprsent my growth, and how all of the jobs I have had with horses has contributed to my growth as a person. The eyes in the middle show the connection between horse and human. The boots represent putting yourself into my shoes which majority of the time are boots. Theres a photo of one of our horses outside in the background, and in the forground is a trailer representing taking a wild animal and taming them to compete. The bridles/bits represent me and how im in control of my life. I also choose to petrude some of the branches through the photos to show how my growth is still growing and breaking out.

Identity Project 1

1.) Personal-
what makes you feel worthy? my work ethic
what makes you laugh? majority of things..my friends, family, my animals, tv, etc.
what embarasses you? i dnt knw... nt too much
what infuriates you? NC driving system/drivers, rude people, selfishness
what thrills you? new friends, shopping, movies, etc.
what comforts you? my animals
what makes you sad? when im over whelmed with life, when i over work myself

2.) Transpersonal
family- daughter
education- freshman college student
preferred leisure activity- horse show jumping
economic status- working student

3.)Contex
I am content with the surroundings. I am aware of the dangers of campus and college life, and I keep myself in a causious state of being. I am constatly ont he run between school and the barn I work at everyday in Hunterville. The traveling tires me. Its worth every moment I spend witht the horses I ride and the peaceful atmosphere at the barn vs. the hustle at school. Guess I have the best of both worlds.

4.)home
with my friends or at the farm

5.)Material
I am somewhat materialistic, I love to shop. I like brand names like american eagle, etc. But I could care less what poeple thoguht of theose brands. I just like the material. I don't like Coach, or D&G

6.)reflected "I"
I am an anmial magnet/lover, and also a kid magnet. I love kids, and babysitting

7.)
*first time I rode a horse
*when my parents divorced
*when I bought my horse
*when I had to say goodbye to her in order to pay for college
*When I moved acrss the country from my mom-who I am very close to

My life is my job, horses! I live to compete, and work with animals. The conection between horse and rider is amazing.

bad week Feb 11&14

This week I did not go to class either day. On Monday I was sick with the flu. Wednesday I missed for a horse show I had with the school equestrian team. This is excused, but was very inconvinent. I feel like I am very behind, and I am not prepared for my first project. I feel like I am creating this piece with no guidance, and that kinda freaks me out.

I am on the UNCC Equestrian Team and we had a competition in VA on Wed. I recieve a letter to excuse me from class, but I have not recieved my letters yet. This makes me extremely anger and puts me in a bad position with my professors. So I still had the flu on Wed. and had to compete, plus miss class.

Mint Trip Feb4&6

We went to the Mint Museum on Wed. and it was very entertaining. I have never been very interested in fibers, but the exibit opened my eyes to some very cool work done through fiber. I enjoyed the glass pieces the most though. I loved the boat piece!

Meaning MakersJan. 28&30

This week we discussed a formula that opened up my eyes to new ways view works of art. It was interesting on Monday when we got to see everyones interpretation of the colection assignment. Everyone interpreted it in a different way. Today was very interesting, we viewed one of Melana's pieces,a nd I found it very interesting to analyze her piece from our own perspectives, and not til the end of class did we find out what the true meaning of her piece was. I enjoyed breaking the piece down and analyzing its meaning. I like the idea of artists being "meaning makers" because in retrospec thats exactly what we are doing when making works of art. We want to bring accross a certain meaning to our audiences.

Transforming Things into Other Things

wrapped-my mattress is wrapped with sheets

luminous-my best friend

gnarly- the hair within my brush

edible- yogurt

wicked- my aviator sunglasses

was alive- my birthday flower

unexpected sound- loudest alarm clock ever!

could spill- water bottle

smell- room mate's foot

fleeting and temporal- my dreams

astonishing-coffee, and its effects

scattered-m&m's

transformed by wind- blue ribbon

soft- brown pillow

buried- my socks under comforter

cold- statistics can be cold hearted

distasteful- dirty sponge

stretched- rubber band

smeared-lip gloss on wall

awkward- my bra

6 feet- my bed

I thought to do my material invention purely from things found in my dorm room, and i could not believe the many weird and freakish things that I found in the process. I used my bed to collaborate all of the elements. I had trouble transforming some of the stuff into other stuff, I felt like the majority of my project was kind of boring and too literal. Everything is easy to understand yet that made it not as interesting in a sense, so i sat back and thought of some things i could do to mix it u a bit. Thins was also hard for me, I think I executed the project well, but I'm not very happy with the creative factor, I would have liked it to be less literal and more thought provoking. Overall i enjoyed collecting different things and incorporating them all together. I took the space on my bed, and created the feeling of chaos! I used the comforter to my advantage. My sleeping space which is normally a place of relaxation and calmness was turned completely around into total craziness.

McColl Center Jan. 14&16

I like how this class is very open and discussion is so easy in class. I felt like today I could voice my opinion in and open free of judgement environment. I thought it was interesting to disect ideas and learn more about classmates ideas and how if everyine is from say me. It really demonstrates how diverse our brains are form eachother.

I had a lot of fun at the McColl center this week. I had already seen it hat exhibit with Kristen Rothrock, but is was fun to look at another time and in another prospective. I enjoyed being able to see the studios, and learn more about he center and residency. My favorite piece was the one with all the label with misconceptions stitched on them. I love how simple the appearance is, but there is SO much more meaning behind it. All the way down to the cheap candy dishes symbolising pedestals. It was overall enjoyable experience.

Accumulation Project

I think project sounds very interesting! I'm excited to see the outcome. My idea is to collect "thoughts" still in the workings, but i want to get people's in the moment thoughts. I might just keep sticky notes with me at all times and randomly ask people to write down what they are thinking about at the moment. I was somewhat inspired by Shan Raoufi. He collected opinions although, his was opinions about him. I want mine to b completely open to whatever poeple are thinking.

I also liked Michael Anderson's idea of collecting ad posters. I would love to have all those vintage and random posters.

first reading

The reading opened up my eyes to new ideas, and ways to find my inspiration. I mainly like to take my hobbies and passions that i do outside of art and bring those into my pieces. My work shows my passion; my main passion is horses and show jumping. I enjoy receiving my inspiration from the connection between horse and rider. But the reading showed me many other ways to find inspiration. I think that listening to my music would be good for me, because my music brings out emotion which would come through in my work.

I have a good grasp of who I am and who I want to be as a person, yet who I am as an artist has yet to be found. I have yet to establish a specific style of my own. I find it kind of hard to do when in foundation class our assignments call of an assigned style. I mean, I know that we can still show who we are though, which I try to do but it is harder than it seems.

I enjoy using words to express my emotions, and I know that, that seems like the easy way out. I want to be a graphic designer within an advertising agency. I love the use of facial expression, and I love photography. So like I said my mission would be to sell the product, and create easy to understand layouts. I looking forward to my future, it have endless possibilities.

1st day review Jan. 7&9

No class Monday
Wed: Well, this class is going to be very challenging, yet fun at the same time. From what I have gathered this class description this class will be very open to my ideas. This is EXCITING yet extremely intimidating! I like have room for my thoughts and ideas to come into play within a class, but it appears that this class will mostly be based on that. I have just gotten so used to being told what to do, the freedom is intimidating. I'm up for the challenge though, and I think I will enjoy this overall experience, and I think that it can only enhance my knowledge int he art world.