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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.