Mid Week Report.5

For this week, we were assigned to match and pair different post-it sized images together, placing and moving words around these image clusters to create a relationship. I started looking at pairs and quickly expanded these pairs into large groups of images. I feel that each group is describing an essence of an idea or mood, which is further explored through the groups of words pasted on the side of the pages.
The first group, the black and white image, is an exploration on the mood of isolation and self fulfillment. These images are all very high in contrast, and each carries texture through hair or fabric. The figures create shadows that overwhelm the entire cluster, forming static shapes and postive space.
The second group, was put together by the bright color. Each has either yellow, red, or blue, the primary colors. There is an atmosphere of simplicity in this compilation, an essence of childhood as well.
I am attracted to images of people, as most of my pairs carry some sort of human like figure or face. I don't really understand why, however I suspect its the identity of people that I look to carry, and express.

Mid Week Repor.4

This is an image from my sketchbook which is a collage of all the grayscale material that I found around my apartment. I used the textures and images to my advantage and created a composition that is united by color, rhythm and texture.

Now the black and blue drawing is from the sketchbook of illustrator, Justin Cownden. His sketchbooks are predominantly line work, however he also looks at how the form of various images becomes connected through rhythm and style.

Midweek Report.3

I found an interesting article during Ideations class. It was about a man who collected vintage Halloween photographs, and these photos were so ghostly and brilliant.
At the time, when they were taken there were definitely seen as innocent and non threatening. Now, looking at these, the subjects, predominantly children, are awkward in stance and their masks are very simple, yet demonically haunting.
I would like to further my interest with these photos,and masks as well. It's interesting to me how the atmosphere of a photograph, an image, can change so dramatically when the context of time, and culture are changed and displaced.

Here are scans from my sketches of the 4 Narrative ideas towards class. They each explore something about a woman or man, traveling to or from Georgia to New York City or Krakow. I was focusing on a phrase that I found on one postcard that read "I may be a Peach, but please don't bite me". That set a narrative of self exploration or something of that nature towards the protagonist and other characters.
I decided to use a map of the New York City subway system for the presentation, and then I am going to make a line of colored thread or lines and objects to mark the characters' travels.

Mid Week Report.2

I found this amazing website called FECAL FACE. Here is a link: http://www.fecalface.com/nyc/

There is a recent post of photos on urban decay. The beauty is extremely inspiring, and it leads me to want to find settings like these myself and record their essence through either a collection objects found at the area or photographs of the various places...drawing these places...maybe all of these methods combined.
I feel that these places allow for an examination of decay and what that brings to the vision of a place. For example, I recently watched a video on the Auschwitz concentration camps, and how the museum is lacking funds to properly maintain the buildings and artifacts, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7842671.stm. What gets me is how a place that represents and holds memories/scars of horrific suffering, barbaric killing, and the perpetual sadness of millions needs to be preserved still, for it represents this very evil that never ought to be forgotten.
It leads me to question whether in fact, evil establishes the good, as the good establishes what is evil. How destruction and creation come hand in hand, and synthesize into a single essence/memory/ or moment.