Line Project Artist Statement
In this project, I used my everyday life as a map to guide my drawings. I was inspired by the claim that Michel de Certeau makes in The Practice of Everyday Life: Walking in the City”. He says, “Escaping the imaginary totalizations produced by the eye, the everyday has a certain strangeness that does not surface, or whose surface is only upper limit, outlining itself against the visible.” I turned basic movements into steps that completed an art piece. Using my own guidelines gave me control even though I was a mere observer to the moments happening around me.
Key
Line Drawing 1: Draw two diagonal lines in green starting from either corner, working inwards every time someone gets off the subway. Draw a horizontal line in pink, in-between the two lines at the bottom of the "X" every time someone sits in an orange chair on the train.
Line Drawing 2: Every time the barista calls out a drink, draw a vertical line in green. Start from left side of paper. Every time someone orders something, draw a horizontal line in pink. Start from top of paper. Every time someone walks in or out of the door draw a diagnal line in blue. Start from top left corner of paper. Go left and right. Repeat until page is filled.
Line Drawing 3: Draw a vertical line in yellow halfway down the paper when someone enters the dining hall. Draw a vertical line in green halfway up the paper when someone leaves the dining hall. Draw a vertical line in blue halfway down the paper when soemone gets a drink. Draw a vertical line in purple halway up the paper when someone makes a waffle.
Line Drawing 4: Draw a vertical line in orange from left to right every time someone takes the elevator. Draw a horizontal line in blue from top to bottom every time someone takes the stairs.
Line Drawing 5: When a skateboarder does a jump, draw four lines in orange around the perimeter of the paper, without touching. When someone takes a picture in front of the arch, draw four lines in pink around the perimeter of the paper,without touching. When the guy playing piano starts a new song, draw four lines in purple around the perimeter of the paper, without touching. Draw the four last lines in orange, connecting them. When a skateboarder falls down end here.
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges and The World-Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee: Notes
Borges: “Let it suffice now for me to repeat the classic dictum: The Library is a sphere whose exact center is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.” “The thinker observed that all the books, no matter how diverse they might be, are made up of the same elements: the space, the period, the comma, the twenty-two letters of the alphabet. He also alleged a fact which travelers have confirmed: In the vast Library there are no two identical books.” “The Library is unlimited and cynical. If an eternal traveler were to cross it in any direction, after centuries he would see that the same volumes were repeated in the same disorder (which, thus repeated, would be an order: the Order). My solitude is gladdened by this elegant."
Berners-Lee: “Apart from being a place of communication and learning, and a new market place, the Web is a show ground for new developments in information technology.” “The Web does not yet meet its design goal as being a pool of knowledge that is as easy to update as to read. That level of immediacy of knowledge sharing waits for east-to-use hypertext editors to be generally available on most platforms. However, the incredible diversity of information available gives great credit to the creativity and ingenuity of information providers, and points to a very exciting future.”
What I have drawn from these two diverse texts, is that W3 was not anywhere near being as intelligent as the human mind. They way that Borges talks of "The Library", I interpret it as him speaking of the human mind and all the vast knowledge that we as humans have the ability to access. W3 has come a long way since Berners-Lee's article but it stil does not compare to one's unlimited potential knowledge.
The Last Newspaper: Artist in Conversation Sarah Charlesworth, Aleksandra Mir, and Nate Lowman: Notes
Sarah Charlesworth talks of the use of photography in newspapers and how it affects our perspective on history. She talks of a project in which she captured an Eclipse in different towns. She says that it was never the same moment, never the same image. Charlesworth mentions a very significant event and how every newspaper had a different way of telling the same story. She says, “Different newspapers thought different moments were important.” The question of how to record and interpret visual history is debatable. This really changed how I origionally thought I was going to interepret my newspaper project. For the newspaper based on the legacy of my Uncle Dave, I decided to use the background as how the world remembers my uncle. The drawing of us on top is how I remember him. The other newspapers I created were purely from my imagination.
Patterns Artist Statement
The first pattern I chose to create was of an hourglass. On the top of the hourglass there is a sun. On the bottom, there is a moon. My idea through this design was playing with the concept of a glass "half full or half empty" according to when the sun sets and rises. Maybe somone else sees the moon rise and set. My next pattern is of a cloud-shaped pin I own. The pin was of my old logo so it holds a lot of significance in my work. I chose to use the color yellow because I wanted something more light. My last pattern is of two paper airplanes. Paper airplanes mean a lot to me and my best friend. In our favorite TV show, "Boy Meets World", the main character throws a paper airplane at the end of the opening song. To us it symbolizes exploration, growth, and friendship.
Color Response: #A64B17
We're in Wildwood, New Jersey. We've just spent the entire day at the pool and our mom is forcing us to finally get out so we can get ready for dinner. My nephew jumps in one last time just to defy her. I place my hands on the rough concrete outside of the pool and push myself out of the water. The light from the sun reflecting off of our motel hits my face. It's warm; even though the pool has left me shivering. I wrap myself in a towel. My brother and I sit on the patio of our room watching the sunset. There it is again. That burnt orange that warms my skin from head to toe. This is where we're meant to be. This is what we should be feeling everyday. Not just once a year when we all manage to fit this summer vacation into our scheduales. I hear my nieces playing in the room. The smell of my sister's flatiron burns my nose. I want this everyday. I want this specific sunset everyday. I want to see this color everyday...if it means I see it with them.
3-D Model Process
Creating my 3-D model definitly had it's ups and down. When choosing an object, I tried to find something that wasn't too small or too intriquite in detail. The ceramic vase that I made a while ago seemed like the perfect fit although it is slightly glossy. However, shooting the images in the shade helped reduce the glossiness. Metashape was a relatively easy program to work with. I did have to reshoot because the background was getting in the object. The two photographs below are what my model looked like with the first set of images. Reshooting made a huge difference. However, the model still didn't turn out perfect. I would love to try making another 3-D model in the future and see how I improve.
