aww thank you gabrielle! you are doing a great job with acting as well you make me want to cry during down the barrel.
Art Trip
Here are the galleries I wish to vist:
The one intrest me because of the ideas behind the artist. The show is called Deep Wood Drive by Tom Burr. He used materials from his childhood to create this eerie space. The space looks interesting and it relates somewhat to what I am doing. He is transforming a space to the viewer and he is looking on childhood memories. My piece this term is about friendship and I am using my memories to help shape and I want to see what this artist does with it.
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/tom-burr-deep-wood-drive-sculpture
This show called Still by Ryan McNamara interest me because of the process he used. He had people come in give him an object the first few week of the exhibit than in a week he used it to make these sculptures. I want to see how he used the objects people gave him to make art since I would like to incorporate object into my final piece with the bracelets.
http://elizabethdee.com/node/ryan-mcnamara/7741?tpl=tpls/exhibition-installation
The next show I want to see is Ruby Anemics You Can’t Have it All. I was attracted to the show by the images on the website and how it was inspired by the word around him. There not too much of a connection but I might be able to learn how to pull ideas from the friends around me for my final show
http://www.debuckgallery.com/exhibition/16-ruby-anemic-you-can-have-it-all/artworks/#art184
I also am going to see Friend’s Bones, by Kristof Wickman and Chadwick Augustine. They took every day objects and transformed them into new shapes. I want to see how they took simple things and made them into pieces of art. Since I am using a common object I want to see how I can transform it and this show might help me get ideas.
The next show I am going to go to is Divided by Zero which is done by Peter Gregorio, Jong Oh, Esperanza Mayobre. I can not seem to find a lot on this show since it just opened yesterday but the title sounds cool and I like a little mystery.
Bracelets Bracelets Bracelets and more Bracelets
Documentation of the Winter Art show.
Do your friends define who you are?
I have been exploring the idea of friendship for the past few months and what it means. While I was sitting making friendship bracelets it occurred to me do my friends define who I am? To make these simple bracelets that represent friendship I had to use my hands specifically the part where my fingerprint was. I had an idea to use fingerprints to show how a simple thing as friendship can be defined through one single print. Our fingers and hands are used to interact with our friends wither it be through hugging, shaking hands, tickling, writing a letter, making a cake for their birthday, typing gchats to friends, snapping a photo, the list goes on and on. Thumbprints represent our friendships and ourselves.
Back to my main question I posed, do our friends define who we are? Well that is up to you, do your friends have the same qualities as you? Are they what you live for? For me, my friends are people who love, care, and are there for me. When I look at my fingerprints, I think of what they done and where they have been. I have done some amazing things with them: taken photos in California, saved goals, typed college essays… but those actions were for me. What I have done for my friends and with my friends is what truly defines who I am. Editing videos for them, baking cookies with friends, hugging, holding them when they cry, congratulating them, supporting them. Your thumbprint may be different from your best friends, but you share a bond with them based on what you have done together.
Your thumbprint means more than just you. Place it on the wall with pride, knowing that your actions have affected someone beside yourself.
“No two fingerprints are alike.” So if a thumbprint represents one’s friendship, then that means no two friendships are alike, too.
This is an update on where my concentration is going. This is a model of what I would like to do for my finial show. I would like to create a tree figure out of bracelets to represent all the connection we have. I would also like people to be able to step into and look up and see a video that I made.
I got some feedback about how the bracelets might not be enough and to thin to hold up in the space I will be using. They suggested to think of another material to use that might make them thicker or another material to bring in. I am thinking of now what to do and what I could possible bring in to solve this problem. Since there are 6 main stems which represent my family and me I was thinking a repeated object that represents each on of us or a few objects.
It is still in the works.
Artist Statement from the Winter Show
Do your friends define who you are?
I have been exploring the idea of friendship for the past few months and what it means. While I was sitting making friendship bracelets it occurred to me do my friends define who I am? To make these simple bracelets that represent friendship I had to use my hands specifically the part where my fingerprint was. I had an idea to use fingerprints to show how a simple thing as friendship can be defined through one single print. Our fingers and hands are used to interact with our friends wither it be through hugging, shaking hands, tickling, writing a letter, making a cake for their birthday, typing gchats to friends, snapping a photo, the list goes on and on. Thumbprints represent our friendships and ourselves.
Back to my main question I posed, do our friends define who we are? Well that is up to you, do your friends have the same qualities as you? Are they what you live for? For me, my friends are people who love, care, and are there for me. When I look at my fingerprints, I think of what they done and where they have been. I have done some amazing things with them: taken photos in California, saved goals, typed college essays… but those actions were for me. What I have done for my friends and with my friends is what truly defines who I am. Editing videos for them, baking cookies with friends, hugging, holding them when they cry, congratulating them, supporting them. Your thumbprint may be different from your best friends, but you share a bond with them based on what you have done together.
Your thumbprint means more than just you. Place it on the wall with pride, knowing that your actions have affected someone beside yourself.
“No two fingerprints are alike.” So if a thumbprint represents one’s friendship, then that means no two friendships are alike, too.
So leave your mark. Leave your print. And leave yourself, a bit, too.
Finger print painting. Was playing around with the idea of friendship and how it relates to our fingerprints.
Really? I can’t have three fuckin days to myself?
From the art show I few nights ago I will post the statement later.
Update
I will be posting my first painting tomorrow when I get in my studio. It is kinda bad, it was really my first attempt at painting. There are more to come though!
Honors Show
I believe I was just inspired for my finial art show at Peddie due to my roommate and tumblr. Look for a post about in the upcoming future.
This is a little play on a self portrait about coming ourselves and how it can be a beautiful process but a shattering one at the same time.
Next Art Project…
Thinking about taking a 360 once I am done with this friendship project. I have been doing a lot of happy themed art the past few weeks and I want to explore some darker topics. Maybe a look on pageants and what is truly going on…or maybe just the evil in some peoples hearts…or a look on how we treated native americans…
I will come back to this later but for now friendship..what is it?
