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Performance art -------- 🎈What are balloons supposed to do on their days off? 🎈

Artist statement: 🎈what are balloons supposed to do on their days off? 🎈 This project was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed getting in front of an audience. Unfortunately, my idea had to change last minute due to problems with my "whimsical clouds." However, I still think that my project had that sense of whimsy and I really enjoyed the varied responses I received. If I were to do this project again, I would probably change my location. I really wanted to do it where there were a massive amount of people. Unfortunately it was only 11 degrees, so the largest population was at metro. I also would have used pastel colored balloons. Doing this performance piece made me want to work more as a performance artist. Luckily being in the fashion business, I get to work with performance art quite a bit. The real project, wasn't the photos or the gif, but was more about being there to see it in person. However, I had a lot of fun getting to model as a balloon as most people will never do that! I also loved how some of the photos turned out.

Performance art ------- 🎈What are balloons supposed to do on their days off? 🎈

Another interesting viewpoint on performance art comes from Roselee Goldberg. I appreciate that the difficulty to judge performance art in terms of fine art is pointed out. It is really difficult to judge this type of art, in relation to fine art, because it doesn't use the same rules as most other fine art mediums. I think this allows performance art to be so versatile and it should be respected as a medium because of how it pushes boundaries. I also enjoy and agree that performance art and all other art is a reinterpretation of the past, done in the present moment, to inspire future interpretation. It's a cycle that should be respected by all artists in every medium

Vanishing and Becoming

If i could take this project further and make it longer, it might be interesting to do this same concept with multiple different flowers as well as use the whole song. 

found Gaga in movement 

Projection: Vanishing and Becoming I really enjoy how this reading draws a direct line between a projection vanishing and becoming. It implies that a projection is both vanishing and becoming at the same time. I also really enjoy reading about the progress of art in terms of projection. I agree with the reading, that art has been used to create an impact that has a meaning larger than yourself, creating immortal meanings and therefore an immortal self. One thing in the reading however, that I did not connect with was the distinction of subject matter. It stated that in order for it to be a projection the actual subject matter must be absent. Personally, I think that the projection is still the subject matter, no matter how much it is distorted or abstract. I think the essence of the subject matter is the projection that you see, however, that same essence is what you would receive if the subject was shown or if you were in person. Time and Motion Time and motion in art are extremely important. The give extra dimensions to the understanding of any given artwork. I think that motion in art always will imply time. The motion, whether it be actual or implied, helps give the work a sense of movement and direction. As an artist thinking about the movement of a piece, the way something moves can really affect how the audience perceives the piece. The meaning would change whether it moved naturally, mechanically, or by the audience/artist. Likewise, I think time will always imply motion as well. However, I think that time, in art, can also represent the absence of motion. Time, being actual or implied, has the same impact on art as does motion. Again, when an artists is thinking of the time in a piece, how they choose to represent that is also very important to the meaning. The repetition of a segment of time or even the evolution of time and it's affect on the art can change the meaning very easily.