#contextaltersmeaning

For the associative areas I wanted to place the work in different areas that could also work for displaying art. Doing this assignment helped me realize that some “contradictory” areas can actually be associative. They both work hand in hand together and it was interesting to see. My favorite example of this is the painting on the staircase. It is placed in a way that it does not disturb so it is associative but if I would’ve placed it a little further towards the middle it would’ve been contradictory. I also had fun finding different areas to photograph. I was able to find an area that made the painting neon which was also very interesting.

For this part of the project I chose these 5 contradictory places for my artwork. It is not somewhere where it would make really sense to be in nor is a place where you would easily find this type of things. I chose a very natural setting for most of them however they seem out of place and not as delicste as the art piece in my opinion evokes.

For this part of the project I chose these 5 associative places that to an extent could make sense to be around this art piece or it would make sense for this piece to be placed at. Places like my car. The trunk. A religious altar. a recycling bin. Or another piece of artwork. I chose these because for example thats where this piece has passed most of it's days. Traveling with me inside my car. This piece has a little bit of a biblical feeling. Something that would portray some sort of a religious portrait. A recycling bin I chose because of the materials, properties and possibilities of this piece. And the other piece of artwork I thought it could go well because it is an intricate form that goes along well with my piece.

This assignment motivated me to really think about how the placement of a piece can alter/add to the meaning.  My approach to this assignment was simple, I wanted to capture the piece in places you wouldn’t really expect a 2-D art piece to be, while in some cases trying to be sort of comedic about it. Some of the images taken relate to the actual subject matter and ideas of the piece while others are farther from it but add a different perspective to it.  Of course I kept in mind the actual assignment of bringing the piece to contradictory and associative places. I thought at the end of this process the work would be destroyed (I was not gentle with it) which would have added some meaning to it but it’s still intact and even still I think this sort of adds the idea of the medium being resilient even though it is only paper...a degradable,(usually) fragile item.  At a point it was hard for me to distinguish the difference between the two. I was thinking by bringing an art piece out of the “formal setting” of say a gallery, into the general public; isn’t it all associative?-- In the aspect that when it becomes “public” you always have an audience as you would in a formal setting.  Overall I like a lot of the images and videos I was able to capture in pretty much all ways they have that aspect of the unexpected. 

For this exercise I wanted to show five pictures that associates/ contradicts with my work “How I see myself” which it reflects of myself whenever I think of uncertainty. For the associated pictures I went with objects that might weigh my work into a more pessimistic feel, like the use of shadows, a ripped off branch and the trash. Also I asked my brother to take a picture covering his face with the canvas as a sign of ‘not feeling myself’. In contract with the contradictory images I was aiming for a more positive light. 

Context Alters Meaning - Contradictory

Context Alters Meaning: Associative