#critiquedocumentation

I’m not completely confident in what this should all say but I wanted to talk about why I did this.  My artist Rebecca Campbell was very set on her ways in wanting to create what she wanted to create.  She was told many times not to do something because it was risky for her work.  However, she chose not to heed to the suggestions and did what she wanted.

When I started this semester, I wanted to prove that I was an artist by trying a different method.  Tina told me that I wasn’t doing it for myself and that if I did my studio project on something besides photography or video, then she would give me a poor grade.  I wanted to follow her direction, but as the semester continued to unfold in chaos, I began to draw and paint for myself.  I was proud of what I was doing and it was for me and only me.  So I decided to pursue these mediums alongside my photography.  Technically, I am rebelling like Rebecca Campbell and that is where my original idea came from, but I honestly fell in love with drawing and painting to express my favorite things.  

A FEW OF MY FAVORITE VIEWS

The title of this series is “A Few Of My Favorite Things”.  I took photos of three views that have significance in my life and either painted them with gouache or drew them with pencil.  All three are on the 9″x12″ art paper from the studio.

“View from home” is the view from my Jessup room.   I know my weakness is sunsets so I decided to add an artistic flare of such a bold sunset.  While it is stereotypical to what a sunset is, I couldn’t express the many different sunset views I had this school year. The thing with this place is that it is the only place I’ve called home over the last 2 years.  And while that is a tough reality, this view has been significant for me.

“View from Quarantine” is from Nebraska.  I’ve been in SIP here for 3 weeks and we spent countless quarantine days walking in the middle of nowhere.  I realized that this time of life is really hard but also shifting the way we will live life from now on. But this unique situation is not something I want to forget, and I wanted to capture one of these views of the cornfield. 

“View from my Point of View” is of two of my nieces. Being an Aunt is the greatest job I have ever had in my life.  I captured this moment of my babes as they watched their parents, aunties, and uncles (3 of my sisters and 2 of their significant others) zip line across the mountain.  I hadn’t seen them in over a year and a half (the one on the right I got to see 6 month before) and I had never spent so much time away from them besides when I lived in Russia.  This moment captured my heart and I wanted to draw them simply, and not complicate it through painting that I did not feel like I could do properly.

Title: “Created to Create”

Medium: Photography & Display Design

Title: “Luminescence”

Material/Medium: Photography

“Unsympathetic” - painting by Donnie Hedrick - acrylic on canvas - 11 in x 14 in 

Studio Project 1

title: fill me up with Your love

Dimension: 8x10

So, after weeks of figuring out how to best document my work in the spaces that we have available to us, I finally had to show something for what I presented.

The first image: how the works were laid out in a space together (never mind the extra background equipment).

Next 6 images: close-ups of: Untitled | ceramics and found objects pedestals.

Next image: Untitled , raw clay, bisque ware, glazed ceramics, 2′ 6″ x 2′ 6″