#languageproject

When talking about it and looking at the project before the changes, I knew that I needed to add more to it. I drew a few new things to add more to the story and the message of the art work. I still used multi-colored oil pastels, and then I transferred them digitally. Before, I had 4 frames, and now I have 6 frames. The first picture in the artwork  has the two rabbits, about to fall in love, meeting and looking at each other for the very first time. The second frame contains the bunnies being in love and kissing. In the third one, there is an arrow flying across. The fourth one shows that one of the rabbits was shot by this arrow. In the fifth frame, we can see that the rabbit has dies as a result of the incident and the tree behind it has died along with it. In the last one, it shows the other bunny, which is still alive, visiting the spot that it spent time with the other bunny and witness its’ unfortunate death. The tree in the background is still dead with absolutely no leaves on it. I would also like to add that for the meaning of this project. In many cases, when someone you love dies, a part of yourself dies as well. For future projects, I would like to do more digital and similar to Graphic Design, but I don’t know if I would do any more drawing.

Language Project - Rabbits in Love

I can imagine continuing this line of research. Creating objects with text, that tie into a concept that the viewer gets to enjoy and explore.

One of the strengths of the finished project was that compositionally it was sound. One weakness that O has gathered was my conceptual idea didn’t shine through as well as I had hoped it would. The many interpretations of the finished project were very skewed from the original. That came from me omitting the poem that it was based on. One suggestion that I plan on implementing is the inclusion of words and more importantly the poem that the entire project was based on. I definitely expanded my skills in Adobe Illustrator, with the knowledge I had acquired from Ad127 which I am currently taking and youtube videos. I also learned how to convey strong emotions through images. That’s something that I've never really delved into when creating. Most of my work is straightforward and doesn’t have a lot of emotive messages behind it so, it was interesting and difficult for me to combine two things (art and poetry). I definitely would like to see all of what I can create using my poetry and visual artistic ability. I would take the idea that Professor Wind suggested and try to present the finished project in a different way. She suggested since I drew my inspiration from an album cover to possibly put it on a vinyl cover. So, I might dig deeper into how I can get one printed that way and how it might add to the message.

My project was created in adobe illustrator. I narrowed in on heartbreak and ran with that idea. I had poems that I created and I took bits and pieces of those to create the concept that I wanted. One palm in particular that was the pinnacle point of how my contact list created was my poem “Side effects of a Heartbreak”. Are use a silhouette of version of myself and placed it in my project to make it more personal as well as using my own forms to function as a foundation of whether idea stemmed from.

I am going to find individuals that do a great job telling stories and who know how to paint pictures with their words. I’ll give them a prompt and capture what they say. My intention is to invoke a strong emotional response from the viewers. I think by having ordinary people speaking and how the video may be cut it should be able to allow for the viewer to relate. Being able to do this through words accompanied with a simple but visually entertaining imagery will help with the emotional response. 

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In this reading the author talks about how language art can go hand in hand. The author states, ”Visiting the exhibition, a viewer conclude that the incorporation or language in visual art is a common strategy among contemporary artist working in various printed formats.” They’re saying that visual art has taken over the contemporary art scene and is being more incorporated in this art period versus others. A major artist that made a big breakthrough with adding language into the art was Marcel Duchamp. The author quoted Kristine Stiles who said “In 1917, Marcel Duchamp…. had already defined an artist as someone able to rethink the world and remake meaning through language rather than someone who produces handcrafted visual objects for ‘retinal pleasure’.” I interpreted this quote as styles saying that an artist is someone who represents language in a different form versus just creating something that’s entertaining to the audience. Art should be something that tells a story or relays some form of information to the audience and isn’t there in the form is entertainment. Reading further into the chapter the author speaks of artist statements also being way of documenting work. It’s a form of showing the art creation or the prices of in which the art was created and what it was created for, “the documentation commemorates a static artwork in its completion.” this formal documentation also ensures that the art lives on in a different form than what way it was presented to the audience.