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TIME animation

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PLACE COLLAGE....images used through photographs from social media to convey my ideal place

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Place Reading Response

It is quite different how each types of artists can view the idea of place. Where would each of their mind maps start? What ideas surface when the “basic” concept place is given. Place can be just about anything. Historical, imaginative, figurative, locational, mental, and even abstract. When I first read this piece, it helped me to expand what an artist can use with such a word. Thinking of a place where it has a specific meaning with the artist themselves or with a targeted audience. The passion behind an idea like this is speechless. There are so many ideas and thoughts that cross my mind from this piece. What if an artist used a place that affected them negatively vs positively? A place where a culture was impacted or a group of people? Is the place a place for their mind to escape or for them to recreate reality. Like the other concepts. It is such an amazing idea to comprehend how many ways to go at a concept matter.

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Post critique: Identity

I love how positive everyone can be during critique. I definitely loved the feedback I got on pieces that were very important to me. It was nerve wrecking to share insecurities of mine, as that makes me feel vulnerable. But to hear that others feel the same way I do made me feel better. The only thing overall I would say about todays critique, is I was hoping for some “negative” feedback, as to how I can make the pieces stronger. I do feel like the pieces could go even further, but I was not sure how. 

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Post critique: LANGUAGE

I enjoyed the feedback I got from my piece. This was a new media for me, and I thoroughly agreed with the comments made. I think it is a great idea for me to exaggerate the scale of my letters. Doing that would enhance what I feel like I wanted my poster to make the audience feel. Another wonderful idea was to make the size of my canvas HUGE. It made me think, how would I present this in an exhibit? Words are a powerful thing, and the emotions my poem make me feel do not compliment an 11 1/2in x 8in size. It would be amazing to see this to be ridiculously big, almost more like 11 FT x 8 FT. That would be one powerful piece.

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IDENTITY PROJECT

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PROJECT 2-- LANGUAGE

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Identity Response

Identity is such an important aspect in life. It defines who you are. Someone owns identity can have varies categorizations based on genders, sex, involving in a group, religion, choices, lifestyle, ideas, etc. Without identity we would be bland. BUT there is also a very annoying catch to society needing people to have an identity, following with labels. Labels with identity are harmful to individuals, groups, and society as a whole. Labels create differences, and create boxes which then people feel trapped rather than feeling they have the freedom in expression to emphasis their identity without being bashed.

With art, identity goes into many different directions. From portraiture to self expression portraits. Frida Kahlo is a beautiful example of identity. That woman expressed her culture, feelings, sexuality, gender, and more into her works of art. She used her identity to her advantage. She was not afraid to show the world who she was and what she was born into. 

Reading this article you can definitely see into the many ways artists can express their identity in different forms. They can be abstract, straight forward, or simply have no connection overall. Identity can even be expressed through the type of material and medium an artist can use. What they feel strong towards. Maybe performance is what will truly magnify their identity? In those cases the art piece is tremendously stronger when the artist implies themselves. Artists are amazing when their brains start going because it wont stop till they feel like it has been fully expressed.

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intent statement

My idea for project two, is to photograph objects, symbols, and words that I use throughout my life. For example, using my shampoo bottle, brand names, and other products.  Or to photograph words and letters in a real world sense and  to take pictures around of signs, and make it into a poem, either using only different letters or the entire word.

Here is an example: “whole foods, target, hungry howies, fresh thyme, at home, 5 below” At home is the target to fresh food.

Something of that sort. 

This idea overall by using the labels and words in order to represent my own feelings, a general feeling, or a specific feeling. 

A good example of what I am trying to do is a Haiku, which is defined as: “ a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. “

Or another good example would be like what a cheesy killer would do is cut up magazine letters and create a note. 

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Time Project Update

So far I have been looking into color scheme, type of plant I would like to draw, and debating on if I would like to add words or not to my comic strip. I decided on a comic strip because as much as I wish I could do animation, I suck.

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3 Language Ideas

I just wanted to post this to let you know, I am trying to brainstorm ideas. Will update ASAP when I can get ideas going.. I am struggling lol

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Language Research

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V76psBrEypg&list=RDV76psBrEypg&start_radio=1

This is throat singing that originated from Tuva (in East Siberia). Throat singing is such a beautiful form of language. The vocal range that can be extended to create such amazing sounds that we would not think to know. This group presented themselves in traditional clothing and shared their culture with a very respectful audience.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA2ujyz4BrM&list=RDV76psBrEypg&index=2

This is a group named Olox, which is also Siberian. In this video, they combine their traditional clothing, and singing with a modern song. Preforming at an event like America’s Got Talent is something that will capture an audiences first experience and expression at this type of music. To be able to share their culture through singing is a beautiful experience.

3. http://www.melbochner.net/exhibitions/

Mel Bochner is a conceptual artist who used words in their works. These words show his personality thoroughly. I honestly find it kind of humorous the types of words he uses in his works like “blah”. I feel like you have to know your way in the art path and know how to talk about your work in order to get a word like that out and about and popular, and even take talent to make it look interesting. 

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Joseph Kosuth does word based art as well, he is also a conceptual artist. This artist has used neons signs and words as their works of art. Now, in my opinion, no matter how many art classes I take, I will never understand how great these art pieces are. I do not get the popularity in these simplistic works. 

5. 

This piece of work is made by Bruce Nauman. Looking at his works of art make more sense in the popularity to me than the previous artist. Nauman’s artworks are thought provoking and theme based. I would want to stand in front of his pieces and look and think about what the work makes me feel.

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pre-project writing

What forms of language interest you most?

The form of language that comes to mind that I am most interested in is Mongolian, Inuktitut, and more that have to do more specifically throat singing in their cultures. It is a very beautiful form of expression in using no actual form of words, yet it can tell a story. 

What are some of the many different ways to tell a story?

There are countless ways to tell a story, throat singing is one way using a wide variety of the human voice range to execute a story through music. We also even have symbolic ways to tell a story like cave paintings, or even hieroglyphics. Some other ways are simply written text, and vocalization between people. 

How might you define a book?

A book is a work of art used through pages of different forms of communication in order to tell a story, in different ways, whether it be fictional or nonfiction.

What type of information do you want in your project?

Culture. I feel that is the most important aspect of language to focus on with art. I feel culture is often lost once a form of language becomes “popularized”. For example, If you were to show a random person throat singing, they may be taken aback and judgmental, for the lack of culture behind it that they do not understand.

Imagine being someone else (a 7 year old with dreams of being a superhero, the president of a foreign country, your grandmother, a contemporary artist that intrigues you). Write a 10-sentence short story from your imagined persona’s perspective. Your short story can work as a narrative, a list, a database, a timeline, etc.

We come to a country, expecting a better or even different life. Things seem to be going fine, my family and I start to adjust. While going to a shop, my mom seems to look constantly frustrated as she reads a sign on the wall, she turns to someone nearby “What does this say? I am having a hard time understanding” I read it myself, it was in a different language and I knew a bare amount of it. Before I could react, someone who overheard us interrupted. In their native language, they lash out on us. They pointed fingers and were angry. From what I picked up they were telling us to get out of their country or learn their language, otherwise we did not belong. Belong? In a country so free?

When it comes to language, this is the one thing that came to my mind to write about. How shitty America is when it comes to helping others. Americans tend to be so harsh on those who are trying, and even if they are not trying it is not our business as a person. Even when those who do not speak english ask for help, they are not unintelligent, and it is not hard to try and find other forms of communication in order to help someone. English is very difficult. America is “supposed” to be welcoming of everyone. But really Americans only want to welcome those who look like and talk like “them”. 

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Reading 2-- Language

While reading this section on language, the reading itself helped me to understand how amazing language actually is when you think about it. After reading this it helps me to understand that we as humans do not take enough advantage at our accessibility to our own language and other languages. Humans do not take the time to appreciate the hundreds of years put into to create these languages. Without any form of language, we would lack a wide range of communication skills. We would lack resources, education, basic skills, and everything that has to do with being taught with language. Language is not just the sounds that come out of your mouth, it is everything that has to do with what makes living beings, living. Specifically with humans, in any scenario, there are ways we find to use language with others. For example, if they are deaf we use sign language, and even though the blind can hear, there are barriers they face, hence why we have braille. 

There are many languages that have words that explain a feeling, an emotion, and other intense moments that we think have no words. For example, the word: Saudade. Which means: the feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia. This word belongs to Portuguese and Galician language. A word like this does not have a place in the English language. With that being said, when it comes to other languages, artists have almost this advantage, where they are exposed to such intricate words that have a sentence of a meaning that we will never know and they use that because it is in their vocabulary. They know words that exactly help get their thought process going. The English language can be compared to artists block, where we struggle to find that sweet word because it does not exist, and you can feel stuck without being able to accurately explain how you feel. 

Citation: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/12-unique-words-and-their-meanings

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Project intent

My idea for this project is to animate a flower growing from a seed, and from then on animate the way it grows and then within its life cycle, have there be a twist. The idea is how time affects living things in so many ways yet when we don’t observe it enough because it can happen so fast. We don’t appreciate life as much as we think we do and we take advantage of time. We expect there to be endless time, and that life will work with us instead of how it works on its own. We expect there to be more time than there actually is. From the smallest of plants and insects to human beings, everything has an end. We should observe and appreciate as much as we can.

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Pre-Writing Response

Anna Siewicki

Before the reading, I was thinking of time and the one thing that was popping in my head was a clock. Which is a very unoriginal idea. While reading, and even afterwards I can view time as being quite a large concept. Time is a bit tricky. Time can mean anything, it can be known within a piece of work or it can be difficult to pinpoint where time plays, especially without knowing background information. Depending on what medium you use as well, that can play into time. For example, if you use something that is perishable. 

The fact that cultures have various ideas of time is absolutely fascinating. Cultures intertwine with religion as well, which creates even more variety. For the hundreds of different religions, the stories tell time in itself, with different births, emerging groups, changing behaviors, and more. Within various cultures there is always tradition passed down into new generations. Traditions themselves can be used as a subject with time, and with different traditions, it can be acquainted with being the same for generations or if it changed. It is absolutely beautiful how artists who grow up with a strong culture and religion use it in their works. Time is subjective, which feeds into an artists creativity. Artists with shared or individual ideals and identities within a religion or culture can use time to their advantage and take it however they like. 

Even after the reading, I found it inspiring to view time in different ways. Like using the past for time, using the present, the future, or all three together. Using the idea of evolution, or the idea of stages in life. This reading gave me a good handful of different understandings of time.

I did not have difficulty with the reading at all, the most difficult of the reading if all, is some of the vocabulary is hard to follow sometimes. 

Three project ideas

My first idea is observing the growth of a plant. I think its beautiful the way a plant grows. I wanted to lay each layer for every growth. So each change overlaps the next. Giving focus to a new leaf or even an opening bloom of a flower. I think nature is often overlooked and not observed enough for the amount of energy the plant gives to itself.

 My second idea would play off how I feel during the day. I would want to do a simple illustration that does not have to look like me, rather convey my daily emotions with expression and color. And same as the first idea, I think overlapping the daily paintings give time an existence. I feel like emotion is very important as humans. It defines us by the way we react, express, internalize, and how we deal with what we feel. 

My third idea, which is not my strongest because I am not sure how I would run with it. Would be to make something around the idea of how time seems to never have an end when it does for everything. Connecting this idea with grief, especially losing someone without it being expected. Not knowing when your time with someone will abruptly end.

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Painting of one of my cats, with one of my favorite plants 😉 watercolor on paper