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SP#9

1. What was the most important or moving moment of our class? In other words, what part of this class should I keep to show every student I have in the future?

The most important moment of our class was when we got to meet up, and critique each other’s wearable sculptures. Each project was such a different approach, and representation of our feelings regarding such a wide variety of topics from race issues to the environment. I feel like these projects are different from other semesters because we were restricted to the items within our homes to construct our sculptures. Also these pieces was a product of the amalgamation of being isolated in quarantine and the Black Lives Matter movement. I forgot the name of the person who made this particular piece but I loved her butterfly wings. The collage of broken mirror pieces, wire, and other bits, with the Black Lives Matter written on the back was just attention grabbing, and thought provoking. It was a piece you can look at but also interact with it. I am impressed she built such a complex piece but also made it stable at home. So for future classes, it would be eye opening and compelling for future classes to see how artists reacted to being in quarantine.  

2.What was the most frustrating part of the class?

This class was my first class related to my minor in art. I had received very mixed opinions from other artists who had taken art in college, but I decided to jump the gun, and attend anyways in hopes to make connections with other artists. So I was incredibly frustrated and disappointed this semester was all online. Of course I would rather stay quarantined than have to risk exposure to Covid-19, but it doesn’t take away my frustration of this quarantine continuing into next year. Other than my frustrations stemming from this class being online, I struggled with the “impossible project”. I usually work on a smaller scale, and typically 2D. So to go from painting to planning out, and budgeting a project so large and abstract that it was impossible. I truly struggled with coming up with ideas, and sticking with them. For example instead of my first idea of making an indestructible forest, I went for the customizable mall, which I thought would be easier to budget than to visualize the value of a whole forests worth of metal. 

3.  What are your creative/artistic goals for winter break?

For Christmas this year I am a bit low on funds to buy all my close friends and family gifts, so I decided to make crafts and paint little canvases for them. So far I have created earrings out of polymer clay. I am planning to make little key chains, and paint 3″x5″ canvases to give to some of my friends. Currently I am relatively new to painting with acrylic at such a small scale, and crafting with polymer clay. So for this winter break I want to practice on inking so my lines are strong and clean, and I want to be able to sculp the clay without getting hair or other gunk mixed in. I would also like to transfer my knowledge of faces from a 2D to 3D perspective. 

4.What are your creative/artistic goals for 2021?

For 2021, I chose to take the next semester off to help my family with their new restaurant. Like I believe many other people who are artistically inclined, my dad asked me if I could help him design a logo for said restaurant. I do not have any interest whatsoever in graphic design but if one thing this class taught me is that I need to try it anyways. So for next year I want to learn graphic design so that I can help my dad. I have to make a logo for a Thai restaurant that only does takeout, so I have my work cut out for me. 

I would also like to take this semester to decide if I want to pursue art over my boring computer science degree. Currently I am not too far into my computer science degree to if I dropped out I would not lose much. I know the reason I am so scared to pursue art is because it is a mystery to me. A lot of artists are freelancers, and have to depend on their motivation to create to put bread on the table. On the other hand, computer science majors are basically guaranteed a job right out of college. 

5.What are the first steps towards your goals?

I am a strong advocate for learning art from online tutorials. So for learning graphic design I planning to learn the principles from Youtube and Skillshare. I guess I could say one of my goals is to decide whether or not to pursue art, so for the next semester I want to get some real world experience, and to explore my options in the art world. 

I have currently taken steps for making my art work noticed by being more active on social media, and forcing myself to create more artworks while being mindful of burning out. 

Here is my latest series I am working on and I am planning on finishing out next year! (”Demon Bitches”)

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SP#8 Morning Market

When I was little my next door neigbor would make khao tom mad, which is a banana covered in sticky rice and wrapped in a banana leaf. Early the next morning she would take me to the morning flea market to sell them. She always set up shop near her friends, and we would hang out with them as the morning crowd came in. For my art piece, I want to represent the people and their livelihoods that rely on the success of this morning market.

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SP#7 Impossible Ideas

1. Have only thumbs

2. Everyone in the world wears only blue jeans

3. Land the moon on earth

4. Everyone jump in the ocean to create a tidal wave

5. Create a human chain across the ocean

6. Hold hands with your past self

7. Watch all the movies ever created

8. Spit across mountains

9. Recreate Mt. Everest with a spoon

10. Drop and roll all the way up a mountain

11. Go to the other side of the world in 10 seconds

12. Make edible soup with cyanide

13. See the afterlife without dying

14. Time travel via car

15. Ride a T-rex

16. Sing forever

17. Drink water from the moon

18. Fish all the fish in the ocean

19. Swim to the bottom of the Mariana Trench

20. Float in lava

21. Jump on quick sand like a trampoline

22. Go to the Earth’s core

23. Do a cartwheel in the vacuum of space

24. Only travel by jumping on couches

25. Run somewhere but go nowhere

26. Go up the stairs in the woods, find out where it goes

27. Go into the other side of the mirror

28. Crawl on the sky

29. Blow away clouds 

30. Fight the gods

31. Be a shapeshifter

32. Float like a balloon

33. Dig through the ground like a mole

34. Replace air with water

35. Reverse all the elements

36. Do a billion pushups

37. Jump to the top of the tallest building

38. Collapse time

39. Go into a building that no longer exists

40. Hold a conversation with a person that is no longer here

41. Talk to the dead as a dead person

42. Go into the basement of a house without a basement

43. Go live in a different universe

44. Jump between planets

45. Build a house on the sun

46. Remake the Giza pyramids out of humans

47. Make a dress out of air

48. Be 4 million people

49. Walk a billion mosquitoes on one leash

50. Make a backpack that can carry the solar system

51. Hold a singular atom

52. Become the nucleus of a cell

53. Eat radiation 

54. Roll the earth flat

55. Make all the stars star shaped

56. Suck up all the air on earth

57. Play musical chairs with a whole country

58. Become a 50 feet tall cyclops

59. Put wind in a bag

60. Make the ocean reach the core of the earth and make cobblestone

61. Cut stone into thin slices

62. Make a door as big as the earth and open it

63. Use an umbrella to fly

64. Sit on a star

65. Fly via breath

66. Worldwide dance party

67. Shifted the world and make it collide with Venus

68. Send all boys to Mercury

69. Gift wrap Pluto

70. Carry molten lava 

71. Eliminate all mental illness

72. Everyone stand still, nothing moves

73. Make your blood stop

74. Be immortal

75. combine water and oil 

76. eliminate night time

77. Make the sun a long tube

78. Cut a slice of earth like a cake

79. Restart history

80. Make a list of a million impossible things 

81. Make a goldfish run as fast as a horse

82. Have a million dogs

83. Fit all the animals of the world onto one boat

84. Stop all natural disasters

85. Use a straw to blow away all tornadoes 

86. Name a hurricane a masculine name

87. Start a country that will last forever

88. Listen to a hundred people at once

89. See through a person

90. Be invisible

91. Run through time

92. Do the impossible

93. Be born again

94. Be a squid

95. Be born perfect

96. Delete the world

97. Undo everything you have ever done

98. Create every possible idea 

99. Have a million babies

100. Undo having a million babies

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“Suffocation Idiot”(Performance Art Project #2)

 In this pandemic, millions of people are isolated from society. The span of the pandemic has been lengthened because of a few select people refusing to wear a mask, and exacerbating the ability to wear a mask. In my video, "Suffocation Idiot", it is a satirical take on non-masker's over dramatization of being unable to breath with a mask on. This caricature I created is based on a certain group of people that willingly believe lies and turn a blind eye to society to follow their own selfish ideals. The makeup I put on to conceal the tape over my face is to illustrate these people's ability to deny and blend into society.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTXt2XYaIbA

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US border wall performance art

         After watching Tanya Aguiniga’s performance piece, “Metabolizing the Border”, I am intrigued with her message about people who find themselves trapped by the border, forced to live it and breathe it. I would love to expand on that topic by having two people stand on either side of the wall breathing through connected tubes. It will be a similar contraption to Aquiniga’s invention but the two people breathing tubes will be connected to one another. The other aspects such as the shoes, and goggles should be connected but the goggles should be foggy. It will be a mix of her piece where she hugged the border and the glass breathing contraption. 

         As someone, who’s family migrated to the U.S. I will always feel connected to my relatives that live in my home country. I can’t imagine them being across a metal border instead of a gigantic ocean. To be so close to your family but unable to see them is painful, and to breath the same air but not see them is even worse. Many families are torn apart when moving to another country, and eventually lose contact. I feel like this performance will visualize how families are still connected through the border, and bring attention to how families are torn apart.

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name: Toyol

Age: Unknown, but exhibits behavior of an young child

—————Special behavior——————

Becomes intensely jealous when threatened by the presence of another child

intentionally self isolates in attempt to escape

refuses but craves physical touch

experiences night terrors on a daily basis

Refuses to sleep without being surrounded by stuffed animals

Will change bodies depending on mood

Controlled by the parent, but will rebel when angered

Unable to talk to other children

Insides are pink

Only wakes up at night

Becomes anxious easily

Usually silent but will talk when prompted

Family is financially unstable

Experiences great anxiety when a large sum of money is spent

Enjoys only plain food

Despises sweet foods/candy

Emotionally mature

Can go long periods without eating

Traumatic childhood

Attempts to connect with others but fails to form relationships

Gets lonely easily

Loves honey in small portions

Tries to emulate cartoon characters

Loves shows about family

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“Narcissister Organ Player” response

     In the production “Narcissister Organ Player”, the artist Narcissister written, directed and produced an intriguing documentary exploring her relationship with her mother and her identity as a person of color. Narcissister’s performances usually include a series of costume changes, lewd imagery, and bizarre choreography to convey a narrative abstractly related to themes from her own life. The artist expressed she does not have a particular message in mind when she creates these productions, and explains she performs to convey she is free. 

     Narcissister parents, particularly her mother played a large role in her creative process. Her mother was a Sephardic Jewish woman from Morocco, and her father was an African-American man. Due to their ethnic backgrounds, her parents experienced racism and xenophobia from a young age. Subsequently, in their later life, they actively worked against stereotypes and social bias. Sadly, Narcissister was not spared from experiencing similar hardships as her parents. In her “Hungry Performance”, she dresses up as one of her secondary aliases named “Kath Winter”. She claims she chose the name because it reminded her of the typical rich white lady that she dreamed to be when she was a child. Growing up in a predominantly white suburban neighborhood, she grew to hate her skin tone and curly hair because it made her different from her peers. Reflected in “Kathy Winter’s” performance where Narcissister viciously consumes a vegetable and proceeds to rip off her persona, she works to convey her desperation as a child to conform through hunger. By ripping off her persona, she conveys the futility of her desire to conform.

      Throughout the documentary, multiple of Narcissistor’s performances make an appearance. However, the performances concerning her relationship to her mother are exceedingly complex and captivating. As her mother grew older in age, and their family grew further apart due to responsibilities to their own lives, Narcissister worked to include her mother in her life. Narcissister’s philosophy was her mother needed a sense of fulfillment, and through including her mother in her work, she could grant her mother gratification. Before her mother’s death, Narcissister included her mother in many of her productions and rehearsals. Despite appearing on stage, her mother only appeared to the side, and often knitting. Narcissister’s strongest performance was her venture through a representation of her mother’s body. Starting by climbing up the straight brown braided hair to reach the opening of a mouth, she portrayed her desire as a child to have hair like her mother. After reaching the opening of the mouth, she slides down a makeshift esophagus and proceeds to travel through the digestive track. At the end, she is discharged from her mother’s bowels onto the floor amongst several brown excrement pillows. Enclosed in an excrement costume, she is showing how she has been shaped by her mother, and later expressed her eagerness to “return home”. 

       Narcissister’s performances are sexual, unnerving, and often times repulsive. However, the creativity of the costume changes and ambiguity of her work is captivating. Watching her artistic displays of the woman’s body and underlying feminist message is a fun and new way of exploring POC women’s relationship with themselves. 

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1. Snapping a celery stalk

2. My dog laying on my back

3. The sound of rain against the roof

4. A warm breeze while I lay in a hammock

5. A sunny day during winter

6. Floating on water

7. Freshly shaved legs against freshly washed sheets

8. The cold side of the bed

9. Molding clay

10. A solid poop log

11. Tapping my nails against a hard surface

12. Munchy on a crunchy

13. A cat rubbing on my leg

14. My dog in the crook of my arm

15. The snap, crack and pop of oil in a wok

16. Seamlessly opening a snack bag

17. Neatly ripping up paper into uniform strips

18. Standing up and stretching which leads to all my bones cracking

19. My tongue against my teeth after my braces were taken off

20. Clipping my nails

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Completed Social Distancing Project

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SP#3 Performance Art

110. Color Piece

Rub your hands in your favorite color

touch the thing you love most

186. Snoring Piece

Plug your nose

Sleep on the train

159. Animal Piece

Think of an animal

Write it down then eat it

100. Cannon Piece

Make a cannon out of anything

Place it anywhere

See anyone shoot it anywhere

136. Clock Piece

To exist outside of time

Go into a room with clocks

Change one clock to the future

Change one clock to the past

Change the last one to the time you love most

103. Sleeping Piece I

Set an alarm

Tell people to wake you

Think of things to wake up to

Sleep

203. Chimney Piece

Find a chimney

Scream until someone comes down

77. Painting to See The Room

Go from room to room

Think of each room

Make it one room

169. Paper Folding Piece

Write anything on the paper

Fold it once then pass it on

Have the next person do the same

32. Tape Piece IV

Tape a tape

Peel or listen

173. Touch Poem for Group of People

Touch the last place someone touched you on someone else

Continue for any set amount of time

222. Dance Piece

Move until you are dancing

Stay still until you can't

81. A plus B Painting

Cut two paintings into squares

put them together

220. Air Talk

Blow bubbles between two people

Let the air from their words float them up

124. Cloud Piece

Follow the clouds until you find what you need

40. Echo Telephone Piece

Call someone over the speaker

Find a large empty room

Set the phone down and leave

120. Whisper Piece

Whisper into the grass and let the wind carry your words

Listen to what they tell you tomorrow

51. Line Piece II

Draw a line of any size on the wall

Have the next person come in and draw another line

Continue until the lines connect

221. Dance Piece for Stage Performance

Pick a person from the audience

Dance only for them

156. Light Piece

Stand at the end of a rainbow

Or stand in a spot until a rainbow forms

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My work explores the fetishization of East Asian women. I want to convey the gross dehumanization and manipulation by Western society through food so I made the choice to illustrate Asian women as food. From my own experience, I have seen people pick and choose which parts they like about Asian women, similar to how we pick at our food. 

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Sketchbook prompt #2 9/8/2020

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4.written paragraph

I went into my bathroom, ready to start my long nightly routine. I started by gargling my mouthwash for a minute straight, after washing out the burning sensation the Listerine left, I began to brush my teeth. After my last cleaning appointment where my dentist told me my gums were receding and I had 4 cavities, I immediately bought an electric toothbrush and floss. Since then I have been religiously brushing my teeth at a 45 degree angle, while letting my brush glide over my teeth without exerting excessive amounts of pressure. To finish it off I floss my teeth, making sure to swirl the string around to not leave any debris behind. I put in my retainers and dental guard. My dentist also said I grind my teeth at night. After I put in the night guard I can’t even close my mouth. It’s almost comical looking at myself in the mirror with my mouth agape.

5. Names

One Unibrush to Win Them All

Staying safe 24/7 during quarantine

Dirty bathroom, clean teeth

45 degrees. No pressure