Last Blog for the Semester...

I defiantly feel like I accomplished more than I thought I would at the beginning of the semester. My work took a different direction from last semester and I am very happy with the outcome of my work. I was surprised by the difference and affect that the eye scans had once they became more of an organic object rather than identifiable one. I was also surprised about the color changes that evolved within my work over this semester.

Weakest

As far as the weakest I think this one was I have since then created some changes... I added a light source allowing the area around the chair to be brighter. I have also taken away some of the blueish purple color around the veins in front of the chair.

Strongest Work

I think that this is one of the stronger pieces because I was able to manipulate the veins to create more depth. I also really like the color choices in this one the best.

Changes

I've Made some changes to this one as far as the color and making it lighter still working on integrating the veins more into the base board as if they are creeping over in a way.....

Art & Life

I think that the link between art and life is hidden. We all have a process which might be a connection but what influences us in life is different, which makes that link harder to find. Art is a form of thinking and art comes from thinking about the world around us. What happens in our lives the things that we come across personally is only a piece of the link between art and life.

Artists that Inspire me...

The first artist that inspires me is Doris Salcedo. She is an installation artist who responds to the conflict and violence that happens daily in the country of Colombia where she lives. Her work deals with her being a witness to people who are being controled by fear within her Colombian society. In her work she uses materials such as concrete, animal skin, and clothing. She also uses a number of found objects such as doors, chairs, and shoes. She inspires me by using her art and making it become this voice for the people who were silenced in her country.

This piece is called Atrabiliarios each object within her work implies a nameless person. The person that these objects or articles of clothing belonged too. Each of these shoes is placed inside the wall and then covered by animal skin which is stitched into the wall. All of these shoes once belonged to women who disappered. They are ment to be the persistent memory for those women who are lost.

Living Room

I took the glasses out.... Not sure if I even really liked them? I tried adding in other things such as books but I kind of like it better without the extra item.

Jessica Somers

I really enjoyed Jessica Somers series Bend So Not to Break her images are Ziatype prints on salted cotten paper which creates surface marks on the images which are very interesting. In her work she wants to explore the balance between the choices we make and the things that interfere with those choices. I like the way that her process also deals with her content the chemicals invovled with the prints and the salted cotten paper allow for an uncontrolled outcome
just like the imagery in her work. Her is an example of one of her images called Motherhood

Changes...

Here are some of the changes I have made... I added more purple seeping out of the doorway also I have changed the weather on the outside of the windows by adding another eye scan in behind them. I like the purple seeping onto the floor I still feel like it needs more purple? I'm still experimenting with it. The windows however I'm not quite sure about yet they seem a little too dark? Any suggestions?

The Living Room

This is my newest one so I tried messing around with the saturation of the picture and lightning the area with the Dodge tool but I am having a hard time lighting up the back of the chair.... Other than that I really like the direction that I am headed....

The Doorway...

This is what I have been working on this week... Im not sure if I like the purple in the doorway??? Any suggestions or comments would be great!

Crit went well today I feel like I'm headed in a good direction!! I just need to keep working... I plan on trying some of things that were suggested today and I defiantly will be posting more of my work soon!!

An Empty Room

This is what I have been working on its still a work in progress. I really liked the idea of incorperating my reformatory pictures with my eye scans. So I thought I would try it out and this is what I came up with... I liked how my eye scan becomes more of a texture then a part of the background.

Ideas for the semester

This semester I plan on continuing to work with eye scans. For those of you new to the class I have been able to access scans from inside the eye that I then scan into the computer and manipulate digitally. I would like to focus on not taking as much away from the original eye scans as I did last semester things like keeping the notch in the corner. I thought about trying to make this series indoors but im not sure yet...

A single footstep will not make a path on earth

In crit we were talking about how I should incorperate things that people leave behind so in this one I chose to use a book/journal representing all of the places this person has either read about and wants to go or a journal representing where they have been and written down experiences. On the book I wrote a qoute which says "A single footstep will not make a path on earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." by Henry David Thoreau

Here is what I have been working on I added the shadow of the trees and made the grass extend more into the background!

Stairway

I started this today. some of the things metioned in my Jr. Review were that the viens in the eye scans don't always have to represent trees. So I tried playing around with that idea today and this is what I came up with. I'm not done with this yet and any commets or suggestions would be great.

More changes...

I used the gradient tool to darken the background and the grass. Instead of the clouds I added a few stars in the sky they are hard to see in this picture but they are there.

Road Trip

This is my most recent image. I'm not sure what else I'm going to do with it yet. I was thinking that I might add clouds into the sky?!?! Any suggestions would be great !

Here are some of the changes I made to my tire swing image I added the moon light shinning in from the background and created a shadow under the tire swing. I also added some leaves to the tree.... I still feel like the tire swing is a bit cut and paste I'm trying to fix it.

Mountians

So Ive made some changes... I changed the opacity of the ground and darkened it so that it would look more like land. Also I added a mountian to the other side of the tracks and added more rocks to the left side

This is my newest one it is far from finished but I thought I would post it anyways.... I still want to add a light source and have a shadow under the tire swing.... Im not to sure how to do that yet but any suggestions are welcome!!!

Some Changes

I have made some changes I added the mountians and extended the tracks and cleaned up some of the edges...

Lonely Train Tracks

This is what I have been working on so far.... I chose train tracks because I think that a persons Identity not only deals with past experiences but also where they want to go in life their destination where they want to end up. When I thought of destination or a specific place that one person would want to end up I thought of traveling and this is what I came up with.

I was able to get more eye scans just waiting for them to get here...... I can't do too much without them :( They will hopefully arrive tomorrow!!!

This is what I worked on this week. I was thinking about how our personality is created before we are even born..... Im not sure what else to do to it or what else it needs?

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I want to do. I would really like to continue working with eye scans my problem right now is whether or not I will be able to get any more. We will see