You've got some beautiful drawings going right now. They are distinctly different from the ones in the fall and I am finding the finished one, in particular, the most engaging yet. Although you are finding these new drawings more boring there is a very different feel to them which gives them more weight and presence. Like Bonnie said, the manner in which they are running off of the page now as opposed to last semester really makes them feel more like text. It's as though there is more to it that we are not seeing. The fact that not all the detail is there is certainly not a bad move as far as your ideas are concerned.
What you need to do in the next two weeks:
1. Figure out what you feel will best showcase your work and your ideas.
2. If it is animation you want, we need to see an example as a group before the midterm critique.
3. If it is projection you want, you need to play around and figure out whether it would be best to project onto people, the floor, the wall, or your 2-D work. What would each of these bring to the meaning of your work? Which ones are most plausible? How do you feel about setting up a dark "room" in the gallery for the projection? How would you display your drawings in conjunction with the projection? It would be great if the group could see or at least hear about what you come up with as far as projection is concerned before the critique, as well.
3. If you are going to stick with displaying the drawings only, then you should finish the one you have started. I also think you should try working large. You need to figure out whether working large would make you feel more engaged with the work and process again. If you are considering this seriously at all, you should have a large one to present for critique.
You have a lot of great ideas, but also a lot of exploring to do in the next two weeks to really hone in on what will work best. I am excited to see what you come up with.
Notes from the Midterm Critique (sorry they are so late...I totally forgot about them until you mentioned it earlier today)
Do you think about how these will exist in your animations while you are drawing them?
Will people actually walk through the projection? It seems like a full work, so people probably won't want to interfere. You will have to force them to.
There is a sense of making multiple languages one.
When compared with the projections, the drawings really take on a sense of being an optical residue. They really seem to be part of something bigger, a trace of something.
The foreground/background switch is new and very exciting.
There is a sense of an open ended investigation by your use of projection and drawings...like you are really searching for something and trying to communicate something. You are trying different means of putting you message out there/exploring your interest in language. This is especially because the drawings and projections seem to be doing the same thing.
The still ones are more interesting because we get to do the work instead of you doing it for us(I can't remember who said that). The video functions only to immerse us.
Titles are a barrier, rather than a clarifier.
How does all of this (language, black, and white) relate to your identity? What do you perceive are the clues? (Ya Haddy: "None")
So is it correct to say, the drawings are not about one-for-one decoding? Are they, rather, attempting to communicate something in a similar manner to the way text does (ink, black, and white, line, patterns)? More about the struggle to express than actual expression? Lost-in-translation?
The video on/in a 3-d space would be interesting. Think about how you could display your projections using space.
Think about using shadows.
Think of other ways of making immersive space besides digital.
Artists to look at: Japanese and Chinese calligraphy and it's sketching/distorting of text
You've got some beautiful drawings going right now. They are distinctly different from the ones in the fall and I am finding the finished one, in particular, the most engaging yet. Although you are finding these new drawings more boring there is a very different feel to them which gives them more weight and presence. Like Bonnie said, the manner in which they are running off of the page now as opposed to last semester really makes them feel more like text. It's as though there is more to it that we are not seeing. The fact that not all the detail is there is certainly not a bad move as far as your ideas are concerned.
ReplyDeleteWhat you need to do in the next two weeks:
1. Figure out what you feel will best showcase your work and your ideas.
2. If it is animation you want, we need to see an example as a group before the midterm critique.
3. If it is projection you want, you need to play around and figure out whether it would be best to project onto people, the floor, the wall, or your 2-D work. What would each of these bring to the meaning of your work? Which ones are most plausible? How do you feel about setting up a dark "room" in the gallery for the projection? How would you display your drawings in conjunction with the projection? It would be great if the group could see or at least hear about what you come up with as far as projection is concerned before the critique, as well.
3. If you are going to stick with displaying the drawings only, then you should finish the one you have started. I also think you should try working large. You need to figure out whether working large would make you feel more engaged with the work and process again. If you are considering this seriously at all, you should have a large one to present for critique.
You have a lot of great ideas, but also a lot of exploring to do in the next two weeks to really hone in on what will work best. I am excited to see what you come up with.
Notes from the Midterm Critique (sorry they are so late...I totally forgot about them until you mentioned it earlier today)
ReplyDeleteDo you think about how these will exist in your animations while you are drawing them?
Will people actually walk through the projection? It seems like a full work, so people probably won't want to interfere. You will have to force them to.
There is a sense of making multiple languages one.
When compared with the projections, the drawings really take on a sense of being an optical residue. They really seem to be part of something bigger, a trace of something.
The foreground/background switch is new and very exciting.
There is a sense of an open ended investigation by your use of projection and drawings...like you are really searching for something and trying to communicate something. You are trying different means of putting you message out there/exploring your interest in language. This is especially because the drawings and projections seem to be doing the same thing.
The still ones are more interesting because we get to do the work instead of you doing it for us(I can't remember who said that). The video functions only to immerse us.
Titles are a barrier, rather than a clarifier.
How does all of this (language, black, and white) relate to your identity? What do you perceive are the clues? (Ya Haddy: "None")
So is it correct to say, the drawings are not about one-for-one decoding? Are they, rather, attempting to communicate something in a similar manner to the way text does (ink, black, and white, line, patterns)? More about the struggle to express than actual expression? Lost-in-translation?
The video on/in a 3-d space would be interesting. Think about how you could display your projections using space.
Think about using shadows.
Think of other ways of making immersive space besides digital.
Artists to look at:
Japanese and Chinese calligraphy and it's sketching/distorting of text