Mapping

It took a lot of tracing and aching arms cutting out for all of the pieces to come out correctly.

Mapping laid out on my bed to get finished.

It finally got done and safe to hang on the wall

Mark Making from beginning to end

Critiquing Information:

1. Overall Composition

I think that my overall composition  was good, the place of the piece fit correctly with my theme and story. 

2. Sense of mood/emotion or sensory experience

The sense of mood/emotion is impatient/relieved 

3 Relationship of mood/emotion to mark 

The marks that I used  was the feeling I had as I was making these marks  to show how impatient I was and how I was relieved  at the end. So it wasn't quite shown on the marks as much as I thought it was going to come out. 

4.. Use of negative space

I did have a lot of negative space that appeared on my mark making which i felt that I probably couldve made the marks a little bit strong and thicker to have a  bit negative space. So that way I couldve expressed the emotions better now that I looked at it.

5. Use or medium/materials. 

I used a canvas for the marks, I bought a curtain and curtain rod that fit perfectly with my story that looked like a theatre.

6. Presentation

I presented the piece with the curtains open and tied to show the canvas, but I was suggested to leave the curtains closed so that people would peek through it.

MFAH sketching and questions

a. What was the most enjoyable thing you saw? Why?

• I thought that the most enjoyable thing that I saw were the pieces from Carlos Cruz-Diez and all the European paintings. I loved how some of Carlos's art work were three dimensional and how it drew my attention. It was pretty interesting they way he used cardboard and color to make the form of shape on the piece. In some of his pieces you actually had to walk forward and back to have a better view of the movement with a certain piece. I enjoyed the European painting just because I find the artifacts very fascinating and historical.

b. What was the most disturbing thing you saw? Why?

• Looking throughout the entire museum and I believe that what I thought was most disturbing to me is the CORE exhibition. The exhibition was disturbing in a way because some of the art work that was in the building I didn't quiet understand what they were interpreting as I walked and glanced. 

c. What piece in the museum is the most like something you might make yourself, or would like to make? Why? 

• A piece in the museum that I might want to make myself would probably to the sculptures in the Cullen Sculpture garden. It was pretty entertaining to walk outside into a garden and finding sculptures all over. These sculptures were enormous and brilliant and its something that I would not mind to make. 

Proposals for my Metaphor

Photo Lecture Assignment

a. I have known this girl almost all of my life. I love this girl. She is a fun and an amazing person. We took this photo because we were at one of her family members birthday party and I she invited me to go out with her. We were both dressed up and decided to take a picture together before we get all sweaty. I decided to use this piece of photo because it brought me back to that exact night and what we did after that night. We continued to have fun and exciting memories until this very day.

b. Cynthia is one of my very close friends we been through a lot of things through out our lives. I had the camera facing down toward our bodies so that way you can look down towards our faces. I loved the way our facial expressions came out on this photo because of how our eyes are so huge.

c. This photo was taken randomly on the restroom hallway. In which I though was pretty funny. This photo would be intended by people that she and I know because if you didn't know how we acted together you probably wouldn't understand the purpose of the photo. Every time I would look at this photo of Cynthia it brings up other good and bad memories we had with each other and people that got involved. Im so glad that we still communicate with each other to bring up the old and new memories to be added.

a. This is a memory that I definitely not going to forget. It was a family trip vacation to Walt Disney World in 2007. It was almost closing time at Disney World and my mother wanted to take each of us individual photos on this main entrance bench. It was our second trip to Disney and I had the chance to ride all the "big kid" rides because I was too young to ride when I was little on the first trip.

b. Of course I had to show a huge smile on my face before we left, we went to DISNEY WORLD what person wouldn't be excited to go to a place "where dreams comes true." I wished that there had been more light around this section so it would have came out much better. There were other families out there taking pictures and took all the good spots. I remember that my mom would keep taking retakes because she couldn't get a good shot. I also thought that this was the best picture that my mom took for not knowing how too. It was an awesome summer vacation.

c. In what context is this photo intended to be viewed?, by who, for how long? Do you think you will still remember this photo in ten years?

Monologue: Uncomfortable

12 Composition Mark Making

KITCHEN KNIFE 

HAIR BRUSH

PLASTIC RING

MY SHOES

DENTAL FLOSS

KEY KEY KEY

Lecture Reverend Ethan Acres

REVEREND ETHEN ACRES

Reverend Ethan Acres is not your ordinary preacher. He has sermonizes and preaches in a chapel to his audience. Ethan Acres sermonizes are spoken through his creative artwork. Reverend Acres began preaching at the tender age of ten, when he stood on the street corners and gathered people to attend the revival meetings conducted by his preacher stepfather. His interest to art came across the same time. He is known as a reverend, an artist, and an entertainer. Acres uplift the spirits of his world weary congregants. Its remarkable how this Reverend can express his love for GOD visually and physically into his artwork and illustrate at sermonizes to the audience. Typically a Sunday morning we head to church, we sit and sing, and listen to the gospel words of the bible from a pastor. Some people seem to not understand the bible nor find it appealing. Is different with Acres because he does a lot more than just speak the word of god, he intentionally imitates the scriptures and makes art out of them. The use of Acres master piece is to make the sermon fun and understanding having something illustrated. Acres believe that the Devil represents universal sins such as stealing, adultery, and greed. The personal demons would represent eccentric sins. In Reverend Acres prior to his artwork he hopes that people will be moved to accept hid God. As he interprets the bible and puts in play to art, I wouldn’t understand why some would disagree that what he does wouldn’t be considered art. 

SENSES WITHIN THE STORY LINE

SENSES WITHIN THE STORY LINE

1.       Sight = TALL STRANGER, LOOKING UP AND DOWN, LOOK SIDE TO SIDE

2.     Sound= SONG FROM MY PHONE

3.     Smell= POPCORN

4.    Touch= PHONE AND GRABBING THE TICKETS

5.     Taste= POPCORN AND POWERADE

6.     Balance (equilibrioception)= MOVING AND WAVES OF AN OCEAN

7.     Temperature (thermoception)= COOL (DARK SKIES)

8.     Pain= DREADFUL WAITING

9.     Pressure= IMPAIENT

10.  Motion and acceleration (kinaesthesia= CONTINOUSLY  IN LINE WAITING

11.     Direction (magnetoception)= FOLLOWING  THOSE INFRONT, REACHING THE ENTERANCE, ONE WAY

12.  Temporal (sense of time)= SLOW MOVEMENT

13.  EMOTIONS= UPSET, RELAXED, PETITE

14.  MOOD=IMPATIENT, ANXIOUS, RUDE, SHIVERING

15 LIVING/NONLIVING

1. PHONE
2. FERRET
3. CAR
4. TREE
5. ROCK
6. FLOWER
7. MONKEY
8. STARFISH
9. PUPPY
10. MONKEY
11. KEY
12. CHEETAH
13. BED
14. CHAIR
15. BOTTLLE

Are you better at visualizing people than objects? Or worse? 
What seems to be mentally different? 

    I think that I visualize objects and people about the same, because once I point out something or write it down I can see it. Mentally I believe if Im looking at the word I know what it is by seeing it.

Are you better at two-dimensional objects than three-dimensional? How so? 
    I am better at 2D objects because I can easily remember things I see everyday compare to things I used to see or once seen.

Where do you see your image? 

  I see the image leaving my bedroom and heading out with my phone by my side and a water bottle for the ride in my car and heading to the zoo watch the animals and all that surrounds it.

Is it out in front of your eyes or back in your skull somewhere or somewhere else?

  I see it in the back of my head and moving forward to the front

What is brought to bear in these instances is a keen sensitivity to a non-modular perceptivity of sense-data. Why might this be important in your field?

  Keeping the image at the back of my head I start to feel the sense of smell that the animals at the zoo have. The smell of nature. 

100 Uncomfortable things

1. Smelly musty men
2. Burnt food
3. Flirting with the guy I have a crush on
4. A friend embarrassing me
5. Emo kids
6. My car acts funny
7. Driving next to a drunk driver
8. Asking for money
9. Asking for a ride
10. Manager at work approaching
11. When I know I did something wrong
12. Motorcycle drivers driving from lane to lane
13. Mom converse with my friends
14. Funerals
15. Car accidents
16. Smell of spoiled milk
17. People drinking MILK
18. The color RED
19. Scabs
20. Paper cuts
21. Broken/chipped nail
22. Crows
23. Guys with shaved legs
24. Guys with too much muscles
25. Guys who are too skinny
26. Monthly cycle
27. My weight
28. Holding a gun
29. People smacking their gum
30. People chewing with their mouths open and talking
31. Drunks
32. Fights
33. Slow Drivers
34. Rottweilers
35. 18 wheelers
36. Pimples on my face
37. Getting pulled over
38. Cold weathers
39. Cardboard
40. Bolts and nuts
41. Girls who wear way too much make up
42. Guys with long hair
43. Odd numbers
44. A short person
45. Toilet seats that have pee
46. Smell of bad perfume
47. Onions
48. Catfish
49. Snakes
50. the word UNCOMFORTABLE
51. kiwis
52. Cactus
53. Snails
54. A baby's smelly diaper
55. Divas
56. Squeaky chair
57. A fart in a quiet room
58. Jeans that don't fit
59. Stuck in traffic
60. unibrow
61. Bad breathe
62. Jackass movies
63. SAW movies
64. bruises
65. Taking off my piercing
66. Not getting another tattoo
67. Getting another day older
68. Someone else driving my car
69. Putting gas in my car with expensive prices
70. getting poked
71. Shaving every week
72. Girls with facial hair
73. Humid Houston
74. Hangovers
75. cigarettes
76. Moles
77. briefs
78. Spending my money
79. Paying bills
80. Driving solo
81. Washing dishes and clothes
82. Turning on the stove
83. Getting stabbed
84. Volkswagen (beetle)
85. Getting slapped
86. Homework
87. Being rushed
88. talking on the phone to a stranger
89. Watching a drunk girl dance
90. Dirty room
91. dust
92. spider webs
93. Black
94. Drawing
95. Bending my arm
96. Dry contacts
97. Snow on my car
98. Scissors
99. Giraffes
100. Flashing light

Researching

Minimal art is characterized by its simplicity in both form and content, where personal expression is removed in order to achieve this. The intention of minimalist artists is to allow the audience to view a composition more intensely because the distractions of theme etc. have been removed.

Post-Minimalism which indicates the coinstantaneous developments of the time, including process art, earthworks, conceptual art, performance, and installations. Postminimalism, as well as minimalism, seems to correspond to the turning point from modemism to postmodernism, and therefore, seems to be one of the important clues, when we consider the argument about art and sites, such as current installations and public art. Postminimalism refers specifically to artists whom utilise Minimalism either as an aesthetic or conceptual reference point from which to develop.

Process art is an American art form. A process is temporally and materially the course of an event, thus in Process art, the process of manufacture becomes the relinquishing of the creative act. 

Arte Povera is a style of modern art. The term was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance.

Collage is paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image

Assemblage is an artistic process in which a three-dimensional 
artistic composition is made from putting together found objects.

 pop-up book is often applied to any three-dimensional or movable book