Three to five images of various artists'
The following artwork was displayed in the cases at Auraria Campus, located in the Art building, created by MSCD students.
Digital photograph of my project
March 10, 2011
Mapping & Sense of Place
Disclosure: I wrote this self evaluation prior to hearing my critique in class.
· Matter: the people- Black, White, Asian, Mexican, Statues, graves, signs (one way), trees, sky, grass, clouds, sky, doors, sun, locket, directional (n, w, e, s) as represented in a one way sign.
1. I employed an element of texture which feels really good, soft, and fuzzy.
2. Tastes of sadness, dark & gloomy until the middle of the portrait, then rising up into the blue sky (heavens) a sense of hope cast the sky, the path that leads you to the stairs of heavens door.
3. It communicates the before and the path to the after life. In a cemetery you have the remains of all walks of life- kids, elders, mom, brother, a community of people nonbiased to death and life thereafter.
§ It’s where all people will go and not in the literal form but we are given life and death that which is human rights.
4. I included portraits and pictures of a kid laughing playing with one another. Two portraits of a black lady and a white young girl.
§ The elements used to show family can be viewed as them being forever, even after death, they reunite in the physical world by being buried next to one another. Here on earth us as a community, we are all separated but once we leave, we come together in one connected neighborhood (as God intended).
§ The pictures in my work are intended to draw up whatever emotions- good, bad, indifferent that the viewer may have. How one views life and how they come to terms with death, is the overall feeling experience that only the person can have.
§ The fabric I used is a very soft warming fabric but the shapes that are on this element are such of a wall paper, a deep but yet rich substance almost as the pictures- my map can be viewed as a broken up picture, a puzzle of some sort, people that’s pictures once hung on a wall (presence of the wallpaper texture), this texture also depicts a eerie element of darkness, death, and or an antic as in old.
5. I think the integration of the other elements made the piece. It was cold, blank, and hallow without but bringing these images into play brought a reality back of the human beings that make up the area; life.
§ A lot of risks were taken by the way I cut up the pictures in the geometric shapes and spaced them out. By using the space that the board allowed it caused greater difficulty when figuring what pictures to use and where to place them. With the addition of the photos taken, that effected my compositions mapping objective causing it to not be successful. Where I didn’t use the same subject/scene, going another route then my classmates, I implemented a variety of scenes making this very hard, almost impossible to bring them altogether.
§ The work isn’t at all predictable, and each time you zero in on a particular area you can pull something different from it.
6. Scale: compare one element to another objects
7. This piece is already busy- two big of pieces would have made it very dull and not give any character. To small of pieces would have made it impossible to see and understand- creating an illusion that it was a waste sight (keep in mind several images were taken around cemetery, which makes it hard to piece it all together).
8. Coming into the 6th question which piggy back off the 5th, the unity is grouped with the trees, ground and slicing technique that I tried to use to connect the pictures. Variety because a conscious thought went into less is more so even though it might seem that a ton of images were used there wasn’t, I just used the same images and broke them up so that it creates a illusion of variety.
9. The line variation- shapes play a key role for instance even though copies of images were used I purposely used images of very light- white people and very dark images of black people (excluding the two gray toned images, at the tap) which if drawn can show the pronunciation of the stroke and or shading technique to add more depth (darker) or subtleties (lighter). The light from the sun captured the trees in such a way that all branches are finely marked in the air and space behind.
10. All the picture/collage of the persons on the very bottom photos represent/map underneath the graves, people buried into the earth and one area that is my favorite is the longitudinal sign presented in a non-representational form by one way signs pointing in all directions, this is the same cross roads in life that we all come to, what street or shall I say road will you take, will this road lead you to the heavens or hell (if there is such a thing). To counter it all is a picture of a boy in thought or possibly upset and another boy laughing and enjoying life, a statue of Mother Mary watches over the both of them as they have and will always be protected. This is the center point for the entire composition and signifies that no matter where in life or the middle our creator has his hands on everything.
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