I feel as if thats my Body laying there.

This is my most recent project done for site and space. I believe that site and space is my most enjoyed class when it comes to art making. The assignments are open ended with a restraint that makes your original idea morph into something you would of never gone for.
This project was based on body. I wanted to emphasize the absence of the body, but at the same time emphasize it's existence. My mind went through the concept of used clothes without the body, a blanket which interacts and protects, and how the body can leave an imprint on surfaces. All these thoughts went into one idea, to create a blanket/quilt and pillow made of my old used clothes. With in that blanket and pillow is a cut out of a human silhouette which can be placed back into it's orginal place or can be removed to show absence.
I placed this piece onto a made bed. The bed was made of pillows and blankets and had a top layer that was a mattress cover. I wanted it to look very hand made, used, loved, and personal.
When the classed viewed this piece and talked about it, the more i realized that i created a piece that reflected how i felt at this point in my life. There were even things mentioned that i was shocked that they could read it, and how much my emotions had really shown through.
Somethings that were read from my piece:
*Body as a place holder. It's that Body today but it can be replaced.
*Body is disloacted from environment and body sliced.
*A fight to be comfortable in own skin.
*Presence and Absence are interchangable. +> bringing solid to a shadow.
*World acts upon the figure. The figure doesnt act upon the world.
*Either "in" the bed or "out." Still laying around. Inactive.
*Used. Old. Rag Doll. Left Behind.

I think this piece made me realize how much i enjoy working with fibers and where they seem to take me. Or at least the idea of connecting with sewing thread. So my next and last piece for the class is going to b using fibers and the connection of thread.

Experiment.

So i have been watching my friend greg take this class called computer imaging. The more and more i watch what he learns, the more i want to take the class. For photography, our last assignment is open ended and you need 4 pictures. One of which is allowed to be photoshoped. Today i developed a roll of film, which had pictures taken of my friends, and i decided to scan in a negative to the computer.
Since i am a Procrastinator, i decided to mess around with the photoshop tools that i knew before hand and those of which Greg had gladly shown me. This is what i came out with.
I know it's not amazing or anything, but considering i don't really know photoshop... I am pretty proud of it.
After doing this picture, i look forward to experimenting with more images and hope that Greg or others will give me feed back or show me other cool tricks.

Can't get my mind off of you.

I geuss i should say what the material i worked with is. This is made from cheap travel sewing thread and banana peels. I let the banana peels dry out or i placed them in the oven so they would lose color faster ( considering i was working under a time frame for a Pepper class). This past year, which i geuss started in the summer, i have become intensely interested in sewing. This piece was obviously hand sewn, but i have also been teaching my self how to use a sewing machine. The minute i a got the sewing machine, i thought "Yes, I can create so much more because time is not so imperative like hand sewing." No, i was wrong, it just ment my mind would just wonder into more complex idea's which i have to cramp into short time periods for due dates controlled by a thing called class.
When i think of sewing, i think of clean, crisp folds and lines. Having everything in order and having unseen ties hold it all together. Also, with those same ties, create a an icon on the surface being held.
However, when i think of myself sewing, i think of chaos, looseness, and everything off place. I think i want to explore that more, creating a texture through the "now seen" ties holding it all together. I rather see my process and appreciate the piece as a whole, rather then hide the process and appreciate the piece without the unseen.

So i am really excited.

Earth Day. This is all i have to show for it.

I only added this picture because it reminded me of my friend Greg. Today, Greg, with my partial help, added his hair to mother earth's ground. I was so selfish today, not even putting an effort to remind myself that today (well i geuss it was yesterday since it's 12:40 a.m.), was earth day. I am ashamed of myself, since i like to think that i am nature aware. I really have nothing else to say.

Its a start.

I painted this picture with a guy named Darwin, he lives at the Bird House in Buffalo. His work is on the left and my work is on the right. I posted this picture, because 1) It was the first painting i was ever Proud of 2) I miss Buffalo and all the shit that comes along with it.
This is my introduction. I created this blog to reflect on my art work, and other art work or sites.