Learning Is The Place To Be

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Brainstorming

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This piece has a very allegorical meaning to it. The memory or consciousness is slowly drifting from the character and can not control it. The memory/consciousness can reflect the mental state of someone unwell and of need of help. Slowly you are consumed with your illness but can no longer control it and not distinguish the difference between who you are and what is your illness.

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Time Reflection

For this final it isn't very spot on, connects all the dots from the first unit till now. In little ways subjects and concepts of art fit into the end results of the final. Such as continuity, taking ugly things and making them pretty or making them an interesting image using framing and composition. The sense of a journey helped getting the idea of a story/storytelling along.

The units in general were very interesting and was very informative in skills that I will defiantly take in my future. Such as a lot of things learned from photoshop and premier, a different way of photo transferring using the acrylic glue medium.  Although there were some things that I did have trouble with but helped me grow in the sense of an artist and helped me break away from bad habits that I had as a young artist.

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La Jette Analysis

The film by Chris Marker La Jetee, was a nonlinear story that went back and forth in time of the main characters time line. This mans timeline went back and froth from his past and present testing a theory in this post-apocalyptic world that wanted to know weither or not this was the end for them. Meaning, that they were unsure if anything would ever get better in their time and what can they do in order to get there, to this better place in the future. The concept and storytelling of this short film was something that was very different to me and I surprisingly liked it. The stills in the movie moving at a very slow pace and even dissolved into each other made this over used effect effective and made it work into the piece.

The story over all did give this old time esque of post-apocalyptic idea of short films. Most modern concepts of post-apocalyptic short films/cinema doesn't have such a almost ‘optimistic’ look into their survival. In these films their only worry is surviving for the next day, not the next twenty years. Due to the black and white coloring through out the film it has that feel of antiqueness. When in reality the movie is under fifty years old. The emotions evoked through the sound in the film did give such a multitude of interpretations. The constant beating could of been the mans heart rate going and going, or what I thought, a horse trotting along going to another place.

This still from the film is my favorite due to its positioning in the frame. You can clearly see the pain that the man is going through and it has a good sense of balance.

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For this project the main ‘Journey’ I went through was the growth of me and what was slowly kind of internalized/oppressed onto me as a child. My previous projects all had to do with my hair and the control that my family and mainly my mother had over it. That part of me is so important and is an outlet to so many others that I wasn’t able to take part of.

The way I expressed this in a stop motion really showed the ridged strict control that was put into me as I grew up. Thinking about every move I make before it was final, every inch planned and saw it processing.

The sound and timing in the beginning of the sequence helps the tension build up and shows that I was slowly getting tiered and was slowly snapping. This whole idea really came from me cutting a majority of my hair off in my junior year of high school. Once that happened a lot of things changed for the better in my life. I learned so many more things and it was a literal and metaphorical weigh off my shoulders that I needed to let go and grow from.

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My general theme though this unit mainly was something personal to me and how I grew up/how I was raised. In all honesty this theme/journey for me felt kind of selfish and a little self centered with me going through photos of me as a child and showing the slow growths of me year by year.

So in this final project I continued on with this little bit of self centering bit and added the control/oppression that my family had over me.

So in order to do that I will have a literal projection of the overlapping scans of pictures of me through the years to have that towering feel as you look through a box of old pictures.

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Real/Sureal/Abstract

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Reach

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Theme: The rejection of individuality by an organized religion

This image in the movie tells us the vase rejection of Marji’s interest that makes her unique. Her taste in music and what she feels is her identity by wearing the leather jacket.

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In this piece showcases the organic forms of what is suppose to surround us in our everyday life, without the intrusion of our industrial age. Besides the point, in this piece what I wanted to express through this series of layering and recreation on hard physical paper was the technical or really I wanted to focus on technic of the art. I wanted to expand my abilities and try different things to see what else I can do. I tried to show expression and style but still try to have accuracy and representation in the piece. In the end I did learn new things and technics that I will later apply to different projects. 

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The things I like in these images are a lot to due with subjective. How much I really love these platforms of shows and a game. Each one is so detail and has a reason behind every stroke of paint and every mark of pen.

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In this pattern the high value contrast is really strong and is what really makes this pattern interesting. Especially the shape made in the middle of the black spots of the pattern.

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In this pattern I tried to attempt to make a diamond grid structure but did so in little success. Outside of that, the white spaces in the grid takes away the ambiguity of the whole pattern.

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This pattern reminds me of bats flapping their wings in flight. In this pattern it was very straight forward. This motif itself was rather low in contrast but as soon as it was repeated over and over it created what is here now. In this pattern it show some forms of figure/ground ambiguity but it could be stronger.

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In this piece the process of making it was very tedious and different from all the other patterns done. For this pattern I had to continuously tilt the motif at the right angle to get to the first row as well as flip every other one.