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Lynette Yiadom-Boayke

The contemporary British portrait painter, Lynette Yiadom-Boayke, describes her work as ahistorical setting the tone within fictional scenes which are enhanced by the titles of each piece and city artist like Chris Offili and Lisa Yuskavage as influences on her practice. Loose gestural style was Boaykes’ label when constructing these depictions of people of color set amidst the muted backgrounds. As a black artist of Ghanian descent, Yiadom-Boakye has said that “race is something that I can completely manipulate or reinvent or use as I want to.'' She also notes that the material and historical aspects of paint are essential to her practice. “There’s something very particular to oil painting, especially. It’s just very dirty, it’s very messy; it doesn’t always do what you want it to do,” She explains. “Its fleshy and unpredicable- it has a kind of human quality to it.”

Lynette Yiadom-Boayke was born in 1977 in London, United Kingdom, she studied at St. Martins School of Art and Design, Falmouth College Art in Cornwall, and finally received her MA from the Royal Academy of Arts in 2003. Today, her works are in collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. among others. Yiadom-Boakye lives and works in London, UK.

http://www.artnet.com/artists/lynette-yiadom-boakye/2

#conceptmap

archive collection

1. 65 East 125th St., Harlem, 2001, Photograph shows two empty stores and storefronts, with renovation underway. Prints and Photographs division

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=vrg%2065%20East%20125th%20St&st=gallery&so=asc&sb=id

2. The Sooner Theatre in Norman, a suburb of the Oklahoma capital city of Oklahoma City

Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer;

https://www.loc.gov/item/2020743838/

3. NE corner of Morningside Ave. at 383 W. 125th St., Harlem, 2005

4. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019631155/

Stairs. Veterans Affairs Building in downtown Washington, D.C.

5. National Enquirer

https://www.loc.gov/collections/september-11-2001-web-archive/

6. Playwrights Horizons: Soundstage

Playwrights Horizons is a New York City writer's theater that supports American playwrights, composers, and lyricists to produce new plays and musicals. Soundstage is a podcast created by Playwrights Horizons featuring newly written audio plays and musicals commissioned as a creative response to COVID-19.

1-3: I want to utilize the regular similarity that is already been there from 95-2016+ Using the regular uniform of Brooklyn everyday life through logo formulation/communication while still remaining sustainable, timeless, readible.

4: Random architecture moment: I asked myself what the meaning behind steel, metallic rails could represent in a Veterans Affairs hospital

5.-6: Web design using these portions of the web archive to understand government uniform with artistic concepts. Understanding how to translate a one instinct language between the maker vs the reader.

Vernacular Type

For this project, my statement of intent consisted of using shape and form using my “studio” type as a way to create movement from the ‘S’ to the ‘6’ on the bottom. I purposely intended those two points of my piece to be the most distracting. Furthering, I also created value from shading in certain parts of the piece, the ‘S’ and the ‘6’ mainly emphasizing this is where I want the view to approach first, before understanding what it is the image is trying to say. Most importantly, I introduced the use of positive/negative space allowing the pieces of the image to tell me where I should shade in and where I should let the negative space create forms of their own. Allowing me to end up shading the parts where the actual word “studio 6” couldn’t be flushed out with black marker.

I chose a few locations, some in Houston, some in San Marcos. All together I feel like the mood of where I chose typically were older buildings/shops because it felt personal, and the type introduced a different form that I am not used to seeing with design. It was nice to go back to the basics with older type styles rather than the regular minimalist type. Which isn’t bad of course it was just nice to see something different while incorporating it in a modern way.

Balance, contrast, movement, and space

The only digital process I did was scanning my rough draft into the white 11x17 paper to check the scale of it as a bigger composition. After many tries with the printer, I ended up just leaving the empty shading as is and printed it with the blue paper. Then I suggested I go back and shade in with marker because I really wanted to express my intentions of using the negative and positive space in a way to create something other than ‘studio 6.’

#vernicular #texas state university #type #design

National Parks were around way before the management of various federal departments that we see today. Hot Springs, became a national park in 1921, and was originally made as Hot Springs Reservation in 1832, considerably the oldest in the National Park System. Yosemite originally transferred to the State of California as a pressure and public recreational area in 1864. Then became a federal park in 1890. The Antiquities Act of 1906 gave authority of the President to register historic landmarks, structures, and other objects of national importance as Monuments. For the next 100 years, U.S. Presidents saved over 100 sites under the same Act, the Antiquities Act of 1906.

U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). NPGallery HFC Archive Asset Detail. National Parks Service. Retrieved March 29, 2022, from https://npgallery.nps.gov/HFC/AssetDetail/f6ac9086673f42ce886c35fa534573ce

#nationalpark #yosemite #yellowstone #historiclandmark

color identity using color filters

#color #colorfilters

yellow

The bright, soulful, and cautious color of yellow is personally my favorite of all color hues. Yellow is a primary color, which is a great mixture of orange and green. Standing for optimism, joy, and enlighten but also for deception and betrayal. Yellow is also known for the color of the sun as well as shades of yellow, during sunset. Yellow comes from an Old English word, Geolu, which means shine or glisten. Representing sunshine with the knowledge of flourishing living creatures, but also documenting the maturity with autumn and fall. The sun was the most important religious symbol of God throughout many cultures. Yellow can also be directed as a color of caution, many parking signs throughout our everyday routes contain a certain yellow to help us identify what it is we need to watch out for. Further, yellow lights on our cars symbol which way you intend to go or tell us to slow down or watch for the right or left side of us. In ancient times, yellow pigment was named Ochre, which was considered to be the oldest pigment by humans. Egyptians of the ancient world would use this as a mineral orpiment for a brighter yellow than yellow ochre. Which was considered to be a muggier yellow. A while later they imported an Indian yellow while rediscovering the method for the production of Naples yellow, commonly used by Egyptians. Indian Yellow was also created by a process that restricted cows onto a diet of only mango leaves, almost leaving them to starve. Some say since the beginning, yellow was associated with rebirth and knowledge. It motivates unique thoughts and inquisitiveness; researchers also believe it increases self-esteem and strengthens your overall health. Like stated before, yellow is a season's favorite, it invites renewal and harmony within the growth of nature. New crops, new seasons, new daylight hours yellow invites the process of rejuvenation. Spiritually, yellow dominates the religious side of things representing the color of light and divinity but also the holiness within certain religions like Christianity. Many paintings, especially during the Renaissance era tend to incorporate many different shades of yellow in a godly way. Through modern day design though, Yellow is a representation of positivity and happiness since many people associate the sun with happiness thus yellow is considered to create happiness to the audience. It can be used to boost curiosity, confidence, and improve learning. Commonly, yellow can also cause anxiety and destructive feelings that come with warning signs or certain dangerous animals. Considerably, yellow can still provide a sense of emergency for the certain opponent.

#yellow #geolu #hue

a color walk

blues, red, white, brown, greens

greens, pastel greens, dark greens, woody greens, grass greens, green swing sets, green chairs

blues, dark blues, sky clear blues, blue signs, blue skies turning into white clouds

browns, ground browns, tree bark browns, tan buildings with brown trim

reds, red swings, red sunsets, pink sunset then creating orange, ferocious orange, red- oranges.

white, white clouds, white rocks, white pavement, greys, tans of concrete and buildings, white streets

I didn’t recognize these colors as colors, I really recognized them as things first. The ground, the sky, and the buildings we see every day are all combinations of colors and those colors we resonate with every day. During the color walk, I really understood why those colors are the way they are, like the brown patches in the green grass from too much sun. Or the fading swing set that once used to be a bright, fruitful red changes to a mauve-y red after many different weather days. The brown wood chairs turning into a shade a grey from being in the heat all day. There are many contributions to these colors. I gravitated to the green swing-set it just reminds me of when I was younger and trying to race my mom to get play and beg her to push me higher so I could jump off.

#colors

An interesting example of a Surrealist object, compared with two different items that are usually opposed to each other. For Dali, Lobsters and Telephones produced a sexual meaning to Dali. The Lobster making many appearances in his drawings and designs as related to sexual pain and pleasure. During the 1939 New York World’s Fair, a multimedia experience called The Dream of Venus, which was a show where Dali had his models covered in fresh seafood. Photographed by Horst P. Horst and George Platt Lynes. Using the lobster as coverage for the woman’s sexual organs. Dali frequently represented food and sex as major pieces of his work. In this piece, Lobsters Telephone Dali positioned the crustacean’s tail directly over the mouthpiece of the telephone. An interesting yet unique humorous way to express his sexual desires. Tate. (1970, January 1). 'lobster telephone', Salvador Dalí, 1938. Tate. Retrieved February 24, 2022, from https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-lobster-telephone-t03257

#lobstertelephone #sexandpassion #salvadordali #core2feb

color swatches

drowsy blue and warm red

green

1. celery

The aftermath of drinking and smoking all weekend, I need a fresh and very simple drink that will rejuvenate my insides. Celery juice is perfect for that. I enjoy the process of juicing from chopping the celery to admiring the different ranges of green from the darker green of the top leaves, to the thinner amount of green inside the celery stick itself.

2. Starbucks straw

Part of a morning routine, maybe disposable in the way I use my time, contributing to the mounts of waste already profiting on our planet. Although everyday waking up feeling the dread of not accepting where I am just yet. Using Starbucks to give me a reason to get up and start my tasks, or just allowing me to sit in my car and watch Houston traffic.

3. Galveston beach

Big waves. Chicken salad sandwiches. Salt, a lot of salt. Salt water inhaled in my throat from the green water. Letting the waves take me so far away from the shore that I get scared and forget where my mom is set up, so then I paddle to the shore and get stung by a dead jelly fish on my way back. I feel my leg burning and I know something is not right I get on the shore and there are red slashes going through my leg. I tell my mom, but she thinks I am being overdramatic lol then tells me I have to pee on my leg.

4. laundry detergent

Cleaning day. I throw all my dirty clothes in the wash for a good cleansing before the week begins. I admire the fragrance of the detergent that I probably put too much and then remind myself that this big jug cost me $25.00. I don’t really care though because I enjoy the smell of laundry detergent. Sometimes I prefer it over perfume. I set a timer and come back to my once sticky clothes to fresh smells from the expensive green laundry.

5. dollar bills

calculating, stress, depression, trade all of the things I think when I think of dollar bills. Calculating your finances, calculating how to get the next higher paying job, calculating your networking groups to give you all the secrets to the next biggest job, calculating how much this wedding will cost. How much to spend on food to get me to the 1st of the month. My mother leaving me with my aunt in 2nd grade to the military so I could go to a good university to make more money. Sacrifice. Pain.

6. oak trees

Louisiana, tall strong trees that have seen just about every bright and dark thing come through its way. Eerie swamp trees that fold onto the lakes near my nanas house. Excitement as a child running through the park with my cousin after my aunt and mom finish the picnic table. Lots of dirt and mud pies, hearing my cousin crying after she probably fell or something lol

7. gum

green extra gum. I usually get some after I drink coffee to help with coffee breath. or after I smoke. It’s weird to notice how the taste of gum changes based on what you eat/do before or after.

8. bedsheets

green and white stiped sheets. morning breakfast. tobacco. the swinging chair of my upstairs neighbor’s autistic son swinging on his swing attached to the balcony. When we first moved in, we found it extremely annoying lol but as time went by it became a soothing sound. Almost like an alarm clock and that I needed to get up and start my day. Saturday mornings. Watching Martin and cuddling until 3pm then deciding when to start on laundry? A very simple life that I miss so much.

9. green tea! matcha

Matchaaa my favorite. but also, gassiness and bloating. sometimes a headache because the barista went a little crazy with the sweetener but also less intense than espresso. Long lines. My boyfriend telling me he never thought he would be waiting in a starbucks line going down the street lol! Then him asking why I won’t do curbside pickup. I don’t mind waiting honestly. sippy cups over straws. I don’t really understand what the difference is somehow it grosses me out that the sippy cup is so close to the hands but i don’t care in the moment.

10. green peppers

jambalaya, rice and beans, gumbo, okra and tomatoes. Warm warm food. Cornbread or rice! Onions, garlic and green peppers. A divine trio simply to make you happy and nothing else! My mom’s rotten peppers in the fridge. Fighting with a stubborn cheap knife. stressing over olive oil or vegetable. convincing myself olive is healthier lol

Visions inside the camera obscura

planning / final product

Here are our plans with our obscura and how we intended to make this happen. We figured the most important things would be that the lens itself needed to retract back and forth, and the hole inside the box needed to be just big enough to be able to insert the lens as well as move it with the sunlight. I’d say the easiest part was getting the box and making sure to secure the sunlight inside the box.

-What do you think our human desire to constantly capture experience is? In a deep sense? What part of our inborn nature is it touching?

I think experience is good to dwell on and that’s what makes it so important to us. Being able to remember something gives us the pleasure to keep striving for better days.

-What do you find yourself constantly trying to “capture?” Is it something ephemeral? What is it an attempt at?

I guess it is an attempt to create something pleasing to look at. Something that just gives comfort to the audience. A simple exciting moment of whatever it is that is being shown.

-What are the limitations of the camera obscura?

Versatility, inconvenience of carrying a box around, not as great lens quality like our phones. -Did you discover any analogue magic?

The image flipping upside down, seeing trees going against the wind.

-What shifted for you in terms of your ideas of looking?

I suggest I thought i was going to see a straight-forward picture, extremely clear giving the precise hole in the front. With the magnifying glass made it easier to understand what I perceived.

-Will this influence your interaction with movies/cameras/camera phones?

I sure do appreciate them more. The work that went behind creating the quality of photographs and film we have now is still something I can’t completely understand. Knowing how our eyes connect with the images we see is very fascinating.

#camera obscura #film #photography

viewings inside camera obscura

Erwin E. Smith collection. Erwin Smith Collection: Photographs of American cowboy and ranch life, 1905-12 (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress). (n.d.). Retrieved February 14, 2022, from https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/234_smit.html

Photographs of the American cowboy and ranch life Erwin E. Smith, referred to as the most exciting cowboy photographers to live. His work mainly inspired by everyday cowboy and ranch life, capturing the simple moments of cowboy life that have now today symbolized the universal western cowboy type. Smith has photographed over 1500 photographic prints in the Prints & Divisions collection throughout the 20th century. What I found from this collection to intrigue me into posting it was how beautiful the scene is. Even without the modern buildings and shopping centers as we have in the city it is calming to see nature in the company of itself. As well as the way he is able to capture the entire landscape of this land, it really allows you to understand every little detail of the picture.

#cowboylife

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