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“All you create and all you destroy” project #3.

For this project I wanted to make people uncomfortable and confused. I got this guitar for $50 about 7 years ago, and it is now the end of an era. It taught me how to play, and helped me through some difficult times. I had created so much with it, it was time to destroy it. I think my performance gives off a feel of some sort of peace as well as aggression. Destroying this guitar felt like closure, and a proper way to end a chapter. I chose to do this because I knew it would surprise people, and even make them uncomfortable, especially other artists and musicians. Everything is temporary and eventually comes to an end. This guitar has served its purpose and the destruction of it is nothing to be saddened by. We create and destroy, and destroy and create. It’s all a cycle. This guitar was there for me through so much, but it was time to say goodbye.

I love the aesthetic of the video, really satisfying to watch!

During these tough times I wanted create a video with with me performing the side I see from my friends! All of my very good friends have been drinking heavily and becoming alcoholics during these times. I always wake up and see that they have already been drinking in the morning and they drink till they pass out. You can see that when I wake up from my nap the first thing I grab is the alcoholic beverages. When I sip the beverage you can see that the lights get brighter as if I was feeling the effect of the alcohol. Then I go back to sleep and repeat the cycle of drinking. I added some sad sentimental music because we all miss doing the things we love and instead we just stay at home bored out of our minds doing nothing. I had a ton of fun creating this video because I knew I wanted to create something where it repeated as if you’re living the same day over and over.

Thank you for watching, stay safe, and don't party to hard ;)

This was a well done video and I liked how the music complemented

Art Assignment Final Project

My final project is based off of the Quietest Place on The Art Assighnment. This challenges you to go for a a walk to a place where you live and find the quietest place and once you’re there take a moment to take a photograph from the location. I believed this challenge would be interesting because I live in Winter Park, Colorado currently so it’s can be pretty populated during the day even tho there is a pandemic. I ended up getting up and leaving my house at 4:00 and walking to a certain location before it started to get noisy. I had walked and walked till I got to my location at 5:30 I than sat there and waited. It was peaceful and quiet and I waited till the sunrise created an alpinglow & the moon was centered near Byers Peak at 6:00. The entire time I was there I didn’t hear a car, person, animal, or even wind in the distance. I was extremely majestic and I would definitely do it again! I hope you guys enjoyed my work and stay safe out there! Peace ✌🏽

#theartassignment

A really stunning photo! I think it is really beautiful early in the morning

Exercise 3: Perfomance Art

I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do for performance art. I’ve never really been comfortable acting things out and I didn’t want to make myself uncomfortable for this project. While this project was supposed to make the artist present, I wanted to be anything but present. It was a battle trying to figure out what to do. But then I saw my paints, my endless variety of ink, and my white gel pens. I thought that since I wasn’t comfortable acting things out, why not do something that I’m used to.

This lead me to making a video of my painting process. I took a video of myself painting the background of this tiny piece, and included the finishing product after I added the forest spirit. I wanted to record myself doing something I enjoyed, painting something I enjoyed. Which lead to the Studio Ghibli film, “Princess Mononoke”. In a way, I guess this painting can relate to how well the environment has been doing considering no one can go anywhere because of this pandemic. Animals are returning home and the air pollution has descreased, if only by a little bit. There are definitely no forest spirits wreaking havoc trying to find their head, that’s for sure.

(Sorry if the video is a tad too long. I tried to speed it up enough to where it wouldn’t be too fast. I am happy with it though.)

You’re a really talented painter!

Project #4: Exquisite Corpse-The Art Assignment

While scrolling through all the possible assignments of what I could do for project 4, I found many that seemed interesting and fun to do. But this one stuck out to me. For this one, called Exquisite Corpse, we had to get a group of people (though in these times not too many people) and work on one drawing surface. The only catch is that we had to hide our drawings without the others knowing what it was. They were supposed to add on to yours. This was an interesting concept to go at and the idea of seeing where a persons mind goes when you ask them to add on to your work is very interesting. The artist, Hugo Crosthwaite, has an awesome idea in collaborating others into his work. I decided to do mine with my family. My brother did his based off of light fractals. My mom did hers on her favorite character from Bambi, Thumper. My dad did his on a plant box he plans to make. It was interesting to see where their minds went to add on to the covered drawings. Their minds went to completely different routes. All in all, this was really fun to do and it was nice getting my parents and brother to collaborate with me on this.

I think it’s really look that this is something you did with your family (I know you didn’t have a lot of choices)

Project 3 - Performance Art

The idea of this performance was inspired from one of my essays about the importance of images in media release, such as articles from magazines, newspapers or blog, regardless of print or online. The essay concentrated on the way visual elements attract attention easily, tell stories effectively and covey messages quickly, rather than a box full of text. Through this performance, I decided to demonstrate the idea under my perspective, particularly when I am a design student, about how I usually decide what article I should read just by its visual appeal. As the adage tells us, a picture tells a thousand words.

Apart from that, since we are confronting this crisis, I think this project is going to be interesting for us to have different perspectives and experiences with performance art. Especially when our performance did not happen in an ideal condition like in art galleries, we would have various perceptions when seeing each other projects.

The project includes a series of photos and a short video of the performance. Enjoy! ☺️

Phoebe Ng. - 2020

My first reaction was to be shocked, I feel like it is a really strong initial image!

“Step Inside Your Mind, To Find Something Divine.”

-Final Result

#theartassignment

It is really bold and colorful, well done!

The Fear We All Have- Project #3

There is a lot of fear in the world right now with everything that is happening in the world and it can be easy to be afraid and feel all alone. For my project, I represented the fear we all probably have right now. I incorporated another project I worked on of a 3D model of a wire heart and I made this a pretty big part of this video. The fear is leaving it’s host(me) feeling alone and sheltered until finally there is someone to take away this fear. However, the fear still lives on.

At first it was difficult to create this project but I began to realize that I should bring what’s happening in our world into an artistic sense. Since the biggest emotion everyone must have is fear I felt like that was the perfect chance to show that. I enjoyed playing with different lights and colors in this piece to really enhance the emotion of fear and mess with the mood of the video by changing it from black and white to color. Additionally, I purposefully made the heart harder to see because even though you can’t really see it you know it’s there the same as with fear. The heart served as a way to both be a symbol for fear and also a way in which I can use two different mediums(3D and 4D).

I found the video calming especially when it switched to red, is that weird?

Art Assignment Final Project

For my final project, I decided to follow the art assignment “Off”. The concept was to use the blackness of a screen to reflect what it sees. To me, I thought this assignment was very current with everything that is happening. Now more than ever we have to use the technology that we have with us and it can leave us being stuck indoors and stuck succumbed to learning about everything happening around us. This assignment allowed for me to just go outside and quite literally turn off everything happening in this world and just focus on the here and now. It gave me the peace I needed and allowed for me to just focus on the plants flowing and the clouds moving. I hope this can give everyone peace as well.

It was a gorgeous video and I loved all the nature in it.

Project #4

I decided to make a time lapse of me working on my final project. Over this quarantine I have had to adjust a lot of things in my life but it hasn’t been all bad. Ive actually had time to focus on creating art and finding new styles of art I like doing. I just recently starting creating dot work drawings and have found it so therapeutic so I thought it would be cool to show the process of working with a bunch of small little dots to create this. I really enjoyed being able to have a free pick art project for this assignment.

Overall, I really enjoyed this class and feel like I learned so much about art and the types of art that I want to work with. Before this class, I didn’t know how to make any time of video art and now I am incorporating video editing with my other forms of art I like doing.

(Inspired by artist Josefine Svärd)

I love the detail of your art!

Project #3 Performance Art & Artist Statement

I won’t lie I kinda struggled with this project. I continued to start new projects and ideas that I got half way through and felt unhappy with and scratched it all. I decided the main thing I wanted from this project was to express my emotions from all the craziness that’s taken place over the past few weeks. To do this I wrote a poem that encumpasses a lot of what’s been going on around the world and used that as the audio of the project. For the film portion I took various videos of all the shops and restaurants on south broadway that have been boarded up. Growing up these establishments have been a deep part of my culture so seeing them boarded up and shut down brings a deep sadness to my heart. However, I feel hopeful seeing all the wonderful art that has been put up in their place. I recorded myself speaking the poem in my garage, and recorded all the video on my iPhone 6 using the splice editing app so it’s not the best quality but I’m also posting my poem to read if you have trouble hearing me. Enjoy!

Day by day blending together

Blending fruits in my diet so I can live forever

Never thought I’d see the world in such disarray

Hoping my loved ones and I make it till May

Maybe we’ll be okay and I can stop all this stress

But my grandmas 83 and alone through this mess

An introverts dream is what my brain keeps telling me

But after week three all I can think is fuck being solitary

Only so many dramas I can watch on tv

But each news stations coverage has me ready to scream

I get so much satisfaction from the bubbles and suds

Washing away dirt but leave my hands cracked with blood

what kills me the most is the those left to lie in dread

Who the fuck wants to die alone in a hospital bed

Please don’t get it twisted I’m keeping high hopes

Love how even in distances we’ve all grown so close

Let’s keep that mentality even when this is all over

And meet at restaurants and bars that have been boarded for closure

I know that right now life seems dark dim and damp

And we all feel our houses are getting too cramped

But use this time wisley to improve your mental being

Do yoga, make art, write down everything you’re seeing

Because eyes can wander and our minds can get lost

In the stresses of things like how much will rent cost

But If there was ever a time to value things other than wealth

Spring 2020 is where we finally realize we should treasure our health

The poem was great and I liked you showing the empty streets.

Final Project: Sorted Books

For my #ArtAssignment I decided to go with Sorted Books by Nina Katchadourian. In this assignment the artist is asked to choose a person you know or would like to know better, take a look through their library, and make 3 stacks of books to develop a portrait of the person. This assignment immediately resonated with me because I was raised to believe that the literature you love is a defining part of your character. My Mom, who was raised by an English professor and became an English teacher herself, has always found her passion in books. She told us the Oscar Wilde quote: “You are what you read.” This meant that growing up the idea of boredom and not knowing what to do did not exist, because there was always a good book we hadn’t read. So, for this assignment I decided to take a look through the many books in the house I grew up in, and create Book Portraits for my family members. When Katchadourian created this project, she seemed to be more focused on the poem created by the titles of the books stacked on top of each other. I struggled to create poems from the various jumbles of titles, so I ask that you focus more of the themes of the titles all together and create a story from that. I won’t go into too much detail of why I chose the specific titles because for the most part each title has its own personal meaning to each member of my family. For example, with my Mom I chose books like Into the Wild, As You Like It, and The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age because they are some of her all-time favorites that she taught to her students. But other titles such as All My Sons, The New York Trilogy, and The History of Love I chose because I believe these titles relate to who my Mom is as a person. In any case, what I enjoyed most about creating these portraits was that I believe multiple themes can be found within each title. I will say that for my portrait I chose some of my favorite books that all have to do with the theme of spirituality, dreams, and night which are all being held up by a Lonely Planet. (Also peep the ones of my dog Cleo because I found those 3 books and couldn’t resist)

I really like that you also chose books for your dog!

Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, for sale from Perrotin at Art Basel Miami Beach. Photo by Sarah Cascone.

The Art Assignment - “Is it ‘Art’?”

I have struggled a lot while finding a good idea for ‘The Art Assignment’ since the attitudes and strategies of Postmodernism indeed proposed a challenge for its followers. My final project was inspired from Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ (2019), in which the artist provoked an on-going debate and discussions among the audience by simply duct-taping a banana on wall. The installation was sold for $120,000. As a result, different reactions from the audience made me wonder about the true purpose of art: Does it have to imply any meaning? Does the success of ‘Comedian’ rely on the presentation and idea of the project itself, or on the reactions of viewers with its ridiculous price? Or maybe even “Is it ‘Art’?” Therefore, I decided to create a replica of ‘Comedian’, then taped over the artwork with different reactions and comments from the audience, which I have accumulated from Youtube videos and online articles about Cattelan’s art project. Furthermore, I also combined our first assignment from 4D class by making a GIF, in order to somehow include in the visual effect, in which viewers would feel overwhelming of controversial reactions toward a work of art. For this project, I followed two Postmodern attitudes, which were “challenging the art world” and “rejecting originality”; concurrently with a Postmodern strategy “appropriating what already exists.” Above all, I hope the project would leave some thoughts for my viewers about the true purpose of a work of art, especially when we are art students. Most importantly, I wanted to emphasize on the fact that even though people tend to put their perceptions onto our work and maybe leave some mean comments, however, let’s just keep moving forward! :)

Stay safe and healthy everyone! Nice to be your classmate in this semester! Thank you Professor Matthew for your dedicated support and instruction throughout this difficult time :)

Phoebe Ng. - 2020.

I love how creative is this and it is really well done too :)

Module #4

For my final project I decided on the make it break it prompt. I wanted to continue on with the theme of creation and destruction and I felt like my project carried it well. I drew a version of the hands portrayed in The Creation of Adam pained by Michelangelo, a piece that speaks a lot to me. The existence of Adam in the painting is a hot take considering that he was able to attend his own creation, but regardless, the painting implies that Adam was already in existence before his creation. I’ll keep my story sweet and simple, I didn’t always believe in God, I struggled with depression and the related, then found God in the midst of my lowest moment. Before I found God, obviously I existed, but I didn’t feel like I was anything, like I meant anything, like I had any purpose. When I found God I felt like I was created, but in order for that to happen I had to be destroyed. So, the idea that Adam existed before his own creation, though the theology might not be iffy, is a comforting idea to me. I decided to let my brother burn the drawing in a kind of symbolic, phoenix-out-of-the-ashes type of way to express my own story and feelings.

You’re a really talented artist!

For my art assignment, it seemed like the obvious choice for me to complete the “Make It Break It” assignment given by Amy Toscani and Carolina Borja. As a developing ceramic artist, accepting loss is something that I have had to become very comfortable with. So I found this assignment to be a fantastic exercise to aid me in my continuous practice of accepting loss within my preferred creative medium. I decided to throw one of the largest vase forms that I have ever been able to make so far, practiced a new decorating technique, and then had a guy that I have been seeing (yes someone that I don’t live with during social distancing, we both live alone sue me!!!) destroy the vessel. On one hand it hurt to watch my hard work be smashed in six seconds, and on the other it was incredibly satisfying to watch him destroy it knowing that there is nothing stopping me from making a vessel that I am even more proud of the next time that I sit down at my kick wheel. #theartassignment

I really like the sound it makes, I was surprised when it didn’t break.

Let me grow

For my final project I decided to do the Self Shape assignment. I choose to make a painting of a plant because taking care of and growing new plants has helped me stay busy and it makes me feel good to see something I spend time and care on growing and stay alive. I painted the plant with materials I had in my house and added some tissue paper from the previous project to the pot, finally I cut brown paper into little squares and painted the half purple and left the other like it was and just sprinkled them on top of the wet blue paint.

mybrainisonfire

Project #4

I decided to do the Make It Or Break it by the art assignment. This assignment involves making and breaking a piñata. My piñata love comes since being a little girl and breaking one every birthday. I remember the excitement of lining up to break the piñata and fighting for the candy that comes out of it. This project brought childhood nostalgia to me. At the start of the pandemic a Mexican morning show named Hoy made a piñata inspired by the pandemic in order to distress their frustrations. I find it inspiring to make a piñata of something affecting your life and then breaking it to unleash your anger. So I also made a piñata of what Coronavirus looks to me. I made it the color green with it a mean face expression. This is what a Coronavirus piñata would look like to me a rounded mean looking creature. I then began to hit it and destroy it in half. Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani created an interesting concept of setting up a bunch of piñatas for people to break. It is a fun art installation that should be done more often. The piñata is made out of newspaper and flour paste covering a balloon. Then the strips of green are made of tissue paper and the green paint. With this piñata I was able to take out my frustrations towards the virus since it has changed so many aspects of my life. In conclusion I think breaking a piñata is more fun than making one. Although I wouldn’t mind making another one as long as it brings joy to that person.

That’s a really cool project! I was thinking of doing something similar with a piñata of an ICE agent I saw at a bodega months ago.

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