Mi Mundo Loco

Lupita. 118

[kyliestueven]

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. 

[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.

[kyliestueven]

Performance project #3

I have realized through this quarantine that our society and culture does not allow us to breathe. We are so used to be constantly in motion that we have a hard time figuring out what to do with ourselves when we have time to do nothing. For my project I decided to record myself just breathing. So many people I know are impatiently waiting for our quarantine to be lifted and daydreaming about getting back to the flow of things. I believe that our solitude is a blessing in disguise. We have time to think, to reflect, to create, to figure out who we are, to find out what we value more than anything else, and to just breathe. While doing this project I filmed myself without a timer and allow myself to guess when a minute had gone by. I stayed there for nearly five minutes. This was a lesson for me as well about the value of of how we spend our time, because in the end it is fleeting.

[mybrainisonfire]

Love this!

[miguelmarquezoutside]

[cocainejuul]

Hope Sandoval.

[francesrmm]

“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.

[mybrainisonfire]

Take a look at my face

Project 3

For my project I decided to do a performance using my face with a kaleidoscope effect. I wanted to achieve a creepy up close look at my features. Accompanied with the song Criminals by Rezz and Mala which has beats I wanted to transition to the movements of my face. This video I think would be a cool projection in an art gallery because of the weirdness and mesmerizing kaleidoscope effect. I decided to step out of my comfort zone and make something weird. The creepy beats of the song inspired me and this was the outcome. It was very fun to do with the boredom that sometimes consumes me during this crisis.

[mollyyleee]

[mybrainisonfire]

Exercise #3 Richard Serra’s Verb List.

Verbs included in video:

-Burn

-Boil

-Dance

-Break

[mybrainisonfire]

Reading #3

I enjoyed the reading for this module because it opened my mind to performance art, since I’ve never been very interested in it. I liked how Roselee Goldberg stated, “it has always been attractive to artist impatient with the limitations of more established art forms (Goldberg 22).” I think this is a very good explanation of why performance art is important. Performance art challenges the way art is conceptualized and makes the audience experience a new way of viewing art. The reading states how artist turned to performance as a way to shake up the publics attitude. Performance art was also a way to halt stagnation of art in museums. After World War II that is when performance art began to spread rapidly. Contemporary artist have taken different approaches to performance art, since any material or length of time can be used. Although museums in the US and Europe have acknowledged performance art, it still remains a challenge to art critics and the public. I think this is what makes performance art special the fact that it goes agaisnt the norm. 

[riverwindphotography]

[animatedamerican]

you know, it is not very often that I see a gif and experience this strong a desire to put my hand into it.

[mybrainisonfire]

Project 2.

For project two I wanted to emphasize primary colors and the human form. Most of my clips were done at Auraria library which is full of primary colors. It was definitely inspiration for me. I did this with a filter on instagram which I used to record all of the clips. The filter is called Inception and you can acess it when you record an instagram story. What I liked about this filter was that It could divide my image into four sections. I was inspired to play with shapes and patterns I saw around me. Some clips were taken in Auraria campus. The red circular pattern was from the library aswell as the books. This project was very fun to edit and put together. I love that we can use instagram filters and make video art.

[mybrainisonfire]

The Grand Budapest Hotel & Sorry by Justin Bieber Cover by Tayler Buono

Music Video Exercise #2

[queesser]

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[mybrainisonfire]

PROJECT ONE : My Project is gifs revolving around bee’s and their delicious honey. The reason I chose to make ten bee gifs is because I think they are very special creatures that tend to be underrated. Growing up I have always been around bees and I appreciate how hard working they are. I find it really inspiring how a tiny creature can create so much with so little. I wanted to emphasize how honeybee’s are only doing their job and minding their own business. A bee does not want to sting a human, but if it does it only dies if its stinger gets completely detached. When the stinger gets detached the honeybee’s digestive tract, muscles and nerves do too. This abdominal rupture is what kills the bee. The bee can survive from stinging a human only if it can detach itself from our fibrous skin. Normally a bee can sting any insect and be free immediately afterwards but with humans our skin fibers prevent the stinger from coming off easily. I found a cool video that demonstrated a bee detaching its stinger from a man’s finger and I found it really cool. The bee took at least two minutes working itself out by walking counterclockwise and eventually came out. While looking for videos about honeybee’s and honey there were a ton of ASMR videos of people eating honeycombs. I thought making gifs would be extremely difficult but it wasn’t as bad as I thought.

[assyrianjalebi]

Penélope Cruz in Jamón Jamón (1992)

[mybrainisonfire]

Exercise One