Midterm Contract | Fall 2017
What is your overall concept for your body of work?
My concept for this semester is the recording of time through an art journal. I will convey this by depicting my personal thoughts and feelings throughout my final semester of college, displaying a sense of nostalgia, melancholy, and urgency through visual musings in a sketchbook.
How will individual artworks reflect this overall concept?
Through being honest with myself and open to representing my feelings on paper, as well as recording events as they happen, I will successfully record this time in my life for myself as well as others. By keeping track of time as it passes my concept will be successful.
What changes have you made to your concept since you wrote your statement of intent?
How has the research you have done influenced your goals/intent since you wrote your Statement of Intent at the beginning of the semester?
When I was writing my statement of intent at the beginning of the semester I wanted to only include my thoughts and feelings about this time in my life and the events that are taking place around me. In looking at other’s works and reflecting on my past work I decided that I wanted to record events as well.
How has your experimental work from the beginning of the semester influenced your goals/intent since you wrote your statement of intent?
In the beginning of the semester I was having a hard time coming up with things to write about and work on because I was only consumed with wanted to record feeling. Through working in the journal, I realized that I was having way more fun in the past visually representing what I was doing daily and wanted to return to that.
How will the formal decisions and materials that you choose relate to your concept?
The only thing that my concept dictates I must use is a journal of some sort. Anything bound and able to withstand heavy use. As far as everything within the journal, I am not limiting myself to any specific materials. This way I can change style, materials, and methods in ways that I feel appropriately reflect the entry. Plus journals are far more interesting when one does not hold oneself to any limitations.
What will the final body of work look like?
It depends. I would like to finish the book but I won’t force myself to if it does not feel authentic. At the rate I am working now I feel comfortable with continuing at my own pace (usually two entries a week) until the end of the semester. The “final body” of work might never end because I do enjoy this process and may continue to record my life indefinitely.
What will your personal time table look like for having final pieces or specific amounts of work done? How much will be done by the next in-progress critique?
I want to complete at least two entries a week for the rest of the semester, often I do more than that. By the next in-progress critique I should have at the very least six more entries.
What do you hope to accomplish or learn in making the body of work?
I want to accomplish having a personal little time capsule for my final semester of undergrad. Through this I also want to learn new techniques for creating art and having a daily habit of trying to make something.
In what ways are you facilitating improvement in your work?
By working and practicing almost every day I will improve my skills over time and hopefully stretch my creativity in ways that I have not before.
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