#timeproject

[imanolbuisan]

Gender neutral, 01/01/2017 The 2017 daily collages are part of fractal project, a year project that try to destroy and create new measures of time taking the personal habits as a periods of time.

[shaman734]

“Time” artist statement

This is a painting that was inspired by many artists that work with nature and mixed media. This painting depicts a city scene, one that is quite generic and ordinary. There are dark colors, and an over all dark palette used to help create this feeling of drab and ordinary surroundings. The city looks back at the viewer, and the sky looks sad and cold. But from the center of the composition there sprouts life. Chia seeds were planted and allowed to grow through the 4 connected canvases to incorporate actual living nature into this stale and drab environment. The actual living sprouts are accompanied by painted in versions of plants and various growing organisms, ones that would be found in this kind of environment. This painting has two distinct messages. One, that the passing of time brings growth. Growth and renewal are a cycle that continues on indefinitely. Growth is change, and change is constant. These seedlings started as tiny little ideas of a plant, and grew over the course of the semester into actualized sprouts, with laves of their own. Growth and change will occur over time, with or without our permission. Second, nature reclaims all. If we as a society stopped interfering with a particulare area of land, stopped cleaning it, looking after things, keeping up with maintenance and rebuilding of broken things. This place would be reclaimed and nature would slowly through the passing of time take this space and grow around it, envelope it in natural growth, and turn it into a living breathing place again. Nature is the most powerful force on this planet, and humans can for a time keep places the way we want, build things, destroy things, but only for a time. Only nature is permanent.

[shaman734]

“Time” proposal

I will be creating for the "time" project, a painting that involves a growing live plant element. I will create the painting over the coming weeks and months of this semester, documenting the growth of both my painting and the growth of the plant into the composition. I will do my best to document as often as possible each week, aiming for 3-4 times a week, or more to make sure to capture the growth of the plant and painting over time. I will keep the painting and the plant in the same spot in my room, and have a designated place for my camera to take photos every single time, as to get the same shot every time.

I hope in the end to create am image of a city, a place made of human made, non organic materials. The plant will grow into the composition, symbolically proving that without constant human interference plants and nature as a whole will always reclaim the earth. Humans may for a time control a space of land, like an ant colony creating an anthill, but through the passage of time nature reclaims all. At the end of this semester I hope to have enough photos to create a time lapse, that will show an intriguing growth of both the painting created by me (a human) and the growth of an organic life form ( the plant), visually illustrating the passage of time.

[shaman734]

“Time” research journal

1. Kathy Yates https://m.kohls.com/product/prd-1722861/12-x-18-vine-wall-canvas-wall-art-by-kathy-yates.jsp?skuid=95179733&CID=shopping15&utm_campaign=DECORATIVE%20ART&utm_medium=CSE&utm_source=google&utm_product=95179733&utm_campaignid=9733267180&gbraid=0AAAAADytpHaL0P1oFWYwak0HVSCVvLYV8&gbraid=0AAAAADytpHaL0P1oFWYwak0HVSCVvLYV8&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5P-X2svL9QIViB-tBh0MugQ4EAkYByABEgI5m_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds (Links to an external site.) - This is an image that was created to look like a painting of a wall that also incorporates plant life, growing vines and leafy vegetation. This is an example of the idea I have, It wont look like this but my idea is similar in that I want to convey the way that nature takes back and reclaims all man made creations through the passing of time. 2. Alan King https://www.alamy.com/geisha-japan-japanese-wall-painting-kimono-plant-growing-over-reveal-image9117675.html (Links to an external site.) - I found this image by Alan King to be very striking and a beautiful incorporation of plant life and human created imagery. This piece allows the hanging vines to sit in the space of the composition, making it look as if the figure is sitting among the vines enjoying a peaceful time. I picked this image because it was a great example of collaging both human made creation, and the natural world in a fun and creative way. 3. Artist nickname “Wild drawing” https://www.artdocentprogram.com/art-plant-hair/ (Links to an external site.) I chose this image from a greek artist who goes by the title of wild drawing, because of its overall creativity. This piece uses the time of growth and the natural worlds effect on man made structures so well. The underlying painting is covered up beautifully by the vines, in such a way that seems so intentional, but could have been a happy mistake. I thought that this composition was another good example of collaging painting and plants together in a way that is both engaging and eye catching for the viewer. This is by far my favorite example of the three. 

[shaman734]

“Time” Project Ideas

1. Go to my backyard, and choose an area of land to make the piece on. Clear all natural objects like grass, sticks, stones, leaves, or anything else away until only the soil remains. Document through photos the growth that occurs over time in that area. This will represent a time lapse of how the earth will always regrow and reclaim its territory, growing from places that have been stripped of beauty.

2. Create a painting that gets made a little bit each day, and incorporates a plant into the composition itself in some way. The painting process as well as the growth of the plant will be documented daily, to show the growth that all living things go through over time. The painting itself would depict an unnatural or man made scene, a city, or building without any visible plant life. The plant growing over the composition would remind us that plants and nature will always reclaim control of the earth, without the constant interference of humans.

3. Draw a quick sketch of myself every day, using one color that can show how i'm feeling that day. The drawing can be cartoony and simple, the paper size should stay around the same size. And each drawing should be dated, so as to know the correct order of when they where created. Once all of this little drawings are completed at the end of the semester, they can be collaged together to create the outline of a human head and shoulders. This would show that people emotions are bound to fluctuate and change over time, and that emotions are as changeable as the seasons.

[ericotley-blog]

Time Post-Critique Response

For this project my goal was to capture the build up of dust, and I think for my first attempt I pulled it off. You can clearly enjoy watching the dust collect as the images roll through. I’d say some of the weaknesses would be the ending didn’t go as smoothly as I had hopped, and some camera shots were out of focus. I also had a hard time keeping shots lined up, although I did a decent job of correcting this it still could be done better.

Some great ideas from classmates were to use a tripod next time. If I don’t have studio lighting equipment, I could use a lamp as this would be better than nothing. This would correct the issue of the shots not lining up perfectly. The lamp, or studio lighting would fix why I chose to forgo the tripod – which was because the camera cast a visible shadow over the shelf that engulfed half the shot. Remote shutter, or time-lapse camera equipment were other great ideas to keep everything stable. One last thing, when going to wipe eight weeks’ worth of dust, it would be a good idea to wet the cloth first.

I learned a lot from this project. While it was not perfect, it came out decent and got the idea across. I will revisit this again using all of the suggestions. I think this could be a really great video portfolio piece once done in a cleaner way.

[cortezollie7-blog]

Post-Critique Response

My strengths in this piece were the concept of the piece and using receipts, flyers, and events. A lot of people said that they like the concept and the process of the piece. They like how the backpack creates the marks and it’s not myself, the marker switch when my emotion changes. People like how I use receipts, flyers, and events as the base for the markers. It shows people where I have been or what could cause the emotion to change.

My weakness in this piece is the presentation. A lot of people said that I should do something different with the presentation, I agree because I had a tough time to display since they are papers that are different sizes. I would improve it by putting it in order by date of the receipts. I would do this method by trim some of the receipts since some of them are huge then I would line them up in order by the dates. Also, I could do a timeline type of display since I have two long receipts, I could trim one of them and make the other as the timeline.

I learned that there are a lot of ways to make marks without using humans. For this project, I used my backpack to create marks and the other artist uses his pockets to create the marks. I might continue the series to try out other objects to see if they will create marks. Besides that idea, I wouldn’t continue this series because it feels like my strongest piece or one of my strongest pieces that I made this class.

[evelynli97-blog]

ARTIST/PROJECT STATEMENT

Am I doing too much? That’s the question I keep asking myself today. The major issue of my project is lack of connection of each part. I love fire, color paint, glass, weird computer sounds, I put all those in to one project would that be a problem? Not necessary, but would I cut some part out from my project? No. But how am I going to make the link become stronger? Maybe I can put the painting into the video, with another side that describe the meaning of those color. Or I could use color to cover the thing that I want to burn. There are many ways to make the case stronger but I’m still thinking about the best way.

I’m a little upset about how people react for my project today, I would image more discussion about what it is, but I think because I have too many elements and people are all tired. But I still need to think about how to make people participate in this. How to deliver my message is one point, but how to make people willing to discover the message is another point. Art as a tool for message delivery, but how we give it to people is also a huge point. Beside then make the video more delicacy, and make a stronger delivery is also an important thing that I will think about in the future.

Yes, I could love to keep doing my research on this topic, I love to burn things, I might even burn more thing in the future. And have more thought about how time has affected us in a way. As a record for me and as a record for this world. It could be more and more interesting thought and more hurt for myself/this world to give a stronger voice to tell people stop to damage this world. Think big and make it happen, and let’s do some powerful art.