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[filtzgood]

Performance Art - Single use plastics

This is my public intervention project part II, and applied as my performance art piece in its disassembly.  This piece has been in my yard for a good minute, and while the interaction with my community was more in seeing the passersby stop and look, mostly with smiles, some with gawking irritation, I was happy with the overall public response.  I had some kids volunteer to talk to me, and that became the highlight of the process for me. As I stated in my artist statement for the installation, this is an important and critical issue for the future of humankind on the planet, and we have to pay attention.  The issue has been casually regarded, and individualizing the issue, giving people the impression that it is enough to recycle, and that will solve the problem is misleading.  The issue is far reaching and all industries are needing to respond to the issue with urgency.  Recycling on an individual effort  will not take care of it, and just that will not slow production or the processes that are in place in manufacturing.  This is an industry issue that can only be powerfully addressed through consumer choices.  Do not support companies with irresponsible policies, and products not easily disassembled for component recycling and reuse.   This is a movement of consumerism and the choices that we make in our purchasing, as much as it is an issue of effort to help an overwhelming issue in its scope.

[filtzgood]

THE VID 19 

I wanted to capture the broad scope of sheltering in place. I aimed to do this with drone photography by showing the stark contrast of what life was like before and during the height of the pandemic. I found that I needed to include part of the human response, with some humor while not ignoring the suffering of the victims. While I am deeply stricken with the number of lives lost I wanted to keep the morose at the fringe of this piece.  The focus for me was demonstrating in a short compilation the stark difference in our lives, and the ingenuity and hope that people have found to distract from the possible devastation of life that is still impending. We are all trying to make the time less stressful for ourselves and the people we are exposed to, and hope is all we have to an end to this epidemic.

All materials sampled in this work are purely for  creative non-profit purposes and will be removed at owner’s request.

Sourced Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKAYqzOfLjY  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFBFRTvFc7E  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJwnIcj82a0  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12XcnTCrsEs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyrJTmUpNQ  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4q3bKvzfiY&t=56s  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vw7gwaz8E  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkf_tMj9NCM  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNFeo5oOuJA  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdc2vyxlqus  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogy39SRqqDM  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs-Up99h-R4  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMYnGtMAiU4  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRwsHPwz3mA  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mriWvr3fEo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCg8vkYuRB8  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1Ew91UjHI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fo5UaqvBoU  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmAgNxM_60  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3wXPbaS3sY  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1fha98fip0  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqI3Rvn2SBc  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFLSG-7K3Tc  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-sc6z_TO1E  

[filtzgood]

Artist Statement:

Recycle Tree/ Plastic crisis awareness

Human beings and their presence have finally pushed the planet over the edge.  We are now living in a new age of Earth history, an age they call the Anthropocene.  The Holocene that was the epoch prior to what they are deeming as having its start at the Industrial Revolution, lasted 11,700 years. We have officially brought the Earth’s environment to a state that can never be brought back to original. Thus the Anthropocene is the name given to our age in Earth’s history.  

Part of the irreversible condition is the phenomenon of petroleum based plastics. 80% of ocean debris is plastic, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Petroleum based plastic does not “biodegrade”, and in fact biodegradable plastic is a misnomer. Plastics have a single carbon bond that cannot be broken in order for the molecules to be consumed and converted to energy.  The material is never reduced to anything beyond a microscopic piece of what it is. Every molecule of plastic ever created is still in existence on this planet, and the smaller the particle, the more likely it is to enter the biomass of the ocean, and in turn the food chain.  We as a population are consuming micro-plastics found in fish and now in the terrestrial animals that we consume. The buildup of these inorganic molecules is causing a number of unexplained endocrine system issues in humans, livestock and fish populations.  Tumors, abnormal growth patterns, and mutations are on the rise and attributed to micro-plastic pollution levels in consumed food.  

The technological revolution and lifestyle enhancements that came with the advent of petroleum based plastic are undeniable, and our lives are fully entwined in its usage. While the production of new petroleum based plastics needs to be drastically quelled, recycling is our only hope of pulling the plastics in existence out of our environment, and to reuse what we have already created.  If we don’t take this as a serious endeavor, the health of the ocean’s biomass and conversely human beings will suffer for our conveniences.   My hope with the Recycle Tree was to remind us all that while plastics are interwoven into our daily lives, seemingly forever, the only thing we can do is be responsible consumers and RECYCLE. The city of San Francisco has gotten their recycling and composting to a point that only 20% of all of the city’s waste goes to a landfill.  We can only hope to reach such an efficient level of recycling as a community.  This needs to be the case globally to begin to slow the issues of plastic pollution.

[filtzgood]

Gif Exercise: This is my friends son doing the floss.I used adobe premier to make the gif. I had trouble compressing this enough to upload to tumbr. The thing about this piece i love the most is the dog’s WTF face.

Didn’t originally want to make this my gif for the project. Had so many great dreams about other gifs. But you know how dreams go…. wish I had a note pad next to me… this moment was too good not to make it my project.

[filtzgood]

Artist Statement:

Recycle Tree/ Plastic crisis awareness

Human beings and their presence have finally pushed the planet over the edge.  We are now living in a new age of Earth history, an age they call the Anthropocene.  The Holocene that was the epoch prior to what they are deeming as having its start at the Industrial Revolution, lasted 11,700 years. We have officially brought the Earth’s environment to a state that can never be brought back to original. Thus the Anthropocene is the name given to our age in Earth’s history.  

Part of the irreversible condition is the phenomenon of petroleum based plastics. 80% of ocean debris is plastic, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Petroleum based plastic does not “biodegrade”, and in fact biodegradable plastic is a misnomer. Plastics have a single carbon bond that cannot be broken in order for the molecules to be consumed and converted to energy.  The material is never reduced to anything beyond a microscopic piece of what it is. Every molecule of plastic ever created is still in existence on this planet, and the smaller the particle, the more likely it is to enter the biomass of the ocean, and in turn the food chain.  We as a population are consuming micro-plastics found in fish and now in the terrestrial animals that we consume. The buildup of these inorganic molecules is causing a number of unexplained endocrine system issues in humans, livestock and fish populations.  Tumors, abnormal growth patterns, and mutations are on the rise and attributed to micro-plastic pollution levels in consumed food.  

The technological revolution and lifestyle enhancements that came with the advent of petroleum based plastic are undeniable, and our lives are fully entwined in its usage. While the production of new petroleum based plastics needs to be drastically quelled, recycling is our only hope of pulling the plastics in existence out of our environment, and to reuse what we have already created.  If we don’t take this as a serious endeavor, the health of the ocean’s biomass and conversely human beings will suffer for our conveniences.   My hope with the Recycle Tree was to remind us all that while plastics are interwoven into our daily lives, seemingly forever, the only thing we can do is be responsible consumers and RECYCLE. The city of San Francisco has gotten their recycling and composting to a point that only 20% of all of the city’s waste goes to a landfill.  We can only hope to reach such an efficient level of recycling as a community.  This needs to be the case globally to begin to slow the issues of plastic pollution.

[tarable10]

Great composition. Reminds me of a chihuly in form but a wildly different medium. Like the message. Could have put more information from the statement on the actual installation

[tarable10]

[tarable10]

[pi-slices]

Decay - 200516

[tarable10]

4D Studio Final Project

The beginnings of this line was the discovery of some abandon boxes in  the garage of a house that I rented when my son was only one . The boxes contained National Geographic magazines from 1959 through 1973.  They were water damaged and I accepted this as a great resource for collage.  I have done collage throughout my years, before the days of Photoshop, and thought it was a great way to rekindle a lost art.  The quotes are from various famous people in history, and relevant to the images in their own, somewhat cynical at times, sense. 

The images

start to thin the herd

the canvas first layer

Rough in the layout

The finish.....

[francesrmm]

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

-Final Result

#theartassignment

[tarable10]

Electric use of color!!

[mollyyleee]

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)

[tarable10]

Incredible detail.  Beautiful use of breaking the frame

[djacks89]

THE ART ASSIGNMENT FINAL PROJECT

The chose the flyer assignment because I liked the idea of the commercial application of art. I chose to do a missing person flyer for my old self. As I’ve gotten older I kind of lost my lust for life. When I was younger I was eager to be outside and experience life, I was game for anything. Now in my young adulthood I’m very reserved and am too “busy” to do what I like to do for the most part, I’m cooped up in my room and only go outside to work. Im tired of it. For the assignment I dug up an old photo of where I was truly happy and made flyers out of it. I took these flyers and posted them in my old neighborhood where I grew up on the community bulletin board. I hope this assignment is the catalyst for me becoming my full self again.

[tarable10]

Excellent catalyst for self examination

[runeofthenord]

Overall I think my favorite things I've learned in this class are how to make gifs and performance art. For the final project I wanted to make a silly gif series that combined the two. This gif series portrays the funny antics of cats with a little research on the side into their silly behaviors. I am certainly a cat lover at heart. When looking at performance art it is also reminds me quite a bit of fursuiting. When someone puts on a fursuit they are not only donning that camouflage, but stepping into the reality of that character. That's why I thought it would be useful to put on the camouflage of a cat to portray their antics.

1. Knocking things over- Cats always seem to enjoy knocking different items off tables and causing chaos in general, but where do these destructive tendencies stem from? This behavior is thought to stem from a cat's hunting instincts, but also simply come from the cat's natural curiosity. (Grieves, 2016)

2. Gift Giving- Cats always seem to bringing home fresh kills or non deceased critters much to our dismay. In the wild cats bring dead animals to their young to teach them how to hunt. (Palermo, 2013) In a household setting a cat may bring you prey as you are considered the closest to being their family. (Palermo, 2013)

3. Bag Investigators- Cats love bags, boxes, tunnels, and the like there's no doubt about that. Cats love bags because they have an acute sense of smell and usually can smell the food that was in the bag before. (Reynolds, 2019) Bags are usually also coated with cornstarch or other salty compounds that attract the cat. (Reynolds, 2019) Cats also seem to enjoy the crinkling sound bags make. (Reynolds, 2019)

4. Constant preeners- Cats are meticulous preeners, often licking the same foot for half an hour. Cats groom themselves so often to cleanse injuries, to hide their scent, and simply just because they enjoy it. (Shojai, 2018)

5. Constant sleepers- Cats sleep A LOT. In fact cat's sleep eighty percent of their lives away. Daily cats sleep about 16-20 hours. (Cespedes, 2011) Cats sleep this much during the ddy due to being more active during dawn and evening. (Cespedes, 2011)

I hope you guys enjoyed my gif series and learned something new!

Sources Cited

PetMD. Why Do Cats Knock Things Over? 14 June 2017, www.petmd.com/cat/behavior/why-do-cats-knock-things-over.

Palermo, Elizabeth. “Why Do Cats Bring Home Dead Animals?” LiveScience, Purch, 29 Mar. 2013, www.livescience.com/34471-cats-dead-animals.html.

Reynolds, Lindsey. “Why Do Cats Love Paper and Plastic so Much?” MNN, Mother Nature Network, 12 Sept. 2019, www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/why-do-cats-love-paper-and-plastic-so-much.

Shojai, Amy. “There's a Reason Most Cats Don't Stink.” The Spruce Pets, The Spruce Pets, 16 June 2018, www.thesprucepets.com/why-cats-groom-themselves-so-often-4126526.

PetMD. “Why Do Cats Sleep So Much?” PetMD, 7 July 2016, www.petmd.com/cat/behavior/evr_ct_why_do_cats_sleep_so_much. Ok

[tarable10]

So cool!   Great work and a very original take on the final project.  Inspiring

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Yachts, Cowes, 1884

George West & Son, Gosport :: Yachts, Cowes, 1884. ‘Marjorie’, 'Marguerite’, 'Genesta’ & 'Tara’ racing for the Town Cup. | src Flickr

[contemporary-visual-art]

Laure Prouvost, A Way To Leak, Lick, Leek, 2016

[tarable10]

Christo Jean Claude “ Floating Piers 2016 Lake Iseo Italy

Escaping the confines of the museum

Jonathan Borosfsky “Dancers” Denver Colorado 2003

Collapsing the boundaries between high and low art

RAW “Untitled” Bulldog in Gold Frame 2018 Denver Colorado

Rejecting Originality

Donna Urdinov “Spider Lady” 2019 Gnomon School

Joissance

“Mail Art”  2018 Smithsonian Museum

Collaboration Art

Muses et Hommes Exihibition 2016

Appropriating

Damien Hirst “ Let’s Eat Outdoors Today”1990

Simulating the real

Saya Woolfaulk “ Untitled” Chrysler Museum 2003

Hybridizing cultural influences

Tonia Zombrano “Winged Things” exhibition Denver Colorado 2018

Mixing Media

Pia Mnnikk “Deja Vu” 2010 Finland

Layering

Kara Walker “Gone......” MOMA 1994 NY, NY

Mixing Codes”

Campbell La Pun “ Whizz Bang Coke Rack Rip” Japan 2019

Recontextualizing

Joan Joyce “Demi Bush” 2009

confronting the gaze

Robert Gober “Man Coming Out of Woman” 1993

Accepting the Abject

Kara Walker “Emancipation Proclamation” 1999

Constructing Identities

Theodore Wores “the Chinese Fishmonger” 1881 Smithsonian

Using Narratives 

Chloe Wise “Lactose Tolerance” 2017

Creating Metaphors

Banksy “ Kids on Guns” circa unknown

Parody and Dissonance

[tarable10]

Reading Response 4: Postmodernist Approaches for Making Art

The postmodern movement was the counterculture response to the spit shine of the 50′s and the modernist views of art and the world that we live in.  The facade of .perfection and control, of self confidence and the mask of contentment that riddled the modernist art movement was bound to have an answer.  That became the post modern movement, that threw off the glow of the projections of utopia that life was to be accepted as. The guts of dissonance and the sarcastic creations of a movement destined to reveal true human evocation of what is real and more accurate than  the gloss of the decades before.  The conventions of what was considered high art would not stand in the face of what was genuine artistic expression of the human condition.