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1. There is no such thing as an original idea.
2. Thought must go into every line, stroke, or dash that you put on to a piece of paper. There must be reason.
3. A picture is worth a thousand words but a drawing is worth infinite.
Journal 4/19
Collage is defined as follows: an assemblage or occurrence of diverse elements or fragments in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition. Collage is often thought of in the traditional sense of a combination of photographs, paper, and other visual materials to combine to form a piece of art. Few people think of collaging words and sentences and sentence fragments together to rewrite or reintroduce stories or topics. Andrew McCLellan’s lecture on collage in writing and poetry showed a lot of different examples of this technique being used in different ways. It was a good follow up to our Vogue assignment. The Vogue assignment really shed light on the difficulties of collaging texts and words together. Language is a very fluid subject so combining different texts from different sources and authors and writers is actually more difficult than I would have thought. One example I remember from the lecture specifically was the poem that used parts from the Iliad and Odyssey (I think those were the examples) to create a poem relative to both while using no original words or phrases. My initial thoughts when I first saw the poem was that it was kind of a rip-off and plagiarized but upon further thought I realized the actual craft and meticulous thought it actually took to put those pieces together into a fluid and specific passage. People tend to think of borrowing photographs and pictures as more okay and original than words but really it is the same idea and they are both okay. Building off of what others have done is important and difficult. One of the first and more important lessons I ever learned in architecture school was this: “There is no such thing as an original idea.”
photo creds: www.english.illinois.edu
true stories
The idea of time and architecture creates a juxtaposition that amplifies the ancient beauty and nature of the discipline. Architecture creates infallible design built to withstand the test of time while enduring it nonetheless. The unscripted eccentricity delves on the outskirts of the realm of reality and infiltrates the realm of fantasy and imagination. The fusion of under-the-radar yet supersophisticated aesthetics illuminates the artistic conscious within any eye that comes in contact. The omnipresent nature of architecture and design holds debutante-like beauty even in the most vindictive of eyes.
Amazing Thing 3
Yesterday we took a field trip to Cade’s Cove in the Smokey Mountains to visit our future site for our final project in studio. Aside from driving through them when traveling to and from school, I had never been up close and personal in the Smokey Mountains. The area of the mountains that encompassed Cade’s Cove was even more beautiful than my already beautiful road trips I had taken through them before. The winding and narrow roads of the park worked almost as a threshold from civilization and society into a beautiful world of pure nature. The first and most noticeable thing upon entering the park was its lack of cellphone service. It was as if it was submerging one completely into nature and the wild by stripping away the very thing that keeps people away from it. upon entering the depths of the park, it was rolling fields and meadows as far as the eye could see until they abruptly ended at the bottoms of mountains. Deer roamed the fields in every area, almost oblivious to the visiting humans and cars traveling around them. I had never seen a deer abstain from flinching the second it heard, smelled, or saw a human being or a car. It was very fascinating to me.
The structures built back during the 19th century were among the most amazing things I saw on this trip. The phenomenal craftsmanship that had allowed these structures to stand for so long was nothing short of incredible. The particular structure that stood out to me was the one pictured above. We spent a solid twenty minutes staring at it trying to figure out what its purpose was. It was rather interesting. The elongated roof and strange doors made it a very peculiar design. I reasoned that it was the first two car garage. French reasoned that it could perhaps be a tobacco or meat storage building.
Journal 3/22
Time is an extremely interesting concept in human society. It is something that is rarely ever pondered on a deeper level and it is taken almost completely for granted. Time is something that people accept and respect as something that was set in place long long ago before humans but in reality, it is something created by humans. Time is simply a tool created to keep track of human life and to keep organization in the world. Other creatures have no sense of time. Take dogs for example. They have no sense of time. They cannot distinguish the difference between a few minutes and a day. They live completely unaware of the passage of time. Perhaps they realize time has passed but they have to sense of measured scale for this passage.
Because time is so taken for granted, it is extremely difficult to imagine a life where time does not exist. Obviously as our mortality progresses, things change, but who is to say what is responsible for this if we did not have a scale of time. Obviously the sun going down and up is a fairly good assessment of this passage but who is to say we wouldn’t begin to base these changes on every time the wind blows. What if the standard for a day was every time the wind blew because we had no concept of what a day should be. It is strange to think that time is not something set in stone, but is merely a guideline in displaying change.
image: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
03.22.16 | Aaron Copland and the London Symphony Orchestra, Appalachian Spring: Very Slowly, 1944
The first piece reminds me of a sunrise. I picture a log cabin in the middle of a meadow somewhere watching a peaceful sunrise early in the morning. The flow makes me picture a small stream running through the meadow. The second piece starts to make me imagine animals. Like there is some sort of symphony of deer and other creatures dancing around under the finally risen sun.
03.08.16 | Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Soap Bubble Set), 1936
The first thing that jumps out at me about this still life is the color and structure of it. I almost immediately think of maps due to the globe and overall color of the frame. I am not going to lie, I have no idea what to think about this. Maybe it’s a
03.03.16 | Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Reichstag wrapped in silver fabric, 1995
The first thing I notice when I see this photograph is the giant curtain-like shroud over this enormous structure. It at least looks like it at least. The structure reminds one of a castle. The soft glowing light in the bottom center of the building draws one’s attention to the center.
03.01.16 | Anselm Kiefer, 2002
This picture looks like an aerial view of a battlefield. The numerous black specs represent the hordes of people crossing an enormous flat field. The sky in the distance is extremely dark and appears to be menacing. The land travels on flat as far as the eye can see as this imaginary arm marches across.
Icarus Landing
Perhaps the most noticebale aspect of the confined area is the nearby Tennessee River bordering the land. The space is is defined by a bordering road and definitely has intended movement throughout the space as indicated by the road and sidewalks. The shape of the almost L shaped building implies movement in a certain direction because of its shape. It almost acts as if it is an arrow directing the flow of movement. The buildings relate to each other rather awkwardly in my opinion. There does not seem to be any sort of order or grid pattern for the positon or direction of the building shapes. I would imagine the sound qualities of the area are primarily the sounds of of bustling people and cars passing by on the road. The area looks to be like an entirely public space due to the roads and sidewalks and layout of the Ayres Hall courtyard. The buildings and spaces surrounding the road sides are very crowded and most likely provide a very bad sight line. However, from the courtyard of Ayres Hall, the sight line is most likely very open because it is almost all flat ground. I would assume most day time activities take place in the open, flat land of the Ayres Hall courtyard. It has an enormous susceptibility to sunlight as well. Most night time activities would most likely be conducted on the inside of the buildings where light is available. However, during the school week many of the building would be occupied due to classes as well. The corner of Neyland Stadium casts enormous amounts of shade over parts of the road. Toward the center of the area there is grassy area with the shade of a few trees which is most likely a popular spot for day time activities.
Amazing Thing 2
I found Katarina Burin’s presentation of Czechoslovakian modern architect Petra Andrejova-Molnar both extremely confusing and hard to keep up with but also very interesting at the same time. Sometimes that’s the best way to learn though I suppose. Katarina Burin spoke extremely fast and it was very hard to keep up with what she was saying. Also, being a first year, it was especially difficult to keep up with because to be honest I was not familiar with many of the terms and famous names she was using. However, as I said, that cans sometimes be a useful learning tool. Being submerged abruptly into material and struggling to keep up is sometimes how the mind learns best. Anyways, I thought that many of the images she presented in the lecture were extremely fascinating. There was a good mixture of photography, modeling, and drawings. I wish she would have gone through the slides slower so I could have had a chance to view the images more closely and clearly and perhaps takes notes and draw some of them. The lecture posted online is very blurry and pixelated and hard to see what the images are depicting. I found the Red Cube House especially a fascinating structure in the presentation. The simplicity of the design of the home is beautiful. It is comprised strictly of straight orthogonal edges and the contrasting red of the structure with the rest of its surroundings and environment is brilliantly designed. It is a beautiful piece of modern architecture.
Wizard of Oz 2.23
It appears to be a princess in a flesh colored robe giving a small girl flowers. Totally Wizard of Oz….nice. I did not really recognize it at first until I heard constant whispering around me. The first thing I noticed were the use of circles and complex squiggly lines that comprise the people in the drawing. Just like professor talked about in class at that age.
The Annunciation
The lecture on The Annunciation depicted from the Bible was very interesting to me. I am not a religious person at all, in fact I had no idea what the painting on the screen was when we did the warm-up on Tuesday. Nor did I know who the people were or the story it was showing. Particularly the sets of rules about how the painting must be done I found very funny. It is just insane to me to think about how powerful and influential the church and religion was back in that time. The amount of renditions of that one simple scene is wild to think about. In a sense, it is the birth of Jesus’ name. religious or not, one can understand how big of a time that is. The amount of renditions and how much they differ, yet still tell the same story, is amazing. I am not one who appreciates art like that but after listening to Professor Ambroziak’s lecture about the different stages of the painting and the signs that show you about them, I was very interested and found myself dying to look at more. One thing that really catches my eye in a lot of them is the beautiful architecture that is generally in the background of most of the paintings. As professor Ambroziak said, architecture was a major mode of communication back then due to the illiteracy of every day common people. I think its amazing that after all this time the profession has still survived and is still as respected as it is today. I never realized how important it was back then to every day understanding of things, especially religion. It is amazing that a designed space can tell so much. (i was absent for the moon lecture)
02.16.16 | Fra Filippo Lippi, Annunciation, c. 1435/1440 - tempera on panel
The first thing that sticks out to me is the column in the middle of the painting. At first glance it appears to be simply a column but I believe the mind wants it to stretch deeper and make a wall, dividing these two realms, the divine and the mortal. Both are wearing some sort of halo around their heads therefore tying them together on a spiritual level. The window of viewing is also extremely strange. It is like an arch that frames the scene.
02.11.16 | Diane Fox, “Wrapped”, Milwaukee Public Museum, 2006 - from UnNatural History taxidermy-photography
Painting appears to be shedding light on the nastiness of hunting in what appears to be the Savannah. It is interesting that some of the animals are covered in the wrap while some are not. The picture appears to be more photorealistic in the front but as yones eye moves toward the background it becomes more painted.
What really makes a home a home? According to Bachelard, a home is comprised of all the small aspects that attract attention while at the same time the essence of the space as a whole. The mentality and spatial attitude of a home is just as, if not more, important as the visible detailing of the home. I believe Bachelard cherishes the relationship between someone and a home just as much as a human relationship. In other words, when you know, you know. It is very similar to Harold’s problem of finding his home after exploring the night with his purple crayon. He tries for so long to find his home for so long and finally realizes he is capable of making his own home. A home is simply where one feels at one with their surrounding with a strong peace of mind and unity, which can generally only be found from within; Harold finds that.
Bachelard talks about the home bringing up memories and a tornado of thoughts, especially when entering a home you have never seen before. I feel like we all have this sort of intuition of what we expect a home to look and feel like and no matter which one we enter, we somehow connect and relate it to our own experiences of home and belonging. I believe we also begin to relate our surroundings with home. Such as maybe a tree in your front yard growing up or a large rock you met around with your friends as a child. These sort of memories bring comfort. Harold uses this sort of key when finding his home by recognizing the moon through a window. This enables him to establish a home identical to his own…or maybe it was his actual home.