Social Landscape Narrative.

The temptation to look up what Social Landscape Narrative actually meant was very difficult to avoid however I did not do it and I followed my instinct  of what I believe it means. I basically took a straight forward approach to it. I captured a social environment of a college campus with all the hustle and bustle that comes with it. Then I tried to get the beautiful foliage of the trees and landscape in it too along with the narrative of an afternoon walking around a college campus. These were not my favorite photos I have ever taken however I do love all the colors.

Photos from the weekend.

Had a pretty lazy weekend however I did take an interest in an old piano here it is.

Why do people photograph???

I believe people photograph for many reasons. I feel like one reason is that sometime things or moments make you feel a certain way and people want to capture that feeling and if you take a picture of it you can give yourself that feeling again. Now that it is a picture other people can look at it too and get there own sense of feelings or relationship with the photograph. Pictures for me are a relationship and a personal way that I specifically see the world. It lets me be creative in the happenings of my life. Photographs can express so much and I like the fact that they can make you feel any emotion just by looking at them.

Inspiration

Well these days I am and have always been inspired by one of my high school teachers Kara Healey who is a photographer. I never really saw her work for a long time however I was around her and her artistic mind everyday for two years really. The way that she acted around art and the process of it really made me think and aspire to always have a creative thread running. She really created her emotions around the art world and her art work really reflected her as a being. This a personal more secretive goal that I have for myself is to have my art express the person that I am.

Creative Process.

For me I feel that I get inspired so easily weather it is from a song or a texture on a piece of clothing or the way someone approaches me one day. It could be anything really however I feel that I don't get blocks so much what I am more worried about it is the constant slipping away that happens once I start the process. Once I am inspired by something and then create around that inspiration. It is very easy for me to forget why I was inspired by it or it could be that I saw something else that seems like a better inspiration that makes me lose faith very quickly in my last. Sometimes I feel like I need to take a step back when I am stuck and go back to the place that I was so inspired by. This reminds myself why I started this process but also to really focus on the finish product of something.

Artist Talk # 2 ( Richard Fox, Michael McConnel)

This past wednesday I went to my second artist talk of this semester. It was another faculty talk which I like a lot because not only do you get to learn something from a professor that you may have had but also from an artist that you can learn from there work and there teaching skills. It is a neat way to learn about the art world and I am happy they do that here.

First Richard Fox spoke and I have never had him as a teacher however as I mentioned in my last artist talk lecture response I love painting so I was excited to hear what he had to say about his type of paintings. His perspective of paint is very unique. I had never heard someone talk about painting the way that he did. It was not so much about the techniques or the rules of painting, or the composition for him. Although I believe they thought about all of these things it was more of spiritual experience for him more than anything. That is what he wanted it to be and he tried really hard it seems to keep it that way. he talked about painting in such a way that felt so vulnerable to me like it was a really deep part of him that he was scared of but was on a mission to conquer in new ways all the time. I believe he mentioned being terrified of something that he loved when he talked about painting. I can relate to this when I paint I get overwhelmed easily if I try to hard to think about all the rule and things that I have learned about how to go about a painting however you cant let yourself get consumed with that and that was what he was trying to get across and just let it become a experience and not a test almost.

One very interesting part of his lecture that he said he almost didn't mention but I am glad he did because it was one of the coolest parts for me was when he talked about his struggle with horizontals and verticals in his paintings. How he wasn't sure what it represented but how he always saw it and struggled with the meaning of this type of reoccurring cross in his work and life. His paintings were so personal to him and I liked that part  of it. Because his paintings were so sensitive and important to him they because important to the audience too I feel. I was very intent on following his intuition when it came to paintings. He talked about how he would go to places to paint and then decide he wasn't ready to do it yet. I think this is very interesting that he has that kind of self awareness of his way of painting.

The next artist that talked was Micheal McConnell. I was very interested to hear what she had to say because I have her for my introductory class for sculpture and this was good insight to understanding how she works as an artist and maybe what she is pushing for us to do in her class. As I have learned from her class and now confirmed from her lecture is that it is all about the process for her and for sculpting. There is a big challenge with sculpture I feel to understand the material that you are working with and it take several tries to get it right. It comes down to grasping an idea and the textures and then working through the process of getting there. She talked about how she liked taking small to large something about how it is confrontational and really presents something to the table in a way. She takes the steps so she can understand her concepts. She will do things such as draw or do a wire structure or several versions of her final piece with the material. She thinks of her work as problems that have to be solved. I think this is how I think of all of my work I am sometimes overwhelmed with questions about my work but have to push through in order to find the answers.

I learned a lot from this artist lecture from very different types of work. McConnell's work I feel was very texture oriented and geometrical almost. It played a lot of of the different shapes but they all worked together in a balanced form. Fox's work was a lot more free and emotional experience to look at with his effort expressed all over the canvas. They were abstract pieces but also some where very literal. The paintings all shared a sort of over tone mood and style to them that united them.

Kings Architecture in class project