Quiet Despiration

      This piece was for our final project. When I was searching for a concept for my final piece, I happened to be doing some reading for my philosophy class. I was on the topic of existentialism and read this argument by Henry David Thoreau in which he described the lives of those who choose a safe life-route set by society instead of what they are truly passionate about as a state of quiet desperation. This phrase really stuck with me and I wanted to try to illustrate the phrase in my piece.

     I thought of a scene that could be very chilling and arctic. I also wanted to have a symbol demonstrating how fleeting life can be, thus the skull. I created the composition in Photoshop, using various photos and photo manipulation techniques. I wanted the final composition to have a feeling of sublime, reminiscent of art from the American romanticism period of the 18th century.

Panel painting project planning part 2

So these are my pictures from the second panel planning part. Click the thumbnail to enlarge!

Still life photo shoot: Roll #1

Recently, we had an assignment to photograph still life compositions containing objects that held certain meaninging. Here are some thumbnails of the pictures I took. Click on a picture to view it!

So just recently we made political posters. Here's mine:

Well, our teacher expanded on this idea by staging a political puppet parade. Everyone in the class made masks or puppets to bring on this parade around campus... I decided to make a giant statue of liberty head, blinded with a money blindfold.

Here are some shots of how everyone's projects are displayed in the hallway

Footage of the actual parade

Frustrustrations

The girl in the sea

edit: I reworked her hair and the sea creatures

My responce to Collinwood's piece on Aesthetics and Art

While reading 'Collinwood's Aesthetics', I agreed and disagreed with Collinwood's assertions on art. Collinwood tries to define what it is for something to be considered art. He begins by stating how the term "art" is used in different ways throughout society, of which are not all consistent with each other. He addresses this issue by trying to specify these different definitions of art, ultimately trying to define what it means for something to be considered "art proper", which he considers to be true art. I agree that these specification between these definitions of art need to be made, but I think his arrival to his definition of "art proper" is more convoluted than it needs to be. He goes through these complex examples and definitions of different views on art which I do find interesting, but which I don't feel are very effective in illustrating his view on what "art proper" is...
When Collinwood describes his theory of art, he writes how art is an expression (in his definition of expression) of the imagination of the artist. I generally agree with this theory as I cannot see how there are any flaws with the logic, I just thought his writing style was very heavy with tangents and complicated explanations of nonessential concepts.

Experimental Media

B&W Narrative

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