Project Evaluation

Final Project Pictures

Our last project was wonderful. It was a refreshing thing to see everyone's artwork. When Prof. Rothrock said the last project was open, I was thinking is this a good or bad thing? Its good because we as individual can show what we want to do and do whatever but its bad, because it can be too open and leave a few people lost in the openness. As a result, I think this was a great finishing project. I really liked everyone's concept behind their artwork. A lot of people did based on memories, but I find that memories or your past will always be with you so its common that people would do artwork on that particular subject. As for my evaluation, I was kind of scared of what my classmates might think of it, but it received good things so I'm happy. My project was simple but definitely A LOT of work put into it and I love the result and effect of it. Overall, I enjoyed this project and everyone's artworks. I love Concept Studio and will miss it!!!

Project: Open

I'm a little blank with this project, maybe 'cos its so open. One of my idea is based on using eyes. Growing up, I would hear things like, "The eyes tell a lot about a person or how they feel." "Beauty is in the eye's of the beholder." So I thought what better way to showcased the eyes and emotions/feelings it brings out in people by using photos of people I know and just using the eye area. I would crop around the eye area and create a collage of "eyes" in the letter "I". It would be done in Photoshop and in black and white. So far this is my idea. I'll post up the process work soon.

update 2:

I decided to use photography as my medium, kind of like its my "eyes"
I used 2 old photos of myself and made it "2 into 1" photo. It's kind of hard explaining it in words unless you see the result but I'll try my best to explain it right here. The 2 photo will be cut up and when the viewer look at it to the left side, they'll see one photo, but when they view it on the right, they'll see a different photo. The 1st photo is actually a picture of me being photograph and the 2nd is actually me photographing the viewer. So it goes back to photography being my "eyes" The 1st photo is like the viewer's eye/photo of me, and the 2nd is me seeing/photographing them (viewers). Make sense? I'll be posting the finishing piece soon!

Daily Class Notes: Rothrock

This past Monday, Kristin Rothrock, my teacher showcased how she started in college with art and where she is now with it. I felt this presentation related back to the beginning when she showed us the powerpoint slides that had questions like, "What do you want to do with Art?" I felt her story was so relatable to each student in so many different ways, at least to me, I felt I could relate to it because she was once in our shoe as art students.

I have learned so much in Concept Studio, along with the chance to grow with my classmates and bond with them. I definitely think this is a growing art class that brings us all together. This semester, with all my art classes, I felt almost degraded. By that, I mean with "art being graded". My art being graded, being judged, being critique, being examined and teared down to the core, by outsiders. I'm not saying what can and cannot be done with it. I think its a good and a bad with Art. It's just hard to stand by that line of "Art being graded." Can it truly be graded with an "A, B, C, D, F"? Isn't it all in the eye's of the beholder. I think everyone's aesthetics and view of art are all different. I'm not speaking about my Concept Studio but about one of my other art class I honestly felt like I had to please one of my other art teacher. Like the art I was doing wasn't what she/he wanted or was looking for. The art I was doing, suddenly wasn't "MY" art anymore but became the art I felt my teacher wanted it to be like: my other talented classmates. Art then, wasn't art anymore to me, in it, I felt it was all based on skills and nothing else, sad to say. The grades I were receiving suddenly plunged horribly in that particular art class and honestly, it hurts. Sure it was different, sure I put my heart and time into it, but at the end of the day, I'm no Monet and the grade is what it is (that was a turning point this semester for me). With all that said, it stressed me out to the max because I wanted to enter Art with a clean plate, starting over, trying to rediscover what is it again, and learning to draw, paint, anything, but it wasn't like that. It felt like I had to have GREAT skills/craftsmanship/techniques, I had to be just that good, or I'd failed. It then makes me wonder, is just having the dedication, motivation, passion and love for art not good enough? What is it that I need? I want to learn.

For now, I don't know. I'm still questioning myself with art.
Only time can tell.


Thank you Mrs. Rothrock for this great semester in your class!
Its been great!

Project: Art & Activism

In our group was Vivian and I. We both had previously worked in the past and worked again together on something we both were very passionate about. We chose the topic "Sex Trafficking". I first heard of Sex Trafficking 3 years ago and was intrigued by what kind of business it ran. It was not only disturbing, morally wrong, outrageous but even the story was mortifying and sad to hear from the victims. Ever since then, I've always had a passion to speak out, research or do things about this particular topic because one of the largest sex trafficking business hits where my parents birthplace is, Southeast Asia. We both initially had a lot of ideas and plans but due to the Thanksgiving break and crucial timing we narrowed it down and got straight to the point of it. Some of our ideas were creating a Facebook group to raise an awareness online, having a poll, creating 3 black figures (male, female, child) and putting it both on the hallway of Rowe and outside of Rowe, etc.

In the end, Vivian and I split the process work. Vivian drew and cut out the figure, I drew the words onto the paper and did the cut out of the cuffs. Afterwards we both cut the words and finished the process by placing the pieces onto the hallway in Rowe, 1st Floor.
Overall, though it could have been done better due to the lost of time, I think we both got the message across to the people who walked that hallway. I'm sure it made at least one person thought about it, and that makes quite a difference.

 

Daily Class Notes: Jennifer Wallace

This past week we had a guest visitor, Jennifer Wallace who teaches at UNCC and is a performance artist. In class we all had to perform something that she wanted us to do, such as make noises or do something we wouldn't normally do. I found that performance art was something I didn't expect it to be interesting but was so wrong because I thought it was cool. Her powerpoint of things she did in the past were interesting too. Overall her visit to our class proved to be good!

Daily Class Notes: Ideas

This week we talked about our project and the ideas we were passionate about. There were a lot of interesting topics and I would have loved to do any of the ones listed. Vivian and I decided to collaborate and chose the topic: Sex Trafficking.

Project: Environmental

For this project, I don't know exactly what I am going to do until I visit Reedy Creek Park. As a kid I was connected to nature because I was always outdoor and loved playing outside. However up til this age, I am most definitely not a nature person. The kid in me grew up, I guess. When I see nature now, for example the mountains, I think is beautiful and something about it makes it so peaceful and mesmerizing. One of my ideas was making food or edible stuff out of nature. When I was little, my siblings and relatives would love to play with dirt, grass, leaves, pretty much anything green and pretend we're cooking or making food with mud and it was always cool to see what each of us could make out of it. Note: We never ate it, don't worry =)

UPDATE

I can't say how much this project took me by surprise because every idea I came up with just didn't seem right or good or even to what I hope it would be. In the end, I talked to Vivian about the project and we both decided to collaborate together. We discussed things we did as kids and realized we loved to make snow angels so we thought of the idea of using leaves to make the wings onto the ground. We choose to use 2 different colors because the leaves on the ground were already brown or dead looking and how cool would it be to make the ground pop out with color. Some of the photos on the post is in black and white with the hint of colors from the leaves.