Change in Events

This other side with the large hole represents how you life can suddenly seem so...empty. You was fine the day before, and all of a sudden you feel lost, forgotten. You are a living shell that seems to have no soul whatsoever.
You try to mend the pieces together with laughter, friends, family, or whatever satisfies you, in order to try to keep the hole filled.

But it still doesn't matter in the end because at this point, no matter how many jagged pieces are still hanging, they will never fill in what you lost.

Tree of Life

This side of the piece has a tree that represents how you grow throughout your life. Each patch of cloth i added to put the tree together represents how you add on to your knowledge of thinking.
Each colored string i used, even though there's not much difference in color, represents one's personality that may change. Depends on if it changes by will of choice, or perhaps by force. Some may have to change their personalities in order to adapt to their surroundings.

The leaves at the top signifies that you have finally reached your growth and have finally reached adulthood. Yet, there's still much more to learn each day as you tend to change color within the seasons that past by.

The Piece Itself

This is the finished piece called "A Change in Time"

It represents how your life can be good and easy going to the point where you are just sitting back and enjoying all that you have. There is absolutely nothing to worry about because all is just fine.
However, within a day your life can take a drastic change faster than you can have the chance to stop it.

Sources

One source that helped me to start off in an idea was this picture in the art magazine.


unknown, "Sculptor in Public" (2007), location unknown, article [from Laura Tansini, Sculptor by the Way, p. 22].



I chose this source because it sparked an idea of how i wanted to stitch a flower to start off my project. It then caused me to be creative because i was able to cut out the red petals and stitch the green buttons into the center to bring the flowered look together.

Second Chance to do things Right 3/24/08

okay, no class on this day. Great opportunity for me to get everything done. I really...REALLY had no idea for sure of what to do until Sunday night when i had this grand idea that came out of nowhere. Problem is...i had no time to put together T_T. Until now ^_^

Getting together 3/21/08

For my accumulation, I have wanted to send out e-mails soon. I'm basically looking for memories of any moment in time. Could be where you saw your favorite movie, you fell off your bike, your first kiss, the day your pet died, etc.
I'm basically looking for a variety of things because memories are never just happy, or sad. It's full of all kinds of emotions and that's what I'm aiming for all to see. What i plan to do with them? I have yet to know for sure but I'm thinking of a collage of everything.

Ritazza 3/19/08

Okay, brainstorming...
I had no idea whatsoever. Of course got different ideas from other people and their project.
And the fact that i wanted to do something that had to do with sewing/stitching.
Group 1: Drake, Allyson, Jen
Feedback: Get an idea, get inspired
May take a LOT of time- stitching/sewing

Group 2: Jin, David, Joe, Sheldon
Feedback: stitch people together through their clothes
could stitch patches together like a quilt

There was no group three because people kept coming and going as we all continued to talk in group two so there was constant ideas flowing everywhere. Enjoyed the discussion.

McColl Center 3/17/08

Man, i loved this day. Sooooo much different from last exhibit there.
Hands on action, stepping onto platforms, i enjoyed the fact that it involved the viewer and that you was able to interact with the many exhibits on display.
Dark rooms that created mystery, sound effects from the wall, and as well as art displayed on panels in colorful fashion that represents different events in society.
It made me think about how creative one can be even with something so simple as water and mirrors. It's all about presentation; how you present your piece to the public.
It made me actually want to go home and write down ideas of different ways for me to try new things when it came to art.
Now...if only i had the money...

Gaia

Sending out Emails

Okay, in order to get this plan to work, ima need as much memories as possible.
I'm going to send an email out as well as get people from home and around school. Hopefully i can get enough to fill a wall. ^_^
More ideas on this project will be posted soon. But first, the emails! >.<

Explosion!! 3/12/08

Sugoi!
never would i have thought in a million years of explosions ^_^
nice seeing what all the things you can do and use when it comes to art. Thanks to today's video, i can think even further out the box as we are required to do in this class. lol
However it's time for me to get an idea of what the heck im going to do for my next project >.<

Back From Spring Break 2/10/08

Well, class has started and all must continue through the semester. Amazing of what engineers can do with all the knowledge and the time it takes to put things together.
To make something move due to just wind alone is sugoi. ^^
Now, the topic of movement today makes me think about how i may want to include movement in my pieces one day.
....Now i want go go and build something. lol XD

Reality Sucks at Times

But, when i open that small container, i see that there's nothing for me to offer. I don't really have anything that i can do. Because in reality, he's not there anymore...

wishes

When he first passed, there were plenty of times i thought he was still there. Even though he didn't live with us, i wanted to just talk every now and then...like we always did.
I wanted to spend the night and do random things as we used to do.
So i carried that small container of hope with me in hopes that we can still do those things.

Moving on With memory over time

I continued on with my path taking my own steps in his absence. Of course my memories changed color over time because they are only of when he used to be here. Since he is gone they have become clear due to me becoming older and no longer that little child who would cling to him whenever he came home.
The blue stones represent the few tears i shed whenever he crosses my mind at moments.

Erase and Bury...

With their absence from our existence, i picked up some of my memories and kept them with me. Others i buried or covered up so that i wouldn't have to stay stuck on them any longer.

Memory filling

As time progressed...each step was being filled with memories. Even when they started to overflow, more was continuously added in hopes that things will be alright.
Only then, time seemed to have other plans. Because eventually, the person was erased, and their footprints left behind with my childhood memories still there.

Steps

The boots were placed in a certain position as if someone was taking a step within each frame.

Scott Grieger

Why have only Camo cloths in your piece?
Why have the wall in red with world map?
Why have a digital clock/timer?

The artist doesn't use wild creative imagination or dwell into dark sorrowful thoughts for his work
- resides in commonplace experiments and normal models of perception
Likes images that are ignored
- logos and illustration
Takes them, manipulates them, then sends them back into the world
-to unbrainwash people
- change their view of thinking when they see the logos in a new defined way

Why choose logos and illustrations?
*interesting how people become drawn to one meaning behind something. Yet, as soon as you display that object in a different form, the meaning immediately changes.

"I believe change actually comes from the thoughts of many individuals."

He enlarged a large map of the earht on a large cloth that was all casted in red
- red means "warning"
+ "emergency hot"
- true state of the world: threatened with inferno, eruption
+ unless we head the artist warning
*Clock or timer on the cloth could mean that we are loosing track of time or that time itself is running out until the fate of the world falls
* that is...unless we do something about it first

Julian LaVerdiene

Why is there a safe falling?
- reminds me of the safe from Titanic
+ muddy, old looking rusted
Why does the safe have wheels?
- easy to move around? too heavy?
Just how many lights did the artist use for his piece?
- how much power was that? (watts)
- was it time consuming?
- hard to set up?

Artist sees the Legend of Faust as an inspiration
- infuses his art with the power to inspire original achievements in others
Imagination, motivation, and curiosity are his main concerns
- it's what shapes his art
+ not events from his past

Enjoys finding people in history who have not been honored/ celebrated
- Does he see them as hidden heroes or something?
Julian feels that people take pleasures/ get caught up in change
- that they don't try to remember the past
+ of which is the starting place of how we came to be in today's time
Artist is inspired by missing chapters in history
- loves the gaps, unofficial documents, forgotten/ rejected information
Why does he love this so much? Why forgotten history?
- loves the mystery behind it?
He feels things seem to be incomplete because of our time being accelerated
* We don't take the time to just calm down and look at how far we come or appreciate what we have. As soon as they come out with the next thing, we abandon the "old" object as we call it and toss it away like a broken mass. Especially when the media gets involved and displays it in a way where you HAVE to have it.

His challenge is to distract us from the perpetual renewal of available and glittering enticements
- so we can develop our own creative potential
He addresses the truths ignored in our official versions of history
- yet, his main concerns exceed sitting the historic records straight

"I see corruption and unhappiness, but today is better than yesterday. Tomorrow will be better than today."
*i love that quote because it speaks on a positive note. Even though the world as we know it is full of chaos, hatred, and torment, it's still good to be alive today than it was yesterday. We still have the power to change the world today so that we can have a better tomorrow. We should also thank the fact that we are still here and able to accomplish our dreams when someone didn't get to have that chance...

Few Inputs

I'm glad it rained. The ground had a more "natural" feel to it since i didn't have to make the mud myself. And the atmosphere was a nice cool, cloudy setting as it always was whenever me and my dad would go out to go fishing, riding, walking, whatever it was when we was outside.

The hardest part was taking the pictures and trying to make tracks in the mud. I had to basically work with one hand, and hold the camera in the other praying i wouldn't drop it in the mud. LOL.
Oh yea, i had to basically step in the boots to put enough pressure on them to get the tracks made.
It was a bit of a pain but fun reguardless. Especially when the boots are already a few sizes too big.

Oh yea! of course people were watching but once i got started, idk. I just got completely into it and it just seemed like nothing else mattered. As long as I'm doing my work i was fine completely. It was just me, the camera, and the boots working out there. ^_^

Items Used for Identity

I used 3 main items:
Colored flat-like marbles
black old boots
blue stoned marbles

Arnold Morales

Why is it that the works are mechanical?
Why have only metal?
Do they move at all?

Why is it that the artist makes his works cause fear? light injury?
- the pieces of art he has tend to hit the viewers or even shock them

Had a life-death experience when an attacker placed a gun against his head and fired
- the artist survived
- it changed him and his art

Interesting how the artist takes note of what responses he gets from certain actions with his viewers
-hot water: tantalizing as well as distressing
- blinding bright light: releases aggression even among those who normally denounce such act
- zapped with bolt of raw electricity: attracts as well as repel

*It's like he makes his art pieces no tot display them, not to show you what he can do nor express himself, but to see one's reaction to a sudden action.

He always wanted to do similar things long before the gun incident. Had numerous near-death experiences mostly due to curiosity; to see how things worked.
He learned to fix things off of his mother giving him things to fix.

Why is it he always wants a reaction?
- when a child, his mother never was overly concerned for his safely when he did dangerous experiments
- nor was she too thrilled when he showed her his finished piece
So he strives to get that reaction from people any way he can

Enjoys new rules, different spaces one isn't used to
-likes the unexpected
Even though he enjoys being over others, like a bully having control over individuals, his viewers still have a good time.
- they don't feel completely like victims
- it excites them

Charles Ray artist

Why is there a naked man? No, mannequin with a real private area?
- Why not another part be real? Like the face?
A clock with legs? Why have legs hanging out the clock?

One thing about the artist is that he wants to draw attention instead of expressing an emotion.
Why draw attention? Why not show your nature through your artwork like everyone else?
- there's no need to be drastic
- it is simple, but definitely not boring

The artist tends to create offbeat situations
- make you feel awkward
"What drugs do is redesign the world a little. Not too much, just enough to make you realise how fascinating your surroundings could be if you really paid attention."
* to be honest i love this quote
* it's actually quite true
- simple objects become amazing

Doesn't really shove his artwork down your throat/ doesn't let you get the idea quickly
- wants you to think about it/ take your time to analyze it
+ basically to let your mind wander a bit
But what if one's mind were to wander in the wrong direction?
- what if they get the wrong perception?
- does he actually want them to guess right? or does he enjoy different outcomes?

His ideas of his works are done from his experience in childhood. During his memory lost every little thing fascinated him.
Why is it the artist did not mind not knowing who he was?

"We rely on the reliability of clocks"
* i always say that time is just a bunch of numbers that we wrap our lives around
* when you think about it, we have all the time in the world to do as we please
* we don't have to always follow a set schedule

Placing a part on a mannequin that isn't suppose to be there
- yet on the human body it's appropriate
+suppose to be there
- simple act changes the meaning
+ no longer is just a mere mannequin for dressing up in clothes

The artist basically brings his ideas to the table in different manners.

Eureka!!! 2/29/08

YESH!!! I GOTS IT!!!
MEMORIES!! IM SOOOO COLLECTING MEMORIES!!
I love it to pieces ^_^
Man, like...1000 ideas are flowing through my head at the moment.
I'm going to fix it to where people give me a photo or something and write a small description about it. It doesn't have to be long. It could just be the title and such.

Ex: pic of an apple
meaning: Snow White
why?: fav disney movie/first disney movie

Basically sort of like that. I shall explain more in class next time ^_^
I'm also going to have some that are sealed so that if the person wants to keep it hidden then so be it and i'll just add it to my collection still sealed up. SUGOI!! ^ o^

Lab 2/27/08

woo!! okay!!
no need to be pressured to do the vid since everyone loves the pics w/o sound. ^o^
However i wish to add more since what i presented was just the "basic" way of what i wanted to do. I want to add more shoes, perhaps music, and even...idk. This mind loves to wonder. LOL

Now, about the fab lab, yea. After seeing the refrigerator...i so totally wanted to like, grab something and take it apart. Then look at all the pieces inside and try to put it back together.
OOO!!! we should totally do something like that in a class. Get something, take it apart, and work on getting it back together. OR! what if we was given something and was challenged to put it back together....with no instructions whatsoever. XD
that would be fun but aggravating as crap.

Project Due 2/25/08

.....o..kay....um...yea
totally missed that day because i was retarted.
Basically i got my materials sunday NIGHT and was unable to do it today to the fact that it was bright ass sunny outside. I needed rain, mud, clouds, yea.
So...out of fear that i would get in trouble and to like...get my ideas together of what else i wanted to do, i chickened out and didn't go. >.<
Sorry Ms. Melena. ^^'

....... 2/22/08

Okay.......still collecting the same thing...
It's...idk. I'm sorta not really feeling the whole..packages thing. I like the idea, yet. Idk... i want to do something different =^.^=

Coffee anyone? 2/20/08

WOO!! RITAZA!!!! LOL!
man, LOVED the fact that we were able to talk in a much more comfortable setting.
Great ideas were talked about. Even got to try out a drink i never would have gotten. XP
It felt good to get in a different environment, yet, still be able to have class in our own way. ^_^

Class: Speaker Time 1/18/08

Okay, project totally suppose to be shown today but instead we had a lovely speaker. ^_^
Pretty cool laid back person. It was nice to see the different things she used for apart of ONE art piece she worked on.
I like how she used the idea of art to travel since she was unable to travel herself due to expensive trips. Perhaps i could do that when i get the chance. ^_^

Ideas 2/15/08

On my Accumulation Project I have been doing well in collecting packages. But I can’t help to see that the “Capri Sun” packages are made of the same material. What if the collection doesn’t have to focus on just small rectangle shapes? Why not make them all sizes?

Thoughts 2/13/08

SO GLAD the Identity project was moved back a week. =_=

I was thinking of having a star in my piece to represent how much I love them and my happiness that i tend to have most of the time. It would be blue and would have strings hanging down from it. Items would be tied into the strings that each have something to do with my traits and personality.

Class 2/11/08

Seeing such ideas today on how people do their artwork. Man, it really DOESN’T have any boundaries to it. I’m, rather glad in fact that I am taking this class because never would I have even began to think of something as simple as food, lard, or even just random items around the room as apart of an art project I would do.

Ketchup! 2/8/08

Okay, perhaps the idea of collecting ketchup packages is very helpful. I see them all the time and I have quite a bit at home. However, perhaps it doesn’t have to be just ketchup. It could be small packages of mustard, BBQ sauce, est.

MMCD Gallery 2/6/08

Just from walking through the place it seems you can do just about anything. Glass, wood, plastic, strings, it all depends on how you put it all together.

One piece that always sticks out in my head is a glass structure of a chair on a low, wide glass circle-shaped pedestal. It had stuff and perhaps writing engraved in it along with a bucket on its side next to the chair. I love it due to it being clear, yet, had all kinds of colors mixed in. The main color was a light shade of blue.

Class 2/4/08

Interesting how identity of an artist or anyone is constructed and not “fixed”. You can’t just go out there and declare yourself one way if you have other characteristics that go with that one trait. One must be true to their identity and realize what it is they are. Or else you will become lost and struggle a bit.

If one doesn’t know for sure who they are at the moment, perhaps over time if they seek it out, surely they will find out where their true image lies.