Well, this is it: the final post for my Dynamic Duo Summer Project. I finally added the finishing touches to my second project in the past few days. I am mostly satisfied with the work I have accomplished this summer; as always, I regret any time I have procrastinated or wasted away simply out of teenage rebelliousness and lack of true motivation. However, I still managed to create relatively complex artworks, make some money from a job, finish an online personal finance class, finish out my last season of travel softball, volunteer for a few hours nearly every week, practice yoga, take my dog for walks, research poetry contests that I may possibly enter, read my AP Lang summer book, and (as of right now) begin to tackle the seemingly insurmountable task of completing my APUSH summer work. Plus, I have found time to catch up with friends. So, I guess the point of that short digression was to convince myself that I have, in fact, actually been very busy. Nevertheless, I cared deeply about this project; I truly wanted to put forth my best effort with the limited resources available to me. Out of all of the collective qualities of these artworks, I am most pleased with the content of each piece, how it felt that I had poured a bit of myself into a way that, ironically, was making me feel a bit more full inside. It is an extremely sentimental and absurdly profound feeling, but I think it is a nice way to think about the creation of tangible art that you can just tell the artist was really trying to communicate with the viewer in an impossibly dynamic way. Above all else, I hope that everyone who takes the time to truly see my work understands that I devote a lot of time to the development of content that makes me feel something, and that thing may be the swelling of my heart with joy and radiant love and hope, or it may be the spiraling of my thoughts as I lose myself in the sickeningly toxic yet addictive patterns of despair and loneliness. This is what art does to us: it makes us humans - animals capable of grasping onto a thought and breathing tangibility into it with pens, paintbrushes, clay, all with the simple goal of effective communication. It is unnervingly awesome that we possess such potential. I am honored to have the opportunity to continually explore and expand my potential.
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i’ve been steadily working on my second art project for the past week. i spent the better part of last friday getting my supplies and planning out the composition. it was really hard for me to start, though, because i had the idea in my head that i would make the background into a cooler shape than simply a regular rectangular board - like a phoenix - as a way to make the composition more interesting. however, i realized that i had neither the resources nor the patience to meticulously outline a phoenix and try to cut it out of a foam board. plus, it would have made the formatting of the poem difficult to plan out. so, i decided to simplify my original design and use a plain rectangular foam board. i also considered printing out the poem and cutting each word and pasting them to the board so that the words would be perfectly precise. again, though, i lack the resources to efficiently print the words. plus, it would have been difficult to figure out what size font would fit the board in the way that satisfied me. and, i already knew that i wanted to intertwine the text and visuals, a concept made infinitesimally easier by writing the words. so, i measured out spaces equidistant from each other and lightly drew reference lines across the board. i made progress slowly, only going word by word. i am a very literal thinker, which explains why i was inclined to portray the concrete language in actual images (eyes, heart, fire, wisp of hair, shadowed expression, etc). i am not a fan of abstract art because i think it is unfair for the viewer to feel, of all emotions, confused more than anything else when attempting to comprehend the artwork; i do not want to explicitly state the content in its entirety, but provide a coherent foundation upon which the viewer can layer their own interpretations and experiences so that it is a unique interaction for each person. i might decide to make additions in the upcoming few days just to make the composition a bit more sophisticated, but i consider this piece to be basically finished. i am considering a sort of “warm - up” to my Art IV series because i love the idea of combining poetry and realism so as to express my personal artistic narrative in an aesthetically engaging manner.
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