diptychs and singles

 

more successful narrative pieces

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The second group I saw as first a series of 4 pieces that had a narrative quality to them and that best displayed my intentions for them and were the most complex in their ideas and in their visuals. The adjoining part to the second group is a series of 7 pieces that also contain a narrative that I wanted to distort the fabric of my imagined cityscape.  With the idea being that a utopia and dystopia are not so different. The façade of a place alone can be used as its definition. This is, in a way reminiscent of post cards which typically show the best or the utopia of what a city has to offer, and in older post cards the images were just of things that the city possessed, nothing flashy but nothing harsh. However no one ever sends a post card that highlights the dystopian aspects of a city. Even though a city is made up of utopian and dystopian elements a like. No one ever sends you a post card of Venice that portrays it slowly sinking into the water. Even though that is no less true of an image and a fact as a bright colorful image of St Marco’s square in Venice.  So, ultimately I would like these more narrative pieces to evolve into a series of dramatized utopia and dystopia postcards.

less successful narrative pieces

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yarn explanations and stills

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Yarn

I began this project thinking about the fort project by thinking about mark making. The repercussions of the word and different forms marks could make, mark-making marks on the skin,

Marks we make to remind us,

Marks we make in the sand.

And then this some how went to the motion of mark making and density then to the idea of barriers.  Then I thought back to a project or simply a think I did about two years back, which involved me taking a roll of yarn and attaching it to points around my room, creating a sort of web. I was intrigued by why I did this because I didn’t know at the time why I did it or what it meant. My curiosity into subconscious action spurred me into looking into ways that I could represent and follow the pattern made by the subconscious. I also wanted to explore the ways that I could create space with mark-making thus my use of yarn became in a way, a 3d way to draw a line that would follow thought through space.  I really loved what everyone got out of my project and I learned a lot from it. I don’t think it has a conclusion so that’s why this excerpt doesn’t have one.

I learned so much about all of the different ways to represent a continuous action, a process and a product. I also learned the repercussions of doing an instillation in a personal and currently in use space (my bedroom) I couldn’t ever really escape from the yarn and yet while inside it I felt a bit safe… There is so much more that I learned from the documentation, and interaction with it that I could go on forever about. But most of it I haven’t really realized the significance of yet.

team one (1) scavenger hunt results (part 1)

rearrange bricks in a creative way and leave them like that

rocks that mark a thing of interest

break something

something that burned

flower arrangement made from urban plants

fix something

be in two places at once

give a fire hydrant some love

make grass angels

hang out where a stoop used to be

take an abbey road style picture

more images to come in another post.