Senior Studio Spaces

208 Squares #2

Temporary

The quotation that I used was from: The Civilization of Souls 

Unaware of opposing forces

Burning dwellings, smoke is rising

Destruction of a village

Women silenced except their crying

Then confronted by metallic horsemen

To assert law and order

Our days of pillage are ended

Shackled and bound to one another

MFA Field-Trip

Video Notes

Sports Video Notes

• Conductor and quarterback
• Pace
• Tempo
• Synchronized
• Symphony orchestra
• Not about dictating
• Also about acting
• Leaders
• Work starts before game or symphony
• Brining level of excellence
• Have to know what you are going for
• Responsibly
• Function of every rule
• Controlling the present but also be able to know whats coming next
• Symbols
• Motion
• Emotion
• Result

Parallels

• Preparing for an art project
• I can relate to the sports aspect
• Fencing is a lot like both

Notes On How To Make A Joke Video

• Wasting time to waste other peoples times
• Secret
• Think of something that you think is funny
• Like song writing
• How to start the joke, make connections, and then end it
• Inappropriate and undeserving

Parallels

• Having a system of something that works for me 
• I like humor but it needs to be a certain type of joke for me to laugh sometimes (Especially for people who write comedy)

Twyla Tharp: The Creative Habit

Quotations:

• "You need a tangible idea to get you going."
• "I call it scratching...I'm digging through everything to find something."
• 'Where do you get your ideas?' "Where do you find the air you breathe?"
• "Don't scratch for big ideas."
• "That is why you scratch for little ideas. Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas."
• "Stoping my conscious mind."
• "Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, natures - all are lottery tickets for creativity."
• "Art is not about minimizing risk and delivering work that is guaranteed to please. Artists have bigger goals.
• "In creative endeavors luck is a skill."
• "Relying too much on others, even in an inevitably collaborative process, makes you lazy."
• "Another trap is the belief that everything has to be perfect before you can take the next step."
• "Time, for example, is our most limited resource, but it is not the enemy of creativity that we think it is."
• "Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources."

Notes:

• Scratching: looking for ideas
• How artists scratch
• Where do ideas truly come from
• Everywhere
• Forms of ideas
• Don't think about the big picture/idea
• Taking it one little step at a time: the small stuff counts
• Improvising
• Moving
• Results
• Retain
• Breaking/finding a loop-hole around bad ideas/morals, and consciences
• Getting crazy and free
• Generare, retain, inspect, and transform
• Different ways of getting ideas
• Every day conversation
• Peoples' handiwork
• Reading
• Mentors
• Heroes
• Nature
• Culture
• Combination of ideas
• Going out of the norm
• Trying not to please but to create
• Be in shape
• Scratch in the best places
• Screwing up can be good
• Never scratch in the same place twice
• Maintain the white hot pitch
• Not thinking about the product
• Natural evolution of ideas/work
• Capturing moments and emotions
• Luck is a skill
• Taking risks
• Locking yourself into a predetermined course
• Money
• Distraction but also can be a cheep sense of creativity
• Other people
• Don't strive for perfection at the start
• Time is not the enemy of creativity
• Obligation
• Flimsy base for creativity
• Total self-reliance and exquisite planning 

208 Squares #1

Every week we are going to be assigned a square with a theme or topic on the other side. We can use any material and there aren't many limitations or restrictions. My topic today was "electronic". I thought about how electronics are every where around us today and so commonly used. Are they they controlling us?

Unplugged

First Thoughts

When I was younger I worked with clay, paper, paint, pencil, and a lot more. Pencil, I thought was the only material that I was successful in until I reached Beaver. In Beaver I have learned to work with tons of materials and was able to discover that I was able to work with them as well. Most of my work was 2D but the more I worked with different materials the more 3D my artwork became. For senior studio I only have a two small ideas on what I want to do and how I want to do it. One of them is with color blind images, glow in the dark paint, and fluorescent paint. The other one I have to research more to see what materials I can use, in which case I might need help finding/working with. When it comes to artists I have and old fashioned taste: John Singer Sargent, Michelangelo, and Vincent van Gogh. It amazes me on their processes and techniques.