Symbolic Still Life

Opposite Project

End-of-term reflection

This course had many aspects to it that I enjoyed, but there were also some challenging projects. Although the still life assignment was the most difficult project for me, it taught me the most about myself as an artist. When I first began the project I did not believe in myself and did not think that I could create a good still life. I had some trouble in the beginning with drawing the simple outline of the dice, and was not looking forward to the project. Soon I was learning new techniques on how to draw lines and shade. Throughout this project I learned to push myself and take risks in my drawing. In the end, of was extremely proud of myself for the work I had accomplished. My biggest success this term was the opposites project. I love creating collages so I really enjoyed this project. In addition, I was able to come up with what I wanted the project to represent, and then execute it. Throughout this term I learned to take risks and do artwork in areas that I had previously struggled with, helping to change myself and grow as an artist. I opened up and became more adversed in other types of art that I had not previously been familiar with.

Language Project

My project is going to consist of text from songs covering all of the pages. They will be overlapping each other and will be in different fonts and colors. I will the paste movie covers and other well know images that represent community over the text. I am choosing text because I think I can create a sense of community through words, the pictures will symbolize this as well. Also with words, you can express many different aspects of community.

5/25
After completing one draft of this project, I decided to change my idea around a little. On the first attempt, the piece looked boring and you couldn't read any of the text. I then decided that I wanted to make the paper circular because that was the shape I thought related to community. I then wanted to cut the text so that viewers would be able to read it and I wanted the text the spiral in the same circular shape as the paper. Even though I was unable to finish the project it looks much better, and more interesting than my first attempt.

Planning for symbolic life project

In communities people do activities and hangout together. In a community you are never alone, so for my opposites project I decided to draw things that come in pairs, to symbolizes that people are always together in communities. I will draw a pair of socks, earrings, shoes, gloves, dice, and headphones. I am not sure how I will re-arrange my objects yet.

4/30
After I thought more about my symbolic still life project I decided to just draw pairs of dice. I decided to do this because dice symbolize so many aspects of community. First of all, all dice look the same- but on each side they have different aspects/numbers on them. Communities may look the same, but on the inside and are all different and have differing aspects to them. They do not all operate the same way. The second reason why I choose dice is because you never know what you are going to end up with. You can always end up with different numbers. In a community, you never know what it is going to be like. Like the dice, it is always a gamble with the types of people you are going to end up with.

Thematic Portfolio #2: Images from Images Project

Overall, I think my worked turned out nicely. I enjoyed making all three pieces, but in the end I liked my bonfire collage the most. I think it was the most interesting of the three because I incorporated different materials which made the piece stand out more. In addition, I think I worked well with the different colors of paper to make them flow. I do think that I could have added more to my earth picture, to make it more attention-grabbing because it was a little plain. I could have chosen a different note card to display underneath that could have made the piece more exciting.

Thematic Portfolio #1: Tiny Picture Project