Constucted and ready for worldly interaction...

Ah, this shall be my last post on this project world, however I will continue if you do wish to follow for as long as I remember to.

So here is my final update for my project as its last days of being on display as a class project.

 These images are my field observations as I took images before or after my classes. Unfortunately I only have one image of someone moving the pieces because I have studio classes that run longer then regular classes and un-allowed me to document group interaction as those lecture classes were dismissed.

 This is the only image with student interaction I was able to catch the full week and a half my project was up on display in the main lobby of the fine art building.

The most intriguing piece of information I gained with this particular project was on more than one occasion there was two words in place where I had created only one space. What does this tell us about the way we view art? Yes everybody on the planet has their own opinion, some even become drones and repeat what was taught to them. But there are those very few that go out of their way to create something new, or different. Those are the artists who get their name in another person's conversations. Isn't that what gossip is?

Good or Bad gossip to artists are both great publicity for their artwork, do you know why? It gets an artists name out there! Not every artists creates perfect art that everybody likes every single time they pump out something new.

This art piece I've brainstormed, sketched, developed, and put together has it's own life history behind why I chose the topic "Art is ____." and let my audience answer. The history even goes beyond the time I first came up with the sketches and was even given this opportunity to create something out of a question. Perhaps many centuries philosophers have been asking that very question. I believe it is a question that will never and should never be answered, after all a question without an answer gives us as human beings more opportunities to answer for ourselves.

So go on and answer those unanswered questions, I will continue to do so speaking through my art pieces.



Till the next unanswered question...

Finished and ready for interaction!

Hello World!

Yep I'm finally finished screenprinting, painting, creating, developing, and playing with my project! Be proud world! And two weeks before school ends too! Now all I have left to do is document my audience as they play with the velcro words.

Today as working on my project I have documented my progress, and the final pictures of what it looks like!!!! yay me!

 Here is an example of the "Art is ____." sample of screenprinted monotype for the section. I printed it multiple times so I had a variety to choose from for that section.

 Lookie Lookie! It's finally finished! The picture on the right is an example of how the words move, each word is interactive and movable via velcro. (please ignore the crappy lighting in any of my images they were all taken from my camera phone)

The finished product up on display on the only easel the building would let me use. I wanted to use the really nice new ones, but they are being used for classes. Darn those art classes using the good easels!!!!  So... tomorrow there will be a white sheet covering the easel so you will not be able to see the crappy looking paint all over it. Gross!


From now on I will be documenting people looking at my art piece, I am hoping that I will also make a sign to encourage people to come up and interact with the piece. Because I feel as if people are afraid to touch pieces of art on display... Also I should probably have an artist statement next to the piece explaining my project and a link to this blog, so that if people choose to they can read more like you are right now. So for those who are actually reading my blog tell your friends and family to come by and change up what you believe art is!



Thank you for reading!

Two weeks left~

Indeed there is only two weeks left in my semester, that means I must have this project finished by this week!

Eeeek! Good thing everything I need to do and have is already at school. It's still a blizzard outside, and I'm back in pullman!

This is screen No. 1

But I've got some great news world! I've been working late in the screenprinting labs monday, and tuesday, and I have achieved a ton of work!

Each word was individually printed with White ink. What a pain!

 Each of these screens above and below are the same size as the large black matt board, one of these will be pasted upon the board for stiffness. Then I will apply a small piece of Velcro to each word so they will be able to be removed from the poster easily and placed in the area "Art is ____ ." exactly where the word SYMBOLIC is placed. However I have not finished screenprinting that area.

I am very optimistic of the results for this project. I also got to use a new technique my screenprinting class learned yesterday in class as a demo. It is called screenprinted monotype, it uses watercolor crayons colored directly on top of the words upon the screen and you create a silkscreen medium and water mixture to overlay upon the color to create a watercolored effect so the color can seep through the screen like when you screenprint. The color upon the paper is never the same effect because the colors run into eachother like in the first image with the rainbow looking colored words.


So that is what I've got done so far this week. The rest of this week will be devoted to pasting the white paper upon the matt board and applying velcro, then I still have to expose and screenprint the "Art is ____ ." area.


At the end of this week I will have images of the poster up in a hallway of the art building!!!!!


Adieu!