Wallpaper Project (With detail on why it is incomplete [and some things I pointed out to you guys about project])

Wallpaper
 Due Thursday, September 22

I want to apologize for uploading this so late into the night.
A current of events after class caused me to forget to do this... In-fact while I was working on the Motif project I remembered about this and got straight to it..

This is the wallpaper I brought to class today.
 Continue reading after each picture.

It is incomplete, and 75% analogue (when complete).
The quality of craft is not the best of my capability due to time.
I started the project after Kathleen's demonstration in class on tuesday. I have to admit I had no clue how to approach this project before that demonstration. After class I went to cvs later in the afternoon and got my pictures printed, and later that night designed my tile for the repeat of my wallpaper.
On Wednesday,  I continued working early in the morning until 12:55pm. I had an english course at 1pm and was extremely late.  I flew out of the house to make it in time without having lunch and without grabbing house keys...(poor time management acknowledged) My father leaves the house to pick up my brother and take him to soccer practice. He locks the door, locking me out. I had to wait for my mom to get home at around 6-6:30pm. This delayed me to Cut and paste my patterns into the wallpaper. I stayed up all night working.

The wallpaper is analogue because I physically cut and pasted one tile(the lighter tone yellow tile)
took a picture of the completed tile and printed 9 copies to complete the wallpaper by cutting and pasting each tile. What you see cost me $18 and truly did not have more money to spend. My moms income comes on friday and my dad is currently unemployed. I really could not afford it. Time was not on my side to go to walmart where it may have been a few dollars cheaper. at this point there is no difference.

     
        The Surface I am pasting on is actually poster paper that is  spray glued on card board. the dimensions are 24" (Vertically)x 20" (horizontally). Again, the application can be better.

In my perspective, this tile arrangement speaks more as a floor tile then a wallpaper. Because it is so stationary. The blue circles are tightening the space between my center square shape. Creating tension and not allowing your eye to move anywhere, making you feel like you're completely still. There is no sense of direction or movement. You are basically looking down and the patterns are vertical, horizontal, diagonal, but the ultimate feel is that you are still or securely standing still, looking down on what you're standing on (when you are looking at this on the wall).

The choice in pattern make it feel very NYC. The inner grid looks like a sewage drain in a downtown sidewalk, and the yellow curb crossing caution tile. Or the yellow strip on the metro station platforms. the blue pattern is actually a cup matte... like those little ikea cup pads.

One of the many Sketch ideas for my motif project inspired the choices for this tile(wallpaper assignment) I presented.

The picture below shows a more developed layout plan (pencil drawing).

This sketch is actually what I will be using to create the silhouette that is ultimately inspiring our Cardboard sculpture.
Before pasting on to the board, I drew a layout plan like this one and pasted over it.


..and below, the final product.

I am trying really Hard to meet criteria presented, and to successfully have everything by its due date.
I hope I can still receive partial credit due to it being incomplete for critique. Reasons why it is the way it is were presented carefully. I do highly respect and love every assignment because I am learning. Mr. Lambert said in class the other day about how he loves learning. Well that is how im aiming to approach life. Thank you.

META Assignement

Meta Assignment

I am always trying to engage in AR, so I can learn or see different alternatives to methods of communicating my message or concepts successfully.  This helps me with the execution of my work making it stronger.  At this point is when I EX(experiment) with different methods through different medusa or through different approaches. During the process of EX, I  FR and R  to be able to process and generate ideas. When I am working on a piece I'm also thinking about how I can PR and D.
But the thing I do less, that I need to do more is EX.

I already have a system that I follow when I'm making work or working on new ideas.

Quilt Documentation (Drawing#1)

CAM Raleigh: Ornament and Pattern. (Response)

Response
 CAM Raleigh: Ornament and Pattern.

Leonardo Bacan

I was invited to an opening ceremony at the U.S, Department of Education in Washington, D.C.  this Friday.  The Department of Education annually shows the Scholastic Art and Writing, award winning works in their space. From the moment I arrived to D.C., the amount of pattern and ornament I saw was ridiculous, they were everywhere. There were patterns on the floor, on the walls of buildings, and everywhere else.   It was a major coincidence that i had to be in D.C. the same week the Ornament and Pattern assignment or topic was given to us. The City is very Art Deco, and saw many things from the presentation shown to us in class. This made the trip more exciting, having all of these new ideas in your head. I saw the city Differently.

I have now realized that there is Ornament and pattern literally everywhere. In your home on your furniture, outside around the city, on any object, on almost everything. You can't Escape it. It comes naturally and exists in nature and in man made designs... truly mind blowing, I never payed much attention to this topic, but now I see and it is throwing my mind out of head..

Wolfsonian FIU Response

Wolfsonian FIU Response

Second paragraph after pictures

       
      I was very interested in my visit to the Wolfsonian Museum.  It was my first time there and I was very fascinated with the historical content and art that is available to see. My favorite point in history is during the 1920's - 40's and that was the focus in the museum. Being very interested in the 40's and WW2 was the only thing that saved me on the second floor, where there are a number of song books and pioneer story books from the 20s-40s surrounding socialism and communism and it was actually disturbing, but I read all the covers and brought me to 2010 when I visited the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. It felt heavy and dark in there.  I am interested in how the war influenced the way of life in the 40's.  politically I wasn't there and was very uninterested. Seeing those song and story books make me feel like i am in a time machine and I feel like it takes me back all those years.

The 5th floor had work from many different time periods. The works are very politically influenced based on the time period they were made.  I was more interested because you are able to see how different people made art under the influences of their time.  The work was very political, some were religious, some depicted industrialization and labor, war, city plans, battle aftermath, depiction of historical events and even conceptual ideas in the art that is there.  There was a section where they had furniture like chairs, dresser tables, lamps, and pianos being displayed as art that were beautifully carved and rich in detail. The craft and talent put into the furniture was being displayed as an art of the time. Today nothing is made that way anymore. I love absorbing history.

In-Depth Project #1

Small Works PART 1 (Paintings)

Three Versions of Something passed down through family with cultural significance 

In my case: My fathers First Guitar 1988 passed down knowledge to him from his uncle  and my father taught me how to play and passed down almost everything he knows regarding the guitar to me.

Small Works PART 2 (2nd Sculpture)

Small Works Sculpture Part Two of the Assignments 

I will briefly speak about it in class 

Small Works PART 2 (Sculpture)

ICA Response

Response to artists Ida Applebroog and Susan King.

When analyzing Applebroog's art, and reading the info text next to each piece. The work, in terms of aesthetic appeal, did not interest me or it did not make me feel anything. I really did not care much for it in that moment. I looked through the booklets and tried to figure out the narratives. I looked through the sketchbook pages and was not interested in why I wasn't interested. I just didn't care much. I noticed that there was nearly no skill in her work. Nothing to grab a viewer or at least nothing that grabbed me or wowed me in terms of skill or composition. Although it may wow someone else.

Susan Kingshad a more interesting input in her works. The way she structured the composition in her drawings really made me want to question her choices, it made me wonder, and she showed some skill and capability. I immediately noticed the difference in the work I was looking at, and it highlighted the importance of skill or ability to move a persons thinking, or send a message or generate some kind of segway through concepts. Her ability to make the viewer think naturally. Her work in terms of composition is well thought out and structured. Her choices in characters, and how she placed them is really interesting. Her choices really creates a narrative or drives ideas and plants the seed of inquiry in the viewer. It makes you want to question a little bit. It sparks interest. All this is done even though her skill is still very limited.