Goals for this week:

Art:
1. Contact Ebee honey about photographs
2. Shoot references for intro tryptch
3. Begin figuring out how to do cross sections

Week:
1. Move into my new apartment
2. Build IKEA furniture in apartment

Lets see how many I can cross off by friday, all goals must start small!

Food for thought....

I'm not sure if I have mentioned this before but the larger, zoomed in squares will not actually be a part of the print. I will be printing them separately and mounting them on the final print to add more depth.

Ideally I think vinyl adhesive would work best and then use some kind of shellac, perhaps to give it a nice glossy look? After I have adhered the larger image I will do the same process with the smaller images and mount them with screws coming through the back.

If this sounds confusing I will try and post a diagram later.

New Images

While I may not have been in class this week, I was able to accomplish a lot(I felt like). I made a fresh batch of blood ( not real of course ) and was able to shoot a new GMO shot with some new models other than myself.

So far... Still have work to do on both but I plan to have even more images with a week or two. I'm a little behind schedule but I don't foresee that being a problem.

Enjoy.

Nearly There

In this update you will noticed I have increased magnification of parts of interest to the viewer. I want to ultimately print the magnifications separately and attach them to a final print to add more interest and overall aesthetic quality.

Comments? Concerns? Threats?

update

So I added some technical/viral like entities to the background of the portrait, hoping it will bring that underlying evil forth without being too forward. I am still debating on whether I should add a grunge/distressed-like environment and to what extent.

In the second image I chose to take away the tech tattoo like object because it was difficult to see and may not be recognizable to all viewers.

Progress!!!

So in our last crit we talked about how my fruits didn't seem vary vicious or scary. So I thought I would take it a step further as if the fruits and/or vegetables were making us do things or "acts" in this case that we would not normally do.

I want to do this using dyptchs where the first would be a portrait of how the organism took control and then the act it made a person commit.

Tell me what you think so far.

Warming Up..

So I have been able to find an abundant source of broken down computer scraps courtesy of Armodyne Computer Solutions. Most of my time has been spent breaking down the parts and engineering unique ways to photograph them.

However. *Speed Bump*
The batteries in my Canon SLR are dead and should be done charging this afternoon. In the mean time I was stuck with the 5.0 mgpx camera on my droid. Not my idea of good start. But it is a start.

More posts to follow :)

Attack of the Super Foods

Thoughts for the Semester:
Last semester I focused on developing my previous style with the idea of genetics and cloning in mind. This semester I plan on expanding upon this idea of super foods and the impact they could and do have on the population of the world.

The style will be less like my other style and be more mixed media and photography based. Possibly even some kind of installation.

-B

update

One finished

Updates 2.0

Let me know what you think of how I am developing the background of these two pieces.

Progress

 

I think it is possible that the orange on my first piece will be more apparent once I print it. I think I may do a test print.

First Work finished and WIP

So I finished my first piece and you can see the beginnings of my second one. Im going for a tree type effect, maybe something to do with altered genetics of plants? Add different variations to the "fruit". Comments are awesome.

Progress

This is where I am at on my current piece. I still am working on developing the areas and above the stem-like structure and to the far left and right of the piece itself. I think its coming along.

My idea for related content is to maybe do a piece that is a large tree of all these "eggs" or "sacks" and address the one or more of these areas:
+ cloning
+ genetics
+ invasive species

new works in progress

These are the beginning of forms with little or no shading. At this point I have not determined the content or underlying message.

Rewind

There is an amount of uncertainty when going through a huge change. I experienced that when I jumped from last semester's work into this semester's. I realized there were too many variables that I was not ready to account for and that I was so used to my previous work that it would be better to, simply, create a fork in the road rather than a whole new road.

This time I will attempt to focus more on the content and color choices of my work. My last two pieces from last semester began to exhibit these qualities.

Here is the order in which I created my pieces last semester.

What we know...

What do animals live for? What is their primary purpose?
To breed, multiply, and procreate in order to pass their genetic code onto their offspring.

What else?
Animals are sexual by nature... Humans are sexual by nature... Humans are animals, but not all animals are humans. Thus, it is important for humans to distinguish themselves from the animal kingdom through their treatment of women.

I have no statistics to back up what I am saying, however I do have general observations from what I see in the media and on the magazine stand. Skin, skin, skin, and sex. Whose skin are we seeing? That of females... It is important ( at least to me ) that they not be viewed as objects of lust and general advancement of the species.

I have posted images of early to lay 1900's pin up girls. Many of these women were dressed very conservatively. Without having to show too much of their bodies, I believe their images were more truthful then those of modern/21st century media.

My ultimate goal is to initiate a revival in my work of this kind of idea. While it is a fact that sex sells, so does respect and mystery.

Where my interest comes from...

A Girl Can Always Dream said...

Could you talk about where your interest in this subject matter stems from? Not just the pin-ups but the idea of feminist art in general.

To the best of my ability, I believe this idea spawns from the influence of the media. From misrepresented woman who clearly maybe or are something more then how they are being portrayed. I guess I would say I was raised with a certain respect for woman and felt that not only would this be a great way to speak my mind but also to understand how to represent woman properly as it pertains to art and commercial work. Additionally, as I have been further researching the feminism movement I have realized that equal rights does not mean equal attitudes, which is something I would like to influence and that isn't just the attitude of men but also of women. The reason I also say women is because there members of both genders who may feel societal pressure to fit into a specific gender role/stereotype.

Hopefully this answers your question.

Pin Ups

I have decided that I would like to stay away from anything super risque, being associated with the Church of the Bretheren. So with a little discussion from a peer, perhaps, a 1930's, 40's, or 50's pinup poster type idea. Of course it would still be photography based, but many of these women were still conservatively dress but still had a lot of appeal and beauty without diminishing their image.

Perhaps I could use this style to comment on various women's social issues/stereotypes that could empower woman without being too blunt. I am going to really be relying on the input from the ladies in the class because it is you this art mostly affects most.

some that I like:

Some of the famous pinup artists that I like in particular that would be a good starting point for my approach would be Pearl Frush and Al Buell

I like that in these pinups these women still seem confident and mysterious without looking like total sluts, but today's standards. When I look at the expressions they have I really get a since of some kind of power that they have, whether that is their confidence or not. Am I making sense here or am I talking in the wind?

Purpose of my Focus

I was thinking if I were to do this, going with the Barbie Doll idea. What if I did my work on a social issue such as social stereotypes of women and how the media has oversexualized women in the media.

I would think I would approach this by shooting a woman doing a social stereotypical role such as being in the kitchen, but the would be in a bathing suit or underwear; this way it like a double "whammy".

Is this a good thought? Should I be focusing on both at the same time or is that overextending myself?