Make a Kilometre
1 km / 1000 m / 127 stairs
IMAGE #1
1 km / 1000 m / 127 stairs (IMAGE #1)
127 different pictures depicting the process of a killometre as it shows through on my increasingly flushed face. 127 photos were taken (Including a before and after) The other 125 images each represent a set stairs I comepleted. One set is equal to once down and once up. A photo was taken each time I reached the top of the stairs.
Video Art Project
Compilation Video: PoP
This video tooks us the longest to make, but ultimately I feel it paid off. There was a lot of learning involved durring the shoot, which took a lot of time, and we were tired. That being said there is something enagaing about this tirednesss and I am glad it happened this way.
ONE SHOT : Hubba Bubba
Something that stands out to me about this video is our braids and glasses. We talked about how these choices gave us a youthful/child like presence, while obviously not being children. This coupeld with the bubblegum makes a somewhat uncomfortable illusion to childhood and the school girl trope, which I find engaging.
LOOP:
Something enticing about this video is the the closeness. We talked in class about covid and the impliactions salvia, germs, and space and I think this video really showcases this.
Toronto Trip
The Power Plant
In the comfort of embers – Amartey Golding
Visting the Toronto art gallaries was a very inspiring and interesting experience overall. That being said, there was one exhibit that stuck with me the most, this was in the comfort of embers. The room facilitating the art work was a completely immersive experience. Its blood red walls, low lighting, and eeire sounds created a chilling ambience. Even though this was primarily a video driven exhbit, I was actually most intrigued by one of the costumes worn in the video.
The costume pictured on the right captured my attention immediately. I had never seen anything like it. The texture, pattern, and spectacle of a peice made out of hair was something to behold. And even though I hadn’t watched the videos, I was able to convey a similar message absent of context – I was argubaly more imapcted by this costume independently.
Audio Art Project
The Sound of 7 AM
This audio peice features a compilation of noises taken from my shared student house bathroom. Inspired by our faulty cabinet hinges ( they produce an echoing click whenever you open them) I tried to complile a varity of noises to emmualte the sounds I wake up to most mornings -in this way it becomes a portrait of my experience living in this house/time. Every morning I hear my roomates morning routines and these noises parrel the rythmn of music. The rythmn is is drawn from the sound of my hair brushing. The tempo accompaning is taken from the clicking cabinets. The fast clicking is a small clip taken from the uncapping of my hair cream bottle.
Conceptual Portrait
As Good As Gold
Artist Buttons
Stock Image Happy Man
For my artist buttons I choose to create a collection of smiling stock images. Originally I had wanted to craft buttons that played into the absurdity of stock images and what that meant socially; However, as I was collecting images I realized how much the white man domaintes the stock images (particularly a white man in a blue shirt). The more I collected these the more absurd and strange the collection became. These buttons challenge the idea of representation in media, but also what it means to objectify something or someone. This objectification does not ussually occur with people that look like the people in my buttons, which is an interesting shift. Addtionally the fact that they are buttons allows for intresting converstaitons depending on who is wearing it. What does is mean for a women of colour to wear a button of a white man?