Hannah’s Work

Week 1 Writing and Notes

Week 1 Activity

Book Photography from my Collection:

Week 2 Notes and Written Work

The two artworks that I have chosen to compare and contrast from this week are Barbra Kruger’s Belief+Doubt (2012-Ongoing) and Eleanor King’s, No Justice No Peace (2015).

Both works use text that is displayed large scale in a space in which viewers can occupy. For instance, in both works, text is displayed all over the exhibition walls, surrounding the viewer in language. With that being said, not only do these works relate to high art culture, but also architecture and design. The font used in both text works are bold and graphic. To contrast, Barbara’s work used white red and black, whereas Eleanor’s work uses just black and white. To further contrast, Barbara’s work comments on the dangers of consumerism whereas Eleanor’s work comments on injustices in society. The medium speaks to the meanings of the texts because the text is so large and in the viewers face. Furthermore, the phrases presented are though provoking and ask the viewer to question things such as consumerism and its effects on the environment and life, and reflect on injustices against marginalized groups. In this way, the viewers can also relate to the text, and think about their own lived experiences in relation to the messages in the works. Often times in art we see how images are used to convey a meaning or message. In this case, both Barbara and Eleanor show how phrases can have a similar impact when presented in such a way. Overall, both works provide thought provoking text that are impactful to the viewer. 

Week 3: Banner Time!!

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For my banner, I chose the phrase “found images:”.

I hung up my banner in my room accompanied by all of my posters. These posters and images I have decorating my wall would be considered found images. I did not create these images, but I gathered them together to form a documentary-like mural of my interests. I like to think of the banner as the introduction to my museum-like collection of found images.

Notice that I kept the colon in the phrase. A colon separates two independent clauses when the second explains or illustrates the first. The second clause would be the found images seen on my wall, illustrating the meaning of the term “found images”.

Week 4 – Video Stills

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Week 4 Activity

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“My eyes and brain hurt from all of these online classes”.

This is a point of view video still from my computer during online classes. With this online format, I find myself zoning out a lot and my eyes getting tired quickly. Additionally, I find my self in one position, not having to leave my couch for hours at a time while in class on my computer. This video captures this notion.

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“Its almost impossible painting in such a small space”

This self portrait video still captures the small space in which I do my painting. It has been really hard not being able to use the studios on campus for my paintings and canvas building. Typically, I work between the small crevice between my kitchen table and the wall, using my kitchen wall as an easel. I live with 6 other students in a small town house and I try not to take up too much space when painting or creating art.

Week 6 Notes

Zoom Project Proposals

Proposal Idea 1: visiting different places on zoom with friends

Proposal Idea 2: interactive museum visit with friends

Proposal Idea 3: among us on zoom on phones

Week 7: Notes

Final Zoom Project Assignment – My Zoom Vacation

Week 8 – Thoughts on Bread

Bread is such a staple to my grocery list and my everyday meals. Every morning I have berries, vegan yogurt and toast. My mom and I used to always make banana bread, and I always make it now that I am living apart from her. Bread is almost always the centre of my meal at least once a day, whether it be pasta, noodles, oatmeal, etc. There is a bakery down the street from me where they always have fresh French bread and I buy it once a week and dip it in a bread olive oil with rosemary and garlic. 

I think people have been making bread during the pandemic initially because there was a fear of supply shortage. I remember around the same time toilet paper was being sold out, so was yeast for bread making. From there, I think people realized how fun and therapeutic it could be to make your own bread, not to mention delicious. It also became a trend on tiktok to make bread and film the results, with different people baking bread with unique patterns and designs. 

My Bread Process:

Week 9

My Food Art Rant

I am going to be honest, I am offended and beyond annoyed by this weeks assignment.

I would like to point out that we are in the middle of a global pandemic. Many of us have lost our jobs, are low on income, and have extremely tight budgets. Some people can barely afford groceries. I am one of those people. I am so tight on cash, a voice in the back of my head tells me that I am not hungry, when I am hungry, just so I don’t run out of groceries, because I don’t have the money to buy food as much as I would like to. With that being said, this is a reality for many students, as not only do many of us have to buy our own groceries, we also just spent around $5000+ on our university courses.

It is extremely ignorant, insensitive, and out of touch to encourage us, in this time, to create food art where the food will go to waste. I feel that this assignment comes from a standpoint of food privilege. In particular, the piece A Stack of Pancakes was frustrating. The artist even describes how after the piece was documented, she just threw the pancakes away…

Another piece that I found extremely offensive during the lecture (I can’t remember the piece or find it, but I will describe it), was the piece where a woman starved herself and documented the changes to her body. I don’t think this type of art should be encouraged in this setting either, especially when diet culture and eating disorders are a huge problem in university settings.

There is a way to do food art without wasting food and I wish that this was touched on in the lecture. It is in my best interest to work in this format. Additionally, I hope that my contemporaries do the same, and not waste the food they use. Food waste is not art, it is ignorant and privileged.

My Assignment Idea

The idea I have for my assignment is pasta art. The pasta will not go to waste, as it will not be glued down like traditional pasta art. I will arrange the pasta accordingly, photograph it, and then save the noodles for dinner at a later date.

With that being said, I want my assignment to be based on the internet phenomenon of copypasta. Copypasta is a play on the term copy/paste. The copy and paste options on computers, allows people to copy posts that they see, and post them elsewhere. The urban dictionary definition of copypasta is below.

The pasta art will reflect this. I will write out the following post in pasta:

Another idea that I have is based upon the exercise proposals by artist William Burroughs. Burroughs exercises consist of color walks, a walk where you identify objects of a certain color. He also talks about eating foods that are only a particular color. For example, eating only green foods for a day.

According to my feelings and thoughts, Ive noticed that my root chakra has been out of line. The colour for the root chakra is red. It is suggested, to realign root chakra, one could use grounding techniques like walking outside bare foot, or yoga. It is also suggested that you wear the colour red, and associate with that colour.

For this assignment, I would dye my foods red, literally eating a healing colour.

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Week 10-11-12

RED FOOD EATING

Final thoughts: I ate red foods for about 3 days, up until I felt that my chakra was re aligned. Obviously I don’t think that eating red actually helped me feel better, but I think the spirit of eating red and having fun making new recipes helped me feel better 🙂