Week 1: September 12-15
This past week we were able to begin our school semester in person. Unfortunately, during my first week back, I was exposed to COVID-19 and needed to miss our first meeting. After looking over the blog, I was able to attend our second meeting where we ventured to the library to look at book stack collections and to create our own compositions. I met a friend in the class and as a partnership, we decided to go to the third floor of the library where the Scottish literature is held as we both share this heritage and the knowledge that the Scotts often discuss weather. After looking through the stacks for quite a while, I began picking some books that caught my eye. I noticed a large variety of books pertaining to religion but tried to focus on the areas of geography and travel. I am also quite the fan of romance and any books with poetic language tend to catch my eye too. After some time, I began trying to arrange my books into compositions. As I put an emphasis on travel and travelling climate, I wanted to set that scene and decided to use some geographical photography to assist. When I think of weather and climate, i usually think about the ways in which individuals experience it, how we feel about it and the way that one person could experience something entirely different from another at the exact same time. I also noticed some maps on my search which i felt could also assist in creating imagery to go along with my compositions.
Week 2: September 19-21
This week I unfortunately came down with Covid-19. This illness really took me by surprise the level to which I would struggle to recover. Due to this, I was not able to attend this week’s critique or the mute arboretum walk. I hope to be back in class as soon as possible and getting back into the world of experimental studio!
ARTIST MULTIPLES
Growing up, I was very involved in the rock music scene and was infatuated with the self-expression many of the people around me were engaging in. Before u knew what tattoos and piercings wee, I wanted them. When I would go home, I would transform all of my dolls into punk rockers, metal heads and goths and this made me feel represented. As I grew up, I began adorning mysle fin these ways. Now was an adult artist, I wanted to recreate this practice of making over dolls into metal and goth versions of themselves. I think this project while intended to be playful, also touches on concepts such as girlhood, femininity and resistance.