Thesis Statement.

Horros vacui is the fear of empty spaces. It is experienced when an individual encounters an empty field, an empty building, an empty room, etc. Areas like this can be found everyday and I encourage the viewer to not fear them, but to seize them. There is a hidden potential, a built up energy inside the vastness of these gaps that I want to address through my images. The fear we feel in front of empty spaces is merely just excitement for the advancement of developing structures in them. Through my images I want to express the curiosity that one would feel while engulfed in an empty space.

Video Thesis

Class Project!

FIRST PHOTO WITH A 7D!

appropriate.

Jason Rhoades

Jason Rhoades recieved his BFA from UCLA what he was 28. While in studying art he became apart of a movement called "Funk O'Metric". His installations are composed of many materials such as photographs, sculptures, videos, neon lights and just your average junk. His creations usually fill up an entire room and he sets up systems of relationships between reality, experience and the media.  They remind me of the still lives I had to paint in Kresge. "I have always thought the perfect audience would be me and two viewers — the work is connected to you and the viewer, and things feel equal somehow."  Jason Rhoades' death was caused by accidental drug intoxication and heart disease when he was 41.

Projections of Sketches

New thesis project

messing with Erica's thesis.

Thesis

 

Prompt 26

My images explore the concept of how the mind processes thoughts. Everyday we see and perceive the environment around us through the 5 senses. Through vision we see and perceive depth and space. The human brain interprets what is being seen and connects it to past memories or future ideas while streaming in a state of now. My images depict the way the mind perceives an area and decodes the space given. The activities that occur in thought are translated into a series of sketches that are placed within each image.

The Sketches

 

These are some of the sketches I used in my thesis project.

Sarah May

 

Sarah May is a Set Designer, Props Stylist and Art Director based in London. She does a lot of still life and fashion shoots for clients. The agency she works for is called Santucci & Co. Her work displays a lot of fun imagination and she has excellent craft executing her still lives. Photography to her is merely just a way to document the settings she creates. I wish more photographers were like this, taking the time to set up a shot. 

http://www.sarahmaystudio.blogspot.com/

http://santucciandco.com/#/sarahmay/stilllife

Another thesis approach...

 

Through my photos I want to explore the potential of expanding empty/negative spaces. The sketches placed into the images act as a written stream of consciousness that depicts the mind's way of filling in the negative spaces.

Prompt 25

Hmmmmm..........

Where to display these images? This is the hardest question yet for me. I didn't know what shopdropping was, that is a pretty nifty idea but I don't think my work is quite appropriate for it/the legalities of doing it is something I don't want to mes with. For me it might be cool to hang these images in the area in which they were taken. AS LONG AS THEY ARE NOT IN A GALLERY. ok had to say that. I'd like to see these used in advertisements in magazines or pushed further and used in television ads. Maybe with something like "don't let a mind go to waste" type ordeal. Again going with the TV ad, put the concept into a music video (something someone might actually watch).

Prompt 24

   Leon was the most inspiring of the presentations. The idea of how humans are disconnected from reality while becoming more and more in depth with their cyberselves is an idea that I have thought of many times before. It amazes me how much I changed personality wise just because of social networks like myspace and facebook. My first relationship only happened because of communication through MSN messenger and then another through email. Wow that really sucks. His work relates to my own in that his represents that loss of connection between body and mind while my work demonstrates the blind connection between mind and body. 

  I forgot her name (sorry!) but the artist who made the colorful paintings of people. What I could not understand and still don't understand was how she depicted the connection between individuals through various means but she went so in depth on eye contact that it left me confused as to why the painting of the girl was painted so she wasn't staring at the viewer. The way she spoke of her work made clear sense to me about connections and the moving power of an individual but that one painting left me thinking there was more to it. A hidden meaning so to say.

   I think the artist did a good job presenting, especially Leon. I would of liked to hear all the artist speak like he did, giving a history/biological lesson behind not just his work but society as a whole. It really put a purpose/value into his work.

  For the most part I would say that the ideas presented were depicted in creatively logical sense. The sculptural artist who used all the telephone wires spoke more to me in the way Leon did in that we hide our true selves behind technological means of communication. We disconnect ourselves while texting, we hide conversations, we hide what we do when think no one can see. I guess who you are isn't about what you do with others but what you do when you are by yourself.