Critique Post My concepts have not changed since my first blog post. I am still working textures into my photographs. I recently went to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and was intrigued by the stainless steel sculpture of a tree. It is titled Yield and Roxy Paine created it. I took a lot of photos while I was at the museum, many of the tree sculpture and many of textures that I found while walking the trails. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to show this photo in color or in black and white so I printed both. Both images show something different. The texture is brought out more with the black and white image more; it doesn’t look like it is supposed to be smooth metal. The color image looks more like a reflection of a river in a way and is much smoother looking to the eye. I am working on a new piece and it is completely digital work within Photoshop. I took an image of a fox that I had taken and simplified it down with lines and colors. I decided to add the glowing areas to show the intelligence of the foxes and their souls. This piece is a work in progress and I am excited to see where it goes after this first critique and other pieces that will be inspired from it. Artist Post I choose to look at Mattie Parrigon’s first blog post. I am very excited to see where her project will take her. She is going to go to a local nursing home and interview the residents that are staying there. She is going to take portraits of them to later make drawings from them. She is also going to incorporate quotes from the interviews into the drawings. A lot of people are trying to copy what Brandon Stanton is doing with his book Humans of New York. Mattie is taking the inspiration she has for Stanton’s work and making it her own. Instead of photographs of random people she meets on the streets, she is taking a group of people that have something in common and drawing portraits of them and getting their back-story. I can’t wait to see the progression of this project through out the semester and the final outcome of it all! Here is her Blog: http://mattieparrigon.blogspot.com/2015/01/writer-blog-posts1.html ID Series
I saw two different presentations at the ID Series. Harriet Bachner and Melinda Ledlow did the first presentation that I saw; it was titled “Complex Trauma and Healing through Drama and Art: Facing the Tiger and Winning.” I found it very interesting when they talked about the many different programs that are starting up around the country to help those dealing with trauma. These programs have the individuals that are dealing with trauma to act out their feelings on a stage. Jessica Stallings and Gaelynn P. Wolf Bordonano did the second presentation that I saw; it was titled, “Art as Healing: Art Therapy in Action in Kansas and Around the World.” I found this talk to be very interesting. I never knew that Emporia State University was one of the best schools to study art therapy at. I also loved seeing the work that was done by some of the patients of the two women who spoke.
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