Quickly, my theme for the entire exhibition was "Musical Emotion", basically about how the emotion that music causes in people is expressed and how music runs through us all. Art is so visual, and not often associated with anything like music, but both go hand in hand. It's an emotion coming out. I wanted to connect the two. So the idea over all was to get the viewer to hear the song that inspired each painting while they look at it. Figuratively though, I didn't have mp3 players everywhere. They could hear their own songs too.
First's first. Here's one of the biggest pains in the asses that I've ever had in my entire constructive life. The biggest, most time consuming (other than film), most difficlut, but also most worth it piece. This is a statement on the Obama election process. There are three layers... you probably can't see the first at this distance, so here, I'll show you.
So the background of each letter, thats right, is a bunch of tiny obama photos. The second layer is his "Yes We Can" speech. You know... well if you don't, read from left to right just like a book those letters down there VVV
And of course the speech forms the letters YES WE CAN. Basically, without me going into emotional outbursts again, each layer means something. Background means obama's campaign. The whole thing that ran without a hitch, and just his words constantly in the air. The speech is what Americans needed to hear. It's what we've wanted, what we've searched for, what we were waiting for for so long. The last layer means two things. Yes we can, you can hear those words "ringing from coast to coast" now. Not only in america, but in the world. I hear it all the time, and foreigners seem to have more fun throwing it around than we do. Yes, we can elect a black man. Yes we can do so many things nobody thought we could, and fact is, it's already happened. This election wasn't about what will happen, it was about what *is* happening. Uh oh, here I go... I'll stop myself, and give you a last sentence on this one. Can is so much bigger because it was the operative word... without CAN this whole campaign would have been nothing. Yes, we CAN!
Sooo, the next few pictures was a lead in to my video, which you cant see :(. But the photos are basically a series of still images from the film with a layover of the last frame. It was to get people to wonder what the fuck was going on in the other room with the music in it. The film is called "Burial" by the way. This series is called "Grave", but not the english version. Most of my pieces are named after musical terms. Grave meaning deep, with melencholy and emotion. Burial was after the artist though.
And here's my painting / more classical art section! The first piece is called Fuoco. In musical terms that means with fire, passion. It was inspired by Jackson Pollock, the famous splatter painter. Actually I did it before I even knew who he was, but we had to use artists as research in our workbook so thats what I said :P For this one I really just got all emotional and pissed and shite and had wanted to throw paint at the canvas for a long time, so I did it. It was my "fire" that caused the piece. And these pictures are crap, which is disappointing.
This one's called Canon. Musically that's a song with a section that's repeated throughout the entire song. This fits that because it's got the lyrics to several songs that inspired other pieces in the exhibition written around it. It was originally inspired by Blood Bank by Bon Iver, thus the heart. Not a chicken, contrary to popular belief. Btw it's a table, not just a circle.
This one displays my crappy sculpting skills quite well! It's called Aperture, a split or cut in the orchestra. You might see that right off the bat, it's a slit wrist. This shows how music flows through all of our veins. Starts out red, just like anyones, but goes in all different directions and is just as beautiful. It's something that comes from deep within us all. The feeling anyway, not necessarily making it. But you bob your heads to songs, tap your foot with the beat. It's not possible not to. Lovely when it spills, isn't it?
Here we have Andante. That means quickly. This was done awefully quickly. I wanted to splatter again, cause it was really fun. I got my hands all painty and flicked it all over, it was awesome, 'cept now I think I have arthritis. This one's basically a statement on the difference between the fore and background of music making. You have your concerts, your cd's, your mp3's, but that's only part of it. What goes on in the background of the music is just as colorful if not more so. Each piece of music that goes together is beautiful, and that needed to be shown.
And here's accidental! Both literally and musically. It wasn't supposed to be in the exhibition, and it wasn't supposed to be art! But it was so pretty I didn't want to throw it away, even though it was just the stencil for Andante. But that proves my point, doesn't it? Both sides *are* just as beautiful.
Here's one more, this one's called Dolce. What a crappy picture! But this is the only one I have. It looked better in the exhibition. I had a real flower in it instead of this crud. It's inspired by Irish culture. They're known both for their music and their land. I combined them into one. It's a morph of a wire guitar into a flower, showing how they go hand in hand.
So I have three other pieces, but I kind of don't feel like putting them on here. One is a video, and it goes on the same lines as the other one. The other two are ... well one was a quick class project and it's kinda meh, I threw it in at the last second. And the other one is kind of embarassing. People say they like it but I really don't know. It's really really modern artish, so I don't want to make a fool of myself more than I already have.
For those of you who kept telling me to post this, here you have it! Otherwise, I hope you enjoyed it! What a rewarding experience. Gahh I'm still so happy. No words for how awesome it was to have my own art exhibition, that people came to and liked my stuff... ah. Bed time!
Broke up with Rachel Mcadams? Oh no... ;)
Obvious follow up from Heath. The reason they invented the term BBILF. Bubble Boy I Look (at) Fixedly of course.
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