The first clip represents what Renske and I thought of as an interesting “Edge Zone”; the ladder going down to the water. This can also be used as our performance piece using the colour orange. The second clip of the orange pylon and pigeons can represent our “public space rarely-seen” due to the angle at which the shot was taken. It can also represent an “Edge Zone” as pylon’s are technically used as cautionary objects. The third clip represents also “public space rarely-seen”. We chose the ground as well as mapping Renske’s foot steps based on which card was pulled from the deck; whatever number we drew was the number of steps she had to walk. The last clip of the Public Market sign is our “public space”, taken at a higher angle to represent more of a surveillance atmosphere.
{Beauty in things exist merely in the mind that contemplates them}
This is my final work for the Urban Intervention project for DIVA200.
The quote by David Hume was the primary base for my overall concept. When we were first assigned the project, I didn’t really have any ideas of what I wanted to do, nor did I really have any sort of message that I wanted to speak out about. In the end, I became inspired by the use of frames to accentuate artistic beauty, and I stumbled on the quote above. After having conversations with friends about it, it got me thinking about “what makes art, or anything for that matter, beautiful?”. What is it about “something” that sparks the mind into believing that what is in front of you is beautiful? And why is it that a frame makes the work more “official”? I think that the quote relates very well to these sorts of questions. I decided to use the quote as my vinyl piece, accompanied by an antique frame that would essentially frame a random texture on a wall that was compositionally interesting. The frame was essential because it created the contemplation; without it, I feel the overall piece would not have been as strong. In the end the only real issue that I had was applying the vinyl to a wavy surface under the frame, this caused the some bubbling but I managed to get it as perfect as possible with the help of a couple friends – Ben and Onno – Thanks!
{For my GoogleEarth/Maps project I decided to do a short narrative about the different places and ski resorts we would travel too through out a season of competition. I used to ski competitively for the Ontario Freestyle Ski Team and we used to travel throughout North America to really great ski destination for months at a time, I “retired” due to a knee injury in 2005. I based this narrative on the upcoming 09/10 season schedule.}
The overall concept of the project was to create a vinyl (symbol or text) that was either political, cultural, environmental, social, etc. and place it in an environment. The general public would then become the audience and be able to interact with it in an individualistic manner. *Please see below a mock~up of my idea. Overall description to come with the final work that will be posted shortly*
{Beauty in things exist merely in the mind that contemplates them} – David Hume
Well, for our first project of the year in DIVA 200, we had to create a panoramic image using a series of photographs of our own. The project was very open in terms of subject matter as well as one’s definition of a panorama. It was very interesting to see what people came up with. Some were more simple, standard horizontal panoramas, while others took a different approach using juxtaposition and superimposed images.
I decided to use images that I had shot during my time in New York City [circa 08], which initially, I was thinking about making a panorama as part of a personal project but never really got around to it, until now. I originally shot them in B/W and wanted to give it that sort of classic NYC feel to it (cliche? perhaps). With that in mind, the only manipulation I did was play with contrast to give it that “high key” look with the blown out sky and darker landscape, while still trying to capture the details of the buildings and the two bridges. I then added a black border, I feel like it brought everything together nicely. I didn’t change much after the priliminary critique, I felt that everything I had done was sufficient, so after printing my final I played with it a little more and made a couple more versions just for fun.
