BA Week 11

WORK

RESPONSE

“The point is that you learn how to make your work by making your work, and a great many of the pieces you make along the way will never stand out as finished art.” Pg.6

“You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn’t very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren’t good, the parts that aren’t yours.”  p. 26

1.   What work have you made that seems most yours? Why?

- The work that i have made that seems most mine would have to be what is above this post, the sculpture with kinetic movement. I believe it is most mine because it came from my thoughts with little inspiration in terms of shape/form from others. It was most mine because during its process, i learned more than i have during the creative process of building and creating the mechanics, overcoming challenges and setbacks in process with expression of my character and reaction to said setbacks. I learned about myself during the creating of this piece, and how i would react to things that looked right on paper but ended up challenging me once taken into the physical. It is most mine because i reached a place of contentment in its completion that i have not felt in a while when creating. Its custom form and the way it is assembled is connected to how i approach situations when creating and thought processes of custom work/work that is most me.

“Chances are that whatever theme and technique attract you, someone has already experimented in the same direction. This is unavoidable: making any art piece inevitably engages the larger themes and basic techniques that artists have used for centuries. Finding your own work is a process of distilling from each those traces that ring true to your own spirit.”  p. 103

2.   Who are artists that are making work that relates to you?  Are there other influences? How are these other influences connected to your work?

- I have found influence through the work of Anthony Howe, using kinetic motion (wind power) to allow his sculpture to come to life and have a sense of being. He creates original works that are symbolic of forms, movement, and shapes influencing and allowing thought of the viewer to be less constrained. Something i want to explore more into which is allowing the perception of the viewer to answer what is present in front of them rather than a set standard of perception seen in a lot of work.

“And while a hundred civilizations have prospered (sometimes for centuries) without computers or windmills or even the wheel, none have survived even a few generations without art.”  p. 104

3.   Discuss, in your own words, why you think this is so.

-I believe the need to create and express is the pinnacle of existence. To create something from scratch allows expression of the artist and true exploration of the mind in attempts to find and create the true meaning of that person. An expression and connection of their senses through their environment that is true to that person. To think we were created, from dirt or some substance, our inner drive or desire would make sense to be that from which we came, through creation, expression. Lack of art and creation would seem to me as an oppression of true thought, life, and lack of freedom.

“Art is something you do out in the world, or something you do about the world, or even something you do for the world. The need to make art may not stem solely from the need to express who you are, but from a need to complete a relationship with something outside of yourself.”  p. 108

4.   Which of these ideas resonates most with you? Why? If they all resonate, how do they differ?

- It all resonates with me, it differs through individual perception nd expression. Some individuals look and create from within themselves and their thoughts while other express from societal influence or actions. For the needs of other or for the selfish desire to create what one sees when they close their eyes. 

“Making art depends upon noticing things-things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter.”  p. 109

5.   What do you notice about yourself? What are your methods?  Subject matter?  The answers do not have to be limited to art related topics.

-I notice that i have outlandish ideas that would take risk to produce, and for some reason i hold back on a lot of this ideas. Though i have been getting better at expressing and creating this ideas, i need to become more confident and take risks. I notice i take a lot of time, in trying to make the idea or work perfect. I tend to stress over time not spent on working on my art when i am unable to or have pre planned things like work. My methods include starting in a  direction that i could see how the idea would work only a few steps ahead, then once i reach that step, plans sometimes change and i adapt the project to whichever path i plan on pursuing in creating it. Other methods would be just doing it, starting whatever i am making without a clear route then through that i process i granite towards future ideas and choices and act upon them. Subject matter would be more symbolic shapes with movement and an perception of simplicity though time and effort has been put into the work. simplistic in form yet holding a complex mood. 

“The only work really worth doing- the only work you can do convincingly- is the work that focuses on the things you care about.”  p. 116

“All this suggests a useful working approach to making art: notice the objects you notice.” Pg.101

6.   What do you care about? The answers do not have to be limited to art related topics.

-I care about people, wanting more for those who don't know there is more. I stress and become anxious for others because i can see an answer when it is hidden in plain site. I care about wanting to be the best version of myself that i can be and producing art, not just art but everything i do, to my best ability which sometimes drains my batteries and creates separation from people and relationships. I care about animals, any and all. The ability to be, express, and eventually reach greatness through hard work and preserving in faith. I care to become someone, not just "that guy from ___ (insert local bar/restaurant/shop)" but actually someone who is known for great things, impactful things. I care about wanting to be change in a world that is ever so stuck in its destructive, manipulating, and lying ways. I care for the people.

INSPIRATION

1. https://hyperallergic.com/397105/calder-mobiles-whitney-museum-american-art/

2. https://hyperallergic.com/316520/the-wind-powered-kinetic-sculpture-pulsing-behind-the-olympic-cauldron/

3. https://hyperallergic.com/228426/bringing-latin-american-masters-of-kinetic-and-light-art-out-of-obscurity/

-Detail of Gyula Kosice, “Habitat hidroespacial, maqueta R