The Stormy Teas

A Steamy Tale of Love, Loss, and Tea

My first flip book

Graphite on Paper, Scanned, and Animated

Add Music Later?

Woodburning Tryouts

I thought this video really captured the gestures of the child

And the Tryouts begin!


I will post updates at a later date.

Figure Fun

The assignment: Draw on a magazine

The Results:

The Modern Man

Monstrous
Decapitated

Melting

Pink?

Kim thinks I should add a baby to this one...

I might later

Giant

Spring Blink in Savannah

Well, I've recovered from the flu and journeyed to the beautful city of Savannah. I'm here to assist my Aunt Jaime with a beautiful mural dedicated to the YWCA which has since been converted into condos.

Jaime brush in hand

The old building

YWCA

Inspiration

The mural after I left to return to school. There was still a lot of work to do.

They finished it a week later!

Check out Jaime's blog at

jaimehowardart.blogspot.com

Dennis Oppenheim talks about Public Art and a Flagler student trashes the palm tree graden

"Kasper Koeing once said that public art is a snowman..... Everybody likes a snowman, everybody can relate to to it, then it disappears back into nature."

Dennis Oppenheim

An early morning installation...

(Thanks Amelia and Megan for helping!)

And then came the rain....




And then a day later....

Time goes on...

Mimicking Mario Merz's Quest for Mathematical Perfection

1.1. 2. 3. 5. 8. 13. 21. until:

Lessons from El Anatsui

Sculpture II Reading

Pick an Artist and Respond

El Anatsui

I first saw his work at the Harm Museum in what seems like a different life

I remember thinking

What the Heck

And now

Beautiful

Art grows out of each particular situation, and I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws up.

- El Anatsui, 2003

My Response:

Lightbox photography!

Reactions to The Spell of the Sensuous cont.

Chapter 4 and 5

Animism and the Alphabet

In the Landscape of Language

"We thus learn our native language not mentally but bodily" (p75)

Reaction to Spell of the Sensuous: Chapter 4

"Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rythm of the words." (ch3)

"It is this dynamic, interconnected reality that provokes and sustains all our speaking, lending something of its structure to all our various languages." (p85)

More "Spell of the Sensuous"

Chapter Three
"Most scientists, however, while accepting Darwin's theories, were reluctant to relinquish the assumption of human specialness- the assumption that alone justifies so many of the cultural and research practices to which we have now become accustomed. In earlier centuries we could ascribe our superiority to the dispensation of God, who had "created" us as his representation on earth, or who had bequeathed to humans alone the divine capacity for awareness and intelligence"

This reminded be of a scene from Agnes Gray

"Last summer, he gave me a nest full of young sparrows, and he saw me pulling off their legs and wings, and heads, and never said anything; except that they were nasty things, and I must not let them soil my trousers: end Uncle Robson was there too, and he laughed, and said I was a fine boy.''
But what would your mamma say?

''Oh, she doesn't care! she says it's a pity to kill the pretty singing birds, but the naughty sparrows, and mice, and rats, I may do what I like with. So now, Miss Grey, you see it is NOT wicked.'

.......

Tom next went to tell his mamma. It was not her way to say much on any subject; but, when she next saw me, her aspect and demeanour were doubly dark and chilled.

........

'I am sorry, Miss Grey, you should think it necessary to interfere with Master Bloomfield's amusements; he was very much distressed about your destroying the birds.'

'When Master Bloomfield's amusements consist in injuring sentient creatures,' I answered, ' I think it my duty to interfere.'

'You seemed to have forgotten,' said she, calmly, 'that the creatures were all created for our convenience.'

This, in turn, reminded me of the photography series 'Midway' by Chris Jordan. http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

Read and React: The Spell of the Sensuous

Assignment:
Read a chapter
Respond with a small scale sculpture

Chapter 1
The Ecology of Magic

"The Sorcerer derives her ability to cure ailments from her more continuous practice of "healing" or balancing the community's relation to the surrounding land."

Balance

Ok Russell

I was asked to write about a fictional artist that is the polar opposite of myself.

BC is a male artist currently working in Chicigo. He began his career in photography in 1952 and moved into painting some twenty years later. His early subject matter was high fashion. He strove to capture the glamor of Old Hollywood. He was there to witness “the decline of high culture” from the elegance of Grace Kelly to the vulgar Lady Gaga. Thus, his interest shifted to studying the degradation of "class" in society. BC’s frustration caused him to leave photography and California. He took up residences in Chicago were he focused on painting. His paintings depict the crude lifestyle that triumphed in the late twentieth century. He turns out paintings based on lude myspace photos and perzhilton.com at an alarming rate. But, he claims that it is not fast enough compared with the onslaught of visual rape that torment him on an hourly basis. Surprisingly, these paintings are what gained BC popularity as the younger generation saw them an celebration of their age. As a rebuttal, BC formed the facebook group “We See And Deplore The Decline of High Culture." BC was recently ousted from the group because of his popularity as a pop artist and because his paintings attempt to "flatten all distinctions between high and low" culture.

Oh, and Einstein is made of varying degrees of toasted toast, icecream, and ham; a dinning hall special.

Launch

A Collaborative Exhibit

Created by Art Students From Flagler College and

Murray Middle School and Osceola Elementary School

The blog:

http://goflyakitespring2010.blogspot.com/

An amazing show put together by my Sculpture II class and Drawing III

It was a lot of fun. I really enjoying working with the kids.

The blue lights were awesome.

We now have a lawn in the museum.

4th graders from Osceola Elementary painted the butterfly kites.

Middle school student came to Flagler College to work on their self-portraits on kites.

Set up. Before we moved in the turf.

Make a wish kite tails.

The Origins of that Glowing Creature that Slapped Me in the Ocean

My metals project!

Sketches and Drawings

Weaving...