In-Depth Project- Do You Remember That One Time?
I wanted to create a trigger for memory, and have these platonic shapes with different approaches to surface to serve the same purpose that a picture would. I chose a person that I'd want to remember spending time with and recreated three memories based on material, composition, shape and line. These represnt both emotion and the memory itself.
I wanted to create a trigger for memory, and have these platonic shapes with different approaches to surface to serve the same purpose that a picture would. I chose a person that I'd want to remember spending time with and recreated three memories based on material, composition, shape and line. These represnt both emotion and the memory itself.
Small Works and Process:
In my experimentation I played with surface in regards to texture.
Research:
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Mike Kelley
Modernist color and composition
Physical road map through images from
his memory
*screen memory exploration
Repressed memory and trauma
Influences of his art education
*push-pull theory (Hans Hofmann)
Expressive techniques
Unrestrained by conventional composition
Wood= permanent- preserves existence
throughout time (memory)
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Screen memory:
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False recollection of memories
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Made from an agreement, repression of
something unacceptable
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Falsely recalled early childhood memory
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Magnified in importance and masks another
memory of deep significance
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Mike Kelley: Memory Wall Flats
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sentimental keepsakes
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Frames filled with trinkets
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20 year’s worth of unused art materials
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Re-examination and re-use of materials
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New life to unused art materials
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Similar to memory’s to bring to life
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Josiah McElheny:
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Glass- un-intuitive
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Memory- an imperfect remembrance
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Book/photo misrepresents the original
thing
He
takes it as real and utilizes it
Down
play or play up the importance of a memory
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^re-remembering
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Memory of objects
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History of objects in what they symbolize
originally and what the recreation shows
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Re-imagining something
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Doesn’t believe in originality
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Fact vs fiction
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Denies history
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Letting ideas in his art be useful to him
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Idea of an object being disentangled
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Putting intent in something always fails,
if an artist engages enough people in another time period or a different prior
knowledge, way of thinking will understand what they were saying clearly
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History=story
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Re imagine your own context of your work
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Conceptually- up to each persons
imagination and prior knowledge
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Josiah McElheny
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Seduces viewer into piece
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Preserving time through his art
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Represents past time and reflects the
current time by putting his ideas in there
