Spring into life!!

YES!!! My final project is done!!! Hope y'all enjoy it!!! 

Booooooom critique assignment

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Serrah Russell

http://www.booooooom.com/2013/02/08/serrah-russell/

As I was looking through the artists for this week many of them jumped out at me, but with Serrah’s work I had to do a triple take to recognized that the first photo was an upside photo of a jaw line.  After I figured it out I just had to look at the rest of her work.  The images I found just captivated me and I found that I just could not stop looking until I figured out what the pictures were. The way the subject matter was edited in just the right way to make my eyes follow the flow within the photograph, and the almost metallic like colors that were used are just visually stunning, and I believe they also help to separate or divide the various body areas she was photographing. Elegant simplicity!!    

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Triangle Triangle summary

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Adam Jeppesen

http://triangletriangle.com/

The photo above was what caught my eye and influenced me to look further into Jeppesen’s images.  I was even more excited once I discovered this single photo was just a peek into his journey through the backwoods of Finland for a series called “Awake”.  My immediate reaction was a want to find out more about the surrounding area concealed in the dense fog, but I feel that this photo would not hold the sense of mystery it does if the fog was cleared.  I love the single white lawn chair next to a staircase that leads to nowhere, I like how we are left to imagine who might sit there and where the stairs go.  Since making this decision was so difficult I also decided to share another one of Jeppesen’s piece from “Awake”.  The photo below quickly won me over in the simplistic subject matter that is so intense and captivating for the viewers eye.  

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Here is my first go at this!!  Would not say that I have it mastered, but I am a lot closer to learning it than I was the day before!  Enjoy!! 

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Urbanautica

OPEN CALL ‘FAUNA’
JOHNNY PANESSA

http://www.urbanautica.com/

Johnny Panessa Grew up in Eastern Long Island, where he was able to explore and find all the wonderful wild creatures in his area. As he grew he saw that the amount of animals inhabited in his area began to dwindle down to near extinction.  These photos were taken to document the return of many animals like foxes, turtles, birds just to name a few.  I choose this photographer because his subject reminds me of how life was like for my sister and I, as we grew up, there  were many summer days spent out in the woods near our house and getting lost in the magical powers of the woods.  What drew me this artist was this particular photo because my husband and I are always getting out to help turtle crossing the road.    

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Art 21 Blog
Carrie Schneider Adds a Finnish Touch
http://blog.art21.org/

At first glance of this photo the bright colors in the sky is what grab my attention, then I was taken in by the by the amazing landscape, then as I turned my eyes away to the left I was caught of guard by the female in fitted black and white strips.  The pattern on the material seems to make the figure  blur the longer I looked at it.  The natural layers created in the depth of the landscape is breath taking.  I also love the reflections made by the water.  I found this particular photo amazing....    

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NY Times Art & Design

‘The Eye Is Part of the Mind: Drawings From Life and Art by Leo Steinberg’

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/arts/design/the-eye-is-part-of-the-mind-drawings-from-life-and-art-by-leo-steinberg.html

Scholar and historian Leo Steinberg, was honored by David Cohen and Graham Nickson after his death with a tribute show that was made up of approximately 60 drawings that ranged from ink, pencil, and charcoal done by Steinberg during the fifties throughout the seventies.  What drew my attention to this was at first the mention that this show was being held for a deceased member of the art community, but as I got to looking at his simplistic use of lines to create some very powerful images of the human figure, I also enjoyed that he kept his study to the human form whether it was a more detailed full figure or just a quick sketch of a woman’s face or hand.  Each piece of work seemed to be almost a life like look into the past.  The loss of this great mind reminds me to make the best of everyday and to find the beauty in the simplest of images in life. 

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Conscientious Extended
Amy Friend/Dare alla Luce
http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2013/02/amy_friend/

When scrolling through the list of artists for this week my eyes could not stop going back the work of Amy Friend.  The images caught my attention at first because of the way she has the spots of light I thought it might have been another experiment of lights and motion, but learned quickly that the images were actually vintage photographs that had been altered in a way that would allow for the light to shine through the photographs. To do this she made numerous pinholes in a certain way that  breathed  new life into some old timeless photos.  The light that is let in not only enhances the original photo buy the holes themselves create a new images all on their own. I think this is best seen in her piece “Afterglow” where that addition of light seeping into the photo makes this piece feel magical.    

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Lenscratch.com

Australian Week: Michael Corridore

http://www.lenscratch.com/search?updated-max=2013-02-02T03:00:00-08:00&max-results=7

The raw Polaroid images that Michael Corridore captures in his work give a sense of nostalgia to when life was more simplistic and carefree. Corridore, an Australian photographer, is best known for his work “Angry Black Snake” but in this article he focuses the conversation on his love and appreciation for the classic Polaroid’s.  It was defiantly his pictures that sparked my interest in his work as well as the fact that he is a very accomplished artist in the world photography, yet he still has a love for the cameras for the past.  Corridore says “The colors are of a past time and so are the classic white borders” and I could not agree with him more!  The photos he showcases in this article were taken along his various journeys in life, with the way he captured these memories it takes me back to my own childhood as my family traveled across the states letting our own Polaroid document our travels and memories. 

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This is my everything, every day, since the day she was born.

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This is just one of the amazing sunsets I get to experience every evening from the comfort of my front porch.  

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Glasstire Article Review

Glasstire.com 
Artist Profile: Aisen Caro Chacin
http://glasstire.com/2013/01/14/artist-profile-aisen-caro-chacin/3-chart/

The work of Aisen Caro Chacin caught my attention with the photographs that appear next to the introduction of the article, as I read more about what she is working with I was completely intrigued by her ideas. The combination of art, biology, and physics is a concept that my husband and I have actually discussed, but we had no idea that there was already an artist implementing those types of ideas. In the article Chacin explains how she has been able to merge three completely different areas of study into amazing pieces of mechanical and audible art through sensory substitution,the act of having the input come in through one sense but is then translated in such a way that the output affects a different sense all together. Her most publicized invention is a neat little gadget rightfully named “Play-a-Grill” which is a bone-conduction-hearing device that is placed in the users mouth, after the device is placed on the teeth and activated the vibrations travel from the boney structures of your mouth to become sound waves that can be heard by the users ears. This is just one of the several different projects Chacin is working on, some of her other work like the Spoon Matrix and Pop Matrix which will allow the user to see images when the device is placed on the tough. Another of her high tech pieces are Echolocation Headphones as the goggles themselves block wearer’s vision and forces the person to navigate a space through sound reflection. With so many technological advances it seems that we should see and influx in creative options now available to the art world and Chacin is right in the midst a very new medium and she is now paving the way for more of the futuristic artists among us.

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This is my 10 month old baby boy Ares who was recently neutered and got this great party hat that he has 

learned how to use it like a battering ram.   

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Whitney Hubbs

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