Amy's growing drug cabinet

So this sketchy website that I ordered my bottles from arrived. Bottles are actually really nice so I decided to print out some of the labels and tape them on to see how they would be. Now that I have the physical object, I can make these packages and labels to size. Some are accurate to size and some need a bit of a tweak.

Jenn Jones - heart words

lately, for some reason, i've been feeling pressured to be generating work like a well oiled machine. and i'm not a machine at all. i like to put my heart in my work. this pressure i'm putting on myself is overstimulating my heart, and making it hurt. and when my heart hurts, my work sucks. so i've been trying to listen to my heart. and just get some ideas out without any expectations.

when i feel tired yet continue to go on, i wonder what's pushing me. and what's organizing the turn of events around me. and i know its all the hands of God. when i'm drained i wonder where i get any positive voice from. and i know its the voice of God. no matter how badly i feel, i know that i'm a living thing made in the image of something very great. its in my veins and i reflect its light. a lot like how the moon reflects the sun. it feels natural.

i feel vulnerable centering my art around these feelings, especially for thesis, but a part of me knows we all feel strongly. and one of us is going to have to be vulnerable every now and then. and i really want to say these things.

my feelings about relying on God when i feel defeated coexist with the doctrine of 'sola fide', which is latin for 'by faith alone'. this doctrine stands for justification by faith alone, meaning we are not forgiven by our works, but by our faith in Jesus. here's a quote by theologist G.C. Berkouwer about it; “The confession of divine justification touches man’s life at its heart, at the point of its relationship to God. It defines the preaching of the Church, the existence and progress of the life of faith, the root of human security, and man’s perspective for the future.”<link>. i found the phrase 'sola fide' in an old journal of mine, written while listening to a sermon that was really filling my heart. i feel like there's harmony in the room whenever someone talks fondly of God.

i'm thinking about show titles. sola reminds me of 'sol', the latin word for sun. i thought it would be cool to replace the word with that, or the latin word for moon 'luna'. (i'm so annoying about latin. can you tell i took it in high school?)



sometimes i feel like the work i want to do is bigger than myself. and it makes me want to stop. but why would the work want me to do that? i'm going to persevere. and make something. and take what i have. and maybe i'll have another mental breakdown in the middle of class (lol sorry). but i have something i want to say. and i'll get it out somehow, with some help.

i want the rest of my work to emerge from this honesty. i feel so strongly at this point there's no turning back. it's really time for me to turn these thoughts into final products. i'm almost done this screen print:



and i know i want that in my show. so there's one piece almost down!

i also want to screen print a sports banner with MOONLIGHT written on it. maybe i can do that tonight. though i've been working on that ^ candle print so much this week, i pulled a muscle in my neck. so i need to be careful while screen printing. haha.

Andrew Tricoche _ Beginning of Final Phase

We're within the final stretch here, so I've begun looking back at my work from the year and refining it. I've also begun working on a title and sketching the space for the gallery. Below are some examples of how I'm beginning to refine my sketches and finding a place for my thinking to live.



These Voice Prints are ways for these sketches like these to live:



Here you can see my use of mark making to describe the pitch changes happening in the vocals. I'm underlining to count beats, and changing the spelling of words to better represent the sound. It's interesting, because when a word is spelled incorrectly, we naturally attempt to sound out the word until our brain understands what we were trying to say. This idea offers a technique on how to inspire the subconscious voice of the audience to speak in tones and accents.

I will print these voice prints and write on top of them to show my thinking in my notes. After a discussion I had with Natalie about process vs finished pieces, I think keeping my hand involved is important to retain life in my work. This would be a way of mixing the two.

Then I started thinking about the title of my thesis. I've really been liking " Seeing Sounds " so here are some ideas for some sort of vinyl application for the show.

After the discussion with Natalie, I think it's important to take a step back from the finished, clean digital version, and do something by hand. I then started thinking about activating the space for my art to live in, and the set up of my space itself. Here is a sketch I have for a mural background.



The idea is the cassette tape will have the words "SEEING SOUNDS" written on it as if it were the title of a mixtape. I think it's important to compare my work to the song, so I'm not sure if I want to mount cd players or something to the wall for each work that pulls lyrics from a song or something of the sort. I think the text should have a voice even when the wall behind them is white, but I think the mural is a way to include myself and show off my various skills.

What do you think?

Worn Memories

I am going through the process now of making the paper form my grammies clothing. At first I didn't think it was going to be too hard because I have made paper before from clothing but this clothing was different, this clothing had my grammie in it. Through cutting and making the paper it brought back great times that I had with her and made me feel connected with her again. It wasn't just another sheet of paper I'm making it had meaning behind it and really touched my heart making it. I feel as though this could be something for others to do if they had a loved one pass and didn't know what to do with their clothing because it makes you feel close with that person again and help you through the process of grieving.

I am thinking of possibly making a quilt as well because my grammie used to make tee shirt quilts for all of her granddaughters for their graduation day. I kept pieces of the original clothing so that I can sew the paper with the clothing as a pattern. I am also thinking of titles but nothing has really stuck yet.



https://youtu.be/MaDdXhD8kA8 _ Beating the cloth into paper pulp.
https://youtu.be/0BK0Kp1QvV0 _ Pulling the pulp into sheets of paper.

Geo-Journal – Bollinger

These are some of the photos I've been taking on my walks each of them are collections from separate walks. I've really been paying attention to the quality of light and temperature of it. It actually surprised me how many different kinds of light I could find on a single night. What I'll post next are the maps themselves that are the corresponding to the photos. All of which are just on my walk home from school which is a really cathartic time for me; I always take the longer walk home that's along the beach just so I can have a good view. My camera of choice is my cell phone, just for the quick accessibility of it.

My next step for transferring these photos into a final piece is to create a grid out of them whether it be by the catalog date, or by color coding I'm not quite sure yet but I will be experimenting with both. All I know for certain is all photos will be the same dimension and size. I also need to consider materials for printing and figure out feasibly how large I can print cell phone photos without them loosing their quality.

Consumerism

I have been spending an abundant amount of time trying to place concepts into undesigned boxes and because of that I feel as though this concept is exhausted. It is time for me to create something for senior exhibition show. I will no longer be thinking about boxes or unboxing and will be focus my attentions on consumerism. I will use stylized interactive posters to convey my thoughts on capitalism, awareness, and the consumer culture we live in today.

The transmission of visual information may extend beyond the poster to incorporate a multitude of medias, but due to time restraints a tangible object is required in the very near future.

I began by reading the article "Everyday Consumer Goods Are De-Produced Into Rectangular Prisms of Raw Material," by Laura Staugaitis. Here is the link to the article.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/02/materialism/

I also Watched the film "They Live" (1988) which sparked the idea to focus on consumerism.

I began by taking a well known brand and looking at the way they market their p[products. This was a good exercise in understanding common advertising tactics and temptable designs that could be used in the future.

I took this farther by coming p with an interactive way of showcasing the information. With read and blue hidden message posters.



This shows the same poster side by side. The hidden message should be achievable with read and blue inks. It would then becomes visible when the viewer uses a red screen to read the poster.

Pills bring joy

This week I started making physical mock-ups of the products I want to create. I also changed the names of some of the products I created to make them sound more like actual products. I have also ordered some bottles for the products that will have labels instead of a box.

Here are two products (which we all seen already) but I have added more information to them so they are not so empty.

Here is also a label for one of the bottle