Objects in Spaces

 

This is one of the very first pictures in my camera roll. I love still lives. Although I won't betray all the other types of paintings and say its my favorite, it is really up there. This is super simple but the brown in the table and in the background really does it for me. It goes with the warm flowers nicely.

Similar to the spaces project. This is another animal in the wilderness. The object here is the deer with its surrounding home.

He's sinking! Oh god he's sinking!

I'm a big board gamer. Even though I'm not very good I love looking at board games and smelling cards and I absolutely love the aesthetics of Settlers of Catan. Here the object is the green set of roads + city with its landscape background. P.S. I absolutely love maps. Old looking fantasy maps take the cake. Catan reminds me of that

Same deal. This time I got up closer the the settlement and its little road.

These are two pictures I took at work over the Summer. I feel like I am always finding little compositions in the world around me. I think I looked a pretty ridiculous to my coworkers, taking pictures of apples and water cups. Something about the background and the feel of everything seemed documentable. Especially that ice in the water cup.

Museums are probably my favorite places on the planet. Something I like doing is looking to the sides, especially with abstract art. Often the sides of a canvas are as interesting as the front. 

Bonus: Here's the painting from the front

To me, it looks like the snowman in the front is slouching over. These are his final hours. Trying to hold on. Deteriorating. Clutching life itself. (sorry that got dark). And his friend. They seem confused and/or distract. Is this in their future too?

Messing with light on objects is very interesting. Here the object is a fake head on the left which is almost all in shadow. The background is cluttered which I thought was cool. I really enjoyed playing with depth and distance of my object and how near/close it would be. 

Different shot with different lighting and a more clear view of the head. In these two pictures I feel like they are a guard for something. The sentry of the theater department. 

Same object in three different states. This makes me feel sad honestly. I know it's a liberal-arts-college-dweeb thing to say but farces me to think of time passing. Nothing much changing. A timescape of gray background on this ever-changing, yet ever-the-same object.

I went back to the library. This is more messing around with depth. What do you think the two books are saying to each other? Are they just standing together awkwardly?

Some of my favorite movies are peaking out to say hello. In hind sight that Incredibles one is way to blatant.

And I close with more museum art. The atmosphere in general is another perk of a museum day. Things are quiet and slow. You have all the time in the world to figure out how an artist did this or that. How it makes you feel. Why they created it. 

Kayla Bauer

I thought Kayla Bauer’s talk and her art was very relatable. The way she spoke and the way she

described her experience as she took these photos was what spoke to me the most. I was very

glad to hear that she experiments and works in multiple mediums. She isn’t just a photographer

even though that seems to be her base. It was nice to hear that she participates in other art

mediums to clear her mind. To refresh the slate. That seems like something I will want to keep

in mind as I move forward in the next set of years. 

I also like that her photos had a lot of personality in them. I can tell that this person likes pink just

by looking at her portfolio. It’s nice that she spoke about photographing what she wanted rather than

what seemed the most “serious” for serious photographers. Her work is a great example of how

interests like stuffed animals and animated tv shows can be seen under a serious artist lens just as

much as anything else.

This was my favorite photo of her's. The framing and the concept of pink as she brought up in her talk 

just made me see this as a magnum opus of her's.

A couple others that I liked a lot. Especially after her explanations.

10 (11) Spaces

 For this post I have a variety of things...

Your eyes do not deceive you. My first space is in Minecraft. I wanted to make something that felt adventurous and calming at the same time. I think I did alright. This made me think a lot about getting the the perspective of the audience as good as I can. How am I going to build this so that it develops a curtain feeling. Hopefully you feel it too.

Doors in Europe. When I went there I got obsessed with how some of the doors looked. I love old looking and heavy wood doors. These fit the bill. I also think the wall around the door has a lot to do with how the image rounds itself out. These spaces are very satisfying to look at.

Caught the light in the con looking very green and very beautiful on this day. Spaces are always very interesting with some pretty and dramatic lighting. 

This is a picture of the Wriston Auditorium without any lights on. Just the one at the entrance. I love dark/dim rooms. This one takes the cake. If you really put your mind to it, you feel like you're in a scene from The Incredibles.

Just a bonus picture

Walking around campus on a random Wednesday at 1 am. I find some very interesting spots with interesting lighting. Also when you're that tired you tend to do things slowly and space out, the perfect concoction for a picture like this. 

A picture of my normal painting station back home. This space is a little snippet of a chill day. The long socks and slippers are essential when creating a priceless masterpiece. 

I always miss Colorado when it's Winter in Wisconsin. I thought these two spaces provided some of the variety you can find in that beautiful state. Niko is featured in the forest picture. I don't know what the mountain goat's name is but I don't think they would've given me a coherent answer if I had asked. 

I Love tables. Round tables and long tables. It makes me think of council meetings and shit. This is my favorite room in Memorial and the light looked nice today. 

Quick bonus: Whenever I walk through the library I get so excited to walk through a nice dark isle and look at cool books, then my dreams are crushed when the motion lights come on. I wanted us all to experience this dark library hallway. This is an interesting depth in a space that I would like to further look into. 

Thank you!

3 Objects

 Each of these three objects were chosen both as an aesthetic object to simply look at and appreciate, but also as a visualization of extra emotions that may come from looking at each object. The more you think, the more you might feel.

The first is a Carboy with fermenting mead in it. I am obsessed with the thought of all the biological processes going on inside the gallon jug. It seems that there is a whole world in there and I imagine it all being so interesting. Also its a pretty color. The foam at the top is just extras from the fermentation process

The second object is a library book from Mudd. Every time I walk through there I see so many beautiful books and so I thought I'd pick one to photograph. The title had almost nothing to do with my choice of book. I'm more interested in the extra information that the object carries with it. Books always have a lot.

Also in Mudd library. This was low on the list of objects untill I gave it more thought and eventually decided on this. Since I took this picture from below it feel slightly over-looming (not really a word but you get the idea). The extra info on this is exactly what you might expect: the onward momentum of time and the symbolism that a clock can always bring to the table. Also... it looked cool.