I really saw a drastic change take place in my working habits this semester. I'm currently taking Printmaking (Etching) and Sculpture 1, both of which I did not take in high school, thus had no real idea what I was getting myself into. Both classes have really taught me a lot about form and existing characters in space, both very essential lessons to learn. Beyond the 'formal stuff', I have also discovered, or at least 'gotten a taste' for, my style. What drives me. How I'm wired. I've found this unconscious decision being executed through my works. I've come to realize (not just in my own works, but reexamining classical art or even literature) I am very moved and emotionally connected to these kind of profound senses of raw reaction and feeling. It's like that scene in (god forbid I mention it again..) American Beauty when the character Ricky Fitts mentions in passing a homeless woman freeze to death on the sidewalk and how it was "amazing. When you see something like that, it’s like God is looking right at you, for a second. And if you’re careful you can look right back." That is pretty as close to it as it gets, I'm afraid. These (perhaps not always drastically upsetting) dramatic events that maybe not be comfortable, but there's this undeniable sense of raw beauty there. In..credible.
Anyway. Here are some images of the pieces I have made thus far in my two classes this semester. Next semester I am registered to take Creative Photography and Painting 1, which I am thrilled about and cannot wait to start them already.
Etching:
stage 1.
stage two.
stage three, final.
collective, together.
'Now', plate 1.
'Now', plate 2.
'Now'.
'the Delivery'.
Sculpture:
The combination of a container and unrelated object: electric lamppost and wedding veil.
driftwood carving
Plaster sculpture of an slightly-fictionalized Angler fish.
Installation: 'Remnants'. Now in the KAB In-Use gallery.