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Student WIP- Collaborative Drawing with charcoal- Post by Brette
I started this activity using our winter workshop as inspiration and also as a distraction for two of my students. Two girls at my alternative HS needed a space free from disruption as there were issues with other students in the class. Both girls really enjoy drawing, and they seem to really be enjoying this exercise as I think it allows for freedom and release. Although one girl has temporarily been moved to transitional housing, I expect her back next week- hopefully this project will be completed! I forgot to post this earlier! Andrea, any tips as to encourage the freedom of expression and transform two ideas into one? One thing I noticed is that they are so afraid of drawing over one another’s work!
Figets? Have these surfaced yet in your schools?
Hey guys.. so these are the newest, a total distraction if you ask me. Apparently, they are designed to attend to ADHD? I am looking into this, they are all over the schools like the plague. Ughhh, just like flipping water bottles.
Brette- WIP – transparencies
I’ve been thinking about artist Greq Dunn and more about his work. I tried to incorporate some electric colors (similar to his works) and depict motion and fluidity. All of these works are India inks on transparencies, except the circular blue one on the lower left corner, that is acrylic on canvas. I have been trying to design multiple brain scans in relation to my visualizations for Kevin’s class.
X-rays usually are not necessary for IEP diagnosis but I think I am interested because Xrays are absorbed in different amounts depending on the density of the material they pass through. And although they pass through the entire body they are not necessary for diagnosis.
Originally I was playing with colored acetate, but I feel the transparencies were more successful.
Brette – new work
New Sumi.. thinking about brain waves and frequencies~!
Memo 4- May 1st
As my research winds down, I find myself reflecting on the changing of the seasons and how it has affected my art-making process. Going outside to paint was truly where I found most of my peaceful moments. Early hours when no one was around was a lot more meaningful and I found that I was truly content. When people were around, I got a bit more anxiety about painting in public and wondered if it was weird, would I get in trouble, would people ask me questions. I connected these feelings back to my public art piece last summer where I painted in the streets. I felt very nervous to place myself in those situations and wondered if it was even a legal thing to do. What if the parking spaces got filled up and someone got mad that I was taking up a spot? I realize people in general just put me on edge and I enjoy myself most when it’s just me. In relation to the colors I picked up on, I noticed that in the colder months I chose white and blue a lot more often than warmer colors, but when I was inside I almost always noticed the yellows in the space first. I revisited a bunch of places more than once and realized that the mood I was in had a lot to do with how I interpreted the space. It was cool to see the colors that I chose by keeping the palette right on the page. I really enjoyed doing this research and I’m excited to continue it over the summer.
Dale Chihuly at BGNY- Post by brette
https://www.nybg.org/event/chihuly/
I just heard about this show at the botanical garden- through October! Wouldnt it be great if we could go !!
Mentor Artist 3- Brette- Greg Dunn
I have been admiring and studying the work by Greg Dunn (artist and neuroscientist). In 2011 he finished his doctorate in neuroscience and now is solely dedicated to painting. He describes working as full time artist as working as an experimenter. His art draws connections between science and nature as he provides us with a large microscope for investigating the beauty of our brains. His motto defines problem solving, as he often begins a work as an experiment, forms hypothesis and then develop theories…
His artwork radiates human consciousness and he is devoted to representing all brain functions and neurons in the most raw of states. Below, his works titled Self Reflected, emulate expressive beauty and delicacy, consisting of organic patterns that makes me feel like I’m watching electricity flow. His work is so expressive and organized, it’s almost as we are observing a light show . Viewing these works show the brain in all states of activity, almost like your walking through a maze of cellular architecture.
He draws inspiration from the simplicities of Asian art; Japanese scrolls are among a favorite inspiration. The Asian art of Sumi-e is also an inspiration in which he describes capturing the object using minimal strokes. His current subject choices for Self Reflected range from brain streams, forms of neurons, cerebellum regions, and parietal gyrus. These works very intriguing as these they offer insights to understanding the behavior of brain neurons through micro etchings. I would like to investigate this process of lithography further and will write more tomorrow- I was very into printmaking in my undergraduate studies, particularly lithography as I wish to investigate his process further.
Brette- In process work magnetic resonance
This is a single brain scan – done on top of painted acrylic paper. My color choice was intentional, the brain is grey as gray matter inside our brain is made up of about 100 billions neurons, white matter is made up of dendrites and 75 % water. I wanted this piece to be fluid and appear natural. I used pen and collage to represent the complex organ and the linear designs in the background represent networks of neurons…. the large blobs of paint represent human energy and movement. As I proceed with my research, I have become more interested in abnormalities and diagnosis related to imaging. I would like to continue with these studies, and maybe consider doing as series of images for the final show- investigating further MR spectroscopy and MR perfusion.
Systems Visualization 3 TC
For this visualization, I set it up like my sketchbook. Of course, I had this idea now! Perhaps I’ll go back into my old visualizations and redo them to be set up similarly. In my sketchbooks, I have four swatches of paint based on the colors I’m feeling. What I did for this visualization was look at the sketchbook experiences as a whole and choose four of the most prominent places I visited multiple times and choose a color the best represented those times. Home, outside, work and other. Other was a combination of some places I visited only once. I looked at the words that I had written down and compiled them around the color. I color coded them just like my last two visualizations. I started to notice that warmed colors make me feel more comfortable. In this visualization, I only focused on words and feelings associated with the places. In the next visualization, I think I may take a more specific approach and group the words based on their meaning. Place really does affect how you feel in a space. It affects me based on how many people are around, how I’m feeling, how the space is set up and if I have been in that space before. Each time I went back to a place I felt something new based on varying factors. Even though I spent generally the same amount of time in each space, I didn’t have the same outcome each time. It became more like a reflection time and encouraged me to look around and just notice. Notice how I was reacting in the space and how the space was reacting to me, especially in public places.