5 Questions/Observations (Jason Hackett)

1)      The artist has many religion related works.

2)      In some works, artist avoid showing faces.

3)      I like that artist uses ceramic with modern style, because we got used to see ceramics with more classic and old fashioned way.

4)      The work with a ceramic dog looks like a cartoon dog.

5)      Artist changes some parts of the works with feet.

 

1)      Weren’t artist afraid that people might misunderstand some works?

2)      Why artist uses mostly ceramic?

3)      Why artist uses only one type of toes?

4)      What artist trying to tell us with his work that has many feet in a glass box?

5)      Is the artist planning to work with ceramic on his next works?

Response for Skype Interview (Tim Roda)

I liked listening to Tim Roda. You can't understand his works completely if you don't know him or never even read his bio. It is always better to hear answers for questions that interest us from the artist, and not from somebody else. Even though my questions were answered during the time artist were telling us his story and everything about his art, I felt like I wanted to ask something else, but felt too shy. However, I enjoyed such class, it was very imteresting, and I wish we have more classes like that.

UPC Project

Here are my works for the UPC problem project for Visual Literacy class. 

Pictures for editing were taken from:

http://animalspicwallpaper.com/cute-yellow-bird-desktop-wallpaper-large-size/

http://ndep.nv.gov/photo/tahoe_sunset.htm

http://www.aokainc.com/inside-the-body-organs/

http://pngimg.com/download/947

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-bullet-hole-glass-isolated-black-image18905403

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/who-made-that-universal-product-code.html?_r=0

5 Questions/Observations (timrodaart.com)

Observations:
1) On Watermill kids are doing adult's job or behave like adults.
2) Most of the photos have children on them.
3) Many photos are either violent or sad.
4) It seems like the artist had family issues or he care about this topic the most.
5) It's nice that the artist take pictures of his family members.

Questions:
1) Why most photos are black and white?
2) What inspires the artist to do this kind of photos?
3) Why did the artist start to work on this kind of photography?
4) On the watermill project, photos are made in a different style; did the artist decided to change something about his work?
5) Did the author felt abandoned in the childhood?

Pre Zombie Apocalypse

On the picture we can see a little bit of everything (food, cleaning supplies, cat food and litter, medicine), that’s why we assumed it might be a storage room. However, after looking on the picture for some time we realized that there are price tags on the shelves, and this is probably some kind of a store or gas station. Although, after zooming the picture in, it becomes more visible that it is a store, because you can see two people walking between shelves. At first we thought that it’s one shelve and everything there was packed tight. There are many different colors on the picture, and picture seems kind of blurry at first, but when you focus, you are able to see what’s on the picture. You can see a variety of different products, such as different kinds of drinks or cereal. Emotional impact from the picture might be challenging to tell, because we see groceries every day and our feelings about them are hard to understand. It depends how hungry a person is. The picture was taken probably after lunch or maybe before, because there are not many people on the picture and the shelves are mostly full of products. If the photo was taken before lunch then a lot of people would come soon to get something to eat, but if this photo was taken right after the lunch, then the store would probably be quiet for some time. This photo might convey people’s needs, and something that most people need pretty much same things.

Life & Death Project

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