Fall 17 Graduate Drawing/Painting ARTS 6033/6133

At the risk of people reading this...I'm laying many things out. Well, spoke with Maryam, looked at the layout of the gallery. That's 74 feet on the one gallery wall, 74. Anywho, starting to plan. I've got the layout to the painted set and ideas for two more larger paintings and several very small ones.  My immediate to-do list: Keep working on existing paintings -purple needs to have more shifts in hue in For Elizabeth -model the pool, diff hues -tape needs to have bits of saturation --white is too easy and distracting -change pieces in saturation, hue, and not just value. Flat/marky like in curtains -maybe add in what he makes the dominos from on the table saw? -Dominos don’t feel resolved --may differ in saturation and temperature, set them up? -take the oddness further -Pay attention to my own process of imagining and building. Try to reveal something about the creative process -Look at paintings that are made up and how I know they’re made up, ...

Dissonance - a tension or clash resulting from the combination of disharmonious or unsuitable elements. Pulling back the curtain on implied, intended, acceptable, obvious or otherwise forms of deceit. walking around knowing that you know things about yourself that you cant or wont remember. what would it look like to paint a self portrait in colors that obviously do not work with each other and then color correct it using projection so that the viewer is presented with something that was "right"? what is real? the harvard rothko paintings as they are when the projectors are turned off or when they are "corrected" to give the viewer a sense of what they would had seen, had the curtains been kept drawn in the banquet hall? these zombie paintings being brought back to life is like saying gigi gorgeous is only her true self after the makeup tutorial is finished. and now a poem about the raven, the moon, and the water.... so the time lapses into s...

Narcissus as influenced by Mica Levi's work "Under the Skin" Narcissus used to use a puddle. Now he uses his phone. which one of him is real? which one of him is the one who lays in his bed at night? is the painting, the one that does not change, the truest essence? the part of him that is not changed or influenced by the outside or the one that no matter how his reflection changes when someone whispers in his co-dependent ear? I am not making a judgement call on the discord between feelings and actions. i am simply looking at the fact that no matter how much of our "authentic selves" we build around the inside, that simply... There is a discord. There is a Dissonance with a capital "D" as Mike would say. There is the same animal that is not evolving in the way one would think. There is growling. There is rumbling. There is a scratching sound that reminds me of when metal scoots against metal. There's the train whistle blowing. ...

This is a Story About Wintonbury City:  Wintonbury, MA (based off of Edgartown, MA) Street: Bakers Street • One story with various households on Baker Street. • How do I connect the stories? • The study is where Annabel Olive writes. She’s the author, narrator, character who knows everyone in some way? Themes: Family. Each house on Bakers Street has family problems, whether it’s a loss, a responsibility Love. Of family, significant other, divorce Loss (of life, innocence, love) and struggle, hitting bottom. Alienation/loneliness Dealing with reality (through avoidance or facing it) Tone: Trying to sustain an illusion of normalcy, deciding what to do with your life. Everyone is going through something that’s not great. Melancholic, distressing, colloquial in familiarity?, resigned. Why am I telling you this story? “...Hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human…” For short stories: how disparate people i...