progress for 3/11

progress for 3/11

- I looked at the audience
- I looked at the issue

I realized the issue isn't one to solve, but to learn about
I realized it's appropriate for adults 
I realized it has important themes

I made a chart with options for my second piece
I realized since 
a) it's an issue mainly for adults 
b) it involves big themes 
c) it's more of a teaching opportunity verses call to act I could tailer this to kids!!

I evaluated existing ideas for piece #1 

I realized one of them needs to be specifically for a younger generation, which would mean including some sort of technology, whether it be web or app. 

final exhibition experience!

The two experiences I created show, through choice of color, spontaneity of pattern and physical interaction with open and closed space, the art of bebop and themes of Charlie Parker's life. My selected color scheme is energetic and unexpected, reflecting that of bebop. Through color, I organized the moods to acknowledge his skill and interest in music, his deep devastation through addiction and his legacy and the beauty he sowed for many following to reap. 

 

 

3/5 theme confirmation

I haven't updated this blog with recent thought processes regarding my reasoning within the exhibition project. 
I needed clarity last week, so I sat down and considered how I would manifest the life and moods of Charlie's life within the space.  I created this list, shown below, of words that are important to his life, directly taken from the text. I realized his story is very dark and sad and there is heartbreak and hurt within his family because of the addiction, affecting multiple people. But his legacy is something so many people have enjoyed and benefitted from. He deserves honor. Having the audience experience this through sheer emotion through color and shape is difficult. I've chosen to help them experience this high and low through the juxtaposition of light and darkness. There is a vast darkness to acknowledge and a glorious light of what his music has reaped. I have a sufficient color scheme that I've been working with for awhile (also included) that touches both dark and light ends of the spectrum. I want the audience to first enter a space that is "neutral" between the two spectrums, which in my case with these selected colors, will still be exciting and energetic. They will look at his early life and celebrate his interest and skill. As they keep walking, it will turn into dark and they will experience the distance and coldness. Finally, the audience will be brought to the roof, which is open air and colorful to taste the fresh breeze and open sky, the unlimited nature of what he's produced. 

3/4 physical mockups

for class 3.4.15

Refining/redrawing morphological analysis

First three annotations (all hand-held paper documents)

1. 

2. 

3. 

These are evidently in the very early stages. Each one has a different form, and varies in display of information. For next class, though, I want to get a little more creative. I like the way the first booklet shown has lots of space for information, but I want to look at a more non-traditional type of annotation that people will remember (verses a little paper handout). 

annotation process

in class 3.2.15

Articulating three main points of issue in a more concise way:
1. There is a worldwide dependency on oil
2. Because the land (with oil) is so valued competition arises among different countries and groups of people for control and protection of the area. 
3. Through complex global alliances, bloodshed is constant.
Below is my initial word map, which is not the easiest to read, so I re-did in following picture

I turned my "word map" into more of a concept map. 

"Morphological Analysis," beginnings of

booklet beginnings

front cover 

 


Very early stage of creating a booklet to accompany my space. I introduced the triangle pattern for the first time, which can actually symbolize a bird. After critique with Kidwell, there are many changes that I'm looking forward to make:
- add imagery
- less text on each frame (shouldn't be a chore to read)
- change copy text
- make the pages bigger
- play with scale

(printed - picture for scale reference)

Oil Kills Peace study

In 2008, Australian artist Mark Gowing was awarded the Gold Medal for his poster "Oil Kills Peace" at the 20th International Warsaw Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Australia. This piece is composed of a dying peace dove that is falling. The dove is made of a shiny/relfective oil and is rendered with little detail. It is set on a white background. The piece is oriented vertically, the dove also vertical, positioned facing downward. Gowing created this to draw awareness to the negative implications of greed and power in Iraq and in the Middle East regarding control for oil, including recent hostilities. Though the discovery of oil has helped nations in the Middle East achieve social and technological progress, it has also very clearly enabled devastation through greed and abuse of power, such as with Saddam Hussein, squandering money to wage war on neighbors and Syria's Bashar al-Assad waging war and oppression on his own people (5). In the 1930s, oil was found in Saudi Arabia by Standard Oil of California (1). Not only is war involving local areas, but actually bringing in and costing Western power, involvement and lives (1). 

on oil and middle east

1. http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/99/1/208.full 

oil was found in saudi arabia in 1930s by Standard Oil of California

in 1945 Saudi Arabia agreed to supply cheap oil to global markets in exchange for American protection (national security)

America sought to protect Saudi Arabia, not without blood 

America invaded in 2003 from terrorist attacks and the fight for oil

oil and war are connected in middle east

american alliance with Persian Gulf has been at odds with Israeli relationship

1973 oil crisis it surfaced

more

2. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer171/oil-gulf-war

3. http://www.globalresearch.ca/its-not-just-the-oil-the-middle-east-war-and-the-conquest-of-natural-gas-reserves/5307589

4. http://www.dw.de/isis-oil-and-war/a-17760035

5. http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Oil-A-Blessing-And-A-Curse-For-The-Middle-East.html