December 2011
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Artist Statement
Throughout the creation process, the connection between my pieces was not obvious; however, looking back over the semester I can now connect the dots. All three pieces are forms of Static Art, including painting, photography, and a combination of drawing and photography. The projects all combined Postmodernist and Modernist elements to create visually simple final projects embellished with...
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November 2011
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Mediated identity and self-creation of today
“Media Culture is the result of the industrialization of information and culture. Images, sounds and spectacles help produce the fabric of life, dominating leisure time, shaping political views and social behavior, and providing the materials out of which people forge their identities” -Doug Kellner
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the...
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“When all is said and done, more will be said than done.”
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“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” -Edgar Degas
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October 2011
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Sonnet 94
By William Shakespeare
They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces And husband nature’s riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer’s...
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VSI Rendez-vous: “Non-traditional Publications,”...
I attended Sheila Dillon’s discussion, “Non-traditional Publications” for my first Visual Arts related event, and while the talk was very interesting it was drastically different than what I had imagined. I had thought Professor Dillon was perhaps lecturing on digital media or other emerging forms of publications. However the discussion was on tenure, and while I was very out of my element it was...
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September 2011
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Bright Star
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still stedfast, still...
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death...”
– William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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