Personal Project 3

 

Artist #7

USA. Hollywood, California. 1988. "Slayer, Errol Flynn Squat, Hollywood."

USA. San Francisco, California. 2000



I first fell in love with Jim Goldbergs work last semester, there is something I am drawn to when text is combined with photographs. Goldberg is based out of California, and it is represented in his photographs. When i see his photos, i think Cali. His photos show real people doing real things, it is not always clean and friendly.

 

Artist #8

Mourning Cloak

Stolen Summer

Robert and Shana ParkHarrison are a husband and wife team. The metaphors for their art work is all the same, peoples effect on the envirnment and linking the two together. Both of the photos aboce are from their series 'Gray Dawn'. I immediatly liked there work becuase of the surreal quality that their photos have.
 

Yesterday's Sandwich

I very much enjoyed this reading. The first few sections 'beauty', 'An Era', and 'An Encoded Reality' were my fovorite. These sections seemed to have a common theme, and that is what is beautiful to some, may not be considered beautiful to another. I feel like this is extrememly true, the weird and old are some of the most interesting delightful things to me. But to some, they are not seen as pretty and unique, but unpleasent. To me its the dirt and grime that is becuatiful. " Id take the beauty of chaos over ugly perfection".

The end of Firpo in the world

This short reading was very interestingly written. The amount of detail put into each sentence was incredible, gave you answers to every question you would ever have about the subjects he is talking about. the very long run on sentences were different. It reminded me of a lyric essay, where every paragraph is written about something different all relating to a main subject.

Personal Project 2

Artist #6

Mike and Doug Starn ,ATL Film Still #2, 2002-2003

Mike and Doug Starn, Attracted to Light #1, 1999-2002

Both of these images immediatly cought my eye when searching through the artist profiles. There series 'Attracted to light' is extrememly beautiful. The fact that they use the moth as their main subject is what makes these photos so interesting. Moth's are not usually categorized as beautiful, yet these photos have something magical about them that make you forget you are merely looking at a dull colored moth, instead of a bright colored butterfly, or other insect that people describe as beautiful. In Attracted to Light #1, i feel as though the moth is looking at me, and it makes me wander about this particular creature. What his life consists of, what he thinks when he is looks at a human, or if he even knows that he is looking at something. This moth takes on a personailty, and is no longer just an annoymous flying insect that we come into contact with in our day to day lives.