Final Project

I think for my final project this semester, I want to make a "kaleidoscope-book". I don't really know how to explain it except that i see how I want it to look in my head. I want to use vellum or tissue paper as the pages, something transparent that I could draw on one side on image and them use the outline that would appear on the back of the paper to draw another similar, but different, image. Eventually the original image would be distorted to the point where the beginning doesn't resemble the end. It's kind of like those word games were you start off with a work but with each word after you have to change one letter to end up with a completely different word.

I want to explore the idea of the veil that I used in the response to Berger's essay, how there more lurking beneath the surface than we are really willing to let on; how we see everything superficially but as we dig deeper we see some more and something different until out original perceptions are completely altered.

Claire Hoch

This week, we were visited by Claire Hoch from the VCCA. She had just recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon. I thought she was pretty interesting in that her art depended on people. She chose to work on projects in which she could involve the community and fellow artists to accomplish the same goal. I'm always so caught up in thinking that art making is a solitary act, that it's all about the artist's expressions and impressions that I forgot that without an audience, there would be no artist. And collaboration doesn't necessarily have to relate to other artists. Collaboration can revolve around the community and involve the people you work around. Collaboration is community outreach in its simplest and most natural form.

And I think that's a great idea.

My own career goals is to work with community outreach and to bring art back to the public. It's nice to know that it is possible and it is viable.