light art

small light show

so, this was my attempt at light art. the main idea was to draw on a light bulb, turn it on and see the sharpie create negative light along the wall, but it didn't quite make it so i took a picture of the bulb.

Trash art

Trash art

For my trash art assignment I grabbed the bag of Mardi Gras beads and created the following piece.

time art

I love the concept of freezing the frame without actually taking a picture or painting the moment. By using the strobe you can achieve the illusion of a still shot of

In a darkened room, there is a pool of water on the floor and water dripping from the ceiling into the pool. This is what you know when you step into the room. But it is lit only with strobe light, so all you have are flashes of information as to what you are seeing. The strobe light freezes the movement of the water drops, in an endless variation. It is like seeing time stopped. The effect is mesmerizing and magical. Along with the slight coolness of the room and the scent of cool fresh water, it becomes a transcendent moment.

Olafur Eliasson:The illusion of stopped movement and time--within an artwork that incorporates actual movement and time

Olafur Eliasson, Your Strange Certainty Still Kept, 1996

Trash Art

With the objects given to me I had a hard time deciding what I was going to create. That was until my daughter and my younger cousin showed me a project that they had been working on that day. They had been painting pinecones to make them look like flowers. I loved them so much that it became the inspiration for this weeks project. Here is my blue flower, grown with love...

"Layered Drawings" , Nobuhiro Nakanishi

Nakanishi creates these series of static photographic scenes.  He states how a byproduct of our modern and non-sustainable lifestyle causes us to perceive our society in short terms.  His work is an opportunity for us to experience what the world has to offer in slow motion.  It allows us to consider a pause in time.  The scenes are sequenced chronologically over a long period of time and focus on natural change.  I find it interesting how his work is a view of such a natural event through an unnatural lens.  The scenery is captured with a camera before it is captured with our eyes.  Some could argue that the modernity of his display is in contradiction to his argument of stopping to smell the roses.  Some could argue that it too is a byproduct of our non-sustainable lifestyle.  Is his art in a museum not a short term event?  It is interesting how he wants to focus on the nature of our world through a building and mounted onto a wall.  Visiting museums can be considered another form of living through short terms.  Museum visits are not taken over long periods of time regarding days and weeks.  Although the display and modernity of museums may contradict viewing the world in its natural state, the display does allow a viewer to comprehend the event of the world through individual and group.  Nakanishi's work collapses time.  It toys with taking nature into our hands and enjoying it for what it is or will always be.

100 Years of Make-Up

 

100 Years of Make-Up

It took me a moment to think about what an interesting time art would be. Then I remembered all of the videos that find their ways through Facebook demonstrating the different make-up and or hair styles that were the "look" during their time. In this particular video we see 10 decades worth of stylistic fads. These videos are fun to look at (I  think) because of the fact that they demonstrate the ways that styles changer OVER TIME!

Time art- Coutdown

                    Countdown by Wenqing Yan

Wenqing Yan is a Digital Artist that got inspired to create this art piece due to the Saveur Climate changes that are causing a lot of harm.

"This is not part of the natural climate change but a human induced and an abnormally accelerated increase in temperature. Waiting for the Countdown until the polar ice caps and glaciers melted and water level has risen is not an option."

This artwork is not only about time but the climate changes that will occur if nothing is done to stop the rapid change humans have brought for their own convenience.

time ART - Nomura Hitoshi

I chose a piece that was recently on display for the MFAH show, For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979.

The piece, Time on a Curved Line (1970) is by Nomura Hitoshi, was in this exhibition and included 34 large format gelatin prints which were hung in a grid pattern on the rear wall of the exhibit. Hitoshi "sculpts time" by investigating his physical interaction within an environment or landscape. The artist would write the date and time on a road, photograph it, and then continue along the curved line of the road until he could no longer see the painting on the road-- at that moment he would do the same thing again in that spot.

I think one of the most interesting aspects of this piece is how according to the position of the sun the viewer is able to see the hand of the artist in the form of his shadow.

trash ART

I chose the bag of trash containing technical pieces, capacitors, etc. for our assignment this week regarding trashART.  Inspired by the piece we saw in the UH KUHF radio building, Modulation (2000) by Ralph Helmick & Stuart Schechter, I decided to make my own version using a Halloween skull decoration and random technological trash.

Trash skull. Liia Thrasher 

Trash skull. Liia Thrasher 

Trash skull. Liia Thrasher 

tape art

After looking at all of the brightly colored tape the first thing that popped into my head was japanese pop culture. The different patterns and colors all thrown together were the inspiration for this piece. Working with tape was a challenge but something I would like to explore again in the future.

 

Money Well Spent

I have been having a hard time with money as of late. Primarily because the account this card is associated with has been closed because I am so close to graduation and this is the account that my financial aid refund comes on. So cheers to all the beer I bought throughout my college career using this card and those refunds!

Artist Residency-

Horse and Art, Barnag, Hungary

Located in the the small historical village of Barnag (at the North side of Lake Balaton, Hungary) is the Horse and Art Residency and Research program. I have owned horses most of my life so when reading this I fell in love with the idea. The 2-week program takes in both artists that want to learn about horses and horsemanship, as well as riders who would like to learn more about art. The program mixes equine activities with art. There are daily lessons in horsemanship and horse archery, lectures in art history, and studio time for the visual arts. Spending a couple weeks with horses to inspire my art sounds like exactly what I need! :)

Trash Art

                      Soda Flower by Sarrah .K


I took some of the cans of coke and sprite to make the petals...I shredded the cans and bended them all to fit into the base cans...the problem is I bended everything so everything can fall apart...and guess what....it did.

"Meal Plan"

"Meal Plan"

I knew exactly what I was going to do when I found the noodles.  I have this fascination for replacing or redefining what we know of food or consumption.  This piece speaks on how we play with food or how we organize it.  The noodles are now contained.  Noodles are not even a tame kind of meal...well, we normally pair noodles with sauces.  Pasta is an easily messy meal.  Secondly, I took food and made it into art.  It could speak on world hunger or commodity.  It's like double commodity.  As humans, we have taken food and put a price on it.  We think it is our decision on who and who cannot eat.  We act like eating should be worked for.  We turned a basic human need into a privelege.  We even put a price on water or healthy sources of water.  I took something that has been taken out of it's natural state and remodeled it's purpose once again.  I also took food and turned it into something that could be hung on a wall.  I took food, which could be used to feed someone, and turned it into decoration.  It's pretty but probably unnecessary.  This piece is deep without my having even tried to do so.  Another aspect is how the food went from one container (probably a bag or box that it was bought in) and into another form of a container.  The food is never free.  Does food want to be free?  What does it mean for food to be free?  Is it free to be eaten or left alone?  The food is being used for something other than physical consumption.  It is being used for mental or emotional consumption.  Frames are used to hold photographs.  Photographs are taken to remind us of certain memories that we enjoyed.  I took food and made it into a memory.  Is it a memory if I never enjoyed the food?  Or is it a visual enjoyment?  I took the food and turned it into a photograph.  I turned food into something I want to remember when we normally consume the food and the taste is gone after each bite.  When we eat and use the restroom, the existence of the food is gone, other than the fats or nutrients it might have left behind.  I stored away the memory or existence of this food. 

Mail Art:

Some cana seeds, a bit of toilet paper, and an envelope.

Upon arrival in your mailbox:

Roll it up, poke it in the dirt, add some water.

This goes out to Mom. <3

Happy Mothers Day!

For my tape art I wanted to make an abstract-ish, organic shaped painting on canvas but without using paint.

Happy Halloween!

Because of the fact that my nephew isn't allowed to celebrate Halloween and my niece is too far away, I used all of my desire to take them trick or treating into making a nice bag!

I decided to do but at the same time I guess it wasn't. It depends on how everyone views it. I placed this piece on my friend's door, and she also served as my inspiration for this. She has been going through a hard time, and I feel like she's a very colorful person but some people focus on that rather than the very center of it all which is her heart. I decided to make the outer edges her favorite colors which matches her personality, but added the red tape to symbolize the very center of it all as her heart with red tape. I made it radiate throughout and move past the colorful tape to show that to me, her heart shows through it all. She has been through rough times, and often times we have gone through it together and I have seen it all. I've seen her at her strongest, and I have seen her at her weakest and throughout all those times, she has always put her all into it. She has been my inspiration for a lot of my art, and she has been my shoulder to lean on as I am hers. So I decided to go to her place in the middle of the night and leave this for her, and hopefully she will love it!

#FCKTRMP

tape art

so my tape art was inspired by the fact that i couldn't get myself to tape something in public, so i created something that i can put in public. its still public tape art right?

"Fuchsia Lives Matter"

This piece speaks on the "Black Lives vs All Lives Matter" movements.  An individual could take a variety of ideas from this photo.  It speaks on how if everyone's life were valued the same, there would be no need for a black lives matter movement.  It also speaks on how people have begun to humorously claim statements such as, "Minimum Wage Lives Matter".  It could also point out how there is still a difference in the "fuchsia" lives.  I like for my art to speak to everyone.  I also love when art has humor combined with touchy subjects.  This piece could offend or inform.  

Habitable Spaces

This is an artist residency I have had some personal experience with already - not as an artist in residence but as a WWOOF volunteer back in 2012.


This year's call for artists

Situated on a twenty-acre ranch in central Texas, Habitable Spaces is part ecovillage, part organic farm, all art community built basically from scratch by Shane Heinemeier and Alison Ward since 2011.

The residency lasts for three months and provides a rustic one-person cabin built from recycled materials for accommodation.   

Personal Tape Art

These are just some personal art pieces of mine.  I wanted to make new artwork out of some pieces I hated but painting over paintings don't always work, especially since my work always has so much texture.  I took the work and wrapped it in duck tape.  It inspired an entire new series of orange and silver work.  I just thought this would be interesting to share since it was created before the class and the discussion of tape art brought these pieces back to my memory.  They aren't public art though.  

Tape Art

Sketchbook Scotch by Sarrah .Khan

For My Tape Art I decided to add a new look to one of my sketchbooks. It gives it a new and fresh look. I like it...it makes me want to open it up again and draw...a new starting point.