SMP Critics

Rhina- Rhina's work was a sculpture built out of multiple sized rectangles which worked together to created a space or almost grid-like area around them. She used the color red to highlight and accentuate these rectangles and draw the viewer in. One of the main points brought up during her critic was on the directional lines within the piece. There was this whole discussion about how the lines draw you in, but then they don't extend back outwards and don't allow a continuity. A lot was discussed about how Stella and some other artist who's name starts with M, and my minds completely blanking on it for the moment, was meant to influence her work and in what ways.

Ashley- Ashley's work consisted of three distinct works that didn't share much in common aesthetically or in form, but where connected through subject matter. The most extensive of her works was her button collection. There was a brief discussion about how her paper shadow-boxes didn't really work well towards accentuating the work, and how the work itself came from her memory or imagination in terms of the type and form of the buttons showing up. One of her other pieces that didn't seemed to be as problematic as the other two was her spoons piece. This piece seemed pretty straight forward and within context. Her oil can piece though brought out a whole other set of issues since the size of the piece didn't really play into our associations with oil cans and initially the piece was mistaken for a muffin try, which it happened to be made of, and a collection of hangers.

Tom- Tom's work seem to undergo the least amount of critiquing. There was some discussion on whether or not he should enlarge his photo book or if he should leave it in its smaller size. The rhythm and spacing of his images within the book was also discussed. There were some places where the subject matter of the photos drew the viewer in more so then others and this effected the pace of the whole overall book.

Vanessa- Vanessa had her fox thing going on, but rather then depicting her foxes in her usual hunting scenes she uses the character of a fox to poke fun at Cosmo. and context by which it is viewed by girls and women alike in today's society. To do this she uses her fox character as someone that takes the messages of Cosmo. all to seriously, and ends up following Cosmo.'s four tips to success, or whatever. In the end all this tips backfire on the fox just in time for fox to receive the next edition of Cosmo. and make all the same mistakes over again.

Postcard Plan

So for my postcards I have decided I'm going to be doing a series of three postcards, each of which will be connected to a verse from Edgar Allen Poe's poem Dream-Land. I decided on Dream-Land because it is a poem about a dream-like landscape that reminded me a lot of a creepy version of Historic St Mary's City. With this in mind, I decided that I was going to create a series of postcards that take the form of a dream-like journey between the St Mary's landscape at the time of Caecilius Calvert and Anne Arundel and the St Mary's Landscape today. In order to do this I'm going to take pictures of the current St Mary's landscape and overlap them and change them to come up with a different landscape that is reminiscent of the one we are familiar with but that at the same time is completely different and almost unfathomable in it placing in time and context. Into these landscapes I will incorporate and scan images from both the past and the present, interacting in surreal like ways.

Here are the sketches of my initial plans, unfortunatly my roommate's scanner does not really like pencil, but the basic idea is still there.