Statement

I am interested in the absence and presence of the tangible. My work is influenced by mortality and my genuine response to loss, and celebration of life. Through the use of a minimal formal language, I manipulate parts of organic patterns to create a unified composition. Using this visual language I strive to show how delicate existence is. I work methodically in choosing palette, paper, and process.

some work

Response 3

In the collection of essays written y Bourriaud he argues that relational art privileges intersubjective relations, In his comparison and description of Tiravanija, he insist that “the viewer by physically present in a particular situation at a particular time” This to me is an interesting opinion to read, especially when you compare the other essay written about Transaesthetics, in the paragraph about technology, I enjoy the questions posed that allow us the artist to really think about what our art is saying by the methods and mediums we are using!

How can we learn to live with technology? For me that is how my art always starts out, I am using a digital HD way to capture images and transform then by using another form of technology, photoshop, from there I take a more historic form of art, printmaking, and create simplistic images that represent beauty.

“ In all era's artist have used tools to at hand to make their art” I feel that this statement as of today has stood true up until more recent times. With artist such as koons, and hurst there idea is there and the technology that is used to make it is done by a human hand but not always by the hand of the artist. And this can raise a new question along side “what challenges does it present?” The idea that the art is not made by the artist is a larger scale issue or is it? Is it okay or necessary to have “minions” to create your work? Can you just be the visionary? Or, is by the artist not making his or her own work make everyone the next Steve Jobs? Can you have the idea, surround yourself with smarter, and more talented people then yourself to get the jobs or ART done exactly how you intend it to be made? I feel that all of these questions make up more questions which I am okay with! I also feel that as a printmaker who uses technology to create pre work, there is still that element that Tiravanija says the viewer is able to be physically present. And as an artist you can have that ahhhaa moment. “ I do not want to do an interactive work, I want to do an active work. To me, the most important activity that an art work can provoke is the activity of thinking.”  

NON Fine Arts!

First Talk-

Is this a rorschach test? That was the first response to abstracted shapes using black and white as colour, this was my pre pre work and it made me think maybe I can never use black and white! But maybe I will be able to later on?

Second talk-

Actual Physical work is present – Love the space used and the shapes, they started talking about the idea of hard lined edges floating in the space and how it gives it a maybe surrealist movement? He enjoyed the ambiguity of the shape, but thought there could be more! Then after that deduction he gave me an idea that started with Abortion! I found that to be a scary topic that I am not sure I want to take on! So literally the rest of the day I racked my brain fro ideas and thought and how could someone see that imagery with this work? So I thought back to my original ideas of womanhood and being a woman and feminism, all which I think are not really what I am talking about! Then I started to think about How can I get a group of people to Love, understand and appreciate prints for what they are and not always trying to change them! I feel that it is my duty to make people understand why this is just as beautiful of a medium as painting is! And not ask the age old question, why printmaking? Though my second visit with a non FA member made me a bit confused with the whole Abortion idea it also helped me to understand what passion is! And what having a goal or a genuine feeling can do to a work and to the viewer.  

In Process

Studio Visit

My Studio mates were, Kat, Paul, Sean, and Jack. I was unfortunately Not that prepared which was upsetting, but I talked with my class mates about my ideas, thoughts, and what I wanted to get done! I feel with What I told them That I was going in a good direction! Also I did enjoy visiting with the other students, once my group was done I joined another group just to listen and throw in some feedback.

LATE..sorry

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Amanda Jones

Response

Thesis

September 2011

Response to the art of mechanical reproduction

Written at a time when Adolf Hitler was already Chancellor of Germany, it was produced, Benjamin wrote, in the effort to describe a theory of art that would be "useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art"

I do enjoy this particular writing by Benjamin, though the part I was most interested in was the preface and the Section about Printing. In response to these words I have 2 feeling toward printing what what can be made of them. 1. I feel that multiples and reproduction of prints can be very useful such as in book arts, also in the idea of people owning multiple prints. My second opinion on Printmaking and what it can be used for is creating a work of art the exact way you want it. I feel that it is no always necessary to create multiples in works of art and you do not have to do such thing to make a great printed work of art. I also feel that as a printmaker there is a certain skill level that is needed and a certain way to be, such as having a bit of OCD, to make these particular types of works.

My thoughts on the direct quote about via wikipedia also tells me a lot about what walter benjamin wanted to talk about. Being under the rule of hitler walter must have felt it necessary to write the way he did and the topic he did. Was it important at all? I understand that this work had crossed over many people and has had a lot of talk about it, but if it was not for hitler would that have been possible? Would it have been written this way? I think these are also valid questions.

Barthes/Sontag/Foucault

Amanda Jones

Barthes/Sontag/Foucault

Thesis

Wyshock

“It is only the shallow people who do not judge be appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

• Oscar Wilde

This quote is the opening to Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag for me the three reading have everything to do with this quote. After reading the three essays about authorship and the importance or non importance of it, I fell that there is a inherent need to know what it means, who did it, where did they come from, there is no real reason to have the knowledge other than personal gain. In the quote by oscar wilde we are people of judgement and it is in out nature to make a label on an abject weather it be a piece of art, such as a painting for photograph, or a literary piece of work and anything that stands up on its own and says this is what I am saying. I feel that as humans we can not help but make this “judgement”,though there are the “shallow” who believe that it is wrong.

The other reading's The Death of the Author, and What is an Author? Made me think of what is the point of having an author because once you take it away it is still the same piece. The only difference is the desire to know. This Summer I read a book called The Help in the book the young girl decides to write a book about the Help in Jackson, Mississippi and there point of view, it is written during the segregation laws therefore it is a dangerous task that is being undertaken. In the end it is a anonymous book that is published and has one piece of info that the protagonist would only know. Before it is read she tells the town it is about there city and all of her white friends with help when she reads the secret info she turns her ideas that the book is about Jackson around. So that she is not exposed. To me this book is a perfect example of how obsessed we are in finding out the truths and having knowledge that was not granted to us. I am noticing that as I write this response I understand that it is not always necessary to read into a work so deep that you then almost destroy the piece for yourself, there is no real emotion or connection to the work. My final thoughts of the three essays are, that it is a gift to not have all the answers in front of you, and though I do believe it is important interpret I also believe that it is important to let the nervous and new ideas come at you in a genuine way, not forcing something that is not there.