Blog #27, Artist Statement

Redefinition
Recently, I have been interested in creating intricately patterned images from one single image. In order to do this, I have been redefining the subject matter of the image by reflecting it over itself in four ways. The result of these images shows that the subject can translate into different behaviors while still maintaining its original qualities. This process conveys the idea that there are different aspects to every one thing.

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Karen Heald

http://www.karenheald.co.uk/

An artist / filmmaker who is interested in the aspect of time and sleep from a woman's perspective.

She received her PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University.

Her installations deal with emotional responses to her environment.

Where to go next...

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While I was uploading these images...an idea occurred to me. Well, before I say that, let me say that I have decided to go with the suggestion that I received from multiple people: to do a color spectrum (roygbv), so that there is a series of images for each color. This would really help tie the images together and make it appear more as a series.

My idea is this: I just put up two different image series of the same subject (two of the orange and two of the leaf)...MAYBE to further my project, I could show different images of the same subject, as in have four images to work with for each subject so that I have a total of 16 images for each subject. I know a few people suggested that I try to have more than four images...and this could be how I do it! In showing 16 (estimate) images, rather, four variations, the viewer would be able to explore the similarities between the different images...In finding similarities, maybe the viewer would see more that there are like qualities within different images, and there would be more to look at...this could further show that the image maintains its original quality throughout multiple images, rather than just four from one...it would be sixteen from four...hmmmmmmmmmmm. ideas.....thoughts.......!

Paul Sietsema

Born in LA in 1968

Currently lives in LA

Received his BA from UC Berkeley, MFA from UCLA

Photographer who also works with collage, installation, graphite, ink, watercolor, ...you get the idea.

I think some of his works are fun and interesting, and some are rather boring. I really like his mixed media piece Taxi Drawing obviously for the colors and composition! Some of his film photographs are cool, such as Figure 3 (Film Still)...others are boring. His style is very very mixed and varied...sometimes this works, other times it doesn't. In his case, I'm not sure how well it works...

http://www.regenprojects.com/artists/paul-sietsema/

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Challenge: Think of a location that your thesis project could be displayed, exhibited, disseminated, installed, shop-dropped (http://shopdropping.net/), placed, hidden, mounted, projected, inserted, etc. that is outside the traditional gallery setting.
I think it would be interesting for my thesis project to be displayed either in a venue at a concert, or at a music festival just somewhere randomly on a path. It would be appealing to the right crowd and it would be cool to watch peoples' reactions as they walk by. I think in this scene, it would be more likely that people would actually stop to look at the detail in the images. in the venue, it would be nice because there would be walls and there would be more of a way to secure them and make sure nobody disturbed them. The same could happen in a music festival setting, but I feel that I would need to be more creative in how I would secure them and display them...maybe bring a standing wall and display them on it. This could actually be a possibility...as I will be going to a few festivals this summer. It would be really cool to display 10-15 of them all in one straight line on a wall randomly somewhere on the path to a stage or something!


Many artists and photographers hope that their work engages with a larger audience outside of the museum/gallery/art&design school system. Describe how your project relates to a discipline or realm outside of art. For example, does it relate to the ideas learned through the study of human behavior/psychology or perception, preservation of wildlife, technological advancements in engineering, the anthropological study of humans and their relationship with the idea of time, outsider art, visitors to natural history museums, popular media audiences, etc? How might your work engage with this type of viewer if you presented it outside of the gallery context? How might your project engage with this type of viewer within the gallery context?
Whoa, this is quite a question! My thesis relates to self-similarity, and the idea of differences within one thing. I am trying to this what this relates to on a larger scale, outside of the art world...hmmm.
Well, with my thesis, I am trying to show that there is more than one way to look at something...so maybe it could translate into the realm of poetry, in the sense that one single poem can be translated into different meanings...we can get multiple messages from one passage, just as I get multiple images from one image. I think if I presented these works to a poet, he/she may see it as a series of stories or messages...
I believe that this particular viewer would get the same general idea from it both inside and outside the gallery setting. Though if it were outside the gallery setting (in my setting that I so desired above) I believe it would be viewed more as an aesthetic than a meaning...
This may be far fetched, but I tried! This is a really good question..I wish I had a better answer...

Redefinition

I am redefining the subject by reflecting it over itself in four different ways. By doing this I aspire to show that the subject can translate into different behaviors while still maintaining its same original quality. In this, I am showing that there are different aspects to every one thing.