New Flyer, Green Beaners, You’re in the right place !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had class time today to revise our Flyers. Mel and Lee helped me make my flyer on Photoshop, and now I like it even better than before! I’ve printed out five copies to post around campus. HOLLA!  one more class !!!!!!!!

 

IF YOUR HERE TO LISTEN TO MY AUDIO- IT IS BELOW. Make sure you have your headphones and are sitting in the right seat. Enjoy !

the one, the only, green bean project!!

The Green Bean from chelsea young on Vimeo.

FINALLY. After many, many attempts with multiple computers and multiple programs, my Green Bean Project is up.

While sitting in the green bean, looking around, trying to figure out some sneaky cool way to entice my listeners, I drew a blank. It was very hard for me to make an audio recording in observation. I constantly felt like I was playing an audio game of I spy, simply pointing out structures and objects in my surrounding areas.  I wanted my listeners to understand what I was saying, not only to recognize it by vision.

So I began to write my thoughts. As I observed what was going on around me, I described it with the pen and notebook paper I carried into the greenbean. My script is quite random. But these are my thoughts. It’s my hopes that whoever listens can use my description of  the scene to imagine what I was seeing, to hear the door open and close, to hear the singing.

MY FLYER

I really like my Flyer.  I think it gives just enough information and I love the modern feel with the repetition of a single image. Because I hate photo shop and I dont have a Mac,  I used paint (I’m a paint pro). Looks like we are all gonna have to do some work on our banners but I hope to keep mine very similar to what it is now.

For the GreenBeaners

Sit your hinney HERE

If you are a participant in the green bean project, this is your assigned chair! all of our recordings took place at this table.

KEEPER, KEEPER

I didn't draw it but I was with the person that did.

We went downtown one day to begin work on our Green Bean project, but also, we split into pairs and walked about a couple block’s radius from the Green Bean with various colors of chalk. We were looking for intriguing shapes, to use the chalk to sort of “illuminate” the shape we choose. My partner and I had a few good examples, but my favorite (and a great picture taken by Lee) Is the picture above.  To me, it simply makes sense. I think its a great piece. Hard to explain, you, as an artist, should understand.

I can’t wait for it to get warm outside. I have already bought 3 new bathing suits. I’m obsessed.

Isn’t That photo cool?

Green Bean Mini Project

We’ve got our big green bean project coming up. Last Wednesday in class we went downtown to the Green Bean to do a “MINI” project to get a little practice writing and observing, as well as to offer feedback to classmates.

We sat randomly all around the greenbean and observed and wrote for about 20 or 30 minutes. Everyone wrote such different things in such different ways. There are no limits as to how we go about doing this project besides the chair at the Green Bean. I sat in a wooden chair looking out the window closest to the entrance door. I observed all around me and recorded:

A crack in the floor points right to the seat we should be sitting in. This pink bookbag on the floor isn’t mine nor do I know whom it belongs to. I’ve got too much running through my head to sit here and name what I see around me. You see it all too, don’t you? Maybe you did know that there is a big pull down projection screen over the big Green Bean Window. I didn’t. Do things look a whole lot different through the eyes of simply another person? Do you think this old black and white floor used to shine with freshness, kind of like your favorite shoes did, too? In my mind all the men that waslk in wearing suits are weaing leopard g-strings underneath. I’m watching one of them spread cream cheese on his seedy bagel in the spot we should all be sitting in. He licked the knife clean.

I felt better about the ending of mine. I like the way it makes the mind work, Its sneaky.

I really enjoyed reading other people’s short observations as well. Everyone is so incredibly different. I know if we all had this class all year I could have picked out which observations belonged to who.

I’m placing my art in your reading material.

LEE sent us to the library for any 3 books of our choice. Me and Daniel went up to the ninth floor, the highest the elevator would go. I choose 2 books on this floor. NEGOTIATING DEATH was the first. I was intrigued and skimmed slowly through the pages. I believe humans have such strange and dark perceptions of death.

2nd, I picked a book called THE SEVEN SINS OF MEMORY. I picked this one because, I guess because it just sounds interesting, and different.

We moved down to the 4rth floor, were I came upon a small book, I believe written all in russian. I could read a single word. Someone even took little russian notes in this book ! I checked out this book, wishing I could read it. It made me smile.

Our assignment was to create a small collage to fit inside of these books. We would return the books to the library unharmed, but enriched with our very own artwork. I thought- I love. This. Project. I’ve done series’ of small collages and have always thoroughly enjoyed making a new piece of art out of pictures and newspaper and such that don’t belong to me.

Russian Book I Couldn't Read.

Here’s the one I made for the Russian book I couldn’t read. I love the collage, and I really like this picture. I must admit this collage has no direct correlation with the book, I mean, I have no idea what this book is about. The collage is pretty random and hard to understnad too I suppose, you can depict it as you wish. Notice the Russian.

The Seven Sins of Memory

I love this one. I just love the ants. And everything else about it.  I feel like it fits the creepiness of the title very well. No deep, inner meaning in any of my pieces, by the way. I let people create their own meanings.

Negotiating Death

Love this one too, of course. I used the obituaries from a newspaper in the background and covered the foreground with these awkward people with clouds of sadness over their faces. Again, interpret it however you like.

Happy Collage Day !

I could totally see them laying in bed together.

We had a soul mate project probably like a month ago. I swore I posted a blog about it, but then when I was looking today I didn’t see it ! I think maybe the pictures wouldn’t load for me and I got frustrated and stopped/ moved on.

We were asked to bring in a flat, already existing object. A “readymade” I believe. I live in a small space of a dorm room so I didn’t feel I had much to choose from. I believe I made it work wonderfully, however.

My ready made was a clinique fold out brush. So old school. It looks like this:

I went to class READY with my READYMADE.

Lee told us we had to go to the Weatherspoon art gallery and search for the SOUL MATE  of our readymade object. I was a little confused, what if my object’s soul-mate happens to be in the metropolitan? If I were told to go into a room of males and find my soul-mate, what’s the chance that he will actually be there? Sounds fishy. I tried to stay hopeful as the class walked to the museum.

I searched the two big rooms full of most amazing artwork I’d placed my eyes on in a while. You know in a exhibition like that, there was random works  of art everywhere, all different mediums, subjects, and artist.
Some, for a reason I do not know of yet, are simply overlooked and underestimated. I chose on of these as my dear hair brush’s soul mate. It was beautiful. I searched both big rooms. My first roaming I saw a graphite drawing of a flower that looked as if it was made of steel, being held together by screws or nails. Despite the steel’s coldness, the flower had a perfectly beautiful bloom. After looking at all the pieces in the exhibition, I instantly walked back to this piece. It hit me and my brush, we fell in love.

The piece is called Tenth Stone by Lee Bontecou.  I simply believe that this drawing is my brushes soul mate because they are both “flower like” however neither include a single cellulose or chloroplast. They are in a way both “Man-made”  but closely resemble the perfectness of nature.

First project, finally photographed?

Recognize the shapes? I finally took pictures. We made these on the Printmaking machine, it was our first project ! mine turned out very well, a couple are bad photographs but it’s all good. We had to choose 10 shapes to print from the ones we observed. Put them all together and they make a really nice composition. I liked this project because I know and remember what those shapes really were, when other people don’t have a clue where they came from.

PULP FICTION

As soon as the video starts, look at the guy in a tux standing to the left and behind the stage.

Watching the Pulp Fiction movie, there were multiple extras I felt I could have chosen. Some more obvious than others, I chose an extra that plays a smaller role, but is still essential to set the scene. The drunk man in a tux adds to the scene as he sways side to side holding his drink up in celebration. When I imagine the man not there, I feel like the scene would change because he is the only visible person besides the two on stage. The mans short lived character further illustrated the setting and mood of the scene. Without the man, there would be a plain red wall to the left of the dancing couple and it would cause the composition to be unbalanced.