Art and Technology/ Digital Illustration

             Credits to Fever Beam for the song, who was the band in the brief clip of the video. I looped the song from the clip I had, as well as added some audio effects to the song to give it a different sound and added a few of my own synth notes at the beginning for a bit of an intro. I hope the video feels like an emotion you’ve felt before and will feel again.

       This is my performance art piece that I titled ‘Hands Off’. I like the way that it ended up coming off a bit creepy with the low lighting, almost making the hands look like they were glowing and holding that energy that I wanted to represent. A big thank you to Michaela Dooley for the assistance.

                 In storing my assortment of various hands in a bin in my room, taking them out left them in a sort of crumpled jumble. Somehow this just seemed like it made sense visually. I found Dadaism to be really interesting and freeing in a way, that art can almost be an accident, and not just that it happens to be, but that it is supposed to be. I wanted to see what the hands and arms would look like if I slowly spread them out and they begin to free themselves. It looks like it would have been a struggle, it feels very frantic and like the hands have energy even when they are not moving. Even though in reality it's just a pile of paper, the black and white color scheme along with the image of palms pressed up against glass carries its own eerie emotion with it. In the spirit of things, I felt like I didn't need to confound the energy that was already there by making things too structured or forced. It just exists as what i...

                                   

I knew for this project I wanted to use fabric, because I did a lot of sewing projects throughout  high school  and it’s a  medium  I enjoy. At  first  I  thought  I would cut the fabric into squares, but when I realized I  wouldn ’t be able to bring my sewing machine to work with I switched to cutting the fabric into strips and weaving them together. Weaving is pretty time  consuming   and also  apparently more precise than I remember it being; I ended up having some horizontal strips that weren’t quite long enough. I wasn’t sure what measurements I should have used to calibrate for the fact that the vertical strips would likely have some space between them and move around while I was working. This caused more space than I had measured for to be taken up and all the horizontal strips didn’t quite reach. In a perfect world the measurements would have been  correct, but  take in to account my limited tools a...

      Our process in creating the camera obscura began with covering the floor to ceiling in trash bags. We ended up having to do two layers to make it more opaque, as well as having to cover one of the ceiling lights that couldn't be turned off. Despite the lack of air conditioning in our work area, we managed to create a space with as few light leaks as we could manage.        Once everything was covered, we cut a hole in the bags at the center of the window a few inches across and were a bit shocked when it actually worked and we saw the cityscape sprawled across the wall in front of us. All of the colors on the wall, the darkness of the room, and seeing boats float across the river upside down in real time made it feel almost dream-like. It really felt like we had stepped into a moving picture, and essentially we had.         We played around with being in front of the image to create differing visuals when takin...