Inspirational images

As I've been working on the final stages of my piece I have been having an issue with how to actually making the piece look finished and whole. We discussed today about how to create an environment in which the set looked like it's own entity and did not run into anyone elses work. While I have done a lot of research in terms of the content of my project must admit I have not looked at many images of artists doing similar work to myself.

Tonight I changed that and searched a few different installation type pieces I found inspirational. I'm considering the piece needs a sort of backdrop that will differ it from the rest of the walls in the gallery, however with constraints such as what I am allowed to install on the walls this could potentially be an issue. Some sort of wallpaper could be really interesting, possibly peeling and unfinished looking. Or even a different type of baseboard molding in order to distinguish the small "room" I have created.

Here are a few images now littering my desktop background.One thing we talked about in review was this idea of an organized chaos. Making people feel uncomfortable and the tension of having pieces that look unfinished.

While I believe this is just a staged photograph, the composition as a whole has a nice feel to it. I am loving that wall texture with the cracks, dots, and half paper surrounding the doorway.

This is an interesting piece because the white gallery walls seem to only emphasize the artists work. He/she has used this idea of the "gallery" in their favor rather than trying to alter the space at all.

Sr. Review

Had Senior Review this past Friday (I passed!) and got some excellent feedback. I have a lot to think about but if anything it just made me that much more excited for the show. My committee brought up a lot of good comments about the idea of hierarchy as well as making the piece as a whole look more like "organized chaos" rather than chaotic. There was good ideas shared about how to integrate the type better as well as keeping a certain feeling consistent throughout the piece.

I know I must learn to talk about my work much better. This is a very complex subject I'm tackling, and while I get praise for that it truly means nothing if I can't express what I have to say in a simple manner. On that note as I work on all of the labels for the show with my peers show statements on them..here is mine..

Through out my life, later influencing much of my work, I have always been interested in the human subject. I believe we, as people, are more complex than anyone truly realizes. Through the use of anonymous survey questions, personal interviews, and research, this installation piece represents ideas about human connection and self-understanding.

Typographic statements, fabric swatches, old photographs, and a variety of estranged voices create a living, breathing metaphor representative of the personal layers in one’s life. The mix of media creates a non-traditional type of portrait while the specific subject remains anonymous. The idea of memory and self-discovery challenges the idea of how much we truly know about a person. There is good and bad, fear, secrets, and numerous perspectives to everyone’s life story. We are a culmination of everything we have experienced in our life and that story is worth sharing.