The Expo

Funny how it happens sometimes... Someone has moved my paper to the window side, on the plan that Joey had put up for the exhibition space.
Finally I think it was great to set up my stuff on the windows. It gave another dimention to the work, which was already playing with perspectives.

Thanks to whoever did that!

Final Project

"Colored Perspectives"

Digital photographs

Red, Green and Blue lights

the yellow things in the images are watermarks... yes I decided to start using them! Well, if you think of it this way, blogs are on the internet, and the images that are there are given to the world. I want to avoid the people that "borrow" images and pretend it is their own. But don't get me wrong, I happend to use found images to get inspired with visual representations of a given subject. When images are watermarked people can use it as research, but not as actual images that could be their own. It is just a question of respect and awareness.

Final Project

"Colored Perspectives"

Digital photographs

Red, Green and Blue lights

Final Project

"Local Warming"

Digital Photographs

Red, Orange and Yellow lights

Project : First Photos

These are the best pictures from the first shooting. I have to admit that although they are just experiments, I like them a lot already!

The second session will occur tuesday, I will have a better camera, a bigger frosty window, and a better outfit for the model. I will also try diferent color filters for the lights, although I found it hard to control the lighting, since I did not have a dark room to be working in.

I know that there is a video production room in the building that is pitch-black, but it is reserved for IMCA students. We'll se what happens...

Visit at the Musée d'Art Contemporain

3 influential works

1-
Sylvie Bouchard, La partie quarrée, 1995.
Oil on canvas mounted on board

I think that this painting is full of contradictions. First because of the title is «la partie carrée » but the canvas is circular. I like titles, especially when they create dialogue for the viewer of the peice.

Then there is a man in the center and he looks very surprised or facinated by something, but we do not see what he is looking at. My question is : Is he looking at the viewer (which is in the «real world») or at something else in the universe of the painting that is between the viewer and this character or behind the viewer? This relates to my idea of being stuck behind a computer screen and remote from the world.

Finally the use of colors is the point that I like most of this painting. The artist acheives confusion of the notions of light primaries and pigment primaries in the painting. Knowing that paint normally reacts to pigment primaries, it is facinating to see how the color-mixes give the impression that it is colored light that is applied on the canvas. This relates to my project because I want to play with colored light and the effect that light primaries have on each other in the real world.

The 3 (printing or pigment) primaries merge into one another without being mixed and becomming secondary colors. I think that this is because the colored pigments are juxtaposed (on a small scale) instead of being mixed to attain the in-between colors. The result is a very luminous and ambiguous color effect.

The illustration that I made is successful in showing how her colors worked in the juctions of blue/ yellow and yellow / red that don’t turn into secondaries, but not in the red / blue area in which becomes purple.

Visit at the Musée d'Art Contemporain

2 - Isaac Julien, Encore (Paradise Omeros : Redux), 2003.
Video montage, 4 min. 38 sec.

It is a video that I only saw once as the loop in the projection room is more than an hour long and it is hard to see the same video twice in these kinds of set up.

What I apreciate of this peice is the « Kaléidoscope » effect that is aplied on abstract video sequences. The sequences chosen are appropriate because they are at such a proximity from the subject that the images becomes beautifully abstract, and just facinating to look at.

Again the image beside is just an exercise in trying to acheive the effect that I appreciated in the artwork. The effect would be even stronger if the images were moving. I have chosen this peice because at the beginning I was thinknig of making a video.

Visit at the Musée d'Art Contemporain

3 - Sylvia Safdie, Earth Marks n°1, 1997.
Linseed oil and soil on translucent polyester film.

This peice is a series of 3 Earth Masks. I like trios in general because they tend to convey the idea or the sensation of the artwork in a way that is rarely acheived in a single peice.

What I like of this/these peice(s) is the play between the transparency of the surface(translucent polyester film) the oil (mixing agent) and the opacity of the earth (used as pigment).

The presence of a character is felt, but not figurated, as it is just an antropomorphic form in oil and earth.

I would like to reach this effect of a form that is more felt that seen. Materiality of the female body (earth) hidden behind a screen of light and technologies…

Project : Proposal

b) Project Proposal

My idea is to represent the screen as a boundary between the real world and the digital world. I think that it is important to consider the computing power that is produced by our mental activities in relation to the human body.

The process involves making an installation, having the model sit on top of the « stage », having their picture taken digitally (6-7 times) and then re-aranging them in Photoshop. The end result will be a series of 6 or 7 digital prints in a rectangular shape that has screen proportions.

This is obviously not usual 2D design, but it can be understood as a mixture of «set design » to build the physical stage, light arrangements and « graphisme » to re-frame the images and play with them. It is really a multimedia design.

I plan to put a human model (female, nude) on top of a semi-transparent « screen » of glass or plexyglass. I will try to emphasize the light/shadows of the model’s body by lighting the scene from different angles and with different colored lights. The room should be pretty dark in order to acheive interesting « clair – obscur » effects.

I am thinking about teaming up in order to share the workload, although I don’t have a partner at the moment, so it might not work.

Project : Color study

I will attain the diferent colors by lighting the body (fllesh color in the center) with diferent colored lights. From my eperience in 3D, I think that a mixture of white, orange and blue light would be interesting.

Complementary colored lights produce a white light when they meet. I find it interesting to play with physical light in order to observe how additive color theories work in the real world.

The test page

I have used mostly paint and merker paint to experiment with expressive colors. Here is the research page, although most of the research happens in the layers underneath.

emotions as colors

paint

Beleive it or not this goes from yellow to blue. When scanned, the blue turns out black... I don't understand.
The second image is a detail of the purest blue. You can see a couple of blue points around the edge, it is the color that should be filling the square. I have tried to increase saturation and stuff, but I just couldn't manage to make it look right.

Re-scanned paint

AH-HHA!

MMMuch better!

Whole Thing... My Place (ideal version)

I have just put it together quickly, with the 8 individual scans. At some points they don't exactly match, but I think it is important to show the whole thing.

Note> the stripes of black tape represent walls, yellow tape; window.

This plan is still just a project. I will have to work hard to convince my boyfriend to have it built!