HW

Proposal

The idea of completely releasing the information that we have accumulated throughout our years from our mind bodies is a concept that has different derivatives and is a common theme among my many interests. For this semester I would like to finally create a project where my images are purposefully constructed to where they have an archival feel but belonging to an archive that does not make sense to our own emotions, familiarities, and opinions.

I would say that this project is rooted from my own discomforts or realizations of how I once knew things and then having my mind been blown away by the different cultures, subcultures, habits, traditions, and mindsets.

It’s about culture shock.

This project is about stepping outside of the realms of earthly knowledge and allowing one’s self to create a new foundation for what is habitual.

Light years

Light Years takes you on a journey physically and mentally.

• · The beginning of the exhibit starts off with dry art that is most likely art made for artists.
• · It starts to bring you in when you get to nook painted grey, (because Francesco Clemente wanted his pieces to be in a grey painted room) “Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)”by Baldessari gets the you involved by physically looking at each image to see which one was the closest.
• · Then there is the dark hall way that was purposefully gutted out to show where the crates would have been stored puts you in between the walls of destroying a building.
• · Then you are challenged to find the “Invisible” piece.
• · After, you go to the room where there is a slide show of a full tray of slides. Standing to try and see all the images was the hardest part of the journey.
• · After, the blarring sound of film projectors, uncomfortable feeling that you will knock one over, and accidently stepping into the light, you enter a optical illusion with Baledessari, Ger Van Elk, and Giulo Paolin.
• · You are starting to get into work that is not just made for the artist, and the rooms are filling up.

The work is strategically and cleverly placed.

• · Portrait as a fountain across from Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts
• · California placed in a perfect line at eye level and directly behind the other Baldessari but in a separate room
• · Sol Lewitt piece of the triangle tryptych next to the Valie Export
• · Christopher Boltanski next to Alighiero Boetti.