Textiles I love it!

So this was our first project in textiles. The project was plating. It was so easy, really nice break from photo and painting.

Cheese burgers and global warming.. think about it

So my next painting is about all the great things that we eat. More info coming i just wanted to post some quick photos... !!! i've got to get back to work!

Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn | Video on TED.com

Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn | Video on TED.com

Advanced Painting Studio 2

My final semester at ECU. I am currently working on my senior show (eekkk!). Basically, I thought I would start out by posting some of my inspirations for my work and other people that inspire me.

Edward Burtynsky-Currently a photo favorite. His work is "meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. Recycling yards, mine tailings, quarries and refineries are all places that are outside of our normal experience, yet we partake of their output on a daily basis".
Burtynsky is leading me in a photographic direction that I hope to pursue for my senior show. I am obsessed with his compositions as well as his attention to detail.
 http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/

 Jenny Saville- Really inspired by the way she applies paint. Her large canvas and the thick rough textures.
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/jenny-saville/

Jan Saudek- Even though some of his work is extremely out there and sort of vulgar. His older work transcends for me the meaning of darkroom photography. Its eye catching to say the least

Bruce Holwerd- really intrigued by his abstractions of human forms and the surrealism affect portrayed.

Nam June Paik- Really inspired by his "electron superhighway" Which was made to convey Nam's thoughts on the USA. He used over 313 monitors to make this piece. Cycling with  images to the particular area in each state. Really amazing!

Victor Wang- Just found this guy I am enjoying his compositions as well as the textures portrayed.

Landfills

In the past couple of weeks I have become extremely intrigued with landfills. So I decided to create my final project about landfills. My main objective was what a landfill would look like if you cut it in half. How the different layers of trash and dirt would be presented. These two images below show my process. I bought some styrofoam at a craft store. I sectioned it off and cut into it with different tools. to create a dirt like crevice. Then I painted it different shades of brown. All the tiny trash in between the layers are cut up trash that I either rolled or crumbed up. I used hot glue to stabilize it. I am still in the process of creating a transparent layer to go over the top of the box.

Photographic work

My teacher caught me off guard the other day when he asked me to talk about some of my photography work. I didn't really know what to say because I don't really follow a theme. So i decided to post some images of recent and current work.