ivan navarro

Ivan Navarro, Death Row, 2006

book assignment:

so, for the book project, i have been focusing on the idea of lack of real connection and communication between people having to rely on machines vs actually being with the person. i feel sometimes it is as if the machines are playing a mean joke, having human qualities, but still actually just being a machine, and therefore the people relying on machines never get a real sense of connection. i have encountered this in more than one way over the past month.

for my project, i am going to make portraits of telephones that have been purposefully broken as an attempt at regaining control over the alienating effects that some machines induce.

artist you should love:
ivan navarro, whose work i saw over the summer at the venice bienalle in the chilean pavilion. he uses lights as a reference to human life/energy. death row is made only using one light in each of the coffin-shaped rectangles.the lights that trail back are an optical illusion, created with mirrors. when looking directly into the doors, your reflection hits it and you become a part of the piece, moving darkness, surrounded by infinite light.
i am amazed and obsessed with his work; you should be too.





http://www.chilepavilionvenicebiennale.org/thresholdsoglia/

This is a video that I took, maybe it well better explain his piece.

mammaw's

I recently had to make a trip to West Virginia, where my grandmother lives, because my family got news that she had a stroke. Unfortunatly, she passed away. I decided to take pictures of her home, in which she lived as a widow for 20 years, but was constantly visited by family and friends. She was still very active in her community and helped my uncle out at his antique shop all the time. This home was built by my uncles, grandfather and father. A lot of memories are there.
Hope you enjoy these snippets into my mammaw's life

multiples assignment

I wasnt able to make last critique, but this is what I made. i didnt photoshop anyone to be floating, i asked the models to jump, fall back, lay down, or sit in a chair to get the shots, and then reworked the composition of the frame.  i wanted these pictures to have a dream-like feel to them, with the subjects representing a state of mind of the anxieties, freedoms and restrictions found in my mind every day. 

please let me know what you think since i wasnt able to be there for critique! 

thanks

 

multiples project

what ive been doing with my time lately..
finished product will be in a diptych format, more colors, and will have a male model in the opposite frame, in similar positions.
what do you think?

come to this show!! saturday sept 4 7-10pm!

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the woodwork

photo i took in downtown tampa the other day for my friends in a band called the woodwork

other notes on the multiples project

to see the whole thing, i think you have to click on the picture

i saw this artist in venice at the biennale this summer, her name is anju dodiya and this was her first attempt at printmaking. this particular piece is titled, "the seasons"

i am in love with this work and its a good example of a triptych

i know its big but it has a lot of detail!

this is a really interesting way to interpret some of the things that have been swishing around in my brain about my next photo project (multiples).
i want the pictures to be dreamlike, with an interesting use of body composition, elements of symmetry using the diptych format and have extraneous objects layered in at a low opacity level to give some variation in color since id like to take them in the studio. to make the pictures more dreamlike, id like to make them looks like they were taken in a room filled with dust just as the light shines through; little dots to soften the image.
i want my pictures to appear as if the person in them is floating in the air, but i dont think i want them to look like they are actually photoshopped to be floating. thats what i like about the angle in which this is shot. just changing the direction of the picture gives it a totally different feel. i love the use of water as an element. the reflections make it more surreal
the lighting on this piece is really nice also, it highlights the legs really well
iheartmyart:
Nils Riedweg