4.01.2010
3.31.2010
Idea/Word of of the day: Artifact
According to the Historical Society, an artifact is an item/object that is over 100 years old. I want to work with artifact photographs and compile new works through appropriating old family photographs. I plan on using photographic means of appropriating the photos.
What else is considered an artifact?
"art" i "fact"
I have a ton of baby pictures from when I was less than a year old that had survived the flooding of the basement numerous times, however, the pictures have rainbows of water damage flying across them, blocking out faces and just looking cool. I was thinking about appropriating these into a piece. These photographs, because of what they've been through, are, in my opinion, artifacts.
My younger sister and I were at our family farm, which is itself an artifact (ca. 1830), and at the bottom of a drawer in an antique dresser in the guest room, my sister found an envelope with Victorian Era "wedding pictures" inside...she starts flipping through the pictures when all of a sudden I hear her SCREAM!! The pictures were not wedding pictures, but a Victorian porno with the images numbered in order of the "plot" which was that of honeymoon sex. Hilarious. That I am sure would be worth some money, and I was thinking about appropriating it..somehow...
What else is considered an artifact?
"art" i "fact"
I have a ton of baby pictures from when I was less than a year old that had survived the flooding of the basement numerous times, however, the pictures have rainbows of water damage flying across them, blocking out faces and just looking cool. I was thinking about appropriating these into a piece. These photographs, because of what they've been through, are, in my opinion, artifacts.
My younger sister and I were at our family farm, which is itself an artifact (ca. 1830), and at the bottom of a drawer in an antique dresser in the guest room, my sister found an envelope with Victorian Era "wedding pictures" inside...she starts flipping through the pictures when all of a sudden I hear her SCREAM!! The pictures were not wedding pictures, but a Victorian porno with the images numbered in order of the "plot" which was that of honeymoon sex. Hilarious. That I am sure would be worth some money, and I was thinking about appropriating it..somehow...
3.28.2010
Contemporary Brazilian Photography
I checked out
Novas Travessias; Contemporary Brazilian Photography, by Maria Luiza Melo Carvalho.
ISBN#1-85984-963-6
A collection of Contemporary Brazilian Photographers which began as an "open-ended research venture, with the intention of encouraging a dialogue." It is a beautiful collection of works which are each unique yet they all cohesively unite and portray an inside look into contemporary culture of Brazil through the eyes of her Photographers. Published in London:1996.
Patricia Azevedo
"Working in the darkroom, exposing sections from many different negatives (often from historical as well as her own photographs), Azevedo builds up her images over a period of many hours, sometimes days, only seeing what she has produced when the photographic paper is finally immersed in developer. This technique (imagine drawing in complete darkness) generates dreamlike images about history, memory, imagination and intuition.(http://www.juliangermain.com/projects/patricia-azevedo.php)"
Walter Firmo
Eustaquio Neves
Novas Travessias; Contemporary Brazilian Photography, by Maria Luiza Melo Carvalho.
ISBN#1-85984-963-6
A collection of Contemporary Brazilian Photographers which began as an "open-ended research venture, with the intention of encouraging a dialogue." It is a beautiful collection of works which are each unique yet they all cohesively unite and portray an inside look into contemporary culture of Brazil through the eyes of her Photographers. Published in London:1996.
Patricia Azevedo
"Working in the darkroom, exposing sections from many different negatives (often from historical as well as her own photographs), Azevedo builds up her images over a period of many hours, sometimes days, only seeing what she has produced when the photographic paper is finally immersed in developer. This technique (imagine drawing in complete darkness) generates dreamlike images about history, memory, imagination and intuition.(http://www.juliangermain.com/projects/patricia-azevedo.php)"
Walter Firmo
Eustaquio Neves
3.13.2010
Idea: James Branch Cabell-Special Collections room at the VCU Library
For my Va Hist class we attended a lecture at the special collections room at the Cabell Library. They have a whole special collections of historic documents, maps, books, memoribilia, and even artifacts etc from the history of Richmond and Virginia. They even had an entire "period" room dedicated to author James Branch Cabell, a local of Richmond, and whom the VCU Library is dedicated and named after. The room is a "period" library containing the entire personal library of J. B. Cabell, which include many literary classics read by Cabell and an entire collection of Cabells books.
Cabell was known as "Richmond's Tolkien" and a wrote a series of books based upon a fictional land in medieval France known as "Poictesme (pwa-tem)" The library room also has a collection of Cabell's furniture, writing desk, smoking table, etc.
The amazing thing about this room at the library is students are able to access all of these resources, with supervision, for research. A student can look at and access the private library of James Branch Cabell. Cabell has a collection of books surrounding the occult which I am interested in looking at.
Also the prospect of getting to hold and touch the actual item/artifact is interesting.
Cabell was known as "Richmond's Tolkien" and a wrote a series of books based upon a fictional land in medieval France known as "Poictesme (pwa-tem)" The library room also has a collection of Cabell's furniture, writing desk, smoking table, etc.
The amazing thing about this room at the library is students are able to access all of these resources, with supervision, for research. A student can look at and access the private library of James Branch Cabell. Cabell has a collection of books surrounding the occult which I am interested in looking at.
Also the prospect of getting to hold and touch the actual item/artifact is interesting.
Lecture: Sanford Biggers
http://www.sanfordbiggers.com
Sanford Biggers' work is a culmination of sculpture, video, music, performance, and graphic design. His works communicate the voice of the African American with a full range of emotions from dance to lamenting song. his work combines American popculture, hip-hop, African culture, with a slight Japanese influence as well. Biggers' uses strong symbolism and icons to communicate social realities. Biggers artworks are also a melting pot of spirituality and philosophic ideas has gathered traveling all over the world. He also likes to "recycle" previous artworks transforming them into newer pieces.
Biggers had designed a break dance floor which he filmed the dancers from above. He melted down a boombox to represent the death of hip hop. Biggers also melted down hip hop jewelry to make singing bells to commemorate the dead ancestors of hip-hop.
He is currently being commisioned
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