drawing of wayne coyne in ballpoint pen, red nail polish, and those dried out magic markers that you have to dip in water to use.
21 July 2010
The Flaming Lips & Bluesfest
The Flaming Lips at Ottawa blues fest. if you ever get the chance to see them live, do it. i somehow only got one shot of the concert. wayne coyne doing his hamsterball thing.
drawing of wayne coyne in ballpoint pen, red nail polish, and those dried out magic markers that you have to dip in water to use.
drawing of wayne coyne in ballpoint pen, red nail polish, and those dried out magic markers that you have to dip in water to use.
16 April 2010
Nostalgia Ad Nauseum
My final project for 2nd year photography. I went all meta...
This is my statement for the project:
Nina Raginsky is known for her overtly sentimental portraits that evoke nostalgia through their charmingly simplistic framing and subtle sepia toning, referring to portraits from the early years of photography. Each image is thus given a 'cherished memory' quality.
I chose to respond to her nostalgic aesthetic by photographing my old family pictures, embellished with cheesy gold photo corners, in her same stark frontal style; enhancing their aged look by altering their colors to mimic the discoloration of old color prints. With these old photos as my photographic subject, I wanted to speak to the issue of sentimentality and nostalgia in contemporary art, and the tendency to label them as kitschy themes. I referenced the cliche sentimentality of baby pictures and general bad taste of consumer photography in a sort of 'campy' aestheticization of nostalgia.
Looking within the photographic medium, there are inherent connections to notions of memory and loss. Each snapshot was a moment that ceased to be the instant after it was taken, yet is conserved through the image object which also continues to decay. In this way I find that photography, as a medium, tends to idealize the past at least in subtext due to its metaphysically nostalgic nature. And so, perhaps sentiment and nostalgia should not be pushed so swiftly to the realm of kitsch.
This is my statement for the project:
Nina Raginsky is known for her overtly sentimental portraits that evoke nostalgia through their charmingly simplistic framing and subtle sepia toning, referring to portraits from the early years of photography. Each image is thus given a 'cherished memory' quality.
I chose to respond to her nostalgic aesthetic by photographing my old family pictures, embellished with cheesy gold photo corners, in her same stark frontal style; enhancing their aged look by altering their colors to mimic the discoloration of old color prints. With these old photos as my photographic subject, I wanted to speak to the issue of sentimentality and nostalgia in contemporary art, and the tendency to label them as kitschy themes. I referenced the cliche sentimentality of baby pictures and general bad taste of consumer photography in a sort of 'campy' aestheticization of nostalgia.
Looking within the photographic medium, there are inherent connections to notions of memory and loss. Each snapshot was a moment that ceased to be the instant after it was taken, yet is conserved through the image object which also continues to decay. In this way I find that photography, as a medium, tends to idealize the past at least in subtext due to its metaphysically nostalgic nature. And so, perhaps sentiment and nostalgia should not be pushed so swiftly to the realm of kitsch.
09 April 2010
06 March 2010
Collaboration
So me and Alejandro are doing some collaborative work for The New Art Festival that's happening this summer in Ottawa.
These are our application submissions:
We did some inkjet photo transfers onto canvas sheets and used acrylics, marker, and pencil over top.
These are our application submissions:
We did some inkjet photo transfers onto canvas sheets and used acrylics, marker, and pencil over top.
22 February 2010
Travel and Leisure
Two new videos. One is of my Trip to New York with my friends. the other is footage of us building a fort.
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