museum visit!!

Last weekend I went to MOLA museum in long beach. What I caught my attention was the kind of work in the museum, it was divided into 2 sections a gallery with latin American abstract art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros collecion; and another with projections, photographs and drawings all with a political concept. The abstract work didn't really exited me, it consisted of geometric abstraction. One of the pieces that I found to be the most interesting was a installation by Javier Tellez "la ultima cena" the last supper. Tellez compares institutions to exhibition spaces such as zoo, circus, or museums. The video begins with a wide shot of men eating in a horizontal long table just as the very known epic scene of Jesus and the 12 disciples. A woman singing in the background. The video was done in a mental hospital in Venezuela. It was so moving to me. The woman sings in tongues and spanish she says: "I would sing this song to my mother, in this turbulent reality that I don't know if is real or not, but even if I die to my mother I will sing." It made me think of the sanity of the world, I wished this world was one big mental institution. Is our reality "real"??? is disturbing to think that my reality is molded or altered by who controls me. Who controls me?? I think I do, but I don't think I'm right.. perhaps my family, my friends, my country, my husband, my children??.... so I felt sorry for myself, I was watching a video of a patient in a mental institution that was singing to her mother and what controlled her was her brain nothing else, she was free, thats what I felt from the video, carefree individuals that knew were being film but not really knowing what's going on. I don't often feel like that, I don't feel free in this free country... I envy the reality of the insane.

Mark Bradford

I saw a brief documentary about this artist, he works with collages and installations that deal with economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public spaces that emerge within a city. A quote I i took from the interview that simply explains the kind of artist he is was " My practice is décollage and collage at the same time. Décollage, I take it away; collage, I immediately add it right back." I enjoyed his explanation of the projects and the way he works. he said his he likes to overwhelm himself with work, to have details that will make him slow down to hear the quite voice in his head, that can be overpowered by the loudness of everything around him. He told a story of his childhood when he would go with his and buy a barbie, ken and take them to school to show his classmates and professor during a "show and tell".. it wasn't correct for a boy to put together these objects it made him realize it was about independence, about doing your own thing. And that’s a state of mind. It’s not an artwork or a book. stay tune I will keep writing about this artist...

what Im doing!!!!

well, Im stuck I'm looking and looking and looking for something to inspire me but nothing is doing the trick.. what is an artist to do??.. I guess it will come to me.

Question

I'm creating a maquette!! But I need plastic toys, (people, houses, trees ect.) if you guys know of places where I but these please reply.. I tryed toy stores, craft stores and even party supply stores.. but no luck. Thank you

Idea for next project

I had a couple of ideas for the final project, but I found a particular one to have the most potential. The concept is basically to construct a exaggerated “reverse world”. What do I mean by this? I want to create a kind of a “big map” in which we see different scenarios, or maybe different scenes. (possibilities: parks, beach, suburbs , nightclubs, wedding receptions, reunions, sport s est. ) I haven’t decided if I want to use people in a collage form or cut outs from magazines. The “reverse world” will basically be a parody of my perspective in how the world is. Some examples of my world are: the beautiful will envy the ugly, the ugly will be the beautiful, heterosexually would be the taboo, the world is made for the physically disable, the weak will be the strong.. est. Let me know if you have any ideas to improve my vision. ..

Kelly Nye (Creme de peche)

Yesterday I went to an conventional opening show by a metal sculpture jewelry MFA candidate at CSULB Max L. Gatov gallery. It was a fashion show... it consisted of felt pieces and metal in unconventional places,( skirts, bra pieces, shoes). It was fun to watch however, the artist didn't post an artist statement, no one seem to notice it... there were wax cupcakes along the run way. I made a relationship between the "junk food" (cupcakes) and the choice of making it a fashion show... maybe a subtle criticism of the irony of cupcakes in a runway where being slim is a "requisite". The felt pieces were worn what seem to me like underwear for 1600 century, the choice for the name of the show was french and the program pamphlet was also in french, it also looked like a menu... well that's it.

Anna Sew Hoy

I saw the weekly speaker again this last Wednesday. She is a contemporary sculptor an works with ordinary objects that are manipulated. She transforms a recognizable object into something new and almost unknowable. There was really nothing exiting about her speaking about the work.

Evaluation

What were your strategies?

The strategy that was most useful to me was to write or sketch any idea that seemed useful or that had potential.

Experimenting with ideas by having as many shots as possible, not having in mind the result.

An initial idea can turned into something completely different, but it’s also important to gradually change directions, and have patience.

What could be better?

Time managing is the best way I can improve my work.

Revising work before submitting.

How can this be improved?

Giving myself deadlines, is the best way to improve the finish product.
Asking other to revise work for me, because we all can omit obvious mistakes.

How do you go about making your art?

I rely heavily in social and political aspects. I observe and question everything. When I feel that an idea can turn into a potential conceptual art piece I elaborate from that point. I like to make the viewer aware, I’m not interested in my art to entertain or to please or for it to be eerie, I’m conscious that my art can provoke any of the above, but my interest is primarily social awareness. (to make the viewer think)

I always construct my work from a conceptual idea, and subsequently I think of a creative way of transmitting that into an art piece.

Im so tired of furlough days. We have to come up with a better idea to fix the budget crisis!! it's not fair