Self Portrait
Our first project started with everyone's supposed worst nightmare in an art class - self portraits. But as we attempted to do these portraits with a few art tricks we had never tried before and ended up with final results like these.
Bookshelf
So our first and biggest overal goal of the semester this year was to construct a bookshelf, eventually to be filled with books and other things that you put on a bookshelf. But before you can start creating books, you have to make the actual bookshelf.
As for my bookshelf, I attempted to stray away from the typical style and tried to get a feel for own sense of art. My intentions were to construct a rose in the background but things didn't necessarily go as planned. Regardless, I was pretty happy with the final result shown here. |
Surrealism Book
In the time that we've been in school our main focus thus far has been about the topic of surrealism, depicting the inner thinkings of a person and truly expressing one's thoughts. To represent some of this surrealist thinking our class has been creating surrealist books which contain collages, poems, favorite quotes, and even our own favorite representations of surrealism. To see some of the things featured in my book, check out what I have shown below!
The Damn Sheep ThingRight off the bat of looking at this image I would assume the average person is not only confused about what it is, but also where it is. The only thing about is, the questions only grow and remain unsolved the more you examine it. That is the exact reasoning behind why I decided to choose this image to represent my surrealist book, and have it displayed on the front cover. It shows not only a true image of what our imaginations could be, but also allows for whoever looks at it to feel comfortable with feeling uncomfortable, which is exactly what is needed to begin our surrealist way of thinking.
Now the name..? I can't put any other name to it other than "That Damn Sheep Thing". |
Dada PoemFor the poem aspect of the project we had a choice between a Surrealist Format or a Dadaist Format. Both methods included cutting out our own choice of words from a collection of magazines and newspapers, in a similar fashion to making a collage. Now during the process of putting the words on the page determined which format of a poem you did. Shuffling the words around in a bag and picking at random resulted in a Dadaist Poem, whereas picking which words went were considered it to be a surrealist poem.
Personally I chose the Dadaist formatting, and I don't think it could've worked out any better. |
CollageSurrealist art usually involved a clash of two images. In many cases, the purpose was to unveil the thoughts of the unconscious mind and even play tricks and cause illusions while looking at it.
For my collage, I picked images that appealed to me and attempted to make an image that flipped around one's perspective. |
Ode to a Common ObjectThe start of Surrealism came to in Paris, France soon after the 1920's. Latin Americans were influenced by the things going on in Europe and started to crank out works of art and writing. During this a man named Pablo Neruda wrote a book full of poems dedicated to objects he would give an ode to. Many of these wee heavily exaggerated and included very common objects such as socks, and dogs as the focuses for the poem.
Our class was prompted with the task of writing our own ode, attempting to mimic the style of these very over appreciated objects and hopefully create some good pieces of our own. For my personal ode, I wrote about a comb which you can read directly below! |
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Election Box (Measure U)Measure U was the case revolving around dispensaries in the La Mesa area. Regarding a previous ban on them in the past years, Measure U brought the topic back up in hopes of repealing the ban. Voting yes on the matter would result in La Mesa having dispensaries, and voting no would mean everything stays as is.
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