Caleb G.

 " We now live in a global village…a simultaneous happening…we have had to shift our stress of attention from action to reaction"                                                                           violet. 2025 For the final project, I was inspired by the idea of the "simultaneous happening" when taking pictures while out on the town with friends. I just started taking pictures in the moment with the hope of capturing the feeling of being in that moment. But the longer I worked on this the more I realized I was just reacting to the world around me through the lense of my crappy digital camera. Then I realized people around me were just reacting to the camera and no longer living in the moment of which I was attempting to capture. Overall, I like the print...

      " The mimetic form, a technique that exploited rhythm, meter, and music, achieved the desired psychological response in the listener. Listeners could memorize with greater ease what was sung than what was said" (McLuhan 113). For this assignment, I decided on the delirium I feel while I am working on closing shifts at Walgreens. There is such a repeated rhythm from the beeping of the register to the continuous customer service. This paired really well with the mimetic form with the intended purpose of making the listener feel uncomfortable, annoyed, and/or tired of hearing "Do you have a Walgreens rewards number". This is often how I feel when I am working. I kind of just played with reverb, loops, and effects and honestly, it was pretty interesting seeing what I could do with audio I recorded at work last week.  Walgreens Soundscape

PORT/raits Flickr For this project, I decided to take random photos of friends last week and then I did a studio shoot. I wanted to focus on how both have very different visual styles and effort placed into each of them. The photos I took of my friends out and about was on my small digital camera that I bought for $30 and use when I can't carry an actual camera around. It has a pretty aggressive flash which for a lot of people washes them out in the pictures. I felt like people naturally either smiled or made goofy faces when I used that camera walking around. I also just took some at random and you can tell because some folks look like I set off a stun grenade. The studio shots felt more serious than the random shots outside despite the fact I randomly did it and put little to no thought into the shots. The conditions were very similar but yet the studio shots felt plain and static which made me question the influence of space and how I took the photos. I also probably could'v...

  "The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past"(McLuhan 74) When I saw what we had to do last week for this assignment I was pretty sick and was having a hard time keeping track of time or space. Which led to me filming myself in bed just sleeping at different stages of the day. I boiled that footage down to one minute hopefully capturing the essence of being sick and in delirium with the time. I chose this quote from McLuhan because without reading the book I had decided to make this project about being sick because it was the most recent event that had happened in my life so in a way it felt like McLuhan was right. To me, this time was completely nonlinear, and all over the place which can be perceived differently by different people. Like my roommate who might have experienced the time in a more streamlined or linear way. I boosted the sound of the heater in my r...

 "Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up— that is our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice"(McLuhan 18). When I was a kid I spent way too much time watching TV when other kids were out playing outside I was watching Gossip Girl or some random movie. I spent so much time constantly consuming media and culture that it made me want to create my own. I used to make videos and skits with my cousins where we pretended to have our own movies/Tv shows. As an artist, my development has been driven by exploration. The best way I can describe my process is that I’m “just trying stuff” and seeing what works. Experimentation is my guide, whether that means dabbling in new mediums or refining familiar ones. Photography is a medium I’ve worked in extensively, but recently, I’ve been rediscovering painting (I also have a horrible habit of starting paintings and not finishing them)...

When I was in high school I would collect plastic, mostly trash, to create sculptures that inevitably my mom would recycle because she didn't know what they were or what they were for. I bring this up because I made them with the environment and pollution mainly how much pollution/littering I saw in the city of Chicago in mind. Rebecca Carlton's work reminds me of that era of my work with her focus on looking into the environment but portraying that with ceramics and sculptures. I especially find the birds piece very interesting with the number of the birds holding significance. I also find that the pieces are very approachable and interesting. I am interested to see if she will make a piece focusing on the alarming record-breaking temperatures and the impact that will have on the environment. Also seeing more humanity in the pieces considering humanity causes the issues the birds or other animals are going through. I also would love to take a trip to Door County and see her st...