Caleb G.

  It was a really good experience getting a book made with photos I took over the term. It was really hard arranging the pages and picking the colors but I just threw a bunch on the pages and just moved them around until they made sense. They all have similar themes that tie them together whether it was photos of trans/queer folks or mother/son duos. Either way, I am proud of the book and wish I was able to bring it to the class but unfortunately, it arrived a week late. I think I might start making cheap books of photo series I do from now on because it's nice to have them all contained in one book that you can flip through. It was nice looking at other examples of books because it opened up the possibilities of really creating whatever I wanted.

 " 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...

    This installation is the combination of 2 projects I had been thinking about doing for a while. The first is an exploration of emotion, especially in how we mask them. The other was an exploration of the body and its form. So, for these cyanotype prints on muslin, I made body prints of my body and a couple of my friends. Then I did a second print on where the face would be with a mask of emotion. I also liked the idea of just hanging these up like they are drying on a wire. I also played with how I arranged my limbs on the prints which some came out successful and others did not. I found it interesting to look at a print that I made with my body but not necessarily see a body right away having to sit for a time to figure out what is going on. Overall, the questions I thought about a lot while doing this were what do you see and How do you feel? These are things I suggest thinking about while looking at the piece. The prints definitely came out differently than how I was ex...

 David Hammons was born in Springfield, IL in 1943 and later moved to Los Angeles to study art. He primarily creates pieces that are influenced by African American culture. Many of his pieces are made from things he found in his community. He also created the African American flag which represented African American culture is American culture. He goes against the grain when it comes to conventional art practices and does things in his own "radical" way. I appreciate seeing black artists portraying the culture in a way that I don't know I would have ever done before. Using hair or bottle caps or wire to create these pieces.    Powerpoint

                                                                     For my final installation project, I've finally finalized it down to one project instead of the initial 3 I had when I first proposed the projects. I settled on the larger-scale cyanotype prints that I want instead of just mounting them on a wall I want them to hang like sheets hanging outside to dry. With the addition of blue lights possibly using gels and a couple fans to have the prints lightly billowing in the wind. I also settled roughly on the subject matter of the prints. I decided to continue a project I started last year looking at emotion and how many of us put on a mask that hides our true feelings. Plus I wanted to through some landscapes possibly on the walls of whatever space I might be in. Below are som...

  For the final project, I came up with a few project ideas because I struggled with making one single definitive decision. I have them in order of how much I want to do them. Cyanotype Project- My top choice is creating large-scale cyanotypes with other prints that supplement the cyanotypes. I plan to experiment with the subject matter a bit. I also wanted to do the project in an environment where I could play with the lighting and also utilize sound to create a sensory environment. Also, most of the art I do is fairly small in size so this will allow me to create some larger pieces.                           Harry Potter Door- The second option that I am also interested in is filling the space under the stairs with a bunch of photos. Possibly of the house or people or anything. I also would like to involve sound and light in this project as well. The issue with this project was that it is off campus and I wanted my...

  I started by looking at different small spaces which led me to take pictures in a drawer filled with these little animal figurines and a lighter so I thought first what if I put the lighter in the fireplace and take a photo.  Then I started taking photos of the little animal figurines looking at how their small sizes looked in different spaces around the house. I was going to take them on an adventure but didn't go out this weekend.  I started in the library with an up-close photo and then a zoomed-out photo highlighting the small size of the figurines.                                                                                                                       then o...