book.ideas

My love for casey

i really love casey k johnston alot, its like a bowl that never ends but you wish it would but it just DOESNT! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

STRESSED!

i guess i didn't realize what having six classes actually means...and does. which way is go. where is stop. is there a stop? doesn't feel like it. the world is spinning around me. i'm missing out. i need to think. there's no time in the day.

Oliver Herring

rather than being interested in the connection anyone else has with his work, Herring is most interested in the interaction between him and his subject. by asking these young men to sip on food dye and spit in all over themselves; their face, clothes, etc., he is asking them to trust him. to step outside of their boundaries and trust that what he is doing, and what they are doing, is the right thing. It is a very odd request to photograph someone after they have spit food dye out of their mouth, but this is his medium. this is his way of painting. his way of bringing color and life into his works. Everyone has their own interests and points of views, for Herring, his interests are color and vulnerability, the kind of vulnerability one looks for in relationships, that personal connection everyone thrives for in another person.

Abedini Reza & Saed Meshki

Abedini Reza
While Saed Meshki distorts a lot of his images, dirtying them up and playing with borders; Abedini Reza uses a lot of negative space. The main focus on Abedini's work is not on the image exactly, but seems to be more about the text and typography, and the way he can incorporate these texts into the simple images that he has. I like his use of negative space because it makes me look at the work in a different way. Normally when you look through a book, you don't really pay attention to the detail each letter is made with, or the way in which the letter work together to form a word. Here Abedini is making a point, not necessarily looking at the word, but at the letters themselves. I really love the way Saed Meshki takes the idea of certain images, such as a portrait, and distorts the image and the idea so it is seen in a totally and completely different way.

Arturo Herrera

gives a different life to images. mainly working with abstract photographs of his drawings or paintings, Herrera leaves the bulk of his work up to chance. after taking these photographs he places the film in water, and leaves it up to the water and the film to decide how the photograph is going to turn out. by incorporating all of these abstractions into one piece, he is leaving the meaning and experience up to the viewer, the most important aspect of art. His idea of chance and the emphasis of process over product reminded me of the early artists from the 60s, where they rebelled against the ideas of traditional art and brought a new art form upon themselves. I hope I can incorporate some of these abstract ideas into what I want to do.

Tom Scott

I don't know how many times I have gone to the beach and just sat on the shoreline, and watched the water move into different shapes, and dismissed it as nothing more than abstract shapes. Tom Scott sees these shapes as more than just abstraction. He interprets them into what he believes the sand becomes, once the water has taken its course with it. By capturing these instances, Scott is taking something as common as sand and water and turning it into evidence of art. Evidence that the earth itself creates these images. What I really enjoy about each of these photographs is that they can be more than just what he interprets, they can be anything to anybody with an imagination.

instant of grace

When thinking about being able to design and write my own book, i was really excited, but overwhelmed with so many different ideas in my head. the first idea to came up, right away was to create a book about my family. family is one of the most important things to me in my life and earlier in last year, a dear family member was diagnosed with alzheimers disease, it was at this time that i thought about how important memory really is. when you think about how quickly time moves and how many things that have happened to you will at some point slip from your memory. i wanted to do something for my grandparents, so why not give them a book. a book that can be passed down throughout generations. and then i thought, well i have two sides of my family; dad's side and mom's side. so do i have to make two books? well no, what if i combine the books into one. See here is where i came at a crossroads, these two different sides of the family are both a major part in my life, so why doesn't the book just be about me. And what about all the other important people in my life? my friends, who at this point in my life, i consider family. So this book will be a book about me and my family, the most important aspect of my life.