Tomas Saraceno: Worlds

So installation art has had my attention ever since I researched Diana Thater. This work was done by Tomas Saraceno in Miami's art Museum in a Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection. The piece is called "Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spiders Web"and was a two week process to install. The connection between the microscopic world and space is interesting, especially when the instillation is  made from only black and white. Like it was adding the contrast from the large world where we really cant see and the small world, which we almost always ignore. The two areas that are all around yet we forgot about them is represented.

Namless: Different in Public

So I was scrolling through Fb the other day and came across this; sometimes the best artistic things you can find is just in very day life. I love street performers and saw someone had posted this video of this guy (I don't know the artist's name; it didn't say) in Japan. These two people move like one under this dark cape and look like a 4 legged creature. Its eerie and alittle bit disturbing to watch him move around the square with four legs. At one point during the performance he kinda gets in the face of a person watching. I'm wondering if it has to do with people walking around feeling abnormal in a normal setting. Like when you feel so out of place and you will never fit in with your surroundings.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Trashy work

Straight from the London Punk scene of the 1980s-1990s, Tim Noble and Sue Webster combine talent to create art from a pile of trash. I first came across these artists a few years ago and stumbled across them again as they continue to sculpt every day items into pieces of art. Most of their famous works are from shadow art; using trash to create a sculpture. When you shine a light on the garbage, you get an image on the wall behind it. I love seeing the nothingness of the trash pile; its merely just a mess you have to clean up. But when the right light and angle is taken from it it turns into something different.

Photomontage

So idea for the photomontage is to have a core picture and build on top of it using different photos from different times; either seconds or years. I like the idea of this cause it allows for you to explore not a linear sense of time, but time according to the creator. You see, we love time to stay in a straight line and go from left to right; otherwise we get all mixed up. However, in the mix up is where someone can take you outside from a linear line and go somewhere more open; freeing.

This was my interpenetration of the photomontage; its of Central America's largest lake, Cocibolca and the volcanoes, Ometepe and Madera that sit across the lake. I visited this exact spot for over three years, which is where the photo collection comes from. All the photos were captured in the early morning so I wanted to color palette to stay soft and dream like; sort a like waking up and still being groggy.

Jeff Gougue: Modern Artist

Tattoos have become popular within the last ten years, become more artwork and detailed than every before. With interesting wave and trend the artist behind the work have become more popular. Jeff Gougue is out of Oregon and is a popular artist in the PNW for a mix of french and Japanese style in his work. This being another unconventional style of art, I'm interested to know if most people would consider tattoo artists modern artists. They certainly have talent and is the body not a canvas?  

Art Surgeon: Unconventional

On the pier in Seattle, an artist named Art Surgeon compiles the use of spray paint, scapula, and other tools to make his compositions. Although they are mainly for the purpose of sale (as you can see in the video he made Spiderman above a city) this dude is pretty talented. It's an interesting mix of tools that he wouldn't use the typical paintbrush and canvas but he uses unconventional tools. It's also amazing he can work with a crowd all watching him; nothing like an audience. 

Marina Abramovic: Performance

Marina Abramovic is a performance artist who started in the early 1970s with pieces with her partner Ulay. The top piece was filmed in New York's Museum of Art; Marina sits and waits for people to sit in the opposite chair. Then she looks up and without saying anything, making eye contact with the person opposite.
The second is called Rhythm O, which is Marina presented objects to an audience and became completely passive. The audience was first timid but became violent after there was no resistance.This could be perhaps one of the most powerful human experiment in testing the nature of man.

Paulo Ito: Shouting Graffiti

Paulo Ito: graffiti artist in Sao Paulo, Brazil that speaks about the injustices in the FIFA world cup through his art. Graffiti art being seen as still 'taboo', it interesting it can have the most impact because the world can see it; you don't hide it in a gallery or sell it. And yet, compared to other artist who want to change the world, it seems Ito's work is saying it loud and clear when others are muffled.

Diana Thater: Rethink

Diana Thater talking about the artist and what her objects are as an artist. Working with light, animals, and space, Thater looks through different lenses to bring an experience to her art. Empowering observation to rethink the world around you. 

Belo: Colored Rain

In 2013 a mosaic was constructed by the artist Belo of a fetus to raise awareness of the global clean water crisis. The piece is made of 66,000 biodegradable cups filled with colored rainwater. The fetus represents every humans need for water, even before birth. The project took 15,000 liters of colored rainwater, 1 kg of vegetable dye, more than 100 volunteers, 62 hours of work, placed end to end the 66,000 cups would measure 5.2 km long.

Self Portrait

Traveling has become a large part of life; my parents are travelers, my siblings are travelers. Its a chisel in which has shaped my personality and future desires. My first trip abroad, a stranger leaned over the middle airplane seat and said 'it's hardly the place that we travel to, but the people we meet. Don't forget to know people along the way'.
This has become a priority of mine, and that stranger placed me on a course which has effected my travels and growing up. My self portrait represents the idea of the stranger; the place is only as good as the people you know in it. I am a small detail within my self portrait because I wanted to focus on the people that have influenced my life along the way. Although I am the skeleton which makes me me, the people I have met around the world has made the outer layers and opinions.
There is no negative space because the existence and traveling is all in layers; there is no negative time in which nothing is happening.