notes from monday's critique

loon, i've been thinking about the importance of text in your pieces. i asked you where the text came from and you said you just made the phrases up, and i think i remember you referring to the text as "one-liners" last semester. the phrases themselves remind me of ones i am attracted to in the work tracey emin and ed rusha. i think rusha's paintings with text in particular would be helpful to look at. i think text is important in your work! i really respond to it when it feels meaningful, as in the red print from last semester.



i was also trying to think of other materials you could use to create different textures and effects. i'm sure you're familiar with robert heinecken's "are you rea" photograms, and i think you could try using materials that have two sides to achieve the effect he does, perhaps double-sided letters or other printed documents?



the museum of contemporary photography in chicago has a lot of the images from that series in their collection online.

will, i'm really trying to think about how the importance of place ties in to your project (i know, i'm really struggling with that one). thinking about triptychs reminded me of the work of bruce myren, who coincidentally not only makes triptychs but also writes short sentences about memories he has of the place he's photographed. to me, the "markers: memory" series is really about that assignment of value to place that you spoke of.



jesse, a couple of "classic" art historical works i thought of were la grande jatte, the scream, mona lisa, the persistence of memory, klimpt's kiss, picasso's les demoiselles d'avignon, and starry night.
i think a way you could reference photography more is to recreate artworks that focus on a certain effect, considering how important "tech"- and effect-driven photography is to our and the upcoming generation. for instance, it might be cool to recreate a classic photograph, such as yves klein's "a leap into the void," often credited as the first conceptual photograph, using HDR.



conor, saw this and thought of you.



also, even just doing a google image search for magritte brings up some things i think could be pretty inspirational to your work, especially if you decide to include the figure in some way, which i thought was a great idea.



i thought critique went really well :) i definitely appreciated everyone's input, and i'm really excited for the coming weeks.