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Week 1:

This is the first art we all did together and I’m very happy with how mine turned out. We all followed the same prompt, which was basically that we were going to listen to a specific playlist and then try to capture what we felt was the mood. It was interesting to see how the same music could be interpreted differently by different people. The playlist we chose was one of instrumental music, largely scores from movies or post-modern rock. The songs reminded me strongly of space, particularly of feeling small—microscopic in the scale of the universe, yet still largely important because my own role in it is the only one I could ever hope to understand. The entity on the righthand page is representative of myself, with the red mass of color looking almost like hair. I wanted to have the figure representative of the individual be looking into the depth of space with the area directly surrounding the face less like space. Instead of being immersed in it, the figure is more accurately gazing into the cosmos from just beyond it. There is a juxtaposition in the red mass of hair and the red shape on the lefthand side of the page, and in the tear on the right side of the face there is a galaxy-like expansion. 

 

            I really enjoyed this entire piece. I worked with watercolors, which are one of my favorite mediums. I also really liked the fact that we all listened to the same music to such different ends. When I think of space I think of magnitude, but I also tend to think of unrealistic aspects, like shining colors and twinkling lights, and even the little green men. I was a space kid. I had a set of informational cards when I was younger with cool pictures and names and descriptions—things like novae, and nebulae—and it sparked my love for this strange and beautiful place that I could never truly experience. To this day I love making jokes about the aliens coming to visit us, or about drifting out into space and finding the secrets to the universe like in the movies. This is the overarching mood I really wanted to capture with my art, something slightly more emotive and wondrous than realistic, and I’m glad it turned out so well.

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