Select a public location. Use Google maps and street view. Photograph it if you can. Research location. Build a model of the art that you would propose for that space. Photograph the model, and use Photoshop to make it look like it is really there. My partner is Khrista and we are going to make statues of children standing in The Capitol Building courtyard holding signs about gun awareness. I made the sketch of The Capitol Building and placed “X”, where the child statue will stand to hold the signs. I got photograph and location from The Capitol website. I then made a clay model of boy and took a picture.
Brainstorm list of words that define the United States of America. How do they evoke my senses? Visually depict these sensory responses without using text or symbols. I used the words HIV/AIDS; I painted my background red and black to represent African Americans who have the highest population of these diseases and red to represent blood. I also repeated the usage of red ribbons as part of my Repetition Repetition. I also use a condom to represent a message of safe sex as a barrier against these diseases. This is in my first photo without use of words. But in my second photo and final painting I have words that are removable to depict a dialog between a male and female meeting in a bar or club and having unprotected sex.
Suspend disbelief through photography. Using Photoshop you will create a photograph that would be impossible otherwise. This was my first project using Adobe Photoshop. I took one of my photos of an astronaut on the moon that I copied from NASA website, and added the starry skyline, a dog on a lease and a patch of grass.
Make something, now, make it again. Make it 4x larger or repeat it 4x. Now, make it half that size. Repeat. I started with a medium size AIDS Ribbon, made a small one, made a large one and finally a small one. I failed to repeat this. But combined this with Synesthesia and Synthesis. See below.
Create a fake artist. Make their art and biography. Create their image. Bring art objects to class. Or update and adapt a classical masterpiece. My Fake Artist is Chemica Hamasaki. This artist is part myself and part fake. I have a clay painting, family tree craft, painting with photo using gel and a painting using sandpaper, moss, cellophane and cotton balls.
Take 8 images and trade all but one of them with your classmate, create a mash-up with your new images using scissors, glue and a Computer. I traded pictures with Jessica Wilks and made a collage in Adobe Photoshop of her images and then I also printed them out in black and white and made another collage on black paper.