Blog post for my last project(s)

I will do more drawings. I will scan these drawings into the computer in our little computer lab. I will look at these drawings one by one on the backlit computer screen. I will start to erase these drawings, digitally. Slowly, layer by layer these drawings will disappear. Then, I will save these layers on the computer and on my hard disk. Then I will use the computer with two screens. I will open AfterEffects and load my files into the system. I will give each layer a fraction of a second of screen time. Then I will play all of these layers in succession. An animation of the drawings will occur. CHANGE: I will use Flash to create a website.

I will be working off of my last project for this class in creating this interactive webpage.

I will have to (re) watch some videos, more of Harold and the Purple Crayon, and others I have not discovered yet. In order to understand what I am doing I will watch other peoples videos. I will steal their ideas and use them as my own. I will steal my friends and peers' ideas and use them as my own. I will post images on this blog perhaps of the drawings I am doing. I will ask for suggestions of what videos to watch.

While I am drawing these drawings I will listen to music by The Clash. Particularly, Police and Theives. I will think about collisions and battles. I will also think about themes present in myths, popular and ancient. About confrontation and/or eventual agreement between two figures. This idea had emerged after I looked through a series of images of things i've made in the past year and a half. Things that I look back at and really still agree with them. There are not alot of things but in the few pieces, I have noticed the recurrent theme of 2 figures.

About these figures as animal. Human is animal. Kiki Smith: recently saw a few of her pieces at the elles@centrepompidou in Paris. Her use of animals is important to note. Death, Birth, Interchangeability and Relationship with humans.

these are the pieces that I saw:














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kara walker's concerns with identity, race, and how she handles the figure will also be important.



I will also take a last few walks around this town. I will think about Pont-Aven and what makes this place, this place. I will read about the traditions that supports this area and the myths that exist. I will think about the mystical creatures that inhabit the forest, could they be elves and unicorns?

With final projects coming up I have been thinking alot about what I am doing. What am I making things about? what is this art about? What am I all about? well, the things that make me are all things of my history. My childhood, which I have barely left. It is still very recent. I am only beginning my wandering through the world. I am only beginning to learn about the history of things. that is why mystery is an important part of what I am doing. So much of the world has been a mystery. Such as things about my own family, many parts of family history I have only learned about in the past year.

The interest I have in myths comes from the bedtime stories my mother read to my brothers and I when we were young. Its been the greek myths, and fables and chinese folk tales that i've known and not realized my whole life. From time to time I remember bits and pieces of these stories, their messages and morals. They've woven themselves into my own ideas of fact and fiction.

So, the story I will tell with my work will border between fact and fiction so much that I will not be able to tell where reality ends and the lies begin .

the toilet is a place where everything is anonymous.