REvieW: Roni Horn

Hmm... what to say, what to say...  Roni Horn's art work I found to be very smooth and settling. All of the pieces that we saw in the video were very flowey peaceful. I liked her different ideas such as the water in the building photographs that were put into the halls of the building to create a river. She used the natural aspects to create an illusion that would take one out of a hall way and into a zen. She does this by putting the calm water photos against the students gilding quickly along to create a rushing flow... amazing! Then in most of her works I enjoyed viewing her sense of repetition to create rhythm as well as the slight variety aspect to spice things up a bit. 

Updated

I took the image that I worked on 2 weeks ago and applied all the stuff that I learned today to make the image achieve an even more sensational appeal when looked at. Especially because I took all the photographs that I combined together so that the overall piece has a special meaning to me. What do you think???

I really liked this artist! Finally, somebody I can relate to in this course. I really enjoyed his theories of being able to create art and not have to fallow the "rules" that many have set before. His art work was very enjoyable and pleasant to view and thus, he has had zero "professional" training. He just goes with the flow!

Part 2:

The way that David Carson thinks is something that I could heavily relate to. I love how he comes up with these ideas and just runs with them. Whether it be trying to build up an avalanche of words to make an article seem to be intense or to start with trying to mask off a piece of an image to crop it and end up throwing some bright yellow cellophane paper on it and presto, he has a whole new crazy image... I love the freedom he has when he is designing his layouts, I think it allows him to hit and miss to create master pieces that only one can dream of...

Part 3

Steven  Sagmeister

Wow, I believe this artist gets a lot of credit in my book. Artists that were able to do all of the incredible typology that is done now my computers in actual real life form are amazing. I think it is crazy how one can step out of a computer and come up with ideas to display text in real every day items. I also liked his comments about how his art work is not done for all fun and games, but to put an important message across. I hope someday to be able to come out of my shell so that I may do the same. 

My First Accordion Card

Yay! This is my first project completed for the class!!! What do you think?

I photographed a wedding a couple of weeks ago and as a thank you I decided to make the couple this little card.

Look Closely

This is what I worked on today in class.... Look closely, there are 10 different images combined to make this one. 

Just a Few...

This is one of my favorite photos that I have composed which I did by blending two different images together. There is just something so simple about the human face and the flower, something so delicate. So I took a self portrait and then a picture of a beautiful flower and presto! 

This photograph was taken less than a week after the October fires. When a city has gone through such a terrible ordeal, it brings out the patriotism of people. One afternoon while I was walking to work I turned around and saw this beautiful sunset along with this beautiful flag blowing in the breeze. I just couldn't resist the urge to break out my camera. 

The Ridgecrest sky.  I really didn't even have to edit much of this at all. The colors are all natural and I merely snapped this photo while poking my head out of the window while my boyfriend was speeding down the highway.