Inspirational Art for Piece For Movement Manifesto

Art Created By Class as Part of the Presentation

Movement Manifesto

Movement Manifesto:

-The exploration of art mediums

-The exploration of the senses

=>Through the presentation

Montage of Thoughts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K9gkdU7V80&feature=youtu.be

Artists’ Statement 

Are manifesto is very broad and allows many interpretations of how to explore and present art. If a piece of art explores are mediums and the senses through its presentation then it is a part of this movement. This movement is trying to enable a greater connection between art mediums and the senses they use. Several art mediums only involve one sense but when we partake of art are minds think and recall various sensations and memories. This led us to the piece for the manifesto. 

Our piece begins with each member of the group viewing a piece of art (which the audience can’t see). While they view the art a montage of visuals and sounds are presented on a screen behind them. Each member has their own montage. The montage represents what they are thinking while they view the art. Next we will then give the audience sticky notes and explain that we want them to create, write, art with their sticky note when we show them the piece of are we were viewing. The audience will then have 2 minutes to be inspired by the art and produce something onto the sticky note and put this sticky note on the white board. We then will discuss with the audience how we are influenced by what is around us and how this affected them in their creation. Also, we’ll observe the similarities and differences in the audience’s art and the manner in which they assembled their art together. 

Also, our piece sought to explore connections between the physical and the metaphysical. Also, it was exploring how are thoughts are shaped by what we sense around us. When coming up with this idea we were influenced by the piece which first inspired Melissa (which was Trey McIntyre’s The Sun Road). We then we all influenced by countless memories and thoughts which fueled our discussion. We were also influenced by the reading with the discussion of remixes since our thoughts are remixing sensations from are past influenced by are present. Also, we were each influenced in the creation of our montage which we will each briefly describe.  

Jeff: For my movement manifesto montage, I immediately thought of a baseball when seeing the sphere. Once the image became a baseball to me, I pictured scenes from one of my favorite films, Moneyball. I saw the scenes where we saw in slow motion various shots of batters at the plate swinging at a pitch. From this, I found different slow motion shots of a batter, catcher, outfielder, and pitcher all with the baseball. Also, the shot of the catcher is from this year’s World Series, where my favorite team, the Giants won! This is my thought process when looking at the original image of the sphere. 

Melissa: The process I went through when creating my montage was I first made a list of my thought train when I saw the images. The image first made me think of the pixar short Red’s Dream which is a unicycle, which made me think of the Boise Art fair, which made me think of lemonade, summer wind, tumble weeds and of New Mexico, coyotes and their howling, moon, rockets, an observatory, then Bruno Sand Dunes, etc. For my montage I didn’t even complete the whole list I made since my montage was getting lengthy. Most of this train of thought I listed are made up of memories and associations which my mind quickly connects and jumps through. My montage is a demonstration of how the minds trail of thought can be sparked by one thing and then led through a series of memories and thoughts to something completely different. 

Claire: My montage reflects the tangential associations my mind makes when introduced with a thought, memory, or idea. My train of thought when I initially saw the triggering art piece was very similar to my representation; I was reminded of music, lyrics, sounds, smells, particular moments in time and emotions. Each of these associated memories led to the next in a way that makes absolute sense to me. I think it is fascinating how this montage could have gone on indefinitely. 

Josh: My montage artist statement: Whenever I first come in contact with other art, my thought process is thinking of objects or things that are similar to that image. As I keep looking at the art, over time, I start to see meaning behind the art. My montage starts out with random spherical objects and transitions to the theme that every person has darkness and light in them. This was primarily based on the shadows and light that are on the sphere.

P.S. The inspirational piece of art will be posted after the presentation so as not to be a pre-influencer. 

Good Art
http://www.treymcintyre.com/repertory/the-sun-road/

Historical Story

Artists' Statement

       Several outside media sources were influential in the process of writing our script. Some of these sources were the recent Sherlock Holmes films. The character of Sherlock, who is a misunderstood genius reminded us of Nikola Tesla a bit. From this connection we remembered that Sherlock would test many experiments on Watson’s dog and it would appear at times that Sherlock had killed the dog. This led us to develop Mr. Howard into a dog lover who has his dogs killed through accidents associated with Tesla’s experiment.  Another outside media source which influenced us was the film The Lady and the Tramp. This influence is seen through the allusion to the film with the two dogs eating spaghetti together.   

We also were inspired by “Jack-Jack Attacks.” We liked the idea of Tesla’s neighbor being this innocent person who gets in way over their head in dealing with someone who is more like a force of nature than a human. The babysitter is terrified of Jack-Jack but continues watching him out of duty. We wanted a similar relationship, in that Mr. Howard, the neighbor, is too afraid of Tesla to sit down and talk with him about some of his grievances. At the same time he can’t move, at least not right away. We imagined if the script ever got developed that the short film would be a silent movie with most of the information being conveyed visually instead of with title cards. 

The reading that influenced us the most was the story about the man who thought the photograph of his grandma was about his mother. It was influential because while we wrote about experiments that Tesla conducted, most of them were conducted later in his life or never at all, in the case of the death ray. We decided that it would be more fun to have these outlandish experiments in the story and that they also contributed to the cartoony tone of the script.

The Locket

A quirk of mine is that I always wear a necklace. Always. Necklaces are objects which I have been given or collected which remind me of the person, place, or of the stage in life in which I received them. However, there is one necklace which I have had so long I don’t even remember when I first received it. This necklace is a small golden heart locket with two little hearts carved on front. I wore this necklace in my young childhood. I wore it as I played dress up, climbed trees, roller bladed round the neighborhood, and went to elementary school. I remember other girls at school wearing lockets as well. I remember these girls showing off a picture of their pet dog or a family member which they kept inside their locket. However, there was nothing in my locket, it remained empty. As I grew older I began wearing new necklaces I received and I began to stop wearing the locket. Eventually, the locket came to be put in a box with other trinkets from when I was really young and I forgot about it. 

Years later I was hanging out with my sister in her room as she was packing to leave for her first year in college. I was rather somber as I watched my older sister, my friend, my role model, who I had known and been with for my whole life, pack to leave. As she packed and we talked lightly, I was casually looking through the necklaces lying on her dresser when a small gold heart locket caught my eye. It was exactly like one I had known and worn from years before but.... I quickly went and dug out from under my bed a dusty pink shoe box which I knew was full of little trinkets from my young childhood. I rummaged through it and pulled out, to my surprise, a locket exactly like the one now sitting on my sister’s dresser. It also turned out that her locket was empty just like mine. And so, as a farewell to each other before she left home, we each wrote a note to each other and put it in the other’s locket.   

Each time I wear the locket I am reminded of my young childhood but I am reminded more of my sister, who was the friend at my side throughout my childhood and, of course, still my friend today. When I wear this necklace I think of her and all the times we have spent together. I remember all the times we played dress up with our mother’s old clothes, high heels, and big 80’s sunglasses. I recall the times when we were explorers searching for buried treasure which the other had hid in the backyard. The adventures we had running from lava monsters. Going to dance class together. Playing in orchestra together. Swapping clothes. Our fights. The late nights when secrets were confided. And countless times of laughter. I remember my sister who was always there for me and who has always been there for me and still is. I remember the words she wrote to me and which hang round my neck, “There is no better friend than a sister.”   

Artist Statement

When looking for an artifact to choose for this essay I didn’t know what to choose. However, while I was reading Busch’s “The Uncommon Life of Common Objects” I was reminded of how the necklaces I wear have backstories of my past which others don’t know. I therefore decided I would do my essay on a necklace but which one? While in class the film Citizen Kane in which an  object in the film reminded the main character of his childhood. This discussion led me to think about which necklace reminded me most of my childhood and that was the my locket. 

I didn’t want to introduce that the locket reminded me of my sister until I was at the point of explaining the note inside the locket. Therefore, I decided to first introduce the locket and how it had remained empty for many years. I hoped that by emphasizing that the locket had remained empty that it would highlight the importance of something actually being put inside. 

Also, I decided to first show how the locket reminded me of my childhood then how it reminded me of my sister to make the statement that life is not just about what we do but who we do it with. The necklace came to have greater significance when it came to symbolize not just my childhood but someone I had spent my childhood with.

Lastly, I knew I wanted to end and conclude with an excerpt from the note she wrote me. That excerpt perfectly states one of the themes of my essay which there really is no better friend than a sister, than family.