Exhibition
This project focuses on the Keystone XL pipeline, which is a huge major environmental issue currently in the united states. Inspired by Mark dion I decided to use a crate to represent a use of containment. Also adding the pipe to represent the pipeline itself. I was always fond of keeping the environmental safe and making sure that there weren’t any issues that would harm or endanger species around us. The overall piece applies the idea of an environmental issue.
This project focuses on the Keystone XL pipeline, which is a huge major environmental issue currently in the united states. Inspired by Mark dion I decided to use a crate to represent a use of containment. Also adding the pipe to represent the pipeline itself. I was always fond of keeping the environmental safe and making sure that there weren’t any issues that would harm or endanger species around us. The overall piece applies the idea of an environmental issue.
Process and idea |
The Meaning |
Ideas:
Nature, Feelings, Form. metal, scrap, wire, copper balance, shape, movement creature, belief, culture. Describe the affect of a material. Process: Creating this project was simple to create. The only struggle had of creating this was gathering the materials. At first the crate had a dragon to represent the year my mother was born and overall to represent my mother as a dragon. But I decided to change the entire piece and focused more on the environmental aspect of the piece. So I kept the crate and filled up with grass and added flowers on the outside. Then the next plan was to add an aluminum pipe which would represent the keystone pipe line that has been brought up this year. After i have assembled that into the crate, ill add some black acrylic to represent the oil. |
Keystone XL pipeline, also known as KXL, a project that would have jeopardized ecosystems, drinking water sources, and public health while increasing our reliance on dirty energy. The Keystone extension actually comprises two segments. The first, a southern leg, has already been completed and runs between Cushing, Oklahoma, and Port Arthur, Texas. The second segment is the northern leg—a shortcut—that would run from Hardisty, Alberta, through Montana and South Dakota to Steele City, Nebraska.
Tar sands oil is thicker, more acidic, and more corrosive than lighter conventional crude, and this increases the likelihood that a pipeline would leak. leaks can be difficult to detect. And when the oils spills, it’s highly volatile—posing an elevated risk of explosion—and its more difficult to clean up than conventional crude. People and wildlife coming into contact with tar sands oil are exposed to toxic chemicals as well. Rivers and wetland environments are at particular risk from a spill. A spill would be devastating to the farms, ranches, and communities that depend on these crucial ecosystems. |
Sketches:
Experimenting/Developing
- Overall this project wasn't my favorite to do. Maybe because it was hard to find materials and put it into a mixed media. I had ideas such as environmental issues and like the meaning for women power. Just gathering the materials to create such a meaning was the hard part for me. I also added black acrylic paint around the crate and inside, because It would be a good representation of oil.
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Artist inspiration:
I was inspired by Mark Dion, an American conceptual artist. best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations. The work I emulated from Dion was XYLOTHEQUE KASSEL, The reason I chose the piece was because he creates the entire work with what he can gather from nature. The most interesting thing about the work is that the wood is a book and that each wood book has a flower, fruit and leaves inside. Either Dion wanted to convey the meaning that all life has lives in a stories or to show the different types of wood and that the leaves that were once part of a tree along with the wood.
Actually, it was a very successful lecture, but the lesson it taught me is that objects are incredibly loaded. Words and human expression can do some of the work yet objects themselves are loaded with a wealth of information and power and possibilities. Even as noted in Homer, “the arrow that strikes Achilles is freighted with dark pain.” I call that piece Lecture Ax.
-Mel Chin, I chose this sculpture as one of my inspirations, because of they way Mel Chin created the axe with a book at the end of it. I also like the reason why he created it. It was because he was nervous to address to psychologists. So he decided to create this axe that would help release his the feeling he held inside. http://melchin.org/oeuvre/lecture-ax Research:-https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-keystone-pipeline
-http://melchin.org/oeuvre/mel-chin -http://contemporaryartreview.la/betye-saar-at-roberts-tilton/ -http://judturner.com/new_work_gal/assemblage.html -https://art21.org/artist/mark-dion/ -http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/mark-dion/series |
Betye Saar, When Cotton Was King, (2009). Mixed media assemblage, 11.5 x 10 x 7 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA.
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibitions/mark-dion-xylotheque-kassel/6
Critique:The piece itself needs more work done to it, there needs to be more elements of designs added, such as form, color, balance to the piece. The meaning of the piece represents my mother and the culture she follows near and dear to her heart. The reason as to the dragon was set in the middle of the crate is because my mother was born on year of the dragon and what way to represent my mother by using a dragon. Along with the image behind all the objects, I used it because I thought it would be a good metaphor to piece. The image is the great wall of china and to me it makes the inside of the crate stand out and I wanted an image to represent the environment where a majestic creature would live. The artwork was inspired by Betye Saar and she created a piece with a birdcage, an african doll and cotton. It caught my attention, because she brought the history of cotton and created an art piece out of it. The piece needs more work, especially the interior, I plan to work on the piece when I can to make sure it’s neat and ready to be presented; it won’t take me long to get it ready and finished on time. My plans are to spend 2-3 hours on the artwork making sure things that i want in there don’t fall apart. Things that my peers told me about the work is that it looks good overall, just need to more value to the piece so that it can stand out more and overall they like the idea of having the piece represent my mother. I think the piece needs to be worked on in order to describe the meaning and what I want the piece to present when seen by others.
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Reflection:
Overall I enjoyed creating this project. I wouldn't say that this was my favorite project to do. I struggled at first to come up with a meaningful piece and for me it was either creating a piece representing my mother in a way or focusing on a environmental issue. I went with an environmental issue, because it was much easier for me to figure out what i wanted to say to the audience. I'm very pleased with the way the mixed median turned out to be. It was a hassle to gather the materials at first, because I wasn't sure what to create at first. The research on Mark Dion allowed me to come up with a sketch that would describe the environmental issue. I gathered a 10 by 8 crate using fake grass and fake flowers that I had lying around the house. Then used a PVC pipe to represent the Keystone Pipeline. I also used black paint and painted areas that would described an oil spill. I If i were to create such a piece again, i'd probably make it bigger just to have a large meaningful piece for others to see. My emulates Mark Dion's XYLOTHEQUE KASSEL, by using the flowers and the containment which is wood emulates the physical part. The meaning for Mark Dion's work is not quiet clear for me. But i know that the meaning of my piece is compare to Mark Dion's work.
Act question:
1. Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your work.
The inspiration effected my work physically, because the idea of creating the piece where audience would see it was perhaps a struggle for me. But my inspiration of Mark Dion allowed me to look further then just creating a piece just out of beauty or trying to complete the task with no real meaning to it.
2. What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The research made it much easier to create the mixed media piece. At first the piece was going to focus on women's rights and power that they inflect on society, but as i continued it was getting harder to create something that would represent women. So I begun research more on artist that focused more on environmental issues. Given the opportunity to see Mark Dion's work. I was able to refine my work and create something else.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspirations?
The generalization that i've discovered is that more and more people are in need for many things. The careless and selfish human beings that only focus on bettering the society and themselves. They can't see what is happening to the environment and the native american people are suffering as well. They are being forced to leave their only source of water by the army forces, which in my case is very wrong.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The Central Idea around my inspiration would be environmental art.
5. What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your
research?
Why does Mark Dion hunt for so much junk?, Is it to display works of art that he picked up from pawnshop's. What famous artist inspired Mark Dion to pursue such a career?
The inspiration effected my work physically, because the idea of creating the piece where audience would see it was perhaps a struggle for me. But my inspiration of Mark Dion allowed me to look further then just creating a piece just out of beauty or trying to complete the task with no real meaning to it.
2. What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The research made it much easier to create the mixed media piece. At first the piece was going to focus on women's rights and power that they inflect on society, but as i continued it was getting harder to create something that would represent women. So I begun research more on artist that focused more on environmental issues. Given the opportunity to see Mark Dion's work. I was able to refine my work and create something else.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspirations?
The generalization that i've discovered is that more and more people are in need for many things. The careless and selfish human beings that only focus on bettering the society and themselves. They can't see what is happening to the environment and the native american people are suffering as well. They are being forced to leave their only source of water by the army forces, which in my case is very wrong.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The Central Idea around my inspiration would be environmental art.
5. What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your
research?
Why does Mark Dion hunt for so much junk?, Is it to display works of art that he picked up from pawnshop's. What famous artist inspired Mark Dion to pursue such a career?