reminded me of serina

i was surfing the web looking at artists who use recycled materials in their work and i stumbled across this image:

I automatically thought of serina since she's got a lot of lightbulbs in her artwork! this is a really cute terrarium, and a creative way to recycle used lightbulbs. i didn't know that lightbulbs were not very good for the enviroment--its even illegal to throw out lightbulbs in some states!

here's a website that will explain things a little better... http://earthcaringart.com/?p=1048

interesting stuff! :) well now back to research.

eeehhh... i'm posting at least

lol okay, i am ridiculously horrible at updating this thing... :/ so i added it as one of my homepages so whenever i open the internet it will pop up and beg to be updated!

anyway, i took my infamous pidgey-dog on a walk tonight and decided to bring my camera along with me. i figured i'd kill two birds with one stone and exercise the dog while i did homework! i snapped a couple of shots of some trees in my neighborhood that i liked. it was getting dark and it gave me an idea to maybe incorporate lighting into my pieces as well. trees have a completely different feel and emotion at night so i'm thinking my pieces will do the same thing. lights on they look one way, lights off gives them a whole new spin. i'm still playing around with the idea since i just came up with it, but we'll see where it goes!!

speak: perpendicular and parallel to my life

has anyone ever read the book speak and/or seen the movie? its a pretty good book and i highly recommend it to everyone. the movie isn't half bad either considering kristen stewart plays the main character, melinda. her typical pained/blank expression worked for this role so i didn't mind her so much. haha. anyway!!! i won't give the story away, but melinda ends up taking an art class at her high school. her art teacher was this really cool hippy kind of guy who had the students draw lots out of a broken globe that had the subject their art would focus on for the year writen on them. let me just say that i wish my art teacher in high school was that awesome. i had some stuffy, stuck up lady who didn't let you think outside of the box whatsoever and actually the reason why i stoppped taking art classes until i got to college because i hated her class so much. anyway! melinda pulled out 'tree.' aaaaaaaand this is where my post starts to have any relivance to my senior sem work. :P

melinda argued that she already knew how to draw a tree and wanted to draw another lot. the teacher forced her to stick with the tree and in the end she had some killer works of art. i feel like melinda did at the beginning at the beginning of the story right now. i know what a tree is and what it looks like. but i've not been able to capture that life that they seem to have and so far my drawings can be compared to melinda's "circle with two lines as a trunk" tree. i'm starting to carry my camera around to take pictures of any tree that gives me inspiration. :) i'm even making a trip up to the yorktown battlefields tomorrow afternoon to get some really awesome pictures of the trees that are out there. still working at it.

oh, and on a side note i'm going to take my first stab at making my own paper here in a few days. i've still got to build a screen and get this one ingredient that escapes my mind right now, but after that i'll be in business. after the trial run i'll be able to figure out what i have to do differently then its mass production time so that i can have material to work with soon!! :D

senior sem. concept

ok. so we're supposed to post our concepts right? well, i've been wracking my brain with what i could do with horses and still have a pretty solid concept... well after what? several weeks i've managed to come up with absolutely nothing and a horrible headache...
therefore, i'm going to return to my original idea of recycling and reincarnation. :P a tree grows and is cut down, ending that life and brought back as a sheet of paper, beginning another. that sheet of paper is used then discarded, ending that life. I intend to continue the cycle by bringing new life to said discarded paper and bringing it back to the beginning again as a tree. these trees will then illustrate experiences from my own personal life and the relationship between civilization and nature and how the two work with and against each other.