Playing with Shutter Speed in the Painting Room
The painting room is one of my favorite spaces in Hammond Hall. I've had several drawing and painting classes in it, it has a ton of character, and the lighting is often really cool.
VAS Logo Revamp
My friend AnnaMaria and I were tasked with revamping the JSU Visual Arts Society logo. This is the design that was selected to replace the original logo pictured below. Go Team Awesome! The original logo.
Mural Project Design
Sketch by AnnaMaria
Disconnected from Reality
I’ve battled depression on and off since the mid ’90s, and have often found myself feeling a surreal sense of awkwardness in different environments, and sometimes in my own skin. Immersing myself in books, films, and video games helps me manage my depression, but I’ve also wondered if immersing myself so fully into various stories has caused my recurrent feelings of disconnectedness to magnify. This project gave me the chance to visualize this feeling of not fitting in and of feeling surreal by exploring the juxtaposition of reality and fantasy through the use of photography and digital illustration.
Art, Postmodern Criticism
Here’s an article I just read and really enjoyed, and I have to say I agree with a lot of what the critic says. http://www.integralworld.net/martin-smith.html “The proverbial head ate the heart in an attempt to understand it, so that avante garde art and literature have sadly been relegated to PhD’s and ever-narrowing groups of intellectuals who “get it”, never bothering to ask if it’s worthy of being gotten in the first place.”
Surreal Landscape, Digital Painting
Surreal Landscape, Digital Painting | Fall 2009 Class: Adv. Imaging Professor: Doug Clark Software: Photoshop This digital painting was made for part of my final project Disconnected From Reality. The idea was to place photographic cutouts into illustrated environments to portray a sense of isolation and disassociation.
