Briana Carter
10/16/14
Weekly Post
  
   On 10/14, we did a warm up writing exercise where we had to select an item out of a bag. The items were different kinds of clothing. We then had to write an imaginative story about the person who once wore these different parts of clothing. I pulled out a very long and colorful hat. It looked like the hats that elfs wear in the Christmas movies, so I decided to write about a little girl elf who made the hat and put her own little desighns in it to express who she was and what she liked to do. Once we had finished the writing exercise, we had been assighned a pile of different kinds of cloth and threads. With these, we had to put together our own masterpiece from all of the materials. One thing I got was a green cirle with two holes cut out of it in the shape of a slice of pie. This reminded me of a ninja turtle mask. I also had a slip of a pink bandana. This made me think of making my own little mask out of these materials, so thats what I did. In the end, my threading with a string was not very good and falling apart, but I tried my best. I have never done anything like that before, but it was a lot of fun. It makes me think of doing something that I would like to create when I start my project. At the end of the class, we got into our groups to discuss art 21 videos and readings. These are my notes: 1. 2 different "attitude" definitions.- Artistic is what they feel will work best and attract their audience while attitude is who they really are as a person and what they like to do. 2. Lorna Simpson- She reveals the real self through her photographs like with the telephone project, because they can not see each others faces on the phone. If they can not see the faces of one another then they can make whatever face they want on the phone. Sometimes, she even makes it an illusion when she has her models facing the back or only having them shoulders and down. 3. Jeff Koons- He portrayed fantacy really well. It may remind somebody of their own childhood because of all the circus like colors he uses in his work. He may sometimes pull concepts out of no where because it seems like his meanings make no sence. Its like he comes up with an amazing project and just makes up a meaning to back it up.

   On 10/16, we were suposed to meet at the Mint Musium on Randolph Street. Because I went with another class the day before, I did not go when the rest of the Concepts class went. The moment I walked up to the Mint Musium, I felt this amazing presence. That feild in front of the building made me feel at home. The beautiful green grass and huge trees witht he sun glaring off of it was amazing. I love sceneries like that because it just makes me want to lay out there and just absorb the sun and let out all of my stress. There were a couple of areas inside the Mint Musium that can be compared to our project coming up. The older costumes that were presented on manakins were different I think. This would be a great idea, but it looked like that artist spent so much time on her work. It paid off though because everything was absolutely beautiful. Also, the different mask from the different cultures were really neat. I have a hard time apreciating those kinds of mask sometimes because they always remind me of something from a horror film, but I understand how well it would work in our Fantacy project. I got a couple of ideas from this feild trip. I could always be somebody I like in the movies or on telivision. Maybe make an outfit in comparison to them. I also really liked the African shirts that were in glass boxes in the hallways. These were interesting to me because usually people do not acknolegde clothing from todays society in musiums like that. All together, it was a great experience and I collected a lot of information from that trip.