In Search for a Concept...

Barbara Kruger - "Untiltled"
I'm struggling to find a usable concept for the "inspiration" area. Initially I was going to create a flash piece for every person that I interview- but that concept doensn't seem to be conceptual enough.

A possible concept would be to interview and take photographs of random people. Each person would be holding up a card with a response written by him/her. The response will be based on the question: "What inspires you?" I'm using these examples that I found on the internet- because to me, they illustrate interesting ways of juxtapoxing text with images. Somehow I want to use these concepts in the "inspiration" part, along with the photographs rendered to look like silkscreen prints. Anyway, the possibilities are endless now. I want to work with multiples, and create a piece of public art, which would be documented and ultimately housed on my website. I'm not sure how well this would work out, but so far- that's my concept. Here are some images for you to look at. I am in deep hope that this website would reflect me as an artist, and the artists who have influenced my though patterns throughout the years. I will need to make some changes- but it is still in transition. Please be patient with me. I'm trying to work with physical objects- portraying them on the computer screen as objects, however I don't want to run into the problem of it being just too literal- because I want it to convey meaning. So far all I have is the Portfolio area done, because I was certain that I wanted to use the "gallery space" as a means of showing my artworks. I'm still thinking long and hard about both the video, and the inspiration piece. Anyway, I THINK I'm prettty sure about the "inspiration piece", because that's what I've been thinking about for awhile- it's just that I never got a chance to write it in here.

I'm just thinking about the navigation now, and currently I don't think that the navigation is working out really well. I'm hoping that I would be able to use some real objects to replace the cheezy navigation that I have now. I like the way it's laid out- but perhaps because my piece is more visually driven- the navigation should be smaller...

Just a concept.. Please visit...

The Wall.

The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels
Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany 1999

http://christojeanneclaude.net/sharedMedia/Wall/realWall5.jpg

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Revised Proposal

http://www.wyninspires.com/temp/wynne_leung_nmed01h3_revised.pdf


Here is a revised version of my proposal.

Wynne

Molded.

Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California 1972-76
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
source: http://christojeanneclaude.net/rf.html

I couldn't really think of a better word than "molded" - in this case where I am asked to discover the artist an movements that have shaped my ideas, concepts and beliefs throughout these four (almost five) years at UTSC. Intrinsically, I know that the reason why I proposed to do this project is only so that I could re-discover how "I" came to be me, and how my views in the arts have shaped who I am as an artist today. I never really had a chance to look back at what I've done, and to see that indeed I have changed from a shy high school girl who knew nothing about art- to a young woman who has been shaped by the vivid truth about the arts that I have never seen in my five years of highschool- some shocking and others being just offensive, and of course who could forget the gruesome ones. I still remember the first day I walked into "Why is it Art?"- it was some first year art history course that we all had to take for Arts Management.

It was on that first day that I discovered that...
Everything we learned in highschool was (@*$(#)%R*#(.

Duchamp's "Urinal"- shocked me.

BUT... Through tough criticisms....

Hard times in Painting and Drawing classes...

I've learned to accept and see the beauty and ideas behind those aggressive works of art being given to us, that indeed - as gross as self-mutilation was- it was to prove and mark important points in race and culture within that society...

I'm having one of "those" moments now... epiphanies? hahaahah. Maybe it's just getting late and I'm tired... Who knows.

I learned ... And most importantly was inspired by the dozens of artists that have shaped and molded my "school of thinking" (such a cliche... Excuse me...) in such a discrete manner that I was too blind to see it until today.

So many artists.... Although I don't know what has caused them to become "inspired"- it is a fact that all artists from different period have influenced each other. Artists are inspired by the environment that they reside in... We learn from previous periods, some artists even purposely mock other artists.

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Formal Proposal Link

Here's a link to my formal proposal:

http://www.wyninspires.com/temp/wynne_leung_nmed01h3.pdf