Landscape: Small Work #1

Landscape: Small Work #3

I cannot see who it is. The thing in this graveyard.

Six PM

  I am currently in Woodlawn Park Cemetery, staying overnight because of a dare from one of my friends. It is currently six PM and I am hiding in some mausoleum, with a huge sculpture of a falling angle on top of it, that someone must have broken into ages ago. I'm also feeling like a complete idiot for taking this dare, this is literally the start of every horror movie ever, oh well I guess.
  It's quite cold right now and the mosquitoes are starting to come out. I've always been deadly allergic of mosquitoes, and I really feel irritated the next day. Luckily I brought with me a few water bottles and some candy... I wonder if the candy is the reason for the mosquitoes.

Seven PM

  I'm still in the mausoleum hiding out, and the sun has almost set. I have a few bug bites and have already gone through one snickers bar (#notspon) and half a water bottle. I've been thinking a lot about mausoleums, and just remembered that the whole point of them is that they scatter the deceased bones inside them... so that technically mean's I'm sitting on a bunch of dead bodies. Honestly that's pretty rad.
  I'm really bored and the smell is getting really annoying, I'd even go as far to say that it's extremely irritating. I wonder if I'm allergic to cemetery's.

Eight PM

  It's finally dark outside, so I think I can go explore. I wonder if I should go outside though, this really feels like an exposition to cookie cutter horror books I read all the time. Well whatever, I might as well just go full throttle with this dare. I definitely don't want to get back to my friend's in the morning saying I just sat in a  mausoleum the whole time I was here, even though this is a little scary.
  I get up and feel aching in my legs for sitting cross-legged too long. I walk out into the graveyard with my backpack full of 'gear'. Fog has rolled in.
  I guess I'll just start wondering around...

Nine PM

  Wondering around for the whole hour has tired me out a little, I'm really out of shape. This cemetery doesn't seem to end. I kind of wish I had stayed in the mausoleum, at least there it wasn't so cold.
  I wonder what the pot of my friend's daring me to do this was... Are they angry with me? Have I done something? Geez I hope no one find's out I stayed here overnight, I'd definitely be a laughing stock. Maybe if I had some awesome story to tell when this is over! But nothing has really happened yet, the most significant thing to happen so far is that I dropped my water bottle and lost the water... well, it's only nine, hopefully something interesting will happen before the day is done.

Ten PM

  I'm sitting by a little fountain that is at the very back of the cemetery. the fountain doesn't really work, so it's more like a puddle... hopefully I don't get Zika.
  This cemetery is really beautiful, I think I've gotten used to the spooky atmosphere, I seem to have calmed down a little. My backpack is pretty much empty now, I wish I had brought more food.
  Ruffle Ruffle
  I quickly turn around, just to see nothing. That was weird, I could have sworn I had heard something. Hopefully there isn't anyone looking after this place at night, I don't want to get in trouble.

Eleven PM

  Ruffle Ruffle
  I keep hearing things. For the last hour it's felt like i'm being watched, that's why I am heading back to the mausoleum right now. I'm probably just psyching myself out...
  crackle!  a huge burst of lightning strikes and rain starts pouring.
  Damn it! I'm getting soaked! This really sucks.
  Oh my god... I'm standing in front of the mausoleum and the angle is gone... There was one hundred percent a sculpture here right? I could have sworn. I remember telling you-
  Ruffle Ruffle

Twelve PM

  Everything is black, I cannot see because that thing took my eye's. I cannot feel anything, I became numb to it a while back... The pain. It was so much in the beginning, but now I cannot feel. It's been going on for an hour now. I do not know how I am still alive, I think it's keeping me alive on purpose, until the end.
  I cannot see who it is. The thing in this graveyard.

Landscape: Museum Response- "Visionary Metropolis"

I'm reusing this photo from a previous topic because
I went to the Wolfsonian already. I'm all about recycling!
Thanks

This painting was definitely my favorite of the exhibition, as it is really haunting and I love the use of color. Honestly, it's quite hard for me to really seriously look at floor plan's, but the one's in this exhibit were pretty interesting. I do like the use of line thickness to communicate different things, for example it the line weight is thicker it usually mean's the wall is thicker. Things like this make me think about how I can incorporate that into my artwork.

The drawing's were also quite beautiful as well. I mean they made me hate myself, in a "you have to improve!" way, but honestly all the best art should. I find that, after going to all these museum's, i'm in the mindset of "It's seem's so easy for them". I think I need to get better at both analyzing work in a 'detached' way, and to have more confidence in my work. Overall, I liked the exhibition, it gave me a perspective on observational drawing/painting and portraying landscape's in my work.

Landscape: Museum Visit Response- History Miami Museum

So I went to "The discipline of Nature" exhibit, and I have a lot to say about it.

I have to be honest and say that I resonated with the drawing's the most during the exhibit. That is not to say that Parker's architecture was not amazing, I'll elaborate more later in this response, but the drawings he did are just really pleasing to look at. I read in of the the excerpt's about parker that he really connected with nature and tried to build around it. It's really clear, I think, to see Parker's intentions while looking at his drawings, and I really admire that.

Ok, now I have to talk about the scale models. I absolutely loved them, honestly I wouldn't care if there was no actual building that this is the model of, I'm happy with this just being a work of art by it's self. I think i'm in love with the whole aesthetic of this, the whole model being made of wood and the abundance of negative space. These scale models just look so delicate, like they might fall apart easily, but I think that's one of the reason's they work so well. Overall, I really liked the exhibit, even though the gallery itself seemed a tad bit unorganized.

Landscape: Research of Street

1. Buckminster Fuller was working from July 12, 1896 to July 1, 1983.

2. A ha-ha is a wall in a garden preventing someone from accessing parts of the garden. The special thing about ha-has though is that they minimize you're view obstruction.

3. Parco del Mostri, or park of the monster's, is located in Lazio, Italy. The park was commissioned in 1552 and may favorite image is the 'Orcus Mouth'.

4. Roman Forum is located in the city of Rome and was used for many centuries. The Roman Forum was to Rome what Central park is to New York City, it's a public place in the center on "downtown". I really just love looking at all the beautiful Roman architecture.

5. The Boboli Gardens was built around the 17th century and is located in Florence, Italy.

6. Jardin Du Luxembourg was built in 1612 and is built in Paris, France. My favorite picture go the Jardin Du Luxembourg is the Fountain of the Observatory.

7. Tivoli Garden was built in the 16th century in Rome, Italy. My favorite picture is the view of the garden with the Villa d'Estate in the distance.

8. Berrnini's Four Rivers was built in the mid 1600's and is located in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. I absolutely love looking at the sculpture's in the fountain that Italy is so known for.

9. Jean Dubuffet's Jarden d'Emaille was built in 1974 in the Netherlands. I love looking at the contrast between the bright white and the dark forest in the pictures i've seen.

10. Stowe House was built in the 1500's in Buckinghamshire, England. My favorite pictures are the front of the house, showing the huge fountain and the house together.

11. Stourhead was built in the 1200's in Wiltshire, England. The pictures overlooking the late with the "temple of Apollo" in the distance are quite beautiful.

 12. Meridian hill park was built between 1912 and 1940 and is located in Washington DC.

13.Viscaya Museum was built in Maimi because go the native woodland landscape. James Deering built Viscaya from 1914- 1942 and it is located in modern day coconut grove.

14. Fairchild tropical park was built in Miami because of the lush greenery and envoirment, and was named after good friend David Fairchild. The garden opened its doors in 1938. 

Reading Response: "Green Dreams: Garden"

  I think it's interesting how the author portrays the different gardens in this chapter. This style of writing really reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe, because of the attention to detail to create imagery. I like the atmosphere that this chapter gives off, it is almost dreamlike. Throughout the text, the author moves from place to place, explaining the individuality of the different gardens, and describes them as if they were cut away from time, like a sanctuary. At different times in reading this, I would wish that the author would be a little less descriptive, but in the end I actually enjoyed it.
  My favorite garden out of them all was definitely the garden built by Orsini. I really liked reading about the dark mood it gave off. I can really picture "Orsini's park of monsters". I think I connected with this one the most, because I could really understand Orsini wanting to put his soul into his work. One of the structures described was really fascinating, the author describing an almost beast-like structure in the park. I think it is even more fascinating to imagine the whole garden filled with sculptures like that.

Rhinoceros: In-Depth Project

Rhinoceros- Small works

Rhinoceros- Small works

Pattern and Ornament: Small Works

Small work 1:

Small work 2: (I fell on my way home from critique and my sculpture broke apart. I'm really sorry. You can kind of see it in the picture of my presentation in class at the top of this blog post.)

Small work 3:

Pattern and Ornament: In-Depth Project

Pattern and Ornament: Outside Visit- Exhibition at PAMM (Substitution for Rhinoceros Outside Visit)

  I wound first like to go off by saying that I absolutely loved the Routes of Influence exhibition, as well as the Basquiat exhibition. It sadden's me that I can only write about one of the exhibitions but, C'est la vie.

  The first thing I saw while walking into the Ornament and Empire exhibition was this huge 'Boat' looking sculpture. The sculpture was very curious because the closer you look, the more hidden easter egg's you find, and I most likely didn't find most of them myself! The most obvious thing that I saw, that related to this topic, was the patterns that trailed across both the the exterior and the interior. And then, If you look even closer you see the "cross-hatched"design that is subtly over the more obvious exterior pattern.

 


  The paintings were definitely my favorite part of the exhibition. The way pattern is portrayed I find really beautiful. The painting's stuck with me a lot more than the sculpture, probably because I am more connected to painting, but overall I just find them very compelling. For example, the painting to the right with the woman was very interesting. The fact the the woman is just a silhouette with this incredibly detailed head ornament was kind of ironic to me because usually the ornament is the thing that is blurred and pushed to the background.

Response: The Rhinoceros

  I think it is easy to forget that people did not always have access to things like the internet, or anything visual for that matter. In 'The Rhinoceros" text, it's quite easy to understand that the people of this time had this non-visual handicap. Honestly, this text was very difficult for me to read, because of all the imagery. I actually have a comparison, this text distantly reminds me of Edgar Allen poe's writing, although "the Rhinoceros" takes this to a whole new level. Poe's work and "the Rhinoceros both go into extremely vivid detail in wanting to totally immerse the reader and, in this case, describe something for you to get a clear picture in you're head.
  This text was easy to understand once I was able to put myself into 1515. I just had to push out my prior knowledge. If I didn't know what a Rhinoceros looked like, I would picture it differentially if I was just going off the text. I picture i've a lot bigger, and a lot more dangerous looking. This reading definitally gave me a more objectifing view of this topic and how to approch it