Seeing Through Line

Lines that Create Time 

I utilized five shadows of a classmates hand changing shape over about a two minute period. 

I initially made one piece and then moved the piece around to find different meaning and context creating four different titles for the same piece. Essentially making four pieces from one. 

"Sunset"

"Release"

"Defeat"

"Withdraw"

Contour Without Line

In this piece I utilized collage to make my lines. I chose to do a portrait of a girl I know out of pictures she had recently taken for her photography class. This piece pushed and challenged me to develop my lines and slowly think about my line placement as compared to traditional methods of drawing.

In Class Yarn

I tried to emphasize basic bathroom utility functions with the yarn in our in our yarn/line studies. Reminding users to use the functions the bathroom provides such as flushing the toilet and washing your hands. The pink vibrant line places emphasis on the object and the line direction in a way instructs you how to use the utilities. 

In the in class yarn/line drawing I wanted to make emphasis on a pathway we might not normally notice. A pathway not intended to be a pathway but paved out by human interaction with the building. A pathway people might use but never actually realize they are using it. I was inspired by something I read about Frank Lloyd Wright the architect. After completing his buildings he would never create walkways but see what paths humans involving the building would create and then develop his pathways.

Walking the Line

In my off paper video I wished to draw a line in nature, thinking of tracks and how as humans we recognize and make tracks and how we interpret these tracks. Before I walked these two lines on an island in Crescent Beach there were no previous markings or tracks. I thought about my mark on this island and this line I created and how long it would last. I step on different textures and each texture makes a different mark. The mud might fill in when the tide fills in but the grasses with their beautiful reds and greens might stay beat up and torn down for a month. I thought the creation of the line and its natural withering process was interesting. Also I was interested in the sound that each line makes walking on the different textures. Sound can be read as line and it is represented in this piece. There are two different sets of each walk the first one the line is created lightly documenting the sound and the mark and the second walk I step harder to see the difference of the mark and sound. I slowed the video down to make emphasis on the line created.