We usually include a reflection section of every unit to think about what we learned. But this unit was entirely hat. Having a reflection at the top of this page seems redundant. But I did learn valuble things during this unit, not only about art, but about myself. Through film and english I gain perspective into who I am.
Personal Museum Curation
When we went to SF MOMA we had to pick out peices of art we felt applied specificaly to us and explain why or why not we would include it n our museaum.
Mark Bradford
On a Clear Day, I Can Usually See All the Way to Watts
I would include this piece because it feels gritty, like sandpaper. I felt like it represented how rough around the edges of my personality is but from a distance my objectives are clear and concise.
Ellsworth Kelly
Curve IX
I would choose not to put this in my personal museum because it feels too one dimensional. My personality, what i’m trying to represent with this art it much more complex. THis sculpture represents a very fixed mindset, which goes against my most personal values of growth
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild
I would put this piece in my museum. It represents convolution, feelings can be mixed. Most people learn more and more to separate and define feelings, pushing back negative ones. I’ve learned that it’s okay to feel negatively about things, and it’s healthy to be able to recognize when you aren’t sure how you feel.
Jannis Kounellis
Untitled
I would not include this piece. It seems very maccabe, it makes me think of a place with a lot of rules where you aren’t allowed to touch anything or talk too loud. I hate being constricted.
Alma Thomas
Cumulus
Would include this piece. It makes me feel like getting lost in my imagination like when I was a kid. It makes everything feel calm and light and peaceful. Looking at this painting makes me feel light a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
Mandala
In this project we were challenged to make a mandala that represented us. It was interesting seeing everyones finished product. Without a name you could imedeatly tell wiitch belonged to whom.
Perspective Piece
Project goal: Produce a Personal Essay Video or Lyrical Essay Video or Perspective Video. The Perspective Video is defined as simply an opinion piece about your world. You will specifically use After Effects so that you can become more efficient and more skilled at using After Effects. Film students – expand your skills and don’t revert back to using Premiere Pro.
Personal Essay
I’m not good at being vulnerable. I balk at feelings and suppress my emotions and struggle with being genuine because my instinct will always be to be…something less serious. Not much will bring me to tears in the arms of a mutual stranger, but there I was, locked in a series of sobbing embraces with classmates and parents with whom I’d never spoken. We both knew why the other was there, we both had a general sense of how the other felt. It wasn’t until after a prolonged period of woeful embraces, wrinkling our solid black suits and ruining our ties, that we finally broke off and introduced ourselves. And then came the question I never got used to answering.
“How did you know Eddy?”
I still haven’t gotten totally comfortable telling people the story of losing my best friend. I had trouble saying that I was in half the pictures in the slideshow. I struggled to walk up to the podium and summarize ten years of friendship in two minutes. But when I saw all the faces looking up to me with that same sensation of loss, I felt a little less alone. It was surreal seeing everybody I went to elementary school with, many of whom I thought I’d never talk to again. There were people I had never met before, people I thought would never matter to me, people I thought I’d never matter to. I’m not good at expressing what’s on my mind with the assistance of a keyboard and spellcheck and approximately several days of mulling over the proper synonyms and adverbs and phrasing that I want to use. I’m not good at this part: the vulnerable part. I can never be serious for more than a few seconds, and I have a tendency to make a face when confronted with even the simplest sign of raw emotion, but I needed them to know that they mattered to me.
No other event could’ve brought all of us together like that memorial; losing a friend to gain connection is a terrible price to pay just for the reassurance that at least we can all be sad together. I didn’t have many friends at all that year, I felt like I was Isolating myself further away from everyone every day, and my heart told me that this would be the final twist of the blade – this was it, I was finally, completely alone. I’m still surprised at how wrong I was. I hadn’t talked to my friend Dylan all year, but after that we finally started talking again. And now, he’s one of my closest friends. The loss of a mutual friend was enough to forge a deep emotional intimacy.
Every one of those people who helped me through that time, and those who still are, will forever remain by my side. In some capacity, I will always care about them. Maybe it’ll be in a big, life-shattering kind of way, or maybe it will be softer, quieter, more simplistic. But the care will be there. It’ll linger in the corners and never go away. I owed it to him to redistribute our entire lifetime of friendship and compassion – and give it to everyone who needs it now more than ever.
Film Production
Reflections Video Essay