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One student, Francine, got to show her artist's book today. Think I mentioned the gist of the project. We had to pick two old hardcover books, use one as a base, and cut/tear up the second one to put together a kind of autobiographical book. Most of us have been agonizing over it. It's essentially an altered book made into a sculptural piece. Bruce wants surprises; he doesn't want a straightforward book. He wants things poking out and hidden and such.
Well, Francine goes up, and Francine doesn't use books. Francine uses a hollow wooden box that LOOKS like a book (bought from Michael's or somewhere), decorates the outside of it, puts a bunch of other objects around it, and covers up the obviously-wood part with a huge Marie Antoinette wig and a stiletto heel. And you know what, it looked very, very awesome, but I'm annoyed at the fact that she didn't do what Bruce told us to do. And either he didn't realize it wasn't a book, or he didn't care, but it made a sound that was very obviously wooden when she set it down on the table. I'm curious to see if anyone else does this and he catches them, and says something about it. I'm trying to keep within the parameters we were given, as is everyone else, and she just kind of shitted on them because it was too hard. I'm torn between "Dude, that's so awesome!" and "YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW THE RULES YOU COW."
ANYWAY.
On a happier note, we went to visit another artist's studio today, this time Eliot Lable. Very cool guy, and I like his sculptures. Kind of freaky, dealing a lot with torture. MUCH nicer visit than when we went to see Olek, whose work is also great, but her attitude rubbed me the wrong way. Janina wasn't in the room when she answered a certain question, and when Janina posed the same question like 10-20 minutes later, Olek was like, "I already answered this question!" and was perfectly content to leave it at that. There are much more gracious ways to say it. She had this attitude of entitlement, to me, and I really didn't like that. (She went straight from LaGuardia to working in the art world; no higher education after that, though she did have a degree in cutural studies from Poland already. I think her ego is enormous because she's like the NY art scene's new it girl or something.) Lable, on the other hand, was extremely personable and took the time to explain everything, asked us questions, kept us engaged. He invited us to understand the way he thinks.
So, stuff to do this week:
--Finish Graphic Narrative stuff: Complete comic page, ink character traveling page, do back cover (holy crap I forgot about the back cover), read book one of Persepolis and write report
--Start working on sketch for art piece for 20th Century Art
--Work on artist's book
Well, Francine goes up, and Francine doesn't use books. Francine uses a hollow wooden box that LOOKS like a book (bought from Michael's or somewhere), decorates the outside of it, puts a bunch of other objects around it, and covers up the obviously-wood part with a huge Marie Antoinette wig and a stiletto heel. And you know what, it looked very, very awesome, but I'm annoyed at the fact that she didn't do what Bruce told us to do. And either he didn't realize it wasn't a book, or he didn't care, but it made a sound that was very obviously wooden when she set it down on the table. I'm curious to see if anyone else does this and he catches them, and says something about it. I'm trying to keep within the parameters we were given, as is everyone else, and she just kind of shitted on them because it was too hard. I'm torn between "Dude, that's so awesome!" and "YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW THE RULES YOU COW."
ANYWAY.
On a happier note, we went to visit another artist's studio today, this time Eliot Lable. Very cool guy, and I like his sculptures. Kind of freaky, dealing a lot with torture. MUCH nicer visit than when we went to see Olek, whose work is also great, but her attitude rubbed me the wrong way. Janina wasn't in the room when she answered a certain question, and when Janina posed the same question like 10-20 minutes later, Olek was like, "I already answered this question!" and was perfectly content to leave it at that. There are much more gracious ways to say it. She had this attitude of entitlement, to me, and I really didn't like that. (She went straight from LaGuardia to working in the art world; no higher education after that, though she did have a degree in cutural studies from Poland already. I think her ego is enormous because she's like the NY art scene's new it girl or something.) Lable, on the other hand, was extremely personable and took the time to explain everything, asked us questions, kept us engaged. He invited us to understand the way he thinks.
So, stuff to do this week:
--Finish Graphic Narrative stuff: Complete comic page, ink character traveling page, do back cover (holy crap I forgot about the back cover), read book one of Persepolis and write report
--Start working on sketch for art piece for 20th Century Art
--Work on artist's book
