Pillow making event
Craft Center, Bucknell University
4/20/2018
by Erin Clark
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by Owen Parent
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by Erin Clark
I watched Season 6 Episode 1: Change. The way that the photographer talked about change resonated with me. She said that she often views change as an escape of sorts. For one of her works, she harkened back to her childhood where she would go to a specific lake to escape the stress of things going on around her. She photographed these very serene images when she was in her 50s for a commissioned work at a hospital, and chose this location because that change in location would help her to feel at ease. The video showed the photographs in the hospital, and it was interesting to see these images in that location after having this background knowledge. At face value, the calmness of the images is apparent. It seems suitable for this location because patients, or their loved ones, would be looking at art possibly to distract themselves from the reason why they are at the hospital in the first place. Having the knowledge that the artist saw this place as an escape contextualizes the work so much more. The way I see it, she wanted others to find a similar feeling of escape or relief by looking at these images as she felt in her childhood.
I watched the Art21 Video from Season 7 called “Secrets”. I really enjoyed learning about the artist Elliott Hundley. His work is very colorful and playful. I admired his loose way of making art. He makes choices but realizes that he could have made 100 different choices that he would’ve liked just as much. I liked how he had so many layers of mixed media that create his images. He starts off with an already developed image, and then uses found objects and images, sometimes his own photography to create these collages. They do the collages on foam and then carve into them. They then embroider into the carved image. The end results are so beautiful. He talked about his formal ties to Rauschenberg which makes a lot of sense why I responded well to his work because I love Rauschenberg’s work. His ties to “secrets” were that his works have none. He says that every technique is self-evident which is really cool.
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