Maps/Diagrams/Charts

"Collage Map"

(3 views) Representational Diagram of a Self Journey

(jar, flowers, band-aid, broken shot glass, and pills) 

These are two very different approaches to this quick challenge. The one I thought more of a physical map, but I used magazine collage to represent it in a loose way. The other represented a self journey through a diagram in a jar. I think I was certainly thinking on both ends of the spectrum of how a "map/diagram/chart" can be represented.

Shadow Drawing

The object that I used for my shadow drawing was a sculpture that I had made myself that was worked with shadow and light, so I thought it was only appropriate to use it for a "shadow" drawing. I tried to use several different light sources to create a variety of shadows, and I used three different types of sharpies to create the line variation of these shadows. The darkest shadows got the thickest sharpie, medium for medium, thin for lightest. I chose to represent shadow with lines as an aesthetic choice. 

I also used tape transfers, tape, and string in the final shadow drawing to create movement in the piece. 

Drawing Confessions Video

This video was originally inspired by John Baldessari's "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art". I wanted to create a piece with that type of repetition, but I also wanted to create a little more visually going on in mine, and of course mine would have a different meaning. The phrase that I chose to repeat was "I hate taking my medication". I chose to emphasize the repetition of the video with the piano version of "Sail". (The song is not only repetitive, but is also about struggle with mental illness. I didn't want the words of the song to compete with the video though, so I chose the piano version.) I also chose to include the clips of me actually taking the medication to add visual variety, and to add more meaning to the words that I was writing.

Inspiration:

John Baldessari, "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art", 1971