this one has a rad glaze color, except i hate gloss. HATE.
creamy matte with lobster and yellow matte under,
copper matte+charcoal
so, these things sit on our kitchen table,
story! these vans are special: cynthia started kindergarten with little blue vans just like these, but was made fun of by a girl who had the pink ones! her friend said she had the BOY SHOES! here she is, sixteen years later, symbolically closing out this part of her education with the same kind of shoes, except this time she doesn't care what anyone thinks. can we say, love it?
SO PRETTY!
embrace the wind, i say.
ruthi and becca started us out with creating a grid on the wall with pushpins and string. it took forever, but made our lives a lot easier.
here's ro, measuring queen
clearly becca was into her work :)
while the grid was being made, my mom and grandma made hundreds of tape rolls to put the photos up with---green tape! my fave!
while all of that was happening, i was organizing the polaroids by color. i had never seen them all out like that before---- it was rad!
next job: putting them on the wall! rosanna would hand me one, i would look at it, choose where i thought it would look best, and then place it.
--me, grandma, ro--figuring out wall #2--
my grandpa's job was to install a shelf, which he did perfectly,
and here i am stepping back and looking
March 25, 2009
After two years of preparation, Shannon Leith and Marisa Rountree kicked off the first week of this semester’s senior art shows, installing their culminations of hard work, planning and art making.
Both artists demonstrate how two different art forms, photography and painting, can explore beauty and life. While Leith takes Biola through her journey of the exploration of life, Rountree invites us to join her in the exploration of paint, pattern, and design.Leith’s “Today” show consists of photos from 100 different days and life and practice into the gallery. Her original intentions were to go out on walks and capture the beauty and rarities of life. However, as she engaged in this project, over 75 percent of her photos stayed confined to her apartment.
“It wasn’t this big adventurous thing,” she said. “It’s looking at the things we see every day and the artist being the one to find something new in it … being able to explore it in a different way and discover something completely different about something so familiar.”
She began to explore the meaning of words like habit, rhythm, space, and liturgy and their role in everyday life. This long, detailed process led her to a very simple way of understanding her project. It is the exploration and life of today. She quoted Eva Hesse as her inspiration, who said, “My art and my life are not separate; they’re together.”
Leith described the process as “peeling up little layers of life” and catching a glimpse of what is there. “This process has helped me see things that I might not have noticed before,” she said.
The goal for her work is to be more attuned to what she encounters in daily life and move those who view her art to achieve the same thing. Therefore, different photos will be displayed each day giving the viewers the same experience of “newness” that Leith encountered during the shooting process.
“I want people to walk away with a sense of delight and excitement – doing life, whatever that means for each person,” Leith said.
“Each person’s daily life can be a place for them to find newness, excitement, a place to explore rather than a place that’s mundane and boring. God gave us seven days to live. What’s here for me today? … there is something there.”
PLEASE TAKE ONE >>> choose your favorite and its yours to keep (only one! please let everyone enjoy)
i went in there a few times and really loved hearing what people liked about the ones they chose. other people's interpretations on blurs of light were so, enlightening.
this one's a Carravagio!
it reminds me of mold
and here's what was left after the harvest,
