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website: Marina Abramovic:        Marina Abramovicis a Serbian performance artist, writer and art film director and producer.  Her work explores body art, endurance art and feminist art, the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.        Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, and the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Abramović does refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". Marina has been pushing boundaries, causing controversies, and influencing the youth with many of her performances. She is known for her sometimes risky performances, such as her work rhythm 10; where she has a variety of different knives layed on the ground and starts to jab it in between her fingers sometimes grazing her. After each cut she would switch to a different knife.

"Bottled Up Emotions" Statement: For this project I really wanted my piece to give off a sort of 'magical' vibe.  I created these bottled up containers hosting 3 different emotions.  I noticed that having a back light helped create a more complete ambiance and with a click of a button it could also change the mood.  The 3 emotions being contained are, in order: Love, Sadness, and Anger. Emotions that sometimes- I myself have a hard time conveying thus, keeping them bottled up and stowed away.

Made sure to bring my flood light to enhance my installation . Process Post 1: Painted my bottles white, had to repaint it 5 times for it to become opaque. Bought corks then cut and sanded them to the size I wanted.  Process Post 2: Started creating 3 different particle animations using Maya. Had a hard time with this since it looked a lot different when rendered out but still decided to use them. Process Post 3: Rendering the animations with TWO computers because I needed to bring the footage to premiere as soon as I could. Created masks in premiere and later added some royalty free youtube vids of sparkles/ lightning to enhance the effect.

http://rossin.co/ I chose to research Rachel Rossin, since her work stood out to me. Rachel Rossin is a multi-media and installation artist, originally from Florida and now based in New York City.  She is also self-taught in coding and game design.  Rachel Rossin's work consists of  working in both traditional and digital mediums. She paints surreal canvases that meld distorted,  somewhat abstract fragments of landscapes and still lifes with painted strokes and very vivid colors. When she is finished she then photographs these works and digitally manipulates them to create brief, trippy films that, when viewed with a Virtual Reality headset, simulate the experience of being immersed in the paintings. 

For my second project, I want to take a few bottles varying in size and shape, paint it white then create an animation to project onto them. The theme would be personal, going on the idea of bottling up emotions. The colors I use will be specific to that emotion. Materials : Bottles White spray paint/ acrylic paint fabric material  maya mad mapper wacom tablet Timeline : 2/13 start gathering bottles 2/15 start creating animation 2/18 find fabric back drop

Statement:         My goal for this project was to create something that was fleeting. I Created images that I thought would look visually pleasing, then either crumpled it up or set it on fire. I especially love the visual aspect of fire, If I could I would've had this project completely consist of flames. I only had one chance to record each piece being destroyed.             I enjoyed creating things and not going back. As an artist, I usually like to keep anything I create. Some things actually came out pretty nice and it was hard to let go but that was part of the challenge. I included a "glitching" effect to sort of represent the struggle of destroying my art. I threw everything out when I was finished recording and it felt almost liberating. 

1. Process Post 1: Wanted to go a different route from my initial proposal. Painted on leftover drawing paper  and light it on fire at the end.  2. Process Post 2: Stitched all my videos together after editing . 3. Added audio and some more visual effects to enhance the video.