Sleeper

2010-02-09T19:54:00.000-08:00

You know, I love ceramics. I like feeling clay as something that is made as the same stuff as me, and then making something out of it. I never really bought into the whole 'life cycle, earth cycle' notion, though I know fully well it exists. I prefer what my art history teacher told me. Things come in waves. With ceramics, I do however feel the cycle of earth to earth and then back into other. It's pleasing, fulfilling, and maybe what art is meant to be. I don't know much about art yet so I can't say. I don't really feel the same with sculpture. There are so many materials that it is impossible to grasp all of them. Is it wrong, then, that I stick with my sculpture major as opposed to switching to ceramics? But what a ridiculous thing! to be a ceramacist only; all men think of is teapots and tea parties. I prefer my tea parties at the harbor of Boston and my art in a field rather than a glass case. Maybe I could join the movement and hail along as "ceramics as equal!", which I believe they are. But I think it's silly to rub in the point when most people hardly move past the first ten percent of artistic knowledge anyway.

"This is This"

2010-01-29T20:08:00.000-08:00

Stoneware, 2009-2010

New Sculpture

2010-01-29T20:05:00.000-08:00

Stoneware, Black Glaze

approx. 13x7 in.

2009-12-14T13:53:00.000-08:00

Very New, very exciting.

LOVE IT.

AH 200 - Renaissance Through 1855
Lecture
Mo 4:00PM - 6:45PM
Ellen Cutler
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

CE 324 - Cast Ceramics
Th 9:00AM - 3:00PM
Ryan Kelly
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

DR 252 - Life Drawing
We 8:30AM - 2:00PM
M 140: Drawing Studio
Dan Dudrow
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

IHST 281-IH2 - Psychohistory & Autobiography
Tu 1:00PM - 3:45PM
M 222: Seminar Room
Robert Merrill
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

L 269-IH1 - Love in the Western World
Tu 9:00AM - 11:45AM
B 480: Classroom
Robert Merrill
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

VID 200 - Video I
Mo 9:00AM - 3:00PM
BR 412: Video Lab
Jane Cottis
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

Catching Up

2009-08-22T11:16:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted to this site in a very long time, over a year. I don't think that there is anyone reading this but my apologies anyway Last time that I wrote here, I was preparing to enter my first year at the Maryland Institute College of Art, going in as a Photography major (technically, as the little checked box told me, "Undecided"). I am now little over a week away from the beginning of my second year at MICA, and in hindsight now (I really do hate looking back, ever) I think it was silly of me to try to emulate the life and dreams of a photographer. I admit that over the course of the past year I have lost all but a small bit of my love of photography, and I see its history stretching foward in a curve that will constantly deflect any effort I make towards its life and timeline. I think too differently from the rest of the medium; I don't have the patience or the desire to fight against both my school's curriculum and my own lack of confidence in my art. I am now officially a Sculpture major at the Institute. I dont have any hope of a job or a career out of it but I feel that at least now I will learn so much more.

Photography experiements

2008-07-06T13:09:00.000-07:00

Solarized image created in the darkroom.

I do believe that this- as well as photo montage- is the direction that I want to continue on in in photography.

New painting

2008-07-04T16:13:00.000-07:00

A painting that I have been working on slowly over the past few weeks. Right now I am dissatisfied with it, so it will most likely be changed before it is completely finished.

2008-06-24T13:42:00.001-07:00

Am working on new stuffed sculptures...
one big shrimp baby monster,
one medium cat- thing.

2008-06-15T15:55:00.000-07:00

This is a sculpture I created several months ago, fondly titled "Horse Fetus" but formally an "Untitled" piece. It was created from a pillow, yarn, super sculpey, all of which I sewed together by hand. The piece was created from my desire to give create a wanderer in dreamlands, to make the traveller that one often sees besides oneself in ones personal dreamlands. This specific traveller is a guidepost, but is not fully mature- the start of a series of dreams, perhaps.

2008-06-15T14:11:00.000-07:00

My favorite photomontage that I created in the darkroom... this is old, from about 4 or 5 months ago. Titled "The Newest Threat".

2008-06-15T11:21:00.000-07:00

Pen and ink.

2008-06-14T18:00:00.000-07:00

Just a quick ink drawing.

2008-06-08T09:54:00.000-07:00

But did I want to take fibers, sculpture, or photography as my elective next year? Hmmm.

Introduction

2008-06-06T18:54:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, my name is Christina, and I am a severely recent graduate of the Suitland High School's Visual and Performing Arts Center. I will be attending the Maryland Institute College of Art in the fall. Over the summer I am interning at an arts commision as well as working to improve my portfolio. My artwork is based off of sleepy messages, images blurred through a lack or need for rest, subconcious desires and visions, landmarks in the mind, human beast forms and the unknown factor in dreams.

My artwork is not meant to represent anything specifically, but rather encourage the viewer to feel as if they have brushed up against their own or anothers period of physical rest and mental exploration. I want to give a sense of deja vu to the unexpecting passerby.

Through my training as an artist, I have been taught advanced photography, from which I create images manipulated in the darkroom, as well as sculpture, where I work in softer materials such as fabric and paper as well as traditional sculpture materials. I have also been taught advanced printmaking techniques such as the etching, linocut, and monotype processes.

Lately I have been expierementing in drawing and painting on my own time, trying to establish a foothold in those more traditional areas of artmaking.

I have a large portfolio of work but I feel that is not connected enough. Therefore I will post new works as they come about, and will post old works as I feel fit.

A more cohesive artists statement will be posted shortly.