Well, I'd like to start off with saying that of all the works we explored today, I liked Brent's the best. I think it's rather cool to be able to say your former TA's work is your favorite out of all the works you are presented in an art class, no matter what medium. Go Brent!! I hope I have time to see his work as installation. For some reason I really like the idea of installations works. I think if I must watch experimental film, it just seems better...perhaps more suited to the genre... if it is seen on a monitor. Why? I'm not sure. I guess my generation is so used to seeing Hollywood film projected, that monitors are now out of date for us in a sense, at least when it comes to art. So to me, in my film generation, the monitor seems more interesting and untouched as art, therefore rendering it more interesting for artistic purposes. Brent's piece was certainly still good to watch in the double projection idea, but I could see it being much more effective as an installation. I could see myself standing between the two screens, having the pictures fill each and seem bigger than they did in class, pounding at me from both sides. I can see myself barraged, looking back and forth, hearing the banging and really getting into it, as if the sound were to attack me in the center. I also think it would look better in a completely dark room, with no projection light. It would seem more jarring and fast.
Then I checked out the "Learning to Love You More" website. I found it very interesting and I wish I had time to do more with it. Maybe once summer comes I can do a more involved one. For now, I settled for a rather simple one...the flash photo under your bed. I keep all of my toiletries under my bed because I have no closet, a tiny room, and among three people only one bathroom, which is also tiny. So I have to cram all my stuff under my bed in baskets. I have my hair stuff (brush, pins, clips, bands, etc) in one handheld basket, and the other two contain my other stuff like makeup, extra contacts, lotions, facewashes, creams, curling iron, blow dryer, fake hair, etc. Behind that I have my old collection of small rubber horses in a plastic bag, as well as things that ended up there randomly. For these pictures I took one of the stuff I have in the baskets, then I pulled them away and showed pictures of what was behind them.
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