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two old men eating soup

two old men

I really like these three pieces by Keetra Dean Dixon. I like how they are words with meaning and often hide other words. I like how she made something so cool out of such a simple idea, like 'Love Sick'.

picture of 120 second homework check

Final Book

This is my cover page titled: uncertainty. The intertwined colored lines create a feeling of uncertainty for the cover which represents the following pages.

My first page of the book has an emphasis of a galaxy in the right hand corner. Space, in general, is a place humanity does not have a lot of knowledge on. We enjoy exploring it because it continues to surprise us. In my work, I made it portray uncertainty by leaving a sense of questioning, as to what the planet could be, where does the galaxy go, whose satellite does that belong to?

This next piece represents a city. My emphasis is the eye in the upper center of the page. I wanted to symbolize how we live in the world. Do we really know whats going on right outside our homes? Is there something larger controlling us? Maybe even a different world? By having this "eye" with a watercolor-esc reflection of a city on the bottom I created a world where you do not know what is occurring. 

In the upper left hand corner, you see some swirls in front of a dotted circle. My emphasis is where he black meets the white just under the circle. The reason this page relates to the theme of uncertainty is because the swirling lines and negative spaces leaves you questioning what they represent. If it has a deeper meaning than one would immediately see. I believe that the intersecting lines and words of the background with a contrast of white makes the viewer curious if the words within mean something to the piece.

My last picture is more simple. The emphasis is the "Y" on the bottom, but really I want the eyes to trail from the top of the page right to the bottom. This piece truly makes you question what the words represent. "Thirty six thousand seventy feet." I based this off of the depth of the Mariana's Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. We know next to nothing about our worlds oceans. I wanted to play upon this fact by giving some incite to a really amazing part of nature, making one curious to learn more.

Eden Weingart- Designer

http://edenweingart.com/hestian.html

The designer I gravitated most towards was Eden Weingart.  She uses motion in most of her designs rather than still images, and tries to make the still images appear as life like as one can imagine, as though they were screenshots taken from her mind. I like that she uses the drawing pad to personalize each work and that they differ in simplicity. None of her pieces are too complex to the eye. I believe her mood depends on the type of project she completes. The first work is very simple, being positive and negative spaces only and is sophisticated since it was created for an awards ceremony. The second piece is more fun and silly since it is a short animated loop of a bird "liking" pictures on a phone. The last one is a video she helped create to educate the public of the safety of stoves and how to help save the lives of children who annually die of smoke inhalation. So in that case it is very serious, but the art style is very simple.(the link is the video, it would not load).

http://edenweingart.com/index.html

Eden Weingart