Thrift Shop Détournement

"The Drafting of a Man"

This completely unoriginal piece of artwork uses the tradition of Dada, pop-art, and any number of art movements that have utilized collage, to develop a composition using only found imagery and objects. I started by exploring local thrift stores and garage sales to find the work of art that speaks to me. Then, using only found images from print sources, I recreated this art with new image layers, subsequently shifting the conceptual nature of the work. In this Dada inspired approach this piece lacks reason and logic, prizing irrationality and intuition, nonsense. For this art to be called nonsense, it should fulfill no legalistic criteria whatsoever. Each piece of random nonsense incorporated in this piece depends on another piece of totally unrelated, utterly nonsense which preceded it. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. The concept of work in this random nonsense art technique is not obvious, it is generally expressed metaphorically.

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YouTube Video Montage

Interactive Website (Click Here) Artist Summary: The YouTube Video Montage , due to the wide range and selection of videos, was an interesting process. The composition represents the business and cluster of media and television. The concept is based on flooding our minds with stimulus and determining the outcome. Varieties of videos were chosen to interpret the meaning throughout this piece, and are as follows: (1) The technology of beautification and image altering. (2) Charlie Sheen and how he is self-destructing in the eyes of the media. (3) The hypnotizing spiral showing the unknowingness of media and how it alters our thoughts. (4) (7) & (10) The images of people zoning out from television, showing how television wasn't created to educate or enlighten you, but created to sell things and ideas. One video calls TV the drug of the nation. (5) This video expresses the idea that there is always something better presenting itself to you, ur

Website Re-Purposing

Artist Summary: Re-purpose this site conveyed the fashion world’s self-image controversy of looking healthy and beautiful. Fashion magazines feature models that look unhealthy and skinny “selling” the subliminal message to either buy products or treatments to look as they do. All images chosen for this piece were for their appearance of unhealthiness, and not the beauty that is found in the real world today. The composition expressed reality and the false perception of beauty.

Triptych Digital Montage

Artist Summary: This piece was composed of one scanned image of my hand and a photocopy of Teen Vogue on a page about Emma Watson. The rest of the images were selected based on their intriguing qualities. It involved many different forms of digital art such as fashion, love, beauty, and emotion, as well as and creative interest in tattoos and surreal art. All three compositions were designed differently but show the same overall image intensity per each montage. Showing collective images will catch your attention and attract your eyes along the way.

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