Week 4: Artists Conversation: Tidawhitney Lek, Emily Hernandez, & Jamie Strassenburg

“Disposable Thoughts” -Tidawhitney Lek & Daniel A. Rivera Echeverria

The idea behind “Disposable Thoughts” is how we dispose our thoughts to the world. The napkins are a collection of thoughts we expose or dispose. The napkins are represented as a reminiscent storytelling of our history. As I interviewed Tidawhitney she had a lot to say about this masterpiece. She said what’s on the napkins are thoughts. She strongly believed that thoughts keeps one unfocused and emotional. The medium she used was napkins. This piece is made of 1,000 napkins that were sewn together. She said the most difficult part of this piece was sewing the napkins together and installing it in the gallery especially because it was so fragile and could tear at any moment. When this piece was installed, figuring out how the audience was going to see it was a challenge too. She said Daniel Rivera proposed how to display the piece, and that was to display it as a tunnel. Sewing and installing this artwork both took about 35 hours.

Emily Hernandez’s oil collection:

Emily Hernandez painted a self portrait of herself which took over 20 hours. Her next painting is called “The Split” of two cats eating noodles.

“Inuit Mythos” -Jamie Strassenburg

Intuit Mythos was inspired by Native American art. This piece shown is called “Pukimna”. “Pukimna” was the guardian of caribou herds. To see and learn more about Jamie Strassenburg’s artwork, her website is http://www.jamiedraws.com/

Although I did not have a conversation with these two artists I still wanted to share their incredible artwork:
“Women in Bathtub” -Hu Zichao, Medium: Oil on canvas

“A Peeking Black Cat” -Lui Yimiao. Medium: Color pencil on paper

Week 3: Classmate Conversations: Zitel, Tabitha & Kristine

Today I met 3 classmates from left to right: Zitel, Tabitha & Kristine.
Zitel is a math major and is in her senior year. She believes art is a form of self expression through whichever medium used. Tabitha is a psychology major and is also in her senior year.  She believes art is anything someone creates out of inspiration. Kristine who is also a senior is a film major.  She believes art is expressive and a personal element of art that the artist has to do with imagining reality, another way of retelling the story.

Week 3: Artist Conversation: William Brigham

William Brigham’s artwork was displayed in the Merlino Gallery. I chose to upload these pictures of his artwork because they were so beautiful. The Medium he used was clay, ceramics, and used copper, brass, nickel and silver for the piece in the middle. He said that his pieces were not painted on separate mosaic pieces but were actually patterns that ran throughout his piece. I couldn’t find the right words to describe how beautiful his pieces are and how talented he is.  I just stand back in awe.

Week 3: Social Photography

Today I uploaded on Instagram what I did throughout the day.  My first post was from the art galleries class attended to. I chose to upload that artwork because it was almost hypnotic by the designs. My second post was right after class when I went for a swim. My third post was of my favorite mug and of American Horror Story.  Lastly my fourth post was of my lights that intertwine with my headboard. Overall, I can say today was a relaxing way to start my weekend.

Week 2: Plaster Casting

On September 3rd I did the plaster casting. I attempted to make a molding of my hand. Although the wrist broke, it was still a fun process making the molding. Making the molding was a bit of a challenge, especially when the tide started to reach closer to where I made my molding.  In the end it came out better than I thought.

Week 1: Hello world!

Hello world, my name is Leslie Jovel. I am a second year psychology major attending CSULB. I hope to become a psychologist in the future. If I do not succeed in accomplishing that I’d like to become an interior designer/decorator. My hobbies and interest include laying back listening to music, drawing, and visiting different types of museums.