I based my compositions on the warped texture of the previous person’s work. I liked the flowing, organic quality that the piece had and wanted to incorporate that into my iteration of their work, along with color palettes I found pleasing. It was a very straight forward process, and although I am happy with what I have created, I wish I had made something a little more complex, or something that incorporated the same amount of texture that the previous piece had.

The final pieces were 5 x 8.5.

10″ x 10″

Digital

My contribution to the zine was inspired by the thumbnail above. I started out with the intersecting, organic lines on the bottom right of the blue and pink piece. The lines then extend and become rigid, following a grid. I also made little ghost sticky notes for the pink side for people to draw their own ghosts and populate the “town.”

Process:

5.5″ x 8.5″

This project is a part of an exquisite corpse. The image is derived from a 2” x 2” square portion of a previous image. I first manipulated the geometric forms within the image to appear in blotty forms akin to camouflage. I then added additional colors that highlighted the original palette. The entire image is then repeated several times in different scales and orientation to compose a final pattern. The image resembles geological maps of volcanoes I have seen and also brings to mind of the rainbow spectrum of pollution in water. There is no meaning behind the image but it does represent many visual cues to guide the conversation. The end result of the piece appears to serve as a potential examination of the Anthropocene and environmental issues.

The front and back images are inverted colorways.

Rachel Tandon, January 2015

8.5” x 11”

Digitally printed

This is my portion of the class-wide exquisite corpse, inspired by a piece created by the person in line before me (a snippet of which is pictured below). The piece before mine included many different references, some examples being memes, classical renderings of the male torso, a person vomiting, chinese lettering, and the western symbol for “prohibited.” Inspired by this semi-overwhelming layering of references and the strong tie to modern culture with the meme, I decided to draw and digitally collage a girl, perhaps dressed in clothes from the club, puking out iconic Greco-Roman sculptures. Making this piece made me question my place as an artist and my position to be creating such a pairing and statement. I realized that just like all of modern culture, I will never be fully separate from my past absorption of references—all of the things I have seen, all of the art, all of the life-experiences, will inevitably shape the art I make—they are the banks my mind subconsciously pulls from. For this, I am eating the classic Greco-Roman sculptures in the second drawing. Although Greco-Roman sculptures aren’t the direct inspiration for modern culture today, everything—culture, society, art—seems to be based in the recycling and reuse of references.

(front)

(back)

inspiration (2″ x 2″ selection from original 8.5″ x 8.5″ piece sent to me)

CIRCLE PROJECT

Inspired by El Lissitzky and previous circle project

Sad Suburbs: 10.75″ x 5.75″

Collaged image, scanned and digitally printed.

In the exquisite corpse project, I received a piece from Alex which showed a man carrying a bottle, walking away from a small house. The house provided the starting point for my own piece, which shows a row of nearly identical houses on a street. The imagery on both sides is quite similar, but lines up as if looking through a row of houses toward the next. I used Alex’s illustration of light pouring through windows as a jumping off point for my own depiction of artificial light in the late afternoon.

The sense of isolation and strange darkness present in Alex’s illustration also carries over into my own, although subject matter is very different. By creating cookie-cutter houses out of a digital collage (a technique also used in the prior piece) of suburban scenery, I attempt to capture multiple levels of monotony, similarity, and familiarity, which together provide a tension between comfort and uneasiness for the viewer.

The piece was collaged by hand using multiple types of paper, printed imagery, and ink coloring.

Process:

Inspiration Thumbnail

Process 1: Materials

Process 2: Window Light

Process 3: Original Piece

Final:

Final: Side 1

Final: Side 2

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