Blog 4: Motivation for the final project

this is how far I'm in the big idea project:

The Big Idea in this artwork is that time passes no matter where we are, or no matter what we feel. The meaning-making of this work is that even if you are living the time of your life, there's always another part of this world that is suffering. This was implied by using a diptych that represents the two different sides of the story.  The two sides are represented as paintings in museum. The left painting shows war in some part of the world. Distraction all over the place. The right painting shows simple love. A bride and a groom looking forward to a new happy life. Both paintings include this tree that has all seasonal leafs. This tree is the constant between the two images and it represents time.

These two artworks include different ways of representing time. They inspired me to represent time in a different way for the final project.


I will try to use the liquefy tool in this project to re-size or adjust parts of the image to fit the whole project artistically.

Blog 3: Two artists related to my Big Idea

I searched the internet to find two digital artists that will help me develop my big idea. Here, I will talk about their art work and what I like about it.


for the first artist, Ilan Lichtnayer, I found these two artwork that I really like.

 This artist tries to express the big picture of life in simple actions. The birth and death. Our love and all. The big idea in their work is that whether you like or not time never stops and the clock will always keep ticking. in the other work the artist tries to show that love results in attaching yourself to somebody else.
I find the simplicity and the presentation of humans as figures makes this artwork special. The first work inspired me by presenting a key on the bottom right of the image that represents a tool to make use of time and that a human has the choice to use this tool. I may use this work to help me develop a new approach to represent time in my final project. The artist's approach of using small details to represent his ideas can help me in developing the final project by trying to include more smaller details to clarify the big idea in the project.
artist's website: http://findigart.com/


Here is some work from the second artist, Rich McLean

This artist is very creative and unique. His ideas are very wide but well defined. Both of the artworks posted talk about the same big idea. They involve consumerism and trouble, isolation and prohibition all together. Many aspects inspire me in this artwork. The difference within each piece, the fact that each part complements the others, and the main idea that is presented overall. The second part of the first image really speaks of itself. It shows a person riding the swing on a resistor (part of an electrical circuit). This really shows that we cannot live without electronics and gadgets anymore!
I can use this art in developing other similar ideas that would complement my Big Idea. I can use smaller pieces put together to represent a much stronger idea.
from http://richmclean.carbonmade.com/