The Art Junket
Artist’s Notebook
February 10, 2015
Kaitlin Fitzmahan
The Artist’s Notebook It may be helpful in creating your art piece to do thinking about art in general and your art piece in particular. Here are some questions you might think about. Take your time. Maybe you’ll want to reflect on one or two questions at a time.
ILLUMINATION 1. What does the concept “illumination” mean to me? 2. What does “illumination” look like? What does it feel like?
Kay Adamson
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Maureen - 2/10/15
Light is illumination. It is the soul of the photographic image. Ruth Bernhard made light central to her photos. “Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush.” Without light, there is no color. Without light, the film is not exposed. Illumination is insight, awareness, learning. “Let there be light” in GENESIS was a reporting of far more than God ‘created’ light. Light was God’s gift to man, to the universe. Light is life, truth, wisdom. Illumination also has something to do with my efforts to discover who I am? “Who will I be when I grow up?” Who am I now?
To me, illumination feels warm and comfortable. It also feels kind of scary, exposed. Illumination is surprising, exciting. It is Emily Dickinson’s poem “There's a certain Slant of light/ Winter Afternoons-” Illumination is late afternoon yellows and gold, tumbling up over the Bay, up the shore, through the houses and up my hill. It is a white light sneaking in my window, searching for forgotten objects and bestowing gifts of shadows.
DIGGING DEEP 3. Does art need to have a purpose? In your mind, what would that be? 4. The medium you have chosen, how does it speak to you? 5.
What do you hope to achieve with your art, generally?
6. What assumptions have you brought to the table with your art?
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INTENTIONS 7.
What are you hoping to achieve with this art piece your are creating for THE ART JUNKET?
8. In the end, in what ways has your art piece communicated what you hoped to communicate? 9. If you feel like you have not completely accomplished what you set out to do, what can you do?
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