Zach Sesar

Chance Project

Nature and Industry

            This assignment is to create a digital works piece from the chance of organic/geometric shapes will mix on a surface. The creator will take ten pictures of what they depict as Nature or Industrial.

Materials

1. paper, pen, and coin
2. digital camera
3. access to the adobe program photoshop
4. Microsoft Word

Taking ten photos

1. stand in location desired for photo and document where it is
2. flip coin

heads: hold the camera at 90% (angle axis arm/leg)

tails: hold camera at 135% (angle axis arm/leg)

3. take picture and title

When titling the work artist needs to think in random and do not erase any marking put; listen to what is in your surrounding at this certain point and time.

Remember what images go with location and title

Repeat process for all 10

Translating photos through Photoshop

1. create a folder called “chance” on a desktop
2. then create two folders inside that folder called, “start” and finish”
3. download 10 images into the start folder
4. Automate batch Process all images to 10’’ by 10’’ at 300 ppi

Remove constrain proportions lock

For assistance use  this URL address

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~telarts/Art410/tutorials/PHOTOSHOP%20/AUTOMATING%20TASKS/PHOTOSHOP-Batch.htm

           

5. start with the first image taken and copy this complete image
6. create a new project (titled defined by creator and save into “chance” folder
7. then paste image upon “new document”
8. open next image that was taken into photoshop and copy/paste upon “new document”

layer that was pasted drop the fill and opacity to 90%

REPEAT step 8. for next eight images moving the opacity/fill 10% on each layer.

Once finished flatten image and save into “chance” folder

PRINT

On Microsoft world

1. document each picture from, angle, place, title, Opacity/Fill percentage
2. save in “Chance” folder

PRINT

Place works together on a wall

Inspired by Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems, 1975

Thank you for playing

This is my creation from this formula

Blue Skies For You and SFSU

By Zach Sesar

1. 135%, SFSU FA Building looking out window by room 538, “Stormy Block”, 100%
2. 135%, SFSU FA Building by exit sign looking at window 5^th, “Outer Peace” 90%
3. 90%, SFSU FA Building  by couch looking out window 5^th floor, “Snowfl…Storm is”, 80%
4. 90%, SFSU FA Building By Stairs looking out window 5^th floor, “BlockyPlace”, 70%
5. 90%, SFSU FA Building by elevator looking out window 5^th floor, “Letters of Space”, 60%
6. 90%, SFSU by drain near Ceasar Chavez Center, “Oh my gah blah”, 50%
7. 135%, SFSU FA entrance by vent, “Blue Sweater tip-tap”, 40%
8. 135%, SFSU by garbage, tables, and handicap access, “Why is he taking”, 30%
9. 90%, SFSU Waterfall, “Raindrop”, 20%
10. 135%, SFSU outside of ceramics lab, “Battle”, 10%

studies in painting three

Bending Dimensions of Reality

            Looking over the horizon, I see our humanity grow like an endless avalanche with more and more everyday without any fear in sight to be found. World’s clash of symbols of good/evil, pure/un-pure, and with nature versus industrialization. I question the viewer of what becomes more important to preserve, our feats of mankind or beauty that needs no modification?

            Perceiving perception in a two-dimensional box world of computers, phones, and televisions that keep the living driven by machines. Has depth in far-sighted vision been forgotten in western society from our forced need to gaze upon these screens giving us quick release from work driven society? This project is to combine an understanding and respect for nature/industrial living as they clash together on the canvas by the usage of the style, mixed media painting to depict my perceived visual life with an artistic touch made for visual pleasure as one ponders western living.

            Combining mediums from far to near to create an illusion of depth on the canvas. Working from low pigment transparent watercolor in the atmospheric background following layer by layer of perception landscape/industrial buildings towards the foreground. Working from gouache to acrylic and to oil paints with cascading mediums of thickness of paint/brushstroke will create this perception for the viewer to bestow in their mind.

            Wanting to take depth another layer deeper, using modeling past to create a physical aspect of creating depth on a canvas as painting might be classified as “sculpture.” In the foreground buildings and nature have a layer of modeling clay underneath with the more luscious oil paints to give the viewer closeness feel just as “real life.” Wanting to create this illusion of depth is for the study, viewer, and personal pleasure. Looking into a painting with multiple layers kicks thyself into a positive trance creating a story with no story to be institutionalized. Life is based through layers as we create labyrinths and ways to solve these puzzles/mazes going deeper in complexity/hardship to show our valiant efforts in life as Theseus did for Ariadne.

With music replicating life with deep complexity and universal love based on multiple self-clashing/ flowing layers reminiscent of these labyrinths that take an audience deeper and deeper creating a western derived story. Music goes hand and hand with visual art as much as a child needs a hand to cross the street. Consisting of several layers of replicating sounds to create a flowing story to be heard, but western living has accelerated this peace of the past simplicity in composers. Modern music is generally overthrown with clashing sounds and noise that would have been burned at the stake in past centuries, but as we rush with time an artist replicates current life consciously or subconsciously. An example of westernized sound fighting its very institution would be dub reggae, jazz, punk, and all electronic. With a stylistic incorporation of sound waves on the industrial foreground to design a metaphor for human interaction as we overlap our life levels together.

            The shape of the canvas is for aesthetic wall reasons as a shape other then another box is bestowed on a wall. As we combine convoluting lives of different cultures or squares as they become one and one can only think “outside one box.” The scale is large to replicate actual vision for the viewer and to keep them wrapped into a self-created story. With replicating buildings that are clarified as “Green Architecture” we remove from time driven beauty to show our feats of western production. Grab the Charging Bull of Wall Street by the horns and conquer to escape Babylon.

65 years from now

We are all working for a common goal whether we can understand that concept or not. We work and survive together. Sometimes world’s do collide but after great destruction there is re-creation and new understanding. With technology advancing much more then human evolution it seems that it’s integration into our life’s has made us almost cyborgs in our current world.

            I believe in the future people will rely on a portable device to survive and it will be government issued and you will have no choice. We create rules for each other to get ahead but we in-prison ourselves with checks and balances on each other, example Face book. We will not have flying cars but our transportation will be reliant on robotic non-combustable use. It is efficient and takes the human error out of the question. Humans are in perfect but all want perfection.

            Our food needs to shift to a vegetarian diet for our mass population. Most types of meat are negative to human system but there shouldn’t be one sole in western civilization hunting for food. We need fish farms instead of meat farms. This will also progress Babylon away from consumption.

Advertising will consume our lives but why? We are so pathetic. Why allow a two-dimensional life control your three-dimensional being!

Eastern and Western life styles will collide but as we expect, no great war without a great profit. We will de-humanize and work for a common goal as our planet becomes whole. Separation of classes, our current president is the first socialist elected into the white house and he is declared hope… 

"As we may think" Vannevar Bush

This article concreted a good amount of ideas i have bestold in my mind. The idea of how scientists have lost control of their former practices due to man's new capabilties of a technology driven world. No physics needed for me as man becomes more and more less fearful of anything escape for the role that the few gifted physicists are able to play. The role of designing weapons for a nation (sattelites included).
When Bush starts to talk deeply about camera processes, I begin to wonder where he was going with this but then the explanation was around the corner. How man is creating this web of documentation of one's life. I notice this everyday that man has a need to document all works and publish them for all. We all have story but please listen to mine more then the other. Everyone wants to outlive their current life but this will bring complications to that current life...

"Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important." Bush, Page 8/ paragraph 9

morph man

            A person born or forcefully develops twelve fingers for a purpose to create something new with our vast population/technology boom. In the early renaissance music was simple as human life was as well. Nothing digital coursed through their veins just simple two-string loot and other soft mellowed instruments. By around the early twentieth century humans began to incorporate all types of sounds into music as the industrial age hit our lives with such force. This combination has led our hearing sense into this incredible electronic music era we are part of in this early twentieth century. Based on new sounds, warp channels, filters, recordings, heavy bass, process on layers, musical experimentation, etc… music has now become so vast and handheld that everyone can do it and become a composer by downloading a software program, “Virtual DJ.”

            I ask what is next? We need a new sound for a new generation. By adding one phalanges to each hand a musician will be able to play like not other before their time. Hitting chords and sounds that were not physically able to before this twelve-fingered person came along. This musician will play all instruments in such a radical way with being able to turn three channels on a mixer at once, play two beat pads, play a harp like not one’s business, the possibilities this person can advance will create a new era. An era of genetically modified humans for arts.

            If I had this anomaly I would create instruments that only I could play properly. Such as a piano with lower/higher notes with a quarter note embedded between the half note. I would create a beat mixer that would be specific for my skills. If all had these twelve-fingers the norm for a guitar would be a seven-string guitar. Advancement with evolution and our culture of wanting new only one can imagine more provocatively/productively.

            If this person was born with this feature they will be alone and strong but one must wonder if he or she would play music or use their difference in a new profound way?

artists that morphs the hman figure, "Mojgan Najafi"

          Looking into this woman's work i am intrigued with this dis-figuration of removing the arms in certain pieces, such as Alexandros of Antioch with his work "Venus de Milo," 100 BC. Najafi's work is very involved from this over the hundreds of years art that took place between theses artist's. her work is very graphic and visually stunning. a form of using a loose brushstroke with watercolor works.

          The viewer depicts the figure because of a close relationship to the human figure but done in her artistic fashion. this painting intrigued me because of the woman's archetype of laying as if Venus has in many paintings before her.