#10 [final] Double Rainbow

Featuring Tessa Laird and Tiffany Singh’s work:

After Steve Lovett’s lecture our class went to Papakura’s Art Gallery where we saw Tessa and Tiffany’s work on display as the “Double Rainbow”. It was told they had become fans of the famous YouTube video that was depicted by a man; Paul Vasquez a.k.a. hungrybear9562 who had saw this double rainbow near Yosemite National Park in the Northern-point of California that inspired Tessa and Tiffany to make their works in colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. When looking at Tessa's work, you find her screen prints, plain and simple. I really like how they all stood out in their place in the rows of the rainbow colours. I started reading the handout that was at the gallery, I noticed that it had the same form as the rainbow which basically was apart of their display. Tessa and Tiffany had their work separate in the gallery, Tessa had both walls where there was light and on paper. You see many examples of her work, such as Kundalini, a series of work that looks so cool that a person is meditating energy in relaxation. December 21, 2012, a depiction of when the world is going to end, but most people don't believe in it. Where Tiffany had hers inside the back, of the dark room filled with rice on the shelves and in the corners of the room and on top were molds of wax painted colours of the rainbow. As you go around the room, its from right-left, red-violet in a rainbow shape form but rectangular shaped. She had flower pedals, the Virgin Mary and so on and interesting. I would have loved to visit the opening to trade in her work and move some of the molds around to make it colourful, it would have been fun.

Although I have many favorable colours, I choose Violet because it is the same colour as Lavenders which are my favourite flowers. I have many in my room to remind me of my mother. I have made many paintings with the colour Violet, or purple, pink... to that point of my colourfield. I also like this range of colour because it helps me feel relaxed and I have nail polish with pink and purple, any kind of that colour Violet, etc. I also have a purple pen which I use in my journal that I became obsessed with. I also have a jacket, which I call it my lucky jacket. It gives me good luck when I'm going out and it also makes me feel happy at course.

#9 Steve Lovett

#8 Filipe Tohi @ Te Tuhi Gallery

#5 on Eldon Booth's work

Eldon makes instrumental narrative films that have styles such as experimental drama, fiction screenplays. It serves a realism of his work, form is altered and it shows you are aware of his work, because they aren't illusions of reality... it is constant thread throughout his whole work. He started 'Finding Honk' in February 2007, he wrote a script and shot his film in November last year. Although right now his work of Finding Honk is in post-production. Eldon showed a teaser of the film, he started telling us the story of how he got in trouble with authorities but was clear to go ahead with his piece, quite loud but in perspective. Eldon goes on saying it was a documentary practice... he had content in realism TV and film. He produces images of reality, colour pigments, contemporary meanings that makes these images recognized. He tells us the power of film lies - what wars are going on? news reports from different kinds of the war. It is a way of manipulating realism, ways of two, the form of camera techniques and shots used and the subject of ways in form and what kind of audience is needed. The editing becomes almost invisible. The realism is attained and the form is invisible and you can't see anything. Eldon showed us a show by E.R that had George Clooney in and showed us what continuity editing was about. The actors repeat the same line of 'where are you?' / "hey" / "Out!" and  "broken heart" which tells the story of the show, about them been doctors, it means something to a sad story after the lighting strikes. The techniques used within these shots that the camera moves with the actors, just like a live sports event because no one wants to miss anything.
Lastly Eldon worked with his friend Jason and made a film called "Withdraw" [2007] = they both relied on the topic. Eldon used his brother and his father for the main characters here. In the two years, they aged more in that time they worked on. He changed the landscape in a two year period. His brother does a lot of the walking, where Eldon uses a hand-held camera which adjusts the lighting. The notion of reality in this camera shot made the focus so imperfect. Another piece of footage using these techniques that was used around these events were happening. A shooting, not to stage something too much, but he wanted to use long takes. He wanted the realism to attract different reactions from his audience watching. He films a part where his father was in hospital which he experienced that sad moment in his life.

#4 Leilani Keke's work & Trip to Te Tuhi

When Leilani came to talk to us about her work I really enjoyed Leilani's work because she talks about the personal ones she has done with her son, father and family. Her work is manipulated into Video Installation work such as anything type of film clips mashed up into a .mp3 format that embraces a sense of cultural experience with her been Cook Island Maori. For example, the work with Leilani's son "Araki" was quite interesting. How he was seen in a the water and swirls around and then leaves the pool. I enjoyed how the music was Maori song and at some point it felt longer to watch, but it was impressive to me. For another example, I liked the three pieces of work done on her father who passed away. To me, I thought it was sad... everyone tried not to cry. I realized that she [1] video-taped her father's funeral even though she wasn't supposed to. So she filmed it anyways, I thought it was sad because Leilani makes her work related to her personal experiences from her past-present. [2] Leilani also filmed the part where her father got a tattoo on his chin as the eldest child of er family, he was known as the Chief. I felt that before when we saw her father get the tattoo, she says "Love you, Dad" - I knew she loved him and where her family [those little boys] sang. [3]. When her father was in the hospital, her niece was singing him a waiata, the Maori version one of Bob Marley's songs [i don't remember the title] I could that it was very emotional for her and her family to bed at the side of her father's bed in hospital. Overall, I enjoyed this part of her work because I knew where she was coming from and how she was feeling.

Afterwards we all went in cars and drove to Te Tuhi in Pakuranga. We didn't stay long but I felt that the trip was quite interesting I looked over the little booklet that had a maze-sort to the exhibitions to their artists work on display. I couldn't understand what had been said but I really enjoy of Ana B's one because it was a footage, a video installation piece of her work.

#3 on Tessa's Display & Mary Curtis's work

Presentation and Representation.

[Politics of Display ad Galleries] by Tessa, she showed us 38 different examples of work she had for her presentation. Marcel Duchamp's Mile of String [1942] -#3- he wanted to do surrealist paintings, when he decided this he thought annoyed of surrealist artists had made surrealists work become normalized or to that point. It was typical that he wanted to disrupt this style of art. It was confusing that he got children to run around it as well. It was time to recognized or recreate this style to breaking the rules of the whole space but the space itself. In this case, he hasn't in this space. When the Auckland War Memorial Museum opened 1929, -#10- it looks like a white cube, often one of a kind having this Greek Architecture. They wanted to build rectangular cubes that were strange but original to this Greek building. It associates with spiritual aspects using this against the white perspective and that it shows muse but inpiration to the visitors who go there. The Lascaux Cave Painting [17,300 y/o] -#6- It was originally found by four teenagers on the 12/09/1940. Although it had a air contemporary problem that it was interesting to me. An exclusive class, because the cave was hard to get into. It reminded me of a contemporary world. Some say there are still rituals around those caves and some say it should be crap, but here it is to be respected.

#2 on Frances Hansen's work...

I chose these works because...

 

I wanted to do something different and because I couldn't make up my mind of what I had collected. I chose the thing I loved most, and that was KPOP music. This is my collection of work I have.

Ta <3 Burda

#1 on Steve Rood's work

I decided to use things to write about because... I thought these images from Rood's work seemed easy enough for me to do. On tht account...

[1.] From the George category, the fourth image. I chose this image because it reminded me of Charlie Chaplin. I found this image had sort of bright-feel to it because it reminded me of Chaplin in his silent films, where almost of is films didn't have any words to describe them as where this image shows nothing but a word in its silent way of having no words to describe this one. I think that this is one so fascinating because it is so funny, even though it is an image of George Washing or something under the lines of that.

[2.] From the Mono category, I chose the 17th image before the 18h animation one because I found this quite interesting. It uses a series of still imagery to make an animation where this guy is riding on his horse to nowhere but the images do tell a story or two. I really like how Rood made this small clip from 12 frames of this one person riding its horse. It is quite funny in some ways, but really interesting.

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