Triptych -Lessons Learned

I know I'm lacking in the third panel -- different everything about it. I had another panel there before my flash drive and I parted ways, we got into an argument and skipped town.

I'll come back to this and make something better :D when I'm not stricken with illness.

alternate dimensions of still life

Much better now that I can make it horizontal.

I'll edit out the white borders when I get home.

still life

This is the product of trauma and 8.5 hours of total obsessive immersion.

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Still Life: Robin Keychain, Purple Flower Hair Clip, Upturned Perfume Bottle, Rock, Apple, and Bit of Driftwood.

Luckily -- Nat was able to find out how to make the art boards horizontal which I for the life of me couldn't figure out, it looks a lot better as a landscape. I like the detail I put into it, but I still made a static, boring, centered image which bugs me. Ill work on it with the triptych.

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My sincerest apologies for posting this much later than most of you punctual dollies have -- I've had some complications. I cropped all the extra bits out using photoshop so you can better see this as it is intended -- merely what is inside the bounding box. I think I liked this a hell of a lot more the morning I completed it. I find myself not quite enjoying it anymore. If I could go back I would maybe take off the shiny bits on the discarded polaroids on the floor -- they are all copies rotated at random angles so the uniform shine to all of them is a tell tale sign of laziness and cheesiness that didn't quite strike me as being so jarring until going a few days without looking at it. I am, however, content with the product of my efforts as I did spend a fair bit of time working on it.
It's still not really what I want to achieve -- it still seems a bit lacking to me. I don't know how to quite explain what I'm looking for, perhaps as we progress I will have a better idea.

Hope everyone is well.

-stacey

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Oh me, oh my... let's see here. You are here for Intro. to Stacey 101.


I am first and foremost quite odd I think -- though I suppose everyone thinks that, or maybe not? I hardly see why it matters. Moving on, I am attending Ocean County College for what will be my fifth semester, the beginning of my third year. I am a portrait example of a complete lack of ambition where what will be my future is concerned. This semester I am testing the waters for teaching -- though the idea is nice, I'm not quite sure if I can carry the weight of it -- molding young minds and such.

I love artbooksmusic. Some of my favorite books include, but are not limited to : A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and what I'm beginning now is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I come to really enjoy books that are concerned with the element of the human condition.

Music. I love music -- though everyone does I suppose -- and I'll listen to just about anything. Though I think sometimes the beauty of complete silence is overlooked in face of iPods and home stereo systems but I think I'm looking too much into this.

I am also a fan of sequential art, re: comic books or graphic novels, from various genres and cultures -- Korean manwha, Japanese manga, as well as American homegrown D.C. comics -- I've got a thing for caped crusaders. (Batman is better than Superman. Just putting it out there.)

From a comic obsession that was inspired in me as a child and fostered in what is now my more young adult years -- my 'art' has been limited to ideal, aesthetic, static, centered, boring, images. There has been no variation, only refining. I can do 'perfect' in the sense of a symmetrical, well-balanced picture but there is no thought -- no underlying message. It is just beauty for beauty's sake. Like cut flowers -- all aesthetic with zero purpose. A decoration at most.


But I digress...




What I plan to get out of this class is a break from the norm, deviation. I want to find a way out of this constructed little box -- or better yet, break it wide open. I want a purpose. And I suppose the big goal of this all, is that maybe, oh if maybe, I could just get out of this depressive little artsy slump that maybe those puzzle pieces I've been keeping to the side for lack of place to put or fit them will start to click together. I know, it's a bit hopeful. Don't remind me.

I forego sleep often.

I laugh at inappropriate junctures.

My humor can be quite base, crude, and disrespectful.

And though you may see me sit and stare into space -- know that my mind not sitting merely sitting there wasting. I am constantly considering certain outcomes of various scenarios and writingwritingwriting constantly in there.

I think... that about covers it? I feel I've rambled a bit. My apologies.

The only link I can supply is an online art site I seldom remember to post at.
wumei at deviantART

- Stacey Simmons