When asked a 22 year old the objects were: a blob, and egg, squares, squares with lines, a grill, kind of looks like a microphone, circles, and sperm.
I think i am surprised that my two subjects did not make more sense out of the nonsense…
Gestalt psychology or gestaltism is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies; or, that the whole is different from the sum of its parts. The Gestalt effect refers to the form-forming capability of our senses (the word Gestalt in German literally means "shape" or "figure"), particularly with respect to the visual recognition of figures and whole forms instead of just a collection of simple lines and curves. In psychology, gestaltism is often opposed to behaviourism.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Experience: The Mind of a 3 Year Old
For this experience i wanted to see a bit of how children think… so i drew some nonsense doodles on paper and asked a three year old what they were… I was surprised to find that he wasn't as imaginative as i would have though… he seemed to think about it pretty logically, and have some hesitation to answer my questions incorrectly. I assured him there were no wrong answers, but he didn't seem to think so…
Monday, February 23, 2009
Exploration No. 49 Connections
“Symphony, as i call this aptitude, is the ability to put together the pieces. It is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to invent something new by combining elements nobody thought to pair.” - A Whole New Mind
It seems as though all forms of creation are their own symphony…
It seems as though all forms of creation are their own symphony…
Book Proposal
In the broadest sense my book is about how everyone perceives things differently. Whether it it answering a question or performing a task, people just do things differently. So based on this idea that we are all different, no matter how much people fight it or conform to it, how does this influence our artwork? How is our artwork unique? How does art transform and evolve when individuals come together to create make it? In my book i plan to answer these questions through my experiments…
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Exploration No. 49 Found Words
Found words i kind of translated into heard words… I listened to things people said and wrote down as much of the sentence as i could and then continued writing the current sentence. so the final writing is a compilation of different conversations.
lost car… before i left the people… probably not, they haven't contacted me again… sweet conversation… personally they might show up later… found all my stuff that day… all crazy, i don't know why… twenty more… one, two, three… she must be proud of you i'd say, but weather… about appearance…i heard a five… so caught, she explained the basement, the farmhouse… once more can't go on… but what i have to do yeah ok and so like you can at least hate them…in the … but yeah… running over it, she will take her time… i really do… you have milk… we have no money… i'm all confused here, to go to the end… left you more at home, you know, now i can't see those… i didn't see…
lost car… before i left the people… probably not, they haven't contacted me again… sweet conversation… personally they might show up later… found all my stuff that day… all crazy, i don't know why… twenty more… one, two, three… she must be proud of you i'd say, but weather… about appearance…i heard a five… so caught, she explained the basement, the farmhouse… once more can't go on… but what i have to do yeah ok and so like you can at least hate them…in the … but yeah… running over it, she will take her time… i really do… you have milk… we have no money… i'm all confused here, to go to the end… left you more at home, you know, now i can't see those… i didn't see…
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Experience No. 4 + Connections
Combining characters… for this experience i combined the 'ninjas' from the previous experience to make multiple personality 'ninjas'.
El Diablo + Evel Kinevil - evil needs some kind of enabler… in this case a motorcycle.
Overwhelming personality…
Scuba + Nervous - I thought this one was really interesting after looking back at it because i remembered the nervous 'ninja' was standing in his own urine. and he randomly got paired with scuba gear…
One Badass Mother Fucker + Polaroid-ist - Retro. Old School. Classic.
Unicorn + Italian Stallion - Again this was a random pairing… but the phallic references seem to have gotten paired. However the Unicorn kind of re contextualizes the whole idea…
Italian Stallion + 'swirlies' - maybe he is a lover not a fighter…
Transition visually from one to another…
I think thins combination looks like a literal personality and an aura…
When it comes down to it, these 'ninjas' are stereotypes… and breaking up their personalities and mixing them together creates a more rounded character.
El Diablo + Evel Kinevil - evil needs some kind of enabler… in this case a motorcycle.
Overwhelming personality…
Scuba + Nervous - I thought this one was really interesting after looking back at it because i remembered the nervous 'ninja' was standing in his own urine. and he randomly got paired with scuba gear…
One Badass Mother Fucker + Polaroid-ist - Retro. Old School. Classic.
Unicorn + Italian Stallion - Again this was a random pairing… but the phallic references seem to have gotten paired. However the Unicorn kind of re contextualizes the whole idea…
Italian Stallion + 'swirlies' - maybe he is a lover not a fighter…
Transition visually from one to another…
I think thins combination looks like a literal personality and an aura…When it comes down to it, these 'ninjas' are stereotypes… and breaking up their personalities and mixing them together creates a more rounded character.
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