I really enjoyed viewing Ann Veronica Janssens work in person because they were very intriguing to me. I found myself looking at her works from many different angles because the works seem to be changing all the time depending on how and where you look at it from. 

"She sees her installations as a form go hypnosis, requiring focused attention and awareness on the part of the viewer."

I agree with this statement about her work very much even before I researched on her work. I immediately felt this way when I entered her exhibition and when I had no idea about what her works are about.

By observation I also found how everyone around me that were participating in the exhibition were looking at pieces from many different angles as well, with puzzling looks on their faces. To me, I find this appealing as an artwork and I admire pieces that really get the viewers to think and use their perspective.

In his exhibition called "Play Time" there were many types of media and materials used. There seemed to be a trend in his work and there were many dismantled objects that were arranged neatly, showing the layers of the object. To me it seemed like the process of making each and every piece in order to place them together to form one final product. This was interesting because even though the objects were not in it's completed forms, as viewers, we can still sense what it is even though we may not see the different components that are hidden in the product on a daily basis.

This was an artwork that spanned across one of the walls in the Everything at Once exhibition and I was very intrigued by the detailed drawings and repetition of it. The length of it assisted with creating a story-like feeling to the work. Looking at it, the images that the artist is trying to illustrate seem very dark, violent and negative. It is like he/she is trying to send a message for people to be aware of. From what I can see I think that it's about refugees and saying how they should have all the rights to do everything like other people in the country.

Marlena Dumas' work is very striking to me. This is because of how she managed to use watercolour to make these realistic abstract faces. I feel like watercolour is a medium that blends very well and is very soluble meaning that many of the effects it can create may be blurry and blended however the artist managed to create a realistic looking face using the blending technique.

The patterns she creates on the people are also very unique as if it has emotion within it because I feel like the colour and effect on each figure represents their facial expression well. For example on the left the woman appears to be in pleasure and calm and she chose a very earthy and neutral tone to the figure. Whereas on the right the emotions are more strong and vivid.

I feel like Marlene has used a very mild medium to create strong and vibrant artworks, and that is what intrigues me about her work.

As I have not really used watercolour in the past, I referenced artists that showed me techniques in which I can use to create figures. I personally like Anthony Gormley's work because they are simple yet finalised in a clean way. I feel like he has mastered the use of watercolour to create a simple technique because the colours are very evenly textured.

I chose this artist as reference because I am interested in how the art piece itself is a reflection of it's surroundings. The artist my not know the end result of the piece because it is constantly evolving depending on it's environment and I find that thought-provoking.

Home Within Home was one of the artworks that captured my attention. Do Ho Suh's works are mainly contemporary interpretations of space and the invisible boundaries between different cultures and perspectives. His works are very personal as it was inspired by his own life, where he moved from South Korea to study in the US. His works are life sized and the viewers can interact with it. I find that the scale of the works are what captures my attention but also the meaning of the work is quite clear to me yet it is still interesting. For example, the piece where he collided his childhood traditional korean house with a building he lived in during his time studying in the US, it was a clear contrast because the architecture of the two structures are beautifully different. It is almost as if they were from a different era.

What interests me isn't just the different external appearances but how the work can connote meanings such as all the differences between the two cultures. For instance, the difference in lifestyle, personalities, and beliefs from people in a collectivist and individualist country. An example is where people from a collectivist society tend to work together more and enjoy the idea of group achievement whereas individualists are very competitive and tends to work better on their own. In my opinion, coming from a collectivist culture I find the difference between here and Bangkok massive and therefore it is very eye-opening as well.

When I went to this exhibition, I was fascinated by most of the artworks in there. It was as if I was transported to a different location when I walk into each of the artwork. I feel like this exhibition relates to next week's Project because it is called "place" and I feel like these works interact with our 5 senses to create a sense of a new place in some way, mainly through sound and sight, but each and every piece has a different atmosphere surrounding it.

I was particularly interested in Double Poke in the Eye II by Bruce Nauman. There is an alternating cycle of two heads with eyes poking each other. Although it is neon and looks very vibrant and colourful I feel like the simple shapes gives off a sense of violence and reflects the society. People are always being violent to one another and it is a never ending cycle. It made me think of the belief, one that is wrong, in my opinion: "Solving violence with violence". People seem to think that in order to get rid of violence, one must engage in the act itself.

This was one of my favourite works from the artist presentation. This is because bright and vibrant colours are used to create this cluster, however, in my opinion it still gives off a sinister, aggressive and even scary sensation. This shows how things can be manipulated in ways in which it changes the context they were originally in, changing the meaning and presentation of it entirely.

This piece looks almost post apocalyptic, stimulating the viewers' thoughts to what our lives will be like in the future. Surely, fossil fuels will run out with no doubt. The work is fuelled with irony, as the fossil fuels themselves turn into fossils. I like this work because it is a simple representation of a very important message.

Wim Delvoye
This artists uses technology to create very detailed, complex forms that will intrigue the viewers and make them interested for what the objects are and not for what the objects stand for/ deeper meaning.

I think that this artist relates to my work because he combines two contrasts in order to create his artwork. For example, he uses delicate patterns and materials to make sculptures of something of the opposite, for example machines and industrial objects, similarly to how I'm focused in creating contrast.

I’m not interested in sculpting cubes or painting monochromes, it’s too easy,” Mr. Delvoye, 49, said as he presented his latest art exhibition in a Paris gallery. “Art must fascinate people and doing easy things is not a good way to seek fascination,” he said.
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In my opinion, his work succeeded in "fascinating people" because the detail in the sculptures are extremely precise, and upon further researching I found out that he has a whole team of people behind each work in order to produce the final outcomes. This to me is very different from what I am used to seeing and it is therefore very eye opening to see large scale works of art.

David Schnell's work was also another one that really caught my attention. I normally  am not fond of very bright colours but these in his painting seem to work very well. I was inspired by his use of architectural pieces and geometric fragments to create an altered space.

From the presentation on artists working with painting, I was drawn to Nigel Cooke's work. This is because of his style of painting and how he went through multiple layers and procedures in order to achieve this final outcome. I like how by just looking at his work I could tell that there was multiple layers before the outcome, and I liked how he manipulated the opacity of each layer to create an interesting effect.

As I started to experiment on plastic sheets and photographs, painting geometric shapes and straight lines onto the plastic, I saw similarities within my work and an artist that I've came across before; John Baldesari. He mainly works with collages and photographs and he had multiple works with coloured dots. I find the simple and graphic element of his work attractive, and it shows how photos don't have to be collaged in a complex way in order to achieve an interesting outcome.

To me, doing something as simple as covering human's faces with circles has a lot of impact on the outcome. For instance, I get this sense of distance from the people within the photograph, and how just a simple circle can mask their identity. This gives of a feeling of how everyone is the same, like we are all machines functioning on a day-to-day working cycle. Although the circles are bright in colour, I feel like it just hi lights the materialistic and fake feelings that the photograph is giving off. To me, the people in the photographs may just be hiding their true identity and feeling behind these bold and happy-looking circles in order to fit into society.

From my visit to the Tate museum, I found many works that had interested me. I was interested in this piece in particular because to me her work is a form of a kind of altered space. Kelley Walker achieved this eye-catching and crisp, neat technique by transforming normal sheets of newspapers and other papers into other shapes. Curved, twisted, and sharpened, she altered the 2d material into something 3D.

My annotations on text

Bakelite Robot, 2002

Nam June Paik was intrigued by the forms of robots and therefore created a piece that involved both the figure of the robot and sounds from radios. He used radios which were commonly used for toys and electrical goods back in the 1930s to create this figure of the robot. This makes us think back to the time when technology and communication were being developed and started to be incorporated to our daily lives, giving a sense of nostalgia, because today, we are all tightly involved with advanced technology and there aren't as many people using gadgets such as radios because of all the new convenient multipurpose smartphones and other devices.

Nam June Paik was one of the artists that I really liked, even before trying out video art in this project. Having the opportunity to go visit his work in the Tate modern was very inspiring to me and gave me inspiration to create something different. This is because to me, video art is considered as something new and viewers are still getting used to it, compared to other traditional mediums such as painting or drawing. His work definitely got my full attention because I feel like video art interact with a lot of our senses. It is more than visual, because it interacts with sound too, resulting in some sort of ambience.

From reading the passage from The Editor, I was interested in Omer Fast's CNN concatenated.

I was fascinated by the fact that many individual clips are edited so that each news reporter says one word but then combined together to give a sort of speech. In my opinion, doing this created an eerie and almost sci-fi feeling. I was then inspired to use this effective way of cutting rapid scenes together to create a new meaning.

Fast’s video can be viewed in the context of debates surrounding terrorism and security in the United States that emerged following the attacks of 11 September 2001. While the monologues in CNN Concatenated often touch on issues of personal anxiety (‘Look, I know that you’re scared. I know what you’re afraid of’), the headlines running along the bottom of the screen frequently refer to news stories about terrorist plots and the US military’s actions in Afghanistan. Fast’s combination of these elements seems to point to the media’s role in creating public fear.

-http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/fast-cnn-concatenated-t13707

“It came very naturally to me,” he says. “I grasped how a photograph is connected to our actuality, but also has way of fictionalising our realities as well.”

http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/06/crewdson-cathedral/

I find that even though photographs are from real environments it can create a temporary and fictional scene for the viewers to travel to. I feel like Gregory Crewdson's work and particularly this quote can relate to both Altered Spaces and Re- Edit.

Today I went to the exhibition by Gregory Crewdson called "Cathedral Of The Pines". These were a set of photographs that were taken at a small town of Becket, Massachusetts. In my opinion, this set of work displays the interaction between humans and nature. Also, I've recognised that in every photograph the people in it always have a certain expression on their faces, and it gives me a movie-like sensation. For example, this photo called "Woman In a parked car" depicts two people with very strong facial expressions. To me, the artist did an exceptional job on showcasing the striking scenery while also adding a sense of mystery by including people within the image. For example, looking at the close up of the image above, the old man almost has an angry expression on his face but we are not entirely sure what emotion he is trying to convey/hide. I figured out that the people in the photographs were all portraying negative emotions but I was not quite sure why, although in some photographs with more than one person in it I could kind of guess that they were in some dysfunctional relationship.

I was inspired to create this collection by this piece. This work is also an example of a collection, in this case it is a collection of "white" objects purchased in one go. In my opinion, having just one receipt against a wall highlights the importance of the receipt, because the viewers have to take a closer look to read the information on the receipt, therefore instantly making them pay more attention and detail to the work. Having only just one receipt presented on its own also makes the ordinary seem unordinary. Normally, people may not see the importance of a receipt and therefore may not pay much detail to it, but by highlighting this object people may recognise details on receipts that they may have never looked at before.

Monochrome Till Receipt (White) is a till print-out of a list of goods purchased by Floyer at Morrisons, a UK supermarket chain. Despite its title, the paper is in fact yellowish-white in tone and the information is printed in blue ink. The list itself comprises ordinary objects that are all white or have the word ‘white’ in their name, including flour, hand cream, mozzarella cheese, toothpaste, tissues, white chocolate, milk, salt, sugar and cotton wool pads among many other items, amounting to forty-nine purchases in total. When exhibited, the work is attached to a bare wall in a vertical orientation, without any framing device.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/floyer-monochrome-till-receipt-white-t12894

This collection of work by On Kawara really provoked my thoughts. I find how he carefully paints the dates on the canvases, with the same font and same white colour over a long period of time fascinating. I also like how Everything looks neat and pristine but it was all intact handmade and every single canvas is different, even if it may seem like it's coming out of a factory that produces identical products. He even had a routine for each canvas where he would apply four exact layers of paint for the background. This routine gives off a sense of calmness and maybe the act of these routines are therapeutic for the artist.

I also liked that the background colour also varied throughout the span of this collection where the tones would shift from striking colours to more dark tones. I've figured out that I tend to gravitate towards work that are precise and detailed.

The way that "Gas Tanks" by Bernd and Hiller Becher is presented inspired me to use photography as a way of presenting my ideas. This is because I find the small details that are different between the gas tanks across different years and different locations subtle but intriguing.

Optimism- hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something.

Water- a colourless, transparent, odourless, liquid which forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.

Repeat- something that occurs or is done again.

Linking to water, rain is something that naturally reoccurs, therefore there is a link between the word repeat and water in terms of the water cycle.

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) Is an installation of an exploded garden shed, with a lightbulb at the centre of the piece that looks like where the explosion is coming from.

"Cornelia Parker transforms destructive energy into poetic moments."

"Parker's work harnesses the volatile, unpredictable and dangerous."

Quoted from "Contemporary Art Book by Charlotte Bonham-Carter, David Hodge"