a hand in nature

installation view, Gabrielle Burgess, A Hand in Nature
28 November 2017

Kairos
senior thesis exhibition for Maegan Shilkey, Bryant Skopek, Jameel Radcliffe, Victoria Lopez, Gabrielle Burgess, and Jessica Criscuolo

Reception Wednesday 29 November, 5-8pm
 

suspected wall space layouts

layout screenshots with dimensions

possible cover from dictionary in process

wallspace sketch

wallspace sketch from the meeting
 

rough layout

Here is a rough layout without dimensions of what at this moment I would like my installation to look at.

11.9.17

orenda - n - a mystical force present in all people that empowers them to affect the world, or change their own fate or destiny

pabitel - n - a person fascinated by their own fate, in love with life, does and says unreasonable things, searches for beauty in the simplest objects and events, and likes to twist reality around to fit their liking: someone who proves that life is worth living

meraki - to do something with soul, creativity, or love: to put something of yourself into your work

wabi-sabi - n - a way of living life that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay

Petrichor - n - smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.

YUGEN means an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional

responses too deep and mysterious for words.

Komorebi (Japanese) (n.) sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees 

Cynfin: a place where a person or an animal feels it ought to live and belong, it is where nature around you feels right and welcoming.

apricity(latin) - n - the warmth of the sun in winter

woodnote - n - a wild of natural musical tone, as that of a forest bird

querencia - n - a place where one feels safe, a place from which one’s strength of character is drawn.

Peregrinate - v- to travel or wander around from place to place

feuillemort(french) - n - the color of a dying leaf

Alpenglow - n - A rosy glow that suffuses snow covered mountain peaks at dawn or dusk on a clear day 

shinrin- yoku - n - literally “forest bathing” a visit to the forest for relaxation and to improve ones health

Ayni(Quechuan) - n - Sacred reciprocity; the practice of living in harmony with the spirit of the earth.

A beautiful Quechuan word from the people of Peru. Honor Pachamama. Respect Mother Nature and she will respect you.

content

panorama and a test

progress

work in progress

Visual Story Telling

My show will be called A Hand In Nature. It will be about the influence of nature and the unspoken interaction you have with it and the effect it has on you. I want to make a visual narrative involving nature placed in temporary ways. The items I’ve gathered are reused and reproduced with some new additional items added to each “frame” (Which is what I’ve decided the individual photographs will be called) to create a series of documented arrangements of nature-esque items. I would like to present blown up representations on a wall accompanied by several still and possibly three dimensional works. I am still working with the idea of language. I want to come across as interactive. Since these are only documented as single photographs or videos, I will create an interesting view point that is different from that of the things in which cannot be recreated. I am experimenting with placement in a 2D way since I am making visual arrangements that tell a visual story. I want the viewer to be slowly more interested in investigating these documented arrangements. I feel as if its almost a performance, this sort of larger than life approach that is only captured through a photograph. These landscape patterns I am creating tell a visual story to be encapsulated in my world of the unseen.

Things I think relate


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A Hand In Nature

Gabrielle Burgess, reference

Zsuzsanna (Varga Szegedi)
experimental videos (2009 - 2011)

in particular, tidal drawing

zsuzsanna.com (artist's website)

catalogue to ABSENT | PRESENT performance/installation
Kate Gilmore and Zsuzsanna Szegedi
Montserrat College of Art, January 25 - March 30, 2013

all posts by Zsuzsanna at SAIC.

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edited by jm
 

Forms of Nautre

I want to focus on the raw emotional attachment to nature that nature has both with itself and with everyone. I want to be empathetic towards the idea of mother nature as true beauty, hoping to invoke the viewer with joy. I want to commemorate and celebrate nature as it exists. I want to associate nature as a perfect state and try and associate that with words of inspiration. I believe in this organic unspoken joy based out of purity, removed of all toxins causing it pain. I want to focus on all things positive. The words integrity and self worth come into play when I think of what i want someone looking at my work to feel. I want to celebrate the rawness and reality of different places, and I do not want humanity to forget nature as being a real form of joy.

preliminaries

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All seminar projects should have a title (always subject to change), and a 140-character (tweet length) summary (also may be changed). Optional: three or four #tags, possibly worked into that tweet-length summary, that help orient the work to larger (social, thematic, political etc) concerns.

For Tuesday: Have titles and 140-character summaries; do the readings; discuss current movements in your projects/initiatives.

This post is tagged with everyone's tag (or "label"), so you can see your name in the "posts by" list on main blog page, right column.

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The two readings I assigned are these

Cameron Tonkinwise
design thinking, yet again, because, maybe, it could actually be useful, perhaps even necessary, given every thing
June 12, 2017

Christina Wodtke
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking
August 26, 2017

Cameron Tonkinwise is a smart, energetic and prolific writer about design (sustainability design, transition design). I monitor his writing and links to others' writing via @camerontw.
he is also at academia.edu.