Red

So I found this website this morning that very clearly lays out some facts about color in the logos. This is where I am exploring branding in the corporate world. Here is the link to the website : http://www.fastcompany.com/3028378/leadership-now/what-your-logos-color-says-about-your-company-infographic

Here is a page from it regarding the color red.

From this I went searching for red logos in the corporate world. I found these which I will compile into a background like my previous work. I will also be going to the store to pick up any product that is red and cut a piece of the box, plastic, etc. out to sew together to make another square background. I am thinking of the time being studying complimentary colors? So maybe Ill look at green next......a little scary isnt it.

Starting Residency 3 Work!

Found this artist Sophie Calle (thanks Jon Gitelson) and she made breakfast each morning for a week based on color. Check out the weeks eats here: http://crowincrowndotcom.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-chromatic-diet-sophie-calle/

I just received my new lens for my camera so I am continuing to put work together at this time. Playing around with backgrounds and color schemes. I am very excited. In the process of rescanning the film that was photographed last right before the residency to be able to get a better quality image from them because they were done with a little haste and need some color corrections. 

I have been busy writing a critical theory paper which was good for me to work on in trying to organize my thoughts and prepare myself for a thesis. Great practice but it all still makes me very nervous. There has been a lot of talk about installation for my final show....that excites me. 

Here are some newer negatives that were scanned before the residency... 

I just ordered some more color theory books and will be sticking my head into more if it soon. I will be working on creating backgrounds for these in a different form than just the corporate logo. I will be experimenting with color more within the grocery store branching out from the produce and entering into the packaged world. Stay tuned to see new backgrounds and how my sewing skills develop! :) 

Manufactured Landscapes

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0832903/

Watch this movie. 

Start of a new semester and lots of work and concepts to break through!! Super excited! 

Sneak Peak before the residency

Here are a couple images of the shoot Ill be having all week. Super excited to send this film out and make more prints before the residency!

Think square. Think Albers. Think Color. 

This is not color. This is not food.

Inspiration. Working hard the next couple weeks to gear up for June's residency. One year down! One year to go! Cant wait to post the images Ill be taking in the next week. Working on reshooting the thumbnails posted earlier on film and scanning to make some large prints. Super excited but Ill be bust for a while soooooooo...dont wait up on me! Ill post before the next residency! Getting excited for the next community show as well thats coming up the end of June! 

Fiber Optic Tapestry

QUick shots, no edits. Had to share.

Check out these images. I am trying to convey the though of deceit of food and color. When asked what color are blueberries, one might say blue but thats not necessarily the case. When you think of the words all natural, what do you think? organic, farm? Again, not always the case, an idea of food and color that might play hand in hand lately with deceit to its consumers . I am also starting to think of foods that specifically have the color in their name......

red onion and coca-cola

naked juice and blueberries

orange and an organization to stop GMO testing, blanking on the name right now. 

BP Oil and green pepper

red onion and coca-cola

Photos and Edits

So these images give you the idea that I am working towards. Wondering if I can show "green" onto "green" onto "green" onto "green" etc. Sounds redundant doesn't it? Depends on what you think is green.

Should be font tomorrow working on my rainbow quilt and my patchwork scraps. Cant wait but I am going to attempt some reading after todays hard work.

Check them out:

Where the work is headed.

This is a sneak peek. This is where the work is headed…… I will be photographing these tomorrow in good light. These images were just taken in typical room light and not a set up.

Soy

Researching artist and watching the way they work and talk about their work. Inspiring couple Art21 videos on Trenton Doyle and Janine Antoni. So then I started researching because nothing was coming to make except to continue with what I posted yesterday. After reading this, I don't think I ever want to eat soy again! Not that I cautiously eat it often but man have I been deceived and I thought I was smart. Keep in mind I am not a pro-soy person. I don't eat soy intentionally but it is an ingredient in some foods. Deceit, that is all we have.

Read here http://www.cornucopia.org/hexane-guides/nvo_hexane_report.pdf

What do you see…..work in the works…..

DO you know what these are made of? How about your food?

Think about your food

So how often do you think you have been deceived? Think, just about everyday. People lie about the weather, your looks, food, and many more each and everyday why? To please someone? To satisfy the other side and leave them in the dark without knowing the truth.....these reasons can much more serious than this and become greed.

Our food industry is wack! Yup I  said it wack! USDA organic? think again. Major corporations see money in the food business and have bought out many of our (once was) organic farmers and producers of organic products. This is by far depressing. We see labels everyday that make us "understand" our food better but yet we dont even know the half of it. The list of products that are not organic that are added to organic produce raised from 77 to 250 within just a little over ten years. WHAT?!?! Why is this even necessary? People on the board are voting on these products that are not organic and made from chemicals to enter into what is certified as your organic meal. Wack I say! check out the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/business/organic-food-purists-worry-about-big-companies-influence.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Ok lets get off the rant....we get the idea. So what am I up to now? Good question. Still working with color and now thinking about how I can tie in the distribution, corporation, waste etc. of food into this fabric/swatch of color that I have been so interested in lately. So do these names ring a bell?

Naked?
General Mills?
Whole Foods?
Coca-Cola?

Lead manufacturers and contributors to some of this organic food dilemma we are having today. These business' care more for the money than the thought of organics for the people. Ill be working in a more contemporary photography way to build a background of ideas that represent this conflict in food industry today by photography and compiled backgrounds of these manufacturers logos. Then I will photographer, much like Albers, color on color with a close up lens and then print those as photographs . You might not be able to understand. I will do my best to get this ball rolling fast so I can get some images up but in the meantime you might have to wait because this will take some determination.

think about these colors

Vacation

Well….I took a vacation. Sorry I have not been around but it was much needed to detach myself from the work for a while and focus on me. Some things I did…

Biking 30+miles on Shenandoah Skyline Drive in Virginia with about 2,700 ft elevation gain and 20+ miles in Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown. Beautiful.

Did Brew tours on the Brew Ridge…looking out at the Blue Ridge Parkway

and went to DC Botanical gardens and was really inspired by color and texture…

I meet with my mentor Lana tomorrow to discuss the past few weeks and my production. Its been a touch quarter this time around, trying to really find meaning to all this and gain come kind of clarification but I seem to be in a  small rut right now. It will all make sense in time. Stay tuned for the next assignments!