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17 comments:
this piece definitely reminds me of a rorschach ink blot test. i think i appreciate it now, upon seeing the photo-documentation, more than i did watching the performance. during the piece i just kept wishing you'd get down and dirty with the whole thing. like squeeze the ink from between your legs or from your teeth or just some sort of sick shit. i dunno why...but yeah.
This piece was very nicely came in the second beginning of that day. The simplicity of the act and the endurance that it required was one of the charm of this piece that I realized when I saw Addie shaking her hands from the coldness of the iced ink.
I am a sucker for calligraphy marks, brush strokes, spills, drips, and it's vitality. The tension of holding something cold made this piece believable and pure in its act of painting with drips like Jackson Pollock. If Pollock dripping the paint was the act of masculinity, Addie's way was to de-construct that myth and present itself as vulnerable, immediate, and improvisational, so shaking to create shapes on paper was not put-on, but simply physical challenge. The drawing was a documentation of that.
while it was great to watch her hands tremble, the ink pools stole the show.
they were absolutely beautiful and to watch them grow and change was exciting.
haha quinn.
her hands must've been sooooooo freezing - when i saw her hands tremble i wanted to help her somehow!. the marks that the melted ink ice made were absolutely beautiful. i really enjoyed watching the paper almost creating its own marks
this piece reminded me of Grace's icecream piece. and just like Grace said, i wanted to do something for Addie when i saw her hands trembling. I really liked how the marks on the paper kept growing and growing becoming more breautiful as time went by.
I think the most interesting trend I have watched in your work this semester has been your ability to work with messy or unclean materials ie. the hair and ink cubes and create gestures that seem very fragile, all the while having a very controlled finality to them. I’d love to see this idea taken much further.
-Brenden
For this assignment, I really wanted to do something that lingered and created something slowly. I'm not sure why, but I immediately thought ice. I never tested out the way it would look, it was more of an experiment and simple gesture.
I really like working with materials that are commonly messy or undesirable and using them in the opposite way (kind of like Brenden's comment).
If i could have, I would have done several of these with different colored inks or ice with different materials in it.
Initially I thought you were holding ink sacks from a squid!!! And then I realized they were ice chunks. Aww....
It was an impressive test of endurance. How did you stand the cold? Your hands were trembling pretty badly by the end, and it was great that you melted it completely rather than crapping out halfway through. Even just holding out your arms straight in front of you is taxing, so I saw this performance as something more about pain than anything else. And from that you created some natural 'drawing'. I'm sure there's some sort of saying out there about pain and beauty. Hurr.
also to addie: i'm really sorry i missed your performance. this is when i was in the sink washing off =(.
the picture of you holding the ink was the most beautiful to me. i don't even know if you really need a drawing to be done on paper. paper has been done before. what if your own body taking the ink in and becoming stained was the drawing? or what if the drips (if there were a lot) was documented in a way that highlighted the beauty of melting...dripping...splotching...etc.???
but if you really want to use ink on paper, then i
suggest going all out when you draw. make the act of drawing something other than just hands...
annie cho.
The most excitig part of the performance was when the black ink/water drops onto the paper. Mark sizes are varies and their shapes are different. As the water drops, the water turned into one dimentional and create composition with other marks. It was simple and great transition. Also I like how the chunk of ice gets smaller as she rubs her ice.
However, I felt really bad when I saw Addie's hands kept trembling.I could feel the coldness of her hand!!
I thought the idea of self-inflicted torture (holding the ice cubes - how did you do that? ow!) was an interesting aspect of this piece, like you were "suffering for your art". The documentation was again, the most successful part for me, which I think was your intention. I like what you said about using different colors, and pushing it even farther.
I loved the idea of using ink because it always runs and makes such unexpected marks when not controlled.
the idea of self inflicting discomfort for the sake of make art was also an interesting aspect.
It would be great to see this on a larger scale paper. Now, everyone knows by now tht I'm not a fan of drawings or paintings without control...yada...yada, but it's good to see (because I know that you are a really great painter) that you are interested in other genres and methods of drawings.
at first i had no idea what it was you were holding. i liked realizing that it was ice cubes once your hands started trembling. seeing black ice cubes was interesting and different, altering the associations i have with normal clear ice cubes. they made beautiful and surprisingly controlled drips. i too am very drawn to the similar aesthetics and styles your pieces have and really love your material choices.
Ok - so I had an ice pop the other day, and the whole time I was thinking what it would be like if it had to be attached to my body as it melted, so I applaud you for your endurance with the ice and your hands. I'm sorry I didn't get to see you do the whole thing... for a while during your performance I was photographing Annie in the sink. The drawing that resulted was beautiful - all those drips. It's nice that it was so symmetrical - granted your hands were right next to each other... but still. Beautiful.
This piece is alot like mine in that the melting was the force behind the result, and the artist was only there to set it up. Obviously, the result of yours was more beautiful!
I like the idea of leaving the result to the mercy of the medium. I also like your decision to use black ink only. I like how simple that was.
The piece reminds me of those psychological tests where they hold up those white cards with abstract black shapes. I love that the markings were done by ice melting on paper. The piece is simple yet bold. It reminds me of Pollock's markings - his drips and splatters.
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