-chaos-

My Expression of Chaos -Molly Froman

When watching the Jonathan Gruber film, Miriam Beerman: Expressing the Chaos, I felt emotionally and visually pulled into the work unlike ever before. With the combination of somber score and the visual experience of her work the film captured me and pulled me in unlike any other film has before. It seemed to me that for Beerman art was a real way to express her motions and deal with the cruelty of life that others might ignore. It was very hard for me to watch the end of the film, it was so stinkingly depressing. Knowing that all of the life experiences this woman had will slowly disappear was a shocking reality to me. At one point in the film she said that she did not create art to convey a message, and all messages that others would make of the works were not intended by her. I felt this statement resonate within me, I can only assume that she creates art because it is what she has been doing since she was a kid, it was her only outlet.
These drawings are my sub-movie creation, I decided that I would write down the words which caught my ear. I wrote them down all over the page, and of course because the room was dark I could not see where I was writing or what it might turn out to be. I really liked how it came out with the quote from Beerman "now I have a cat," it captures the film very well for me by putting emphases on the chaos as well as the playfulness of her personality.

-pushing past the reality-

"canyouseetheguitar" - Molly Froman

This collection of images, Pushing Past the Reality, conveys the idea of a dream state, a state which memory of the specific is lost and all reality is muffled. These photos aim to push the boundaries of what it means to be a photograph. I want to show that they do not have to be perfect images for the purpose of creating or conveying emotion. Just as Marshall Mcluhan says "the amateur can afford to lose" I am taking the chances with this project by pushing the limits. I can afford myself to lose the prospect of a perfect image by not using the proper tools such as a tripod or the correct exposure that would create a still image. I am in love with the movement found in these photos. I think that I will never be able to escape the experimentalism of the amateur. I was not able to know the outcome of these images because of the long exposure, when I opened the shutter it was all up to the camera to make the image. Not all of the photos in my collection were shot with a long exposure, but they all live in a dream state with a changed reality. All my life I will be playing with what it means to create, I love to push the button of what the viewer wants to see and what I put in front of them. I want to make the viewer confused and question what they are looking at.

-what makes art valid-

"Straight Lined Chaos" - Molly Froman

Ed Vessel made the comment that he thinks himself to not be very good at art, or maybe that he could not tell good from bad art; but how can one make this claim when we live in a world surrounded by artistic potential. His claim that art is something subjective is shown in his research, the idea that we learn what is good and bad art seems to me problematic and all to prevalent in our culture today. I think that weather or not you have the drive to make art is what will set you apart from those who do, the need to express yourself through art is what makes you an artist whether or not you create. It is important to note that not all work relies on a strong set thesis. This can be portrayed through the idea of a straight and curvy line, the straight line is straight from all angles while the curvy will be a seemingly new line from all angles. These scientific ideas which Vessel has about clear perceptions that the brain makes will end up in the minds of many.

"Vessel" - Molly Froman

Those works which attempt to create multiple meanings, or even those with an open meaning is what I am personally drawn to. Art is never about one set idea which there is no interpretation it is a form of expression where the meaning might be more separate from the feeling it portrays. Just like a video does not need a story line to be a video art does not need a set of rules to be correct. Art is for everyone and anyone it does not take one mind to tell what may be good or bad, I think Ed Vessel is stuck in the mindset of right and wrong when in reality there is no such thing. When schooled in the sciences it is hard to make a bridge to the arts.

-breath in-

Marshall McLuhan tells us "Today's humor, on the contrary, has no story line - no sequence." I interpret that as that which entertains needs no meaning. My piece contains only meaning made by the viewer and held by me. It is hard to tell as the viewer how much footage it took to create this piece, whether or not the piece is comprised of one minutes worth of footage does not matter. What matters is that it is held, in its current state, at the time of one minute and seven seconds. This experiment of sound and visual create a depressing symbiosis. I wanted to have the repetitive clock-like sound of the light turning on and off constantly in the background while simultaneously altering the sound behind it to create unease. 

This one minute could be torture or pure joy. My favorite part of the video is the ending when it abruptly stops: everything is gone for just a second, all that you have just watched ceases to exists except for in your memory. The video has no story line, no sequence, no reason; but is still worth the sixty seven seconds of viewing and the hours spent working on it. 

-my eyes are up here-

Most everyone has that one clothing item or accessory that gets a lot of praise, for me it is a red shirt which reads CHINATI in a muted grey tone. It seems that ever single time that I wear this shirt at least two people ask me what it means. People try and guess the pronunciation or ask if it is a combination of the words "China" and "Cincinnati" or some other silly interpretation. The usual answer that I give is a mumbled exhausted explanation that I myself do not really know what the shirt means. Without fail every time I wear this shirt I get question about its meaning. 

100 untitled works in mill aluminum - Donald Judd 

Well here it is folks Chinati is the name of a contemporary art museum site which is known by the name of the small town in Texas where it resides, Marfa. This exhibit is a collection of installation works by mainly Donald Judd and includes many other artists who work is permanently displayed in the military base which the museum is located. The space is made for large installations which may not have a space other than here. With no airport in Marfa the space is kept mostly a secret from the average museum goer and has become a desired road trip destination that I would hope to have the opportunity to visit. 

-i make what i feel like-

In my mind art is a form of freedom, I can create what I want and change what I want. Art is about not the ability to create a visually appealing work. I enjoy pushing the boundaries of comfort and tradition. I love to play with and examine how people relate to the spaces they inhabit. The way that I connect with what I create constantly changes. I am easily excitable. I am a child at heart. To me art is a form of rebellion, if I make a piece that makes someone uncomfortable and judge my validity as an artist then I may call myself successful. Those who do not understand what I make are the ones I like most. I am not here because I know ever step of my life and know exactly what I want to do and be, I am here because I want to have fun and learn to change the meaning of the purpose.

"Microsoft Mischief" -Molly Froman

This piece was made on Microsoft Paint, probably the most irrelevant program on a Microsoft computer, however as a Mac Book Pro user I feel limited by the inability to have access to this program or one similarly simple on my computer. On this program you can manipulate images to create blurred or pixilated pieces. I really enjoy creating works such as these glitchy pieces. I do not have much a process for work, I usually change my mind as I work through the piece making decisions as I go.