Spouse Mix

Spouse mix makes a comment on a particular type of marriage. The type of marriage when one of the people involved just wants to get married to get married and rushes into the commitment without any real feelings for the other person involved. Not only that but it is about how many rush into marriage without considering that it is a lifetime commitment, and that marriage is a partnership in a sense and you have to give it your all. I tried to make this statement clear by creating larger box than normal and one that resembles a cake mix box. It is kind of awesome to thing that there might be a possibility that from a mix one could make a living human being but it is not realistic or likely to happen. On the inside of the box I put different type of metal objects to get a loud sound similar to a crash or something breaking because the type of marriage that I am discussing will fall apart, even at the beginning it would be sort of ruined. I decided to paint my box a light pink everywhere and to paint the front white. To move the white else where on the box I painted white dots on the sides, top, and bottom and left the back pink. The changes in color and the dots being in some places and not others is in relation to the transition ones makes into marriage and how after marriage the transition is complete because of entering into a new life with another person.

Box project

My ideas sort of make fun of sertain aspects and types of marriage. there is not a particular form of a box that I want to use. I thought about a jack in te box type of box, a coffin, and a box of mix for baking or a pill bottle. I thought about how fairy tale weddings are false and are never what they seem and about how many people just want to marry to be married for all of the benefits, and then I thought about how people want to get married for the companionship and to grow old together.

Art event # 2

I attended an artist talk by Lance Winn. To me he seems like a colorist and he uses strong and kind of strange ideas in his work. He showed a slide of an explosion. when thinking of a large explosion people think of destruction and sadness. Instead of making the explosion look like a horrible event Winn made it appear playful and beautiful. To create the piece of art he used an array of different colors and shades of those colors nut also the colors used were vibrant, and happy. I really like the deer ornament that Winn created. It is of a dead deer's ghost leaving its body. It was interesting that he gave the dead deer the normal coloring of a dear and left the ghost deer white. I also liked how the work had some movement upward of the ghost deer leaving the dead deers body. It is an interesting thought that after we die that we leave the body we are used to and go somewhere else or into the body of someone or something else. It was also a good idea because deers are killed all the time by hunters or vehicles and I don't think that people see them as important, but maybe they are more important than people think. I would definitely put the ornament on my front lawn if I had the option because of the meaning behind it and because it is very different from other lawn ornaments and what they do.