Final Reflection

After completing my black and white paper cutouts and my final rayogram, I reflect and see that I tended to be drawn to geometric shapes with small areas of natural shapes and figures. But while using these geometric and natural shapes, I found that in these projects, I found that I was working towards on common goal, to create contrast and show negative space in my art. My most compelling piece of artwork was probably the rayogram because I feel that it displays balance, contrast, directional movement and was an overall interactive piece of art. It was by far the most laborious of my work, it required on to find objects that would display negative space nicely. Next one would have to scan it under a light for 8 seconds after positioning their objects, then use the developer, the fixer, the stop bath, the water wash, the perma wash, and then a second water wash. This process was not too time consuming, but it was laborious. While creating these artworks, I was forced to work and rework the pieces to satisfy what I had previously envisioned the end result to be. I probably spent half (or more) of my time repositioning my objects to fulfill my vision and ultimately create a, what I believe is, well unified pieces of art. One artistic habit of mind that I had was engage and persistence. I was constantly readjusting the materials on my works and was always trying to connect one object with another and trying to tie up all of the materials to one message or expression. But while I excelled with engaging and persisting, I lacked stretching and exploring new concepts. I repeatedly used the same ideas and foundations for my works. I used geometrical object that tended to be larger or more interactive than the small natural objects I would use. I never used all geometrical figures or all natural figures, but rather stuck to my comforts and built off those. Not that staying in your comfort level is bad, but I would rather reach out and stretch to explore new concepts and maybe develop new artistic traits.

Final Rayogram

This rayogram is my final one for the time being. It was done on a much larger scale than others with the same amount of simplicity. It demonstrates balance, but unperfect balance which adds characters and artistic effect to the picture. It has contrast, similarly to all rayograms. and it has directional movement, dragging your eye in a loop around the page, leaving a blank space in the middle.

Rayograms

These rayograms display natural objects, found outside. By creating a rayogram, the image displays the negative space of an object, rather than what is normally used, positive space. These all fall under contrast, and most fall under directional movement. Both images on the left portray a directional movement, the top moves your eye from left to right while the bottom moves it from left to right, then back to the left. The rayogram on the right displays unity, as both object come together to form one. This object is unique because as it seems that the leaf is covering it, you can see the stem of the the plant on the left.

Black on White Cutout Project

This black on white shows directional movement, starting at the center and dragging your eye in a loop, and bringing it back to the bottom, ending in abstract shapes. The circle in the center represents many things and others see it differently. I mainly used organic shapes with 2 exceptions. One thing that was very interesting was the center piece because many see it differently and it represents many different objects. I feel that this composition was more intruiging than the other white on black composition for many reasons. I feel that this design is much more interesting, interactive, abstract, and symbolic. Unlike the other composition, this piece of art relies on the eye of the viewer to determine what it means, and it relies on them to see the direction movement carrying their eye in a spiral.

White on Black Cutout Project

My paper cut-out was very symbolic, the chair in the top left corner was a very carefully cut-out object with many different, unique objects, stemming to drag your eye away from the corner of the paper, where the chair is. The point of the cut-out project was to represent what isn't there rather than what is. One of my favorite cut-outs that is new, abstract, and adds a lot of depth, is that line steeming out from the corner of the chair with three humps. I feels that tthe contrast in thickness adds depth and is intruiging.