VISA 480 Sample Student Artwork

Prompt for Final Artwork
The final project for the class must be a work that functions to further develop your practice, represents your interests, your provocations, your politic, your aesthetic, etc…  The project should also engage or conflict with the course propositions in an interesting way.  As the project is worth a large percentage of your final grade, and this is a fourth year studio class, it is expected to be of high calibre, with decisions in place and settled, and overall considered complete.  The piece is to be displayed as close as possible to how you would display it if it were a professional exhibition.  Please provide a label beside the piece for critiques, that indicates the title and materials that make up the piece. All work will be shown in class critique, and critique groups will come twice, for a total of ½ hour.

Sun Bleached Poster
Missing Child
Again

Response/Comment to Student
The content of the text, structure and materials reference their conditions, in overlaps as well as declared gaps, was very interesting.  In particular, the puffy opaque yet soft letters, a slightly different white from the polyester (ready-made)  background, referenced a ‘sun bleached poster’ and the missing child became as invisible and traced as the letters from the background, and at times the words disappeared.  These subtle incisions were just as strong as the original poem.  The final line, where an absolute disappointment in humanity starts to ring through, is a statement of repeat and inevitability, a most destructive realization.  While you mentioned the positioning of the flag was not intentional, I found it quite provocative.  In the synthetic material and stencil font type it referenced the somewhat preachy flags found in a church basement, but the colour has been severely faded.  By “looking up” at the flag, and the words, it becomes a significant inference of the gesture, rather than “art” height, which would solidify it into an art object.  I thought the positioning was purposeful, and deciphered a connection of the role that language and the flag take on. This includes the reference of surrendering.

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