{"id":15951,"date":"2020-12-19T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=15951"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:01:53","slug":"conceptual-art-conference-project-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=15951","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual Art: Language Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My Conference project began with me reflecting on past experiences throughout my life and joking with a few family members about those experiences.\u00a0 I have dyslexia, a language-based learning difference.\u00a0 Growing up, I would often, and still to this day, misread very common signs, logos, or anything with words.\u00a0 The idea of relabeling the things that I misread to how they \u2018should be\u2019 spelled to me came about after my final piece in our \u201cFinding a Form\u201d unit.\u00a0 Here, I began to play with text as a way to disrupt the visuals of an image.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My conference proposal consisted of a long list of signs of which I commonly misread and a digitally edited photo, showing a couple of my earlier ideas.\u00a0 It shows a visually distorted \u201cGeek Squad\u201d car, as you can find at any Best Buy, with the text: \u201cGreek Salad\u201d.\u00a0 This first iteration of this concept of relabeling was inspired by one of the stories I was telling and joking about before beginning the conference project.\u00a0 When I was around seven or eight years old I was at a Best Buy with my Dad and asked in the most sincere way I could, \u201cWhy does that car say Greek Salad?\u201d\u00a0 I decided to use this story as my first trial of the idea because it is one of my earliest memories of misreading something in this way.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moving into my first draft, I wanted to move away from solely digital photo editing and experiment with different ways to label.\u00a0 I decided to relabel text using 3 forms, a Polaroid photograph, a physical object, and a digital edited picture, meant to look seamless.\u00a0 To label the polaroid photo and physical found objects, I used a mechanical Dymo label maker.\u00a0 This first draft in this format was of the name and logo, \u201cStop and Shop.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My second draft was of the words \u201cState Park.\u201d\u00a0 While it is very common to see a sign on the side of the highway that says \u201c2 miles: Harriman State Park\u201d, I more often than not will read the sign as saying \u201cSkate Park.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During each of my in-class critiques, each person had their preference on which of my forms was strongest, yet the overall understanding of the project was consistent.\u00a0 Going into Critique Week and my external crit with John O\u2019Connor, I was facing the difficult decision of how I wanted to present this work in its final form.\u00a0 One question John had asked which led me to narrow down my ideas was \u201chow do these pieces transform?\u201d\u00a0 In other words, where are going?\u00a0 These questions allowed me to take a step away from the work and think deeper about my reading process, and more specifically how I process information.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an effort to create a physical and visual illustration of how I process language, I revisited the labeled Polaroid photos of my drafts one and two and took additional Polaroids of those pictures.\u00a0 The new pictures were then to be labeled and photographed, repeating the process until there is a result of four Polaroids each with its own unique, evolving label.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first attempt at this idea was fairly successful and received well.\u00a0 The only primary issue was a large bright glare created by the flash of my camera.\u00a0 I attempted to improve this for my final draft but was unable to completely remove the glare.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final draft of this work did a good job illustrating my reading process.\u00a0 When seeing a word or a sign, I have an initial idea as to what it says, but must read it again to make sense of the word.\u00a0 In each layer added and photo taken, the time it takes for the Polaroid to develop represents the time it takes for me to process the visual information I am given.\u00a0 Creating the label letter for letter represents the process of putting those letters in context with each other.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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