Zombie Roar, Photoshop CS5 Paint, 05/16/11
I come here today to address you both with great respect. I respect both of you because you have both been the best teachers that I have had to date. I do not say that in a way to flatter you. I speak it because it is true. I'm not here to waste your time, I know you both work very hard. But like I said before, I will fight to the end to pass this class. And since I do not see my Blog or Morgue grade on the Blackboard, the fight seems to not be over.
At first, I thought this class was worthless. I was cocky and didn't think i could learn a thing. But over the course of the year, this class has changed that view. I came in like most with a narrow view of what art was. You both gave me the knowledge to see that I was wrong. I am using that knowledge now. I am very motivated by my failures. I do fail a lot. But I have the God given talent of not only creating art, but of learning from my failures. I can see the positives in mostly every situation, which is a very hard thing to do. Coming to college intially blocked this power, because I saw a lot of negatives around me. I thought that for me to succeed, i would have to draw from this negativeness and fight my positive side. I thought wrong.
I know the purpose of WASH. It is to help the incoming artists that are going to SHSU to see that to truely make it in the art world, you have to truely devote yourself to the Art, and give it your all. I realized this on March 20th of this semester. That is when i fully dedicated myself to art. Everyday since then, I never missed a day of WASH. Nor was I late. I wanted to go to class because I finally realized what you were trying to teach me. I made the rest of the year into an art piece. I put down layers of positiveness, and balanced it with the knowledge that you both, God, and everyone else has ever taught me.
My Big Idea piece was a piece about how I drew in from every influence I could think of, and everything I learned in Wash. You say that my piece lacked clarity. Allow me to make it clear.
I used every element I knew how, and every medium I had. I gave it my all.
It had repetition. The number 3 was repeated throughout the piece: 3 heads, three bodies, 3 bamboo pieces, the 3 dimensions (2D,3D, and 4D). It was even held up by three screws.
This repetition unified the piece. The color choice was even on purpose. Trick Larson, or my bad side, was in green and yellow, the colors I personally associate with evil (because Zombies are pretty much the most evil thing I can think of, and are mostly green and yellow tinted). And the on the opposite side, you have Shaggy, or my good side, being red and purple ( the opposite of zombies in my art world are Phoenixs, which go through transformations by fire to better their selves, and are mostly red and purple).
The partner I had was my good ole partner in crime Josh Deel, AKA Cunt Davis. His presence was to so balance, and that I am not perfect. I know that I am not perfect. That was represented in the unfinished look of the sail I created. But through the power of teamwork, and trust in God (bamboo is the symbol for God, for it is one of the most strongest woods you can find), I can sail through life, learning as I go
with God as my support.I beleive that God is the best artist in all of history. He made us the best pieces of all. And he works through all of us, whether we believe it or not. God blessed me with this big idea, and to have downsized his idea would be a blasphemy that I did not want to see the consequences for when He finally judges the Art piece that I have created with my life in the end.
The point that I am trying to make is that why waste both your time and my time going through another semester teaching me what I have already figured out? By all means, if you believe that I should go through another semester with WASH, then I will not give up. I will come back, and fight to the end that year. Art is what I was made to create. So I beg of you, please don't hold me back, when in the end, I have truely learned what you sought to teach me. Thank you for your consideration
