{"id":550,"date":"2020-04-13T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/?p=550"},"modified":"2020-04-25T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T19:07:16","slug":"grace-bt-time-capsule-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/grace-bt-time-capsule-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace BT Time Capsule Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cast shadows darkened a bit in the process, but here’s a lighter, higher contrast version to make it easier to see (I added the outline):<\/p>\n

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And here’s a version (below) with a little more space around the objects and straightening them up, so they’re not sliding off the table. There’s a certain charm in that, but it does make for an unstable composition. I think the added space around them gives them a stronger sense of what you’re after–objects isolated not only from one another but from the border (space around them) as well.<\/p>\n

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This reminds me of the famous Saul Steinberg drawing (a New Yorker cover from 1976), of a New Yorker’s view of America. Your objects have a similar child-like charm, and even your style and lettering (as well as the eye level, looking down) are reminiscent of his–great company to be in:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>(that empty space at the top is for the name of the magazine).<\/p>\n

Yours also reminds me of the work of Roger Brown, especially the silhouettes in the windows, but also that view from above:<\/p>\n

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His was done years ago (1991), but has a prescient sense of social isolation.<\/p>\n

Finally, yours reminds me of a tableau that our daughter made a couple of weeks ago, using paper-covered cereal boxes and such, suggested by Mo Willems on his Lunch Doodles telecast:<\/p>\n

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The cast shadows darkened a bit in the process, but here’s a lighter, higher contrast version to make it easier to see (I added the outline): And here’s a version (below) with a little more space around the objects and straightening them up, so they’re not sliding off the table. There’s a certain charm in … Continue reading “Grace BT Time Capsule Drawing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-time-capsule-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}