Passage(s)

First post of April, and already, things taken a turn for good. I earned that internship for the art museum over the summer. Of course, I have to put off any traveling this summer because I got this fabulous new job at this retail shop. I will also throw a lot of summer classes to catch up on my academics since I lagged behind the past two semesters. All is good and all is well--so far.


Passage(s). Mixed media, oil color, India ink, found imagery. 2011. G.T.

In my sketchbook, I wanted to try something different in my work. Fusing oil color and mixed media with various types of medium. To me, I think I hit the nail right in the head. Something that feels eternal, dreamy, soft, and yet, surface my feelings in a broad aesthetic.

Currently: I'm working on a different portfolio, from scratch, due before the end of this semester (May 10, '11).

Function

'anywhere but here' collage, mixed media, Sharpie ink, newsprint, found imagery. 10" x 12". 2011.



'but how does it work?' collage, mixed media. 10" x 12", 2011.


A contrast between organic and non-organic subjects situate the landscape of a new collage/mixed style, focusing more on found imagery and ink as one heavy subject. Although the two subjects seem to be both of irrelevant ideas, as a collision they form an entire new meaning.

Exclusion

Untitled collage, mixed media collage, gouache, India ink. 9" x 12". 2011

Sitting on a wooden chair, outside in the midst of the mid-morning sun hanging above me, pondering and letting the cigarette pour out of my lips like a chimeney. Eyes drawn shut, thoughts of less important subjects cloud my mind. My hands begin to move on their own, foreign from the rest of my body. It is only that I begin to etch the unfamiliar faces that surround me. As a take a sip from my coffee, it drips onto the paper, running with the India ink. To say this was done unintentionally would be an exaggeration itself.

Stretching Time - In the Studio of Ahmed Alsoudani

details of progress work, untitled, 8’x7’, Charcoal, pastel & acrylic on canvas, 2010

"When we think of violence and visual art, often what comes to mind are scenes documenting brutality and its aftermath in a linear fashion - a shot, a body, a fire, the shell of a structure. Ahmed Alsoudani enters the moment of the inception of destruction - "takes time and freezes it, stretches it, goes around it" - to create a reconstructed narrative with many points of entry, often enticing, open to the viewer. You are looking at a fully developed story that takes place in a millisecond, pulled across time by many simultaneous points of view. His work is built to carry us from every direction to the vortex of his world."