Blog Post Questions:

1. Who is Joeseph Albers?
   1. Revolutionary artist who explains the relativity of color.
2. What is his role in Color Theory?
   1. He defies the traditional understanding of color theory and emphasizes the application and practice of color before theory. A theory itself does not lead to the production of art— people do. And only people can tell and differentiate whether two colors are the same in a composition. It’s hard for our eyes to identify two blocks of yellow for example, if one is placed in a sea of blue and the other a sea of orange. We’d imagine the orange bordered yellow as warmer or “less intense and harder to see” compared to the yellow coated in bold blue.
3. What did you discover in the article about Albers?
   1. I realize I applied some of this thinking into my own art indirectly for a long while, but did not realize it was application of color theory. I thought “ok, this hot saturated pink looks nice with this very light and desaturated purple, so then the latter color in turn almost looks like a grey.” I didn’t know how to describe this process and this article reminds me there’s a term for it, called color theory.
4. What did you discover by clicking the embedded links?
   1. A series of books that further analyze the actions of color.

1.) Wolfgang Tillman Still Life Narrative

Someone really wanted to make a physics science project but could not access any conducting materials during a very threatening pandemic. Unfortunately stock of wires, cables, plants, batteries, and any electrical conducting materials imaginable have been wiped from common shoppingplace shelves. Mass toilet paper panic buyers sought wires as their next specific target for an unfortunate reason, and this person was out of luck. A dozen hours were spent researching “easy conductable materials to find at home,” and the following image is what they could find! Turns out oranges and rock-like, flaky materials can suspiciously transfer electricity using wires and string. Who knew ?

2.) Digital rendering color adjustments

In logging in to the university’s Edoruam network once again this month, I realize a lot of my work in progress entails little, near invisible small problems I can only encounter when in the middle of working. They’re small enough to a microscopic degree, yet a pile of them may clump into a harsh problem that cannot be handled overnight. It teaches me to handle my time, work, materials, concepts, and projects with care, or risk inviting an emergency I might not be able to completely fix in time.

My largest issue with Project 1 holds within my ability to handle materials cleanly, which burns down to textile and skill with using arts and crafts. I quickly learned the way I handle physical art is not exactly the cleanest, which reflects especially in my 1.1. I’m searching for new corners to scrape and explore in regards to learning how to make cleaner art, and presentation will continue to be my main focus in the coming weeks.

I also learn in the process of making 2.1 to enjoy moving patterns, like the way a brush glides across stonehenge when applying rubber cement, or the joy I felt when learning I had the option to use a rubber sponge to rub off dirt. I enjoy these smaller tidbits as I did not know the information before!

My larger takeaways are to plan more accordingly in regards to time, gathering enough materials, and learning how to craft more cleanly.