Friday, November 16, 2007

Online Sketchbook Prompt Twenty-Three

Tom Young #16 and #52 from the series Recycled Realities, gelatin silver print
What are your first reactions to these images? After looking at them closely, have your thoughts changed? Can you relate to these images? Why or why not?

13 comments:

NancyN. said...

I liek this ones, I have seen then before online and I thought it was really neat how they took regular everyday things and created something beautiful out of that.

Becca said...

"Are these images made enitrely from paper materials?" It is really cool how the artist could make art from random stuff. I wish I could do that. I can't really relate to the images though. Although I find them interesting, I don't know what they really mean, and I can't relate to something that I don't understand.

zachary marcus chacon said...

this photo seems like its the texture of a tree, when i first saw it i thought it was a tree, but then i noticed the writing and stuff in it and i noticed it was paper, i think its making us notice how we use so many trees fo paper

Lindsey H said...

did the artist do the bottom one on purpose or accident? I dont think my reaction really changed after looking at them because i still was to know. I think that both images are unique and i have never seen anything like this before.

Anonymous said...

My first reaction to these images was that they were very unique and similar to each other. However, the more that I look at them, the more confused I get because i look at it too hard. I feel that I can relate to these images, because the give off an authentic feeling which reminds me of the kind of art that i like.

Anonymous said...

When i first look at the bottom image it looks like the bark of a tree. After i take a closer look at it i realize its actually pieces of music paper rpped up. The top image looks like a bunch of magazine pictures put together to make a new image. I can relate to the bottom image because i used to be able to read music notes.

Anonymous said...

I think about lost love and a magazine image for a famous designer.

My thoughts did change after observing the photo's more closely.I thought more about a musical but still in the same aspect of lost love. Its like the torn up sheet music represent the melody of someones love life diminishing.

I can relate to this because everyone has lost something in their lives that has devasted them. But for me...i write everything down in this one journal and whenever i get over my devastation i want to forget about it so i just get rid of it.
So just like the image, you try to get rid of the old memories that you really dont want to remember.

Anonymous said...

When i first looked at the top image, i saw the woman on the left but at first i thought their was another person next to her because the crumpled paper looks like a jacket.

i like these images because its all of paper. thats pretty cool.

matej said...

My first reactions to this work is, wow, what great surrealism, at least for the top image. The bottom image I really don't know what to say about it, I really can't see anything on it at first glance.After looking at both images closer I still like the first one a lot better than the second one, I can relate to it because I have shot some surrealism before, but, more so I tend to think about surrealism all of the time when I shoot, and about how I can make the current image that I shoot surrealist.

sarah. said...

I really like the style in which these were done. They are very relatable, everyone sees litter on the ground, and that is what these bring to mind.

jacob said...

it is acrumpled picture, most likely thrown in the trashm but when looking at it closely it gives a sense of lost love.

Ky!e said...
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Ky!e said...

My first thoughts when I look at this image is RECYCLE! But then when I look at it, it kinda reminds me of my homework, then it reminded me of how music is sometimes wasted somehow because what looks like music notes on the papers. I realy like it! It's very interesting.