Projects
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Tierra Firme a border project
Two border artists travel the Texas-Mexico frontier investigating ideas of place and identity through artistic engagement. Analise Minjarez and Sarita Westrup, two artists from the border towns of El Paso and McAllen, TX, our individual works adopt iconography and forms inspired by Mexican-American culture, southwest landscape, and sensations of the spiritual. Our minimalist aesthetic evokes a subconscious style derived from a background neither full Mexican, nor American. We utilize... -
Laser Cutting Enamel – The Cuts
Thompson Enamel supplies 169 non-leaded enamels for metalsmiths and enamelists. I have created samples of 167 of them and ran each of them through the laser cutter to test which colors cut and to what degree do they cut. I am working with a student from the Material Science department here at UNT to further look at the characteristics of the enamel to determine any chemicals that may be present in each... -
Cellular Automata & Music
My work this semester consisted in creating an acoustic musical work for Soprano and 7 Instruments (piccolo, alto flute, harp, piano, celesta, percussion, and violin), where the underlying logico-structural and pre-compositional work was rooted within Stephen Wolfram’s research in cellular automata as presented in his influential book “A New Kind of Science”. More concretely, the different elementary 2-color cellular automata and their respective generative rules (five were used in total throughout the... -
Final Process Post
Materials for final piece: Tracing paper, Surface hardener (Amazing Fa-bric), pigment ,acrylic paint, and LED lights. Tracing paper that has translucent, wispy and light feeling, almost as if it is not there connects to the size and weight of the screens we use today. So many screens are made for mobility making the technology very light and handy. As I find more and more possibilities for tracing paper in the making process... -
Visualizing Reality
This project was a simple process of interacting with material, observing the changes and documenting the results. Photographing, copying and hand drawing approaches were all utilized to explore the potential of the image. The multiple documented layers blur the perceived reality of the image. I related this process to my conceptual exploration of the ideas of learning, reality and memory. By creating the image, I learned. By observing and manipulating the image, I defined... -
Backroads – Process Post #3
The final stage of this semester I’ve spent my time finishing the video and audio of Backroads, finishing my artist framework map and creating a submission to a call for works for video art. My artistic framework map consists of 5 different topics involved in my life as an artist: outcomes, audience, process, the 3 types of pieces I make, and the issue of perception in my work. In my framework paper,... -
Process Post 3: Mazes + ROAM
Working Framework – The Map is the Territory I am also thrilled to have been selected as the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas annual CADD FUNd grant recipient for my mobile phone game ROAM. ROAM is a proposal for an interactive urban exploration and mapping game for smart phones that helps players get lost. Players use the mobile app to get lost in the city and then document their journey as a form of narrative...