Week 8 - Amber Morales - Obsession

 

I am obsessed with GREEN. I have had an obsession with Green since I can remember. The color green has so many meanings, represents so many things, and displays so many emotions. Green holds endless possibilities. 

Green is kind, peaceful, and safe. Green brings tranquil to one’s day. Green saves us all from toxins and delivers us to good health and well being. However, Green has a sinister side. Green creeps up at any moment. Green is disgusting and sickening when discomfort arises. Green is mysterious and frightening, and builds curiosity for those watching. Green is a lot of things, but never goes unnoticed. Always capturing one’s eye and crave for revelation.

Week 8 - Bradford - Obsession

In a sickly sense, obsession communicates an intensity that is larger than life and all-consuming. This photo (no filter) encompasses all of those attributes. The color alone, while beautiful in some regards, can be perceived as intense, sickly, and all-consuming. The dancer in motion doesn't communicate anything particularly obsession-related. However, the dancer's shadow projected onto the wall is larger than life, and the profile view shadow almost looks like the dancer is choking and reaching upward for air.

Obsession-week 8-AM

Obsession is a very strong word. It reminds me of addiction, lust, fixation, passion. I think for many of us in this path our obsession is quite clearly something we keep returning to, something that ignites our soul and gives us a sense of fulfillment like nothing else: the stage. The feeling of performing, the result of so much time spent rehearsing, learning, teaching, creating, all for a few minutes under the stage light. The interaction with the audience, the relationships that are created with the crew and everyone else on stage with us, there is nothing quite like it. The truth is that art is transforming and the stage provides an opportunity to share it with others. Those that dedicate their livelihoods to the practice of their art can often be seen as risk-takers, but i like to think that it's a combination of loyalty, love, madness and obsession. After more than a year of staying away from it, we finally get to return to our stage, only to continue this lifelong obsession.

 

Week 8 - Joey NM - (Obsession) Nimbus Clouds

I used to love staring up at the clouds, especially when I first entered undergrad. Anytime I had the chance, I'd go outside and stare up to see what images the universe would show me in the sky. Thinking back at it nowadays, I think it was a protection mechanism from the loneliness I felt being separated from home for the first time. It feels like it became a bit of an obsession to distract myself from the newness of college.

Nimbus Clouds on 2nd Street

Instead of photographing the sky, I saw this hanging near my house this weekend. Those long fall, winter, spring, and summer memories of 2010 rushed back into my mind. I couldn't help but be in awe of this fixture's construction and how realistic it looked to me. Besides the hanging tassels, the way the cotton envelopes the lighting fixture is like when the clouds would envelop the sky and reveal to me endless pictures to daze into for hours. 
This past obsession with cloud gazing and the campy ingenuity of this fixture reminds me of the magic one can make on the stage.  It is mind-blowing that the magic they can make with a bulb, hot glue, cotton stuffing tassels, and an electric cord. 
Although I may not have the same process I once did before, I often find myself staring up into the clouds at my most vulnerable moments. It reminds me of the endless potentiality that life can offer us at any given moment.
But stop to Imagine 20 or 30 of these on stage and at different heights and depths; that'd be a piece I'd love to stare at for hours!

Week 8- Obsession-KM

 

As you may or may  not have guessed, I am more than a little bit obsessed with my dog. Here are a few pictures of him mulling about the living room next to a very cool lighting effect from the setting sun.  The windows in our living room face almost directly into the setting sun which means we get warm, yellow, orange, or in this case reddish light coming into the living room most evenings. The lighting in this picture makes a very comforting but surreal atmosphere. I love the reddish orange color of the light and the interesting design made structure of the window. I can imagine rectangular columns of orange light making a very interesting lighting design on stage- especially if you were working with a light colored floor. 

 WEEK 8 - Rubí Danielle - Obsession

In terms of lighting, a color that communicates obsession to me, is the color red. The overall feeling that the color red conveys, is intensity. Red represents so many emotions such as love, passion, and lust. When someone is deeply enamored in these specific emotions, their intensity leads to obsession. A man can be so in love with a woman, that he becomes obsessed with her. Love is always represented by the color red, especially on holidays that are revolved around the theme of love, such as Valentine's Day. When Valentine's Day is approaching, stores begin to stock up their shelves with red cards, red teddy bears, red boxes of chocolate, and red roses for you to buy your loved one on this special holiday. There are many different forms of love, such as love for your profession, love for food, love for a physical activity, etc. Love can easily become an obsession, which can be perceived as either negative or positive. Obsession is viewed as something alarming, and the color red most certainly provides an alarming quality. Emergency lights on police cars use the color red when they sound their alarms, because it is a color that captures attention and provokes a sensation of intensity and panic. When I hear the word obsession, I immediately think of the color red, as it provokes all of the emotions that obsession offers. Red has always been my favorite color, as it makes me feel alive and it is a color that does not go unnoticed. When someone is wrapped up in obsession, their adrenaline is high, and their life feels like it is at its highest peak. Obsession is intense, and so is the color red. 

Week 8 - FH - Obsession

     I decided to put the phone and laptop away for TWO whole days. Its was a very risky move and lots of emails were missed, but my mental health was declining and I needed to just spend time with my person and not feel like I was drowning in a sea of doodle polls, meetings, homework and emails. so we headed to the mountains.

    My and my boyfriend are obsessed with nature and hiking. We hike pretty hard. Here is a picture of him (his name is Garrett) in front of some picture perfect mountains. He was just a bit ahead of me and and the light was hitting just right to capture the lime green ground and fluorescent flowers. 

Week 8- LA -Obsession

 

An unidentified flying object orbits the neighborhood competing with the moon. Or, my camera couldn’t handle a brightly lit close-up.

week 8 - whitney - obsession

 

Nothing else has been more of an obsession for me than image making or image seeing. Through the lens of photography, I am fascinated by how light, form, focus, movement and essence interact. These photos were taken of Anna in a short 20 min play session we had as a break from our school work. What fascinates me is how the relationship between someone's form and the environment tells an innate story/ essence of their being.

By taking this class I have started to notice even more that light is one of the most important factors to composition and symbolism in any image dependent art form. Still images also remind me that we can create different depths of field and focus with lighting components for the stage/ performance venue. 

Week 7 - Bradford - Through a mirror darkly

 Do you see it?

I see it.

Look closer.

I don't see it either.

Neither do you.

And yet you do.

There, plain as day.

Plain as daylight.

Painstakingly plain

and not there.

So still and unmoving

but also fleeting.

Trickery.

Two faces give way to three.

There, plain as day.

Plain as daylight.

Painstakingly plain

and not there.

Now we see but through a mirror darkly.

Week 7 - Amber Morales - What is color?

 

I was astonished by the vibrant colors in this projection. When I viewed this projection in real time, the purple coloring was overpowering the blue coloring. However, when I took a photo of this projection, the blue coloring came out stronger in the photo. It’s funny how a visual is affected by what lens it’s viewed through. One can see this image as more purple, while another might view this as more blue. What colors are we really seeing? Is it a combination of both? Or is it an optical illusion?