Hey all!! I
haven’t posted an introduction yet so I’m just going to add it to our first
assignment. My name is Samantha Cline and I have just switched fully in to
studio art this year, which is also my third year here at Brock. I really
enjoyed the equivalent to this class last year with a bunch of friends so I am
really excited to be in this one with Irene again and I hope everyone else has
an equal amount of fun expressing themselves this semester in this course. I’m
probably going into teaching after next year, but for now I am focusing on
developing my art skills and I am so happy to have this new facility to do it
in because this is what I really enjoy doing with my time and I love to just
come here and get messy so I apologize in advance for any of my paint stained
attire, but I secretly love it. P.S. I chose this picture of myself because I’m
not a fan of the duckface.
For the first
part of the senses assignment I chose to go with Emily to a bar down the street
from my house that I have not yet been to in the almost 2 years that I have
lived in Thorold. I have never been to this bar (Cracker Jacks) because it did
not look too appealing, as bars go, on the outside and the crowd around it
always seemed to be older people getting away from their wives and children at
the end of a long work day. Although this does not sound all too appealing to
the average 20 year old I was still curious since it is only a couple minute
walk from where I live. It was a surprise to Emily and I when first walking in
on an early Saturday night that the inside had a much different vibe than the
outside and was actually pretty welcoming. The space was well lit and decorated
to attract sports fans with a side for a family to grab a quick bite to eat as
well as a side to have a few beers with friends. There weren’t just older men
sitting around, but a family and some groups of younger men watching the
football game that was playing on all of the surrounding televisions. Emily and
I sat down at a booth to grab a quick bite to eat and of course a beer to go
along with it and again to my surprise the food was quite good for a bar. There
wasn’t much to notice about touch other than the glossy wooden table beneath my
elbows or the green leather seat I was in. The smell wasn’t too noticeable
either other than we were in a bar so it smelled like beer and when that is
involved then there is usually a lot of yelling, laughing and cheering to go
along with it as everyone in the space started to relax a bit more every
minute. The object I decided to take at the end of the night was a napkin
folded into my purse with a phone number on it. Being two beautiful young women
at a bar usually attracts attention and sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s
bad, and sometimes it’s pretty damn funny to remember later on, which I guess
is what this one ended up being after I (VERY NICELY) turned the man away.
Emily being in her true “I am so funny” form, waited for me to not be prying
attention, slipped him a napkin and her lipstick to write down his number
anyways and somehow managed to get it into my purse for me to find later on. It
is a good thing I usually take her “I am so funny” form as actually funny and
it made this project pretty fun in the end, so I have that great memory to
leave myself with seeing as I will not be able to return. I guess that makes
the memory of that place even better since I can now never have any bad ones
there.
While reading the text for part two of this
assignment I was constantly reminded of an assignment I did for the class
similar to this last year and I went looking for the images taken that day when
I got the class to come up and paint me while blind folded. It was such an
interesting experience and made me realize how much we rely on our eyesight,
but also how heightened our other senses become once our eyesight is taken
away. The article had me jumping back and forth wondering whether these senses
are working at the same time or not and whether one is actually better than the
other. Thinking back to this assignment I don’t remember being able to feel
each sense separately, but when focusing on one sense you associate that sense
with another one and they just constantly remind you of another making it seem
like everything at once. Each of them is equally as important, but once you
take one away, the others seem to go into an overdrive in order to make up for
that missing sense. When the sight was gone in this assignment, everyone
talking and their movement became louder, and when the paint brushes were to
touch me I was a lot more sensitive to them, but when the blindfold was off and
I saw the marks I could associate what I was seeing with what I had been
feeling or hearing a couple minute before. I was also reminded in this article
of the fact that the senses we are feeling and the environment we are in have a
huge impact on the art that we experience and some people might have a bigger
impact on a certain piece because they have other memories that are being
remembered that no one else has experienced to create these waves of emotion.
By remembering these senses separately we can pick and choose certain
combinations that allow us to have a totally different experience than the
person next to us seeing and overall feeling the same thing, they just have a
different reaction.
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