Reflective Journal ∙ pt1 by julie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective https://foundationjournal.tumblr.com en-us 2018-03-04 15:12:07 UTC 2025-11-04 01:58:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Send.png xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/237808095 Printing Workshop - lithography 
  • I really enjoy this kind of process and wish to explore it a lot more throughout the year. 
  •  Dark colours should never be the first ones since they wont let you overlap with lighter coloured layers on top. 
]]> 2018-03-04 15:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/237808095 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/237808187 We went to Tomie Ohtake to see Joana Lira's exhibition. I don't really connect to her kind of art, it doesn't touch me. I only see lines, colours, patterns... She had a problem: create a new face to Recife's Carnaval party, which was asked by the city hall and presumedly involved tons of money. Despite everything, you could see how passionate she is about her work and the theme she worked on, which makes me more and more realize I don't think I could be a graphic designer, since I'm moved by passion and not by money/client's needs/outsider problem (not mine). ]]> 2018-03-04 15:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/237808187 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/237808267 We went to World Paper @ Rua Belmiro Braga. It was an incredible experience. I never knew how paper was made and the process they showed us is shocking. Everything is so manual and careful, every step of the process is handmade and crafted with all care, every person involved has their own role and is delicate and it is very impressive. I touched a 1,6 gsm paper and it blew my mind.

At Galeria Milan, we met the artist who was exposing his work, Arnaldo Pappalardo's "Cine".  
"Quando vc explica uma obra de arte, a pessoa entende a explicação que vc deu a ela, e não a obra de arte em si" 
"Good quality images do not age" 
- espaco vazio é um tipo de comunicacao
-impressao fine art jato de tinta + acrilico fosco em cima p protecao FOTOS
-impressao com ink jet TECIDO ALGODAO LEVE]]> 2018-03-04 15:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/237808267 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/238817321 Today was an interesting day. I explored many different fields and techniques, but I should’ve gone bigger. I went from charcoal, to strings, to chalk, and once I finally decided to paint on a bigger scale, I wasted a lot of time mixing paint trying to find out the right fit for the wooden boxes, and ended up not having time to actually paint. Sometimes colour is not as important as the drawing itself, so try not to focus to much on this next time. You can add defails later. I only explored four different techniques and I wish I could have done more, tried negative spaces, tried a few collages with that wooden paper material I found, and as I said before, gone bigger. Sol said “go big or go home”. Go big. 

Pictures of the results of the drawings:

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https://ibb.co/ez0iNn]]> 2018-03-06 18:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/238817321 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/239453636 It's nice to realize you're wrong. It is very very important to experiment and test many different ideas before sticking to one or the first one. I really enjoyed trying different approaches to my collection and the results were even better than the my first try in my opinion. 

  • Separated all the wood boxes into styles. there were at least 5 different types of boxes, so I pilled them up. I did this because I wanted to map the types of materials I had, to figure out a different and interesting way to display my collection.
  • Michael and I pilled all the 12 boxes. We had to find out which one was the biggest to the smallest, which took a while. Its hard to keep them standing because many of them are broken and are not still. 
  • I tried something different this time. Something caothic wet well thought. I arrenged the boxes to make it look like they were thrown away at the end of the street markets, for instance. I really enjoyed the results, that’s what I’m thinking of  going with at the end. 
  • We took the collection downstairs, to the ground level. I seized the opportunity since there’s wood and plants all over there. I thought I could use this in favor and make the pile of boxes look like they were left there at the end of the street fair, since they were “thrown” there. Michael saw the pile and it reminded him of a monster-like figure and told me to try an animation/GIF. At first I was reluctant but I had an idea to make it look like the monster was being destroyed and that was fun to do and also I guess the GIF will be a totally different approach to the project, and I like trying different methods to present my work. 
Busy busy day. But productive. :) 
]]> 2018-03-08 00:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/239453636 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/240986495 2018-03-12 16:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/240986495 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/240986774 2018-03-12 16:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/240986774 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/240987008 2018-03-12 16:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/240987008 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241073775 Today was a fun day. I love typography and I really enjoyed learning more about the specifics on typefaces. On the project regarding our name, I decided not to go with the common sense, which is the gregorian alphabet, and I went with morse code, which is a subject I enjoy and am interested. I found round objects for the dits (•) and flat straigh objects for the dahs (—). Then, I had a lot more fun on the alphabet searching. It’s amazing how we can see many many images on daily basis things we don’t always pay close attention to, so I had a great time actually taking a moment and really looking at things and finding out formats that resembles letters. I tried not going for the obvios, though I failed a couple of times, since we had such a short period of time to look for them and I could explore more possibilities, but as always, since the begging of our course, I’ve been trying to not  go for the obvious and the common, trying outside of my box. I liked the variety of the results, since I really did explore many different sources. I wasn’t quite satisfied with the development of my given letter (U), where I didn’t think outside the box and went for some obvios solutions. I’d like to explore more the U letter in some 3D options, since they are easier to try something different. ]]> 2018-03-12 19:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241073775 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241160543 2018-03-13 00:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241160543 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241160589 2018-03-13 00:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241160589 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241160637 2018-03-13 00:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241160637 Dry point xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161045 2018-03-13 00:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161045 Monotypes xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161187 2018-03-13 00:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161187 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161307 2018-03-13 00:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161307 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161587 2018-03-13 00:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161587 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161870 2018-03-13 00:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161870 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161977 2018-03-13 00:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241161977 Morse code sound xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241173675 2018-03-13 01:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241173675 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241174190 2018-03-13 01:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241174190 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175025 Today was the last day for our Collection Project, we had to pretty much come with our ideas finalized, ready to install the collection. After so many experiments throughout the week, I went with my favourite one: on Mar 7, we took our collection downstairs to the ground level, where I used the information from the space itself to interact with my wood boxes in a chaotic way. I thought that wasn’t enough though, so I finalized the GIF I had been thinking about since Michael talked to me about it, and I also hung a few of my outcomes from the drypoint and the monotypes at the pilar near by. I was actually (and surprisingly) satisfied with my work and was proud of me in the matters that I experienced many different methods to represent my collection and I went with them all the way even though I wasn’t 100% happy with the final result. ]]> 2018-03-13 01:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175025 Typography xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175085 2018-03-13 01:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175085 The Collector xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175143 2018-03-13 01:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175143 The Collector xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175163 2018-03-13 01:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175163 The Collector xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175202 2018-03-13 01:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175202 The Collector xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175213 2018-03-13 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241175213 Typography xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241176895 2018-03-13 01:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241176895 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241575101 As I’ve said before, I love screen printing. At first, I thought the hard part would be making the stencil as perfect as it can be, but then I realized the hardest part was creating the idea behind the stencil. When I took it to the printing room, I realized a. I had done the drawing a little bit too big so the convencional roll wasn’t big enough (so I had to wait for my partner to be done so I could do mine, which made the screen dry real fast) and b. The papers I chose were different sizes, which made it impossible to center it at the same position in the paper everytime. When doing the second colour, the black shadow over the red U, I had trouble with positioning it due to the fact that the papers were diferent sizes and I had a really hard time overlaping them correctly... I don’t think I was satisfied with my work today.
 At the foundation studio, when we used the stencils we made yesterday based on the picture taken, we did some printing with different colours and using the negative spaces and the positive spaces. Once again, I wasn’t satisfied with my work. I am not in a creative mood today, and I don’t know why. I hope this will change for the next following days.]]> 2018-03-13 18:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241575101 Typography xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241680987 2018-03-14 01:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241680987 Typography xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241681054 2018-03-14 01:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241681054 Typography xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241681084 2018-03-14 01:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/241681084 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/242528561 Based on our initial studies into our letter made on Monday, we created our 60-characters font. It was easy to create them because since they were inspired by a spiral, but I had to be really precise doing it, especially at the bowls of the letters. Once done and scanned, I just had to upload it to Calligraphr and create my otf document. I named it Scrabble because that’s the word that comes to my mind when I think about my font :) 
Meanwhile, thinking about how to create my 3D object letter, my initial idea was using wires to create an U form. I had also had an idea to make it with pipes, since they would easily connect. I made a miniature but I didn’t think that idea was enough, that it would “do”, so I started brainstorming for more ideas. Daniel helped me by trying to umderstand the letter U: what does it say byitself? What feeling does it make you feel? What senses are brought to you? We thought U was a clean, calm, relaxed letter, a “chilling” letter. It reminded me of a hammock (an object that actually has a significant meaning to me) but I still thought it was way too superficial. Then, Carlos came and I told him what I had in mind. I told him about the wires, pipes, and the chilling feeling. He then gave me a brilliant idea still using the pipes I thought of, but not the same ones. I thought of using two of those rounded pipes that would, together, become an U, but he had the idea to use pipes that resembles an accordion, which is genious because then I would have the texture of a spiral cord just like the picture!! He suggested I used the pipe as a mould and then fill it with plaster. I would later remove the pipe and my final object would be the plaster U. I made some further research and I found out that the plaster wouldn’t keep it together once I removed the pipe. I decided to use cement then, which is harder to work with since it takes at least 20hrs to dry, while plaster takes 15-20 minutes.. ]]> 2018-03-15 18:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/242528561 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/242548750 2018-03-15 18:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/242548750 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/242555186 2018-03-15 18:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/242555186 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/242563108 Today was the day to create the 3D letter. I bought the pipe, a 5cm radius 1,5m long pipe, cement, sand, wire and water. To every 1 cup of cement, you need 3 cups of sand, and half a cup of water. I started by making a structure so the pipe would stand still as I deformed into a U form. Then, I started filling the pipe with tht cement mixture with a funnel I had to make out of an old water bottle. As it was all filled up, I added the wire so that it would keep it still, tough, and woldnt fall apart as soon as I remove the mould. the worst thing about the cement, is that it takes at least 20hrs to dry, while the plaster would only take about 15-20 minutes, which means there was nothing else I could do but wait until it dries. yes, I am afraid something will happen and  maybe the cement would break when I remove the pipe tomorrow morning but I am really hopeful it wont. I need a backup plan, I guess, but a. I don't have anymore (good) ideas b. I don't have enough time. 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The workshop on  reflective writing with Carlos and Pauline was very interesting. Besides learning about an artist called Gillian Wearing and her project on the streets of London in the 90's during the crisis where she asked people to write down what they were truly feeling (which really inspired me to try something simular here in Sao Paulo), we also learned a lot how to identify good and bad reflective writing. These kind of exercises were very interesting to clarify the differences between this critical thinking process, and I feel like I'll be able to use apply a lot of what I learned for my own development. 
Now going back to the filter making project, I didn’t really connect to the thought of creating a filter to take pictures, so I am not feeling very creative for this project so far. But, even so, I had to do something, so I was experimenting with a few materials I brought from home, and the one I most liked by far, was the effect created by the CDs. I cut into pieces the CDs I brought and made a squared shape to fit next to my camera: the result was very interesting, resembling a kaleidoscope but not quite, since it was unpredictable and it reflected two or even three times the image on camera. After that, everything else I did was useless (in my opinion), I didn’t feel like anything else would surprise and intrigue me as much as that did. I'm ready to try something different on tomorrows' session where we will be working with the old vintage pictures we brought.

]]> 2018-03-27 21:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246703688 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706282 2018-03-27 22:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706282 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706343 2018-03-27 22:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706343 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706537 2018-03-27 22:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706537 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706561 2018-03-27 22:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706561 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706809 2018-03-27 22:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706809 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706905 2018-03-27 22:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706905 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706939 2018-03-27 22:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706939 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706975 2018-03-27 22:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246706975 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707001 2018-03-27 22:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707001 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707026 2018-03-27 22:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707026 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707079 2018-03-27 22:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707079 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707128 2018-03-27 22:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707128 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707191 2018-03-27 22:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707191 Photography xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707204 2018-03-27 22:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707204 60 images task xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707354 2018-03-27 22:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246707354 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246709499 I went to Feira Plana today. A fair where local visual artists have a voice and can exhibit anything they've been producing lately :) It was AMAZING! it took my breath away many different times. I learned a new technique called risograph and I'm in love with it. Its pretty much a mixture of a photocopier and silk screen: it uses the silk screen method for when you have to print in a bigger quantity. The aesthetics of this technique is a kinda dirty, handcrafted, not perfect aesthetics, which really connects to my work and line of thinking. Besides, I met many different artists, I saw a few professors there, many people I admired, etc. I wish I had more money to spend there without even caring but I don't, so maybe next time.. I, for a change, connected to this and saw myself doing this in the future, putting my thoughts and art to the world and hoping someone will connect to it and enjoy it instead of having to be a graphic designer where I have to sell my soul to companies... I had an amazing time and I learned a lot! Can't wait for next years'. ]]> 2018-03-27 22:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246709499 Further research on risograph xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246710671 2018-03-27 22:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246710671 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246710716 2018-03-27 22:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246710716 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246711936 We started of the day by sharing with our colleagues our collection of 60 images. I was very happy about some pictures and others I didn’t like at all, so I was at the same time happy to share my results with them and also ashamed of a few pictures that were a total failure. I know I could do better and I just couldn't find a way to solve a few images in a better way and this infuriates me. Anyways, we shared our results and it was interesting seeing what others had done. It was also really nice to realize I have a kind of language that surrounds my work, end of the day, somehow most of the pictures connects to me, is it because its regarding nature, or my family, or kids, or this pastel colour palette, or how the images make me feel, how those pictures wakens some feelings in me. For instance, the loneliness image is a B&W image of a swing. It means nothing for someone else, but for me, it means all the times I went to that swing by myself feeling down to think about my life. So I really enjoyed this project. Later on, we started thinking about the filter making and I tried many different materials but they were all failures and I did not succeed with none of them. I wasn’t feeling creative at all and all the materials I felt like working with, weren't working/they looked like something in my mind but in real life they didn’t really work. ]]> 2018-03-27 22:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246711936 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246712974 I had decided to not only make a poster for my final outcome, but I also wanted to make a performance out of it. I dressed up all black and with some red lipstick, I made a cross on my mouth. I did not speak a word during my performance that lasted from 10:10 up until 12:00. People tried talking to me and I didn’t respond, people asked me questions or even made some stupid comments but I didn’t  answer them. I really liked the effect the performance had, what it meant to me. The contradiction between the sentence "fight like a girl" and me having a cross on my mouth meaning I didn’t have a voice, I wasn’t allowed to talk, they didn’t let me talk, was really interesting to me. Cause we fight with our words and our fight is to educate the world about equity between men and women, and we can only do that by talking, explaining, debating, fighting. Many women looked at me and blinked, or smiled at me -- while men looked at me, laughed and some even made a few jokes. I am more than ever sure this fight is my life's fight and I will not live not to fight it. 
I didn’t like this weeks' crit, I don't think it was effective and I don't feel like I learned anything from it, I wish I had more than post its telling me they liked the colour composition, or the handmade placard, and more technical and deeper feedbacks (just like the ones I give to other people, but they don't seem to give back). ]]> 2018-03-27 22:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246712974 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246718271 When deciding what to do for my poster I decided I wanted also to make a performance out of it. Although the episode with Michael made me sad and uncomfortable, it inspired me to go for this performance thing. Also, I finished my placard. I combined colours from my research that reminds the Guerrilla Girls poster on 'Do Women Have to Get Naked to Get into a Museum?' (red and yellow and black) with the silk screens I made yesterday. I went for a handcrafted style, used the paint roller brush to make the background, red masking tape for "fight", india ink for "like a girl" and I made two stencils for the boxing gloves icon. One for the red part, and one for the black details. I didn’t really like the result because I used gouache paint on top of the acrylic yellow paint and they don't work well together, so it didn’t really stick to the paper the pigment. Anyways, I was overloaded with this project already and I didn’t want to go crazy about it so I decided I was going to embrace it and not start all over again. ]]> 2018-03-27 23:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246718271 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246721002 We made some experiments mixing the posters tryouts we had done yesterday and some figures we had cut out of magazines and newspapers into some collages. I experimented a lot, but stayed at the obvious, yellow background, fight symbols (fist, mouth shouting, boxing gloves, the 'we can do it' worldwide famous icon, etc). Later on we tried some silkscreen based on those collages and I really liked the result. I just wasn’t pleased with the yellow tone I used, it was too bright, I wanted something darker, like a mustard colour. But I had to remember I had half an evening to do it, so I didn’t have time to actually sort out and experiment different types of yellows. ]]> 2018-03-28 00:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246721002 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246721620 Today was a totally useless day. I couldn't produce anything, I didn’t think I was creative at all, I might as well just have come home because everything I did I wanted to trash it right away. I had a few ideas and did some experimentations but none of them were nice and tidy. Sol told me to go further with the one I didn’t like the most.. at first I thought she was crazy, but then I realized that would be a challenging thing to do, since I had to develop the idea I hated the most... so that's what I did. I went for the one with the text made out of red masking tape. ]]> 2018-03-28 00:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246721620 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246722745 I had done my research during the weekend for this weeks' project and I already knew which topic I wanted to protest about. Of course, my one and only feminism. I made a mind map where I brainstormed many ideas into this graph to understand what was I going to protest against at the end of the day. I had an episode with Michael where he criticized the language I used to talk about this matter, where he said I was too aggressive and maybe someone who didn’t agree with me wouldn't like to read on my sketchbook. This made me really angry for many reasons but mainly because this is not his to say, he does not have an opinion on this matter, he, and by he I mean all men in the whole world, do not have a say in what kind of language women should use to fight our fight for equity. That’s literally what we are fighting against, men telling us what to do, how to say, how not to say. It made me really sad because I didn’t expect Michael to be ever 'mansplain' me. ]]> 2018-03-28 00:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246722745 Feira Plana xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246724109 2018-03-28 00:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246724109 Induction xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246724158 2018-03-28 00:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246724158 Induction xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246724168 2018-03-28 00:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246724168 Induction xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246724174 2018-03-28 00:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246724174 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246726096 I got school earlier today so I could unmould it. Turns out the cement was not dry yet. I got desperate and had a crisis for about 15 minutes. I sucked it up and decided I had to grow up and do something about it. So, I decided to embrace the fact that the materials I was using had this construction, raw aesthetics and I went for it. I staged a scenography with the stairs, those cement blocks, hammers, etc to blend in with the pipe. I ended up really liking the result, even though I didn’t end up with my initial idea, I think I managed to contour the situation and make the best out of it. I think it was a great learning to me and made me more mature for sure. Tutors' feedback also said they were happy to see I didn’t let this stop me delivering my final project and that I figured out a way to solve my situation very fast :) ]]> 2018-03-28 00:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/246726096 Photography xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247626305 2018-03-31 20:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247626305 Progress Tutorials week xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247626324 2018-03-31 20:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247626324 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247627921 2018-03-31 21:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247627921 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247628526 Today was an amazing day. Finally, after so many shitty days of no creativity at all, I finally had the chance to express myself and blow feelings off me. We made tons of interactions and interferences into the old pictures we brought, and I had a lot of fun. I explored many different techniques, I sewed pictures, I drew on pictures, I burned them, I cut parts off them, I added elements from the outside world, like a button, or a leaf I found at the street, but by far, my favourite way of interaction was by stitching. I had a hard time getting the line inside the needle every time I need more line or a different colour, but it was my favourite technique since I achieved best results with it. I even bough a thicker red line so I could do more of those at home (spoiler: I already did many more back at home). I loved trying different options, like burning, cutting, writing on top of things, subtracting others - I think I have found a very interesting space which I really want to explore more and pursue for the course of the year and perhaps, even my career? I also think this week’s schedule was not well thought, we should’ve had a lot more time for this kind of exercise and a lot less time for exercises like filter making; talking to my friends, everyone felt the same way and we reported that to our tutors, who also totally agreed with us. ]]> 2018-03-31 21:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247628526 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247628738 The first part of the day was way too rushed. We didn’t have time to do anything, and as I've said before, really badly planned. But, for the time we got, I managed to do a few things. First of all, I had printed three pictures as it was asked for us, chosen from the 60 images we took earlier this week. I had to pick which one to use: a. sound b. fabric c. loneliness. I went with the fabric image because I thought about an idea that could work with the fabric picture of the sheets of my bed. Monique had talked about an artist called Cris Bierrenbach, which inspired me to try something flowy, with movement and layers to transform my 2D picture into a 3D object picture. I didn’t have time to print in fabric or anything similar, so I wanted to stick with the flowy and layers idea and transparency, so I thought about printing the images into tracing paper (famoso papel vegetal) but again, I didn’t have time to go to a copy store and print them. I was about to change my mind and go for a different picture and start all over, when Monique and Daniel told me they knew I didn’t have time, but I should at least try it. So I decided to go running to the copy store @ Mourato Coelho - I called them on my way there and emailed the link to the picture and told them to print 5 copies of that; I came inside, payed and ran back to school. Once I got there, it was already 11:30 and I was worried about time. I wanted to create something like a 3D layered object where I'd cut the same pictures into the same parts and use parts of them as each layer, but not all of them at once (its easier to understand it by looking at the video I posted). I really had to rush, since I encountered several problems that happened because I was not prepared, I hadnt done any research, looked for references, not how important this is for any kind of project, even the smaller and simpler ones. I ended up running to the printing room, where Marcelo gave me an A2 sized acetate, which I cut into several A4s and turned them into the bases for my pictures. I them arranged the layers amongst the acetate bases and got this object that resembles layers and a composition with different parts of the image that together completes a whole image. I wish I had had a lot more time to figure this out, as this was an experiment and like a first tryout, I would have used thicker acetate and more layers of acetate. The printing was great, the parchment paper suits the needs. I used double sided masking tape that's not that transparent, so for a next time also I would have figured something out like a glue or something that’s more transparent than the masking tape. For the crit part, I got nice feedback on my work, but I miss having things written down, because at the moment I was too focused on presenting my work that now that I have to reflect on my feedback, I feel like I remember little of it, so this is something to get better on, either record my crits, or make notes, ask someone else close to me to make notes. I guess this will help me a lot to understand better my work. :) ]]> 2018-03-31 21:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247628738 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641135 2018-04-01 03:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641135 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641200 2018-04-01 03:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641200 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641392 2018-04-01 04:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641392 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641431 2018-04-01 04:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641431 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641469 2018-04-01 04:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247641469 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247718743 2018-04-02 01:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247718743 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247835625 2018-04-02 15:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247835625 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868145 2018-04-02 16:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868145 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868272 2018-04-02 16:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868272 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868373 2018-04-02 16:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868373 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868488 2018-04-02 16:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868488 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868526 2018-04-02 16:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868526 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868601 2018-04-02 16:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868601 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868677 2018-04-02 17:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/247868677 Progress Tutorials week xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249300020 2018-04-06 16:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249300020 Progress Tutorials week xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249300076 2018-04-06 16:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249300076 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249300342 Today was my progress tutorial with Daniel. I wasn’t nervous for the tutorial because I knew I had done everything I could so far, but was scared that maybe it wasn’t enough. I organized everything on the 3 tables, tried choosing my favourite pieces of work of each project so far displayed on the table, meanwhile the rest was pilled in another table in case he wanted to see everything regarding each project. Daniel told me liked the fact I had organized this way, so keep a note on that, to always get there a little bit earlier and display everything arranged on the table. I've been kind of disappointed so far with the feedbacks I've received during the past 4 crits. None of them were quite constructive, and I felt like I didn’t get any constructive critiques at all, not even mean critiques, and I was really expecting feedbacks that would help me grow better, reflect on my work and maybe try something different for the next times, but I never got those kind of feedbacks, they went on like "I like your references" "Nice pick on the colours" "I really liked your performance" "Very well organized" and now finally, I got some good feedback on my work. Daniel gave me a very important wake up call: he told me to stop stalling and finally get started with my drawing diary, since (insert shyness) I hadn't even started it. I've been wanting to do something and feeling guilty I hadn't even started drawing in it, and I finally got that push I needed, so as soon as I got home I started playing with my diary. Finally. It is hard for me to embrace my drawings, since I don't exactly like my way of drawing, I always go for my safe space which is collage. I deal very well with collages and composition with collages, so it will be hard to migrate for drawing. ]]> 2018-04-06 16:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249300342 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249301108 2018-04-06 16:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249301108 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249306073 I've tried many different things with my drawing diary. I am still transitioning from collages to drawings, still mixing both and I'm having a hard time leaving it behind. I really like mixing both, somehow and it's not easy to detach from a technique I so much enjoy. Besides it, I've tried sewing, burning (influence from last weeks' project Believing is Seeing, which inspired me to keep sewing and burning!), I've tried acrylics, coloured pencil, oil pastel, fine point pens, etc. I'm enjoying it so far and am hopeful to experience more and more. 
ps: now I'm starting to worry if i'll have enough pages till the end of the year - I guess this is a great sign. ]]> 2018-04-06 17:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249306073 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249306094 Today was a research day. I planned my day to do the following:
_ Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro
_ Sesc Bom Retiro
_ Pinacoteca
_ Estação Pinacoteca
_ Memorial da Resistência
_ Sesc 24 de Maio
_ Farol Santander
_ CCBB: Basquiat
Unfortunately, we let out Sesc 24 de Maio and CCBB because we didn’t have enough time. For me, it's very important to be up to date with exhibitions around town, always expanding my repertoire, but I didn’t really connect to any exhibition i've seen today. See, for me, art smells. People have different tastes on smells, and once you like a smell, it really touches and you'll keep looking for this smell over and over during your life. None of the exhibitions I've been today had a smell for me, but of course, it's really important to go see them, take notes and pictures for further research that maybe one day will suit me. So there's not much to add on that matter, since they weren’t quite interesting for me. 
]]> 2018-04-06 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249306094 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249313499 2018-04-06 17:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249313499 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249313582 2018-04-06 17:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/249313582 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250449206 2018-04-10 18:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250449206 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250449273 2018-04-10 18:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250449273 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250449527 today we went to dado, an international seminar program where we watched two really interesting presentations. one with vanessa carlos, founder of carlos/ishikawa, an art gallery based in london & creator of condo, a new way to experience art;  and stefan benchoam, an artist from guatemala who also participates at condo. the next seminar we watched was with livia benedetti who created aarea and vivian gandelsman who created artload and cofounded dado. extremelly interesting day.  ]]> 2018-04-10 18:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250449527 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250449570 the day was very intense. everything started by me arguing with leopoldo and sol regarding the ridiculous amount of paper we were to use today in class. what could have been resolved in ONE SINGLE SHEET OF PAPER, we used 15 a4s each, which meant by the end of the session we had all thrown away 600 SHEETS OF PAPER instead of merely 40. this extremely bothers me to see people don't giving a s* about OUR planet and our natural resources, as if it was the most trivial thing in the world. people say they care about the earth, but if they do this and say they care, they're nothing but hypocrites. i look forward to further develop this idea and make posters to hang in the class about the waste of natural resources and the negligence to help saving the environment, making me look like the bad girl, the one who's bothering class, who's just mean - when actually i’m just doing EVERYONE else's jobs, since they are not. 
besides all of this, we had this session where we had to have 30 ideas in 30 minutes. it was over the edge but i think i really like my ideas at the end. i'll make sure to keep them safe because maybe i can all use them (at least few of them) on the future. now i’m more confused than ever regarding my zine project, i don't know which path to take, which idea to further develop. my mind is going spiral after this session. 


]]> 2018-04-10 18:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250449570 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250459049
  • old pictures + sewing or different kinds of interventions 
  • scan leafs and give fake info on them. ex: where they came from, how old they are, where/how i found them. 
  • steps
    • ]]>     2018-04-10 19:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/250459049     sp arte xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251915977 2018-04-15 18:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251915977 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251916100 2018-04-15 18:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251916100 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251916114 2018-04-15 18:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251916114 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251918825 we "met" alex affonso today. i really enjoy his classes, since i’m eager to learning more about photoshop/illustrator/indesign. i made this nice yet stupid gif. the rest of the day was kind of useless to me, i didn’t produce anything and nothing else got me going. ]]> 2018-04-15 18:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251918825 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251919900 notes on our silk screen workshop]]> 2018-04-15 18:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251919900 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251920173 i decided which topic i was going to go with for my zine project. i asked roger to meet me in our class so he could help me develop my idea, which was somehow similar to a project he had made "i don't want to grow up" a few years ago. with all my old drawings & notes displayed on the table, i had to "curate" them, decide which ones i would be using, and which ones were useless. during this process, i realized several things that could help me build a narrative: a. i found many different kinds of butterflies drawn b. i write too many 'i love you's to my family c. evolution of the drawings, like humans, cars, flowers, landscapes, etc. after taking some time to think and talking with ana, i decided to start working with the fact that i had many words written down that could build a narrative that would indirectly, tell the exact reason why i love kids and miss being a kid: innocence. so my zine will start. transiting from i love you-happy-you/what if/no-miss/saudades-sad. pages will mix the text and the old drawings. no interventions at all will be made. just the assembly of those drawings & text will be the final project. still wondering about the name... 00's, life&death, time, i grew up, growing up, evolution of species. nothing yet.🤔🤔 ]]> 2018-04-15 18:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251920173 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251921175 2018-04-15 18:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/251921175 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252973701 I was really excited about SP arte, because last year was really nice and I was looking forward to the fair for a long time. last monday, at dado we watched the seminar about the art market and how sad it is to see art being $old this way, so I already started to wonder if I really should go to the fair and give them (more) money. I decided to go, I guess it was an egocentric decision, but I was looking forward to see some artists there, like Ai Weiwei’s works, for instance. I was really disappointed. the fair smelled money and I felt like people were only there for status and for pictures; galleries were there for money and artists were there as a job. i hated it. I was sad to see this happening and I didn’t even enjoy seeing other nice stuff :( I need to understand a fair is for commercial matter, its not an exhibit, its not a collective, a museum. its for pure commercial interest. its still very sad for me though :( ]]> 2018-04-18 13:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252973701 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252974058 2018-04-18 13:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252974058 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252974111 2018-04-18 13:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252974111 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252974153 2018-04-18 13:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252974153 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252975397 I was up to date with my action plan but still, things weren’t quite clear for me how I was going to end up building my narrative. I went to the lab to edit all the scanned drawings and I added them all together into a few documents to print. this took me a long while because I didn’t want to waste paper so I tried to fit everything into the same pages and it took a very long time to organize all the drawings. clean their surroundings on Photoshop, and them add them into a few pages. I had everything printed out ready for me to start collaging the next day. ]]> 2018-04-18 13:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/252975397 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261270 2018-04-19 02:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261270 Self Publish xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261288 2018-04-19 02:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261288 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261616 2018-04-19 02:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261616 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261645 2018-04-19 02:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261645 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261674 2018-04-19 02:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261674 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261749 2018-04-19 02:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261749 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261824 2018-04-19 02:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261824 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261851 2018-04-19 02:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261851 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261867 2018-04-19 02:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261867 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261920 2018-04-19 02:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261920 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261926 2018-04-19 02:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261926 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261948 2018-04-19 02:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261948 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261968 2018-04-19 02:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261968 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261989 2018-04-19 02:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253261989 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253262035 2018-04-19 02:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253262035 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253262174 2018-04-19 02:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253262174 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253262899 I started creating the pages today. how I wanted them to look like, these collage type of interface. I was a bit stuck on how to build them, but sol helped me clear a few concepts in my mind and then everything started to flow. I tried using this trashy look, ripped pages, checkered pages, holes, etc to keep the aesthetics I was going to with my zine so far.  I don't think I was quite creative though, I felt like I was a bit off, like my mind wasn’t there. I am having an stressful week and I know this is influencing my work, but I need to get things done. there's a thin line were things could start going south with my action plan. i’m a bit scared I wont have a. time to finish b. have enough money to pay for the prints, and paper, and scans. I don't want to charge for my zine, and if I would, i’d tell the person to pay as much as they wanted or maybe $1 or $2 reais. I will be spending more or less R$70 for the whole project.  ]]> 2018-04-19 02:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253262899 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253263536 I worked a lot today! the day started at 9am when I got to Operação Papel to buy the paper material I wanted for my zine. I was looking for a paper that contained fibres of vegetables/fruits in it, because the look is amazing. unfortunatelly, each fibre paper cost R$4 to R$6. I was going to need 20 copies of them. I can't afford to pay R$80-120 reais only on paper (besides scans, prints, etc) since my "revenue" will only be of at the most R$5-30 reais. I decided to go with the verge plus 120g paper. when I got to class, we had this induction about the assessment, which was clarifying yet disturbing and anxious because everyone wanted to be doing stuff on their zine. I volunteered my sketchbook to be in the middle so it could be evaluated by my peers as a mockup for my real assessment.  it was awful to see them judging my sketchbook and me not being able to "defend" myself - show them around, touch my sketchbook. I don't think they all really read my sketchbook or looked for evidence to support a few facts but I was quite satisfied with my "grade" which was good. of course, I expected and aim and wish for an excellent but... 🤷🏼‍♀. after lunch, I "skipped" class, because a. I am not interested at all about marketing plans and ideas to promote business since I had having to deal with marketing and $$$$money$$$$ b. I couldn't afford to loose 2:30hrs of work, because I really had to have everything almost ready for printing by today at the end of the day. I made the final collages and glued them; I made the cover with cut up parts of the txt I wrote on those old drawings; I ran to copy set to scan all my drawings to find out their printer wasn’t working and that all the collages I had done were on an super A3 and not a normal A3, which was like the end of the world. I had to cut all the collages into normal A3s and rearrange them where they would fit the A3 normal size. finally, their printer started working again and they managed to scan it for me. it took a long time to do so, because their scanner wasn’t scanning the right colours so we had to scan them all over again 3 times. tomorrow i’m looking forward to:
    morning: create an InDesign file and place everything there. create the cover. delete all the white background from my images.
    lunch time: sent them to print.
    evening: binding!!
    late evening: life drawing
    night: finish things for tomorrow's assessment & pray to god everything goes well.]]>     2018-04-19 03:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253263536     xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253682282 today was our last day to finish up our zines. the morning started bad since once I was almost finished editing everything on indesign, the computres turned off by themselfes and I wanted to jump off the window. after I calmed down, I started editing everything else again. I didn’t even have time to have lunch, I was so into the work that I couldn't even stop doing it because I felt like I would loose the "flow". once I was done with it, I sent it to copy set, which because of lady murphy, the printer was not working. they told me everything would be done by 6pm but I also had to sew every zine and cut the white borders (I had life drawing classes from 4-6:30pm). happily, they got it done by 3:30 and I ran there to pick it up. I started binding everything together but life drawing had started so I had to stop for a while. once classes ended, I was able to finish stitching it (I used the classic stitch, 3 holes) and finally got time to trim it and cut off the borders. I am done :) :) :) now I just have to make the posters for tomorrow and print out a card I want to make saying the price I will have to charge for my zine. I hate this. hate that i've spent R$95 but I, from the bottom of my heart, didn’t want to charge not a penny for it. I wish art was accessible for everyone and that it didn’t cost that much. people tell me i’m stupid if I charge them for $5, but I would have to charge it for $8,71 if I wanted to get back all the money I spent doing it. and I sure as hell don't want to charge almost $10 for a mere 2 page hand made zine. I still need to think about, but I feel really bad i’ll have to charge people for a lot of money. ]]> 2018-04-20 02:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253682282 xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253686605 today's the day of the fair. we are now all done and ready to display our zines and self publications.  thinking about my work, maybe I could have explored more kinds of techniques to idealize my zine, I could have tried extracting a favourite drawing and it into a silk screen, I could have printed some drawings and made some paper litho, I could have tried to animate those drawings and created an animation. I could have explored many different pathways but maybe I didn’t have time to think about any other since i was so nervous about getting this one done. I didn’t have much research for this project because it focuses on my own previous works, no concept, no other artists, so if evaluating if I did research on my own old drawings, then yes, it took me more than 3 days to select which ones i was going to use. I still havent decided about the price. what should I do????!???? I still don’t know how to handle this situation, I want to “repay” all the money I’ve spent but I don’t want to charge people for my work, for gods sake!!!!! this is so hard. I know as a fact I’ll have lots of troube with pricing and money in the future, I have no idea how to charge for my art (not only cost of production). I overall liked the final outcome, i liked the sewing, it was well done (🙈🙈), i like the paper I choose, although i wish it was with that fibre paper i had said previously during this week, but i guess the one I chose also fits my work, it shows texture of the paper and it fits the fact that my work has pictures of papers, so it seems like the texture is from the picture (of the papers)  and not the paper itself.  


    ]]>     2018-04-20 03:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253686605     xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253690381 I got a job today!!! I’ll be helping an AMAZING mixed media artist called Luana Lins, who works at the same studio as our amazing tutor, Carlos, does. btw, he was the one who got me in touch with her, I was going to help her o the installation of her soon to launch exhibition, but besides helping, she asked me to join her and help her at her studio. for starters, I’ll be going there every wednesday, since we’re not having classes anymore, but I really intend on helping her whenever she wants/needs me to. she is amazing and I am really glad I am having this opportunity and I really hope i can learn A LOT with her, help her and start to find out what I really want to do as an artist/as an adult human being who so far has no idea what she wants to do with her future. :) :) :) ]]> 2018-04-20 03:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253690381 luciano’s crit about my zine xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253933787
  • Inocência perdida d criança
  • Colagens d desenhos 
  • Usou softawere p organização
    • 1. Yes, she tested many formats to the publication, not all used, but there is evidence of her using them
    2. Yes, throw the testing of the tecniques managed to find the best suited format to her work, despite the chalange of not being abble tp destroy them.
    3. Yes, the inspiration to her work is very clear, and she shows that in the final result
    4. Yes, good choice of material to the zine
    5. Yes, mixing the her new work, the zine, and her old one, kids drawings, she show the ideia that she want to pass, how our mind set change from when we're children, fits the theme
    6. No, the only thing she hasn't soulved is the pricing, since she has the struggle of charging for her art, because she doesn't like the act of such a thing, but she is trying to find a way that suits the theme, by thinking how a child would sell this.

    ]]>     2018-04-20 17:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253933787     final display xulie https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253937833 2018-04-20 17:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/xulie/reflective/wish/253937833