part one reflection by marina wells

reflecting day 1

marinawells — 2019-08-21 23:27:20 UTC

today, 20 august

 the first project that we had to do is to choose one collection to start the assimgnment called "the collector".

Mine collection was about my crystals, it was the first thing that I thought because I was really studying the powers of the crystals and that kind of stuff.

the first exercise was very funny, we had to draw in a paper on the floor with a very long stick with a pen on the tip, i really had to open my mind about losing control, we didn’t have the precision of the line, i usually draw crystals so for me was pretty easy, but was fun to make a drawing that i was used to but in a different way.

reflecting day 2

marinawells — 2019-08-21 23:29:10 UTC

Today 21 august
 we had class with teacher Ana and Monique, about painting. 
first we started by looking at some drawings of Picasso and others artists to see the way that they draw with crayon and nanquim, and after that we had to draw with crayon, it was pretty hard for me because I get really dirty, and the fact that we don't have tables made the whole exercise fell a lot more difficult, at least for me.
 but anyway I like the challenge but the process was more fun than the actually the results.

after that we did a negative drawing of our objects, that I felt that the result was pretty good, after all I have already done that at pre-fad. then we made composition drawings, that was very interesting because it make you see the objects with other eyes.

  and finally came a model and we made a painting of her, today was very cool but challenging, I still have a lot to train on human body drawing, the head in my drawing still very disproportion compared to the rest of the body. but it was a very cool experience to try painting in nanquim, and now I will for sure try to paint more this way to improve myself, I really like this class and the new experiences that we had today.

reflecting day 3

marinawells — 2019-08-24 19:20:49 UTC

today 22 august
perspective drawing
This morning soon when we arrived to class, Cézar along Henry introduced themselves, them made us split into two groups. I got to stay with Cézar, displaying a slideshow about photography, where the its principles where introduced to us.

After the introduction, it was proposed to us a task that consisted on photographing our objects, having the concepts of deep depth of field and shallow depth of field in mind (disfocus on everything else and focus on the first object, then repeating the process on each object).

On this evening, we’ve now started to work with perspectives, being very well introduced.

I’ve not only learned that there are not only more than one point perspective, since until now nothing has had my head closer to a nutcracker like this subject has done on three hours and a half. We had to draw an 1 or 2 point perspective illustration, using the learned concept we just had been given.

reflecting day 4

marinawells — 2019-08-24 19:29:16 UTC

today 23 august
photography studio induction

today we separated the class in two, and in the morning my class was with the professor Henry, we went to the Mac lab to he to show us how to use the "I Design" that is a tool kind of the photoshop.
I have a really hard time in that class because for me computers are very difficult, but the teacher helped me to make the assignment and in the and I really liked.
We learned how to edit some pictures and how to use the basic on the app.

in the afternoon we went to the other class witch teacher Cezar, in the studio we have taken pictures of our objects, it was really fun because we use candles to make the effect of the light on ours objects.

and in the and of the day we had a little party for the foundation class and it was amazing :)

reflection day 5

marinawells — 2019-08-28 21:01:20 UTC

today 25 august

in class we had to bring 20 photos of your collections, so i whent to beco do batman to take pictures of my crystal.

i thought it would be a great idea to follow a sequence of photos like, the crystal in the front and only change the background of the photo, i really liked the outcome of the photos.

in the class we did some exercises of “ how would you do a collage with a face, with our collection?” and when i was thinking about what would i do teacher henrry put a picture that was a very crazy collage, and then i change completely my idea that was to do a blackground with paint and only a crystal in the midle.

so in the lanch time i printed alot of images that i though it would fit very well to what i was thinking.

( alex afonso saved my life because i’m terrible with computers) and when i whent to class i realized that i had no paint to do the blackgroud, so i had to run to Marcelo and paint the background with serigrafia paint, that was not in my plans hahaha.

but anyway i panted really fast because i still had to think how my collage would be.

i finished and when i arrived to the class i realize that i have printed the paint “ the bith of venus” and a though it woud be amazing to do the crystals inted of the seashell.

and my idea has going great until i find myself in a situation that i didn’t know if i should cover only the seashell or make like a “ explosion” of crystals, so i went to teacher henrry and we told me to do what i thought it wuld be more like my style, and in the and i did de “ explosion “.

reflection day 6

marinawells — 2019-08-28 21:13:44 UTC

Today 26 august

in class we study colors,

the color wheel for example consists of 12 colors: the three primary, the three secondary and the six tertiary. This instrument is used when composing color illustrations, it is a quick guide with which we can easily identify complementary colors, analogs, half-complements, and other possible harmonic combinations and helps us discover combinations, comparisons and etc.

And after that we learned about Henry Matisse, that is one of my favorites artists, i really like him because of the colors that he use in his paintings, it’s different of all i have ever seen, and the way that he expresses the human kind in a very unique way.

And after that we made some color tests using acrilics, i enjoyed alot because in my work i use alot of color so for me studying this helped me to understand some combinations and compositions that made alot of sense for me, i hope to work alot with what i have learned today.

reflection day 7

marinawells — 2019-08-28 21:28:31 UTC

today 27 august

we had to separate the groups in 3, and i got in the 3.º group that supposed to start at the library.
in the morning we basically study who to do research, what is the questions that you have to do to get the answers you need like: why, how, when, what.

and in the afternoon we went to a gallery “fortes” to see some paintings, and when we get there and i saw the first painting i already new that i would like the exposition, because the technique that we was using really facinates me, he use alot of paint, making a lot of layers,and it gives texture to the painting, that i really try to get in my work, and the fact that we use vibration colors that i like because it makes me feel warm and are more fascinating for me.

about what is drow in the painting is mostly people connecting with nature, the sun is in almost every paint and when there’s no sun, there’s a moon.

but in some paintings it seems like the nature it’s “getting revenge”, because the sun is burning people and it could be a criticism about global warming.

after that we went to the “ Milan” gallery, and the first impression that i had was that i didn’t like it.

it was a wite room wit pieces of cast making geometric forms.

i think that we had a very big contrast of the gallery that we were before because here we don’t have alot of collor, but then i started to look at the pieces that make a reflection that fit exactly with the piece above, it has a perfection in the way that the fit that brought confort to my eyes.

i still miss the color in the pieces because for me color complete the work, but i ended liking the work, mostly because of the shapes.

and final but not least we went to the gallery “ bolsa arte” that my first impression was that the gallery was very comfortable because of the art of Elisa, she made art with seep whool, so for me her intentions were to create like a “ confort” zone, the way that she was putting the light ( king for a yellow light not white) made me feel like i was in a womb, i really like her work mostly because of the material that she uses, but my favorite one was a lamp made of seep whool.

We walk alot today and im very tired but it was great to meet all of this artists and their work, and i will try to visit more gallery’s.

reflection day 8

marinawells — 2019-09-03 18:36:14 UTC

today 28 august

today we had the class with Carlos, to teach us how to do monoprint, that is a technique that you put a ink in a glass, then you have to make a very thin layer, and then you put a paper on top of it and draw, so the in will " glue" on the back of the paper, making only on copy, that's why its called monoprint.

the firsts ones dint worked very well because it was mo much ink, but in the time that I was doing the 3 one was already great, to what I realised is that what can really make your life easier is if in the benign you spread the paint well, to the first one that you do work out.

I really loved this new way of drawing, I think that is really amazing to do a thing only one time, make it feels special for me.
( and you can use the negative but it makes a total other drawing and effect.)
I think I will use this technique in my work again
, I just need a glass table :) hahahah

the monoprint was fun, but the stencil..... mannnnnn
I just think this class changed my whole perspective of life in art, we learned how to to stencils, and my first one was one of my crystals, that's why it had to be related to the collector project.

the process for me is kind off hard because iam not very patient so I don't like waiting very much for something to get ready, but I just was in love with the outcome, and when I sprayed for the first time using stencil I can't explain how happy I was.

when I got home I was to exited to do more that I ask my mom and she gave me some x-rays, in the same day I stay awake the whole night doing tests, trying out stuff, in the and I had a lot of amazing stencils and I am very excited to do it on the streets.

reflection day 9

marinawells — 2019-09-03 18:48:49 UTC

today, 29 august

today in class we went to the silk screen class, to do a silk of our collection.
I really like drawing crystals, and I love doing silk, so for me was very fun.
but then Marcelo told my that I should make whit colours, and I really was not feeling the desire to do it, but then I realised that I was just being lazy and the work would be great in colors, so I decided to do it.

my drawing was inspired to an old drawing that I did called "the cure" because I really think crystals can and if you let they will heal you.
so I already had the drawing ready, so to do the parts with color I use ruby film to make the background, it was really hard because I particular don't like ruby film but in the and worked.

when he had all prepared to do the silk I had to decide what color it would have to use, so after a long process of deciding what color I will you I decided to use blue and purple to make a gradient of Colors, that's was just perfect,

in the end I really enjoyed, I think the mix of color was perfect and I will use this drawing to make t-shirts. :)

reflection day 10

marinawells — 2019-09-03 19:14:21 UTC

today, 2 September

well, today we had a " surprise", we had a class with a very cool origami maker, he show us a lot of ways to make origame, and I myself don't like to do origami, but was a very cool class.

but the surprise is not finished, we has asked to do a whole look of paper, clothes, (blouse and skirt) shoes, and accessories.
then you think, everything will be very cool!
Then the teacher gives the incredible news that no, we will not be able to use glue, bulbs or anything, just paper with paper.

well I almost started to cry but then I just started to think " who the fuck I am going to do this?"
and i thought i could do like a cuts that could be like crystals, for the head a tiara, and some flip flops.

it was very hard in the beginning because didn’t know to fit them together, so i researched a way and i figured it out.
it was really hard but in the and of the day i already had the top, the tiara and the bracelets :)

reflection day 11

marinawells — 2019-09-05 14:58:01 UTC

today, september 3

well, we continued to do the outfit papers, but it was more hard to finished then i thought.

i was kind of having a hard time to think what i was going to do, so i decided to help my friends to do theirs, in the expectation of getting inspiration.

and in fact i did get inspired, i saw how my friend made to fasten the skirt, and then i could got back to my work and finished.

reflection day 12

marinawells — 2019-09-05 15:06:09 UTC

today, september 4

today we are going to do a paper clothes parade,
so we went to another room to move the chairs and that kind of stuff to make it look like catwalk.

when we finished to straighten the room we started getting ready!
so i decided that i was already all white, and i was missing some colors, so i got my poscas and i did a body painting in myself, but a red lipstick and i was almost ready to go.

them the hard part, the putting the closes part hahaha
i needed help from my friend to put it on, because it get really hard to move.

but when i put the closes i loved it, i was feeling like a princess, and it surprised me, because i was hating the project in till this moment.

so we did the catwalk and it was really fun and i liked i lot the experience of catwalking, i hope we do similar projects like this soon.

reflaction day 13

marinawells — 2019-09-05 15:12:16 UTC

today, september 5

today we did a critic day,
and for me that was already here in the pre foundation, i was already used to that kind of thing, so i think it was more easy for me.

i really was impressed by my colleges projects books, for me you get to really know someone’s work if you see the fases of the work, the whole process.

i am really proud of what i have done so far, so for me i could really understand the critics and absorve what i think i can improve im my work, i think there’s ones that really make me reflect about my work.

i really like when someone’s think your job is great, but is even better when they give you advice to improve.

Reflection day 14

marinawells — 2019-09-16 21:41:23 UTC

Today, September 6

The critic day 1 was like a “test” for the real critic, that was today,
When we arrived at EBAC we split de groups in two, and me and my group went to a room where we had to do a a presentation of our work, “ the collector “.

The collector for me was an great experience, so I really enjoyed, like I said my collection was about something that I really like drawing, so for me was a very especial project, and I really liked the outcomes of it.

About the critic, the questions that I received that I like the most was

1. What crystals mean to me
Answer: in the past year I study a lot about them, the way that they can heal, and all the mystical benefits you can have of with one of them.
I really think crystals are a part of who I’m today.

2. With work represents you better?
Answer: I think that in my work infuse a lot of serigrafia and collages, so for me when I see the outcomes I think this ones is better represented

3. Why you use so much purple?
Because my favourite crystal is the ametista, that is a purple crystal, so when I do a work about crystals I think this colour is automatically related.

I think this critic was an very good experience and I really think I will improve a lot my work by practicing this.

Reflection day 15

marinawells — 2019-09-16 22:00:38 UTC

Today, September 9

new project: believe is seeing

Today we were introduced about our new project, it’s about photography, the way that we see the world, it’s about believing and seeing, and seeing what you believe

In the morning we had the introduction and we had to bring 60 photos that we had to take to “ check” a list with things we had to take a photo of, like “ a person smiling” “ a photo of something sharp” and all kind of stuff that we had to take.

It was a very interesting experience, inchado to walk in the city with my camera and the fact that I wad to find such thinks was very exciting.
We had almost 15 days to dot his, so when I was in Minas Gerais, I could take some very good pictures and i really liked the outcome of the pictures.

When we were presenting the photos Monique said that we had to give a name for our “ collection” of pictures, and mine was “ the beauty in the little moments of life”
Because I think that for me every moment in that photos were especial.

reflection day 16

marinawells — 2019-09-16 22:14:09 UTC

Today, September 10

Today we were asked to bring thinks that you can use to do a “ filter” for a camera, so in the previous day I brought a lot of acetate colours, and my idea was to but in front of the camera with some sort of material that I still didn’t know what it was going to be.

So I was walking on the street and I saw a coaster, and I thought that if I did a hole in the middle I could put the acetate in that and put in the camera, so I got one and did it, but the finishing were not very good, because i use tape. So I did another model.

In the second model I use a stapler to fix the acetate with the coaster, and it looked better than the one before, but not perfect yet.

So I did another model, a cut the papel in two with a hole in the middle, and glued the two parts with the acetate in the middle, and then it was a lot more lighter, because I made four holes in the corners of the square and put four toothpicks, so I could put several filters and change them.

I really liked the outcomes of it, for me was a very good experience because I really like photography, and I think I will use those filters for my future projects.

Reflection day 17

marinawells — 2019-09-16 22:20:19 UTC

Today, September 11
Destroying the image day!
We had to bring 25 photos, mine were old and new photos, and we had to “ destroy” them, that for me were more like a customisation, we had to do 5 styles of photos

1. In the first one you had to had something to the picture
2. In the second we had to take of something
3. In the third one we had to stitch the photos
4. In the fourth we had to one cut something
5. And the last but not least, we could do whatever we wanted

I really liked the outcomes of this exercise, but for me the most interesting part is the process, I really liked and I think I will customise a lot more pictures know hahaha

Reflection day 18

marinawells — 2019-09-16 22:58:07 UTC

Today, September 12

Today we were asked to do a 3D object with our photos.
In the morning we separated the group in two, and we went to the print room to learn how to use tome tools, and wen Monique was teaching how to do a box I realised that that’s what I wanted to do, so i did all the structure, painted de box an glued the pictures in the outside with photos of a trip me and my boyfriend did, for that box be the “ especial moments” box.

I really liked the structure of it, but the meaning is the think that I like the most about it.

Reflection day 19

marinawells — 2019-09-16 23:07:08 UTC

Today, September 13

Today was critic day of the believing and seeing project.
We did an exposition of our work, and I am pretty proud of my work, the destroy the image was one of my better works I think, were the one that I liked doing the most, so for me was the best one.

Was kind of hard to say things about the others people works, sometimes is hard to say something and end up hurting our friends, but I guess that’s the hole idea of the critic, to learn how to receive critics and learn to grow with it.

I have no problem receiving criticism, because I think I know to separate the good critics ( the ones that I can get better at my work) and the others that is just useless.

But anyway, for me is a training to do critics, but I’m working on it.

Reflection day 20

marinawells — 2019-09-16 23:20:36 UTC

Today, September 16

Today we had a great visit, the painter Filipe, he is a lettering painter, he taught us how to do a “ block lettering”, how to take the measurements and grid the scales.
So we did some letters using this methods, mine letters were “m” and “o”, the M i choose to make in the Roman way, and the O was harder because os the measures, the O is one of the letters that don’t use the same grid the others do.

But anyway, I don’t really like lettering, for me is hard and I personally don’t like very much to do it, but the professor was so great that turns out to be a very great experience.

And in the afternoon Filipe had already did the lines of the lettering on the wall, it was written “ nothing is a mistake” of John Cage.
We were instructed to paint the letters, I got the letter M ( again) and it was the first time I was painting a wall, and the feeling was great, I love every second of that moment, in the beginning it can be very stressful, but you get used to it very fast.

I think it was one of the classes that I liked the most, it was an amazing experience.

Reflection day 21

marinawells — 2019-09-19 21:20:50 UTC

Today, September 17

Today we went to the cemetery so study lettering, it was and weird experience because I personally don’t like cemetery’s, but the most impressive thing for me was the sculptures, the angels really touch’s my heart, but the lettering for me was pretty much the same, they were all delicate and more like gothic.

And in the afternoon we study about the progress tutorial with Carlos, he told us how to research, and a lot about how the teachers are going to evaluate our work.

Reflection day 22

marinawells — 2019-09-19 21:42:51 UTC

Today, September 18

Today we we’re asked to bring some materials to do a 3D letter, we could use any material we wanted but it needed to have 30 cm and be a 3D object.

So when I I thought about what I was going to do I wad no idea, so for me I have to test a lot, so I whent to the market to buy alphabet soup, to use somehow in my work, I was thinking about doing the letter “ I” with some roller paper and glued the alphabet letters on it, but I was very simple and compared to my colleges work was horrible.

So I for my next idea I thought about doing a base and the "back" of an "M" of cardboard, and in front a glass in the shape of an M, but hollow, and inside fill with the letters of the alphabet soup, but unlike my first idea, It was to complicated to do a glass in a shape of an M for the next day, so i diced to quit this idea.

And then my desperation takes over me and I decided to ask the teacher what we thought I should do, using the alphabet soup, and he suggested to me to do this old technique from Pará where they fill a glass jar with colored sand making layered drawings, except in my case, black beans in the background and an M of alphabet soup, and there I go back to the market.
and there I was, with a glass jar of pickled beets, black beans and alphabet soup, I threw the betteraba away and started my project, unsuccessfully again, dropped everything and came home.

Arriving here in despair I started researching how to make letter molds, because all my "amazing ideas" had not worked.
And then I got a tutorial on how to make Styrofoam letters inside, and then I went to the stationery shop to buy Styrofoam and cardboard.

chengando at home me and my boyfriend started to make the letters, the process proved not to be so difficult, so we decided to make tree letters, just like my tag, MAR.
and by the end of the night we had the base of M and A ready, thank God.

Reflection day 23

marinawells — 2019-09-19 21:53:57 UTC

Today, September 19

Today when I arrived to the class I already had the basis for my project, but I still talked about measuring and covering the letters with the cardboard, and painting.
Today the day was extremely hot and I was very stressed, in the morning I managed to finish the letter M, then in the afternoon I was doing some research on how I was going to paint my letters and finished the A and R, today it went flying, but I still have to finish painting my lyrics for tomorrow's critique.
I am very impressed with the work of my colleagues, I am very happy to share the room with people so talented and creative, I am also very happy where my project is going, after many tests I found one that was very good, and I am very looking forward to seeing what the painting will look like.

Reflection day, 24

marinawells — 2019-09-22 22:43:09 UTC

Today, September 20

Today was critic day, in the morning we were introduced to Ana Calzavara, who has given classes of painting for the pre foundation course, she told us about her work and it really impressed me the many techniques she uses in her projects, mixing painting with photography really got me thinking about doing some projects like that, by the fact that I also love photography, but anyhow, I think Ana’s work is great and she is a wonderful teacher.

In the afternoon we had 30 minutes to finish putting our work in place, we had to choose somewhere in the class to put my work, and my letters were in the amazônica lettering , this typography mixes serifs and the vibrant colours, that the professor Filipe thought us in his class that the ribeirinhos of Amazônia paint on their boats, So i decided to put them on the wood deck, so it relates to the boats.

My critic were the third, and before me the professor Cézar already and before me I noticed that the criticisms of my colleagues were being completely humiliating, the works were very good, and I started to get nervous about the whole situation, as if the critical day was no longer stressful enough.

When it was my turn I was very proud of my work, I was up all night finishing and painting the lyrics, I was very happy with the result.

So he started to make critics about my work, like “I prefer the abbreviation you made in the notebook than the one you made 3D” ok, but how I will improve with such a comment?
and so followed the rest of the criticism, when I was already very uncomfortable with the whole situation, because it was not being valid at all, they were not being constructive criticism, it really seemed that he was simply mocking my work, I told him that that was just his opinion.

because i strongly belive that it is not because he is a teacher in my college that he can humiliate me and humiliate my classmates.

His job in college is to teach and advise students so that when we go into “real” criticism we have enough background to learn from criticism.

I felt very bad, I didn’t learn nothing at all and really expected more from the ebac teachers.

Reflection day 25

marinawells — 2019-09-25 00:55:47 UTC

Today, September 24

Today we were visiting some atelies, and home of famous art collectors and artists.
In the first house we saw the work of the photographer Mauro Restife, mostly of his work is on black and white, and the exposition that we were seeing were about the buildings of paulista, he went to almost every building and took photos of the inside and of the out side, is very urban.
In this collection there was also a painting by Ana Maria Maiorino, a picture of her mother, her and her daughter, connected by a line, it’s called “ por um fio”.
And they also wad a pice by Tunga, it’s a metal rod and magnets, very strong piece called “ takape”.

After that we went to a gallery called “ galeria Leme”
The exposition that were there is from Luis Braga, he is a Brazilian photographer, and in this collection he pictured the Brazilian people, with a very sensitive look, and he also uses a lot of paleta of colours.
In the same gallery we could see the Thiago Martins De Mello work, we is the youngest artist in the gallery and his work is very passionate, we uses a lot of colours, with a lot of paint, so his paintings are almost like a 3D, and he is very political in this work, I was very impressed by all the paintings.

After lunch we went to the Henrique Oliveira ateliê, it was a very great visit, we could see all the materials that he uses, learn his techniques and see were everything happens.
I really admire him and the proportion of the work he does.

And lest but not least we went to another collector house, that was a immersion in the world of art and physics.
The house was like a little inhotim, he had a lot of beautiful works in his house but what had impressive me the most has the “ desvio para o vermelho”
Or the “ true ruge” were he does a rereading the work of cildo meireles.

It was a life changing experience, Im really happy to appreciate all the beautiful art pieces from people I admire so close to me.
It was a great day.

Reflection day 25

marinawells — 2019-10-09 19:47:13 UTC

Today, September 25

Today we are continuing to visit places, and the first gallery that we went I thought it was a very different concept from the other, it was a building from 1940, and they almost didn’t change nothing about it, I also liked very much the exposition that was a it was a velcro ramp, so you wore a velcro outfit and threw yourself on the ramp to get stuck, it was a very fun experience

after that we went to masp, whose i'm a big fan, i love the exhibitions they have there and i loved being able to see the exhibit of women's history.
we had the pleasure of meeting masp's chief curator and it was really nice to know how masp works, how they choose the frames etc.

After lunch we visited Monique's atelie, our teacher, besides being an amazing and stylish woman she is also the queen of silk, and her art is amazing, I loved her postcards, I was impressed with her devotion to silk, it's really amazing.

After visiting a studio of this super cute artist who welcomed us very well, it was very nice to see her future projects.

and lastly we went to the copan building to visit a group of studios, the idea of having an atelie close to so many other amazing artists was very exciting.

It was a day of learning, I was amazed that the art scene is much more than I imagined, I learned a lot and I finish the day better than I started

reflection day 26

marinawells — 2019-10-14 17:26:13 UTC

today, September 30
Today we started a new project called sound and vision, and this project is very cool because it has several "phases".

The first part of the project (today) is to bring things from home in order to make the instruments, my idea was to make an instrument called xylophone water, which is basically glasses with different amounts of water that differentiate the notes.

I chose this instrument because I like its sound so much, so when I researched what to do this was the most possible thing to do in the time we have and also dialogues with the things I like.

But today I drew more on what the instrument would look like and tried to build a not so simple structure.

reflection day 26

marinawells — 2019-10-14 17:35:49 UTC

today, October 1
Well today was the day to work hard, after drawing more and talking a lot with Monique about structure possibilities I decided that I would make a square, with a "shelf" in the middle, and stick the shelf to fit the cups, and hang up something else to make another sound but I still don't know what it will be.

So I bought the wood and I went to the print room to start assembling the structure, that was maybe the hardest part, because I had to calculate everything well to be a perfect square, buy the drills to make the circles of the cups etc.

Today I still can't finish my structure but the project is underway very close to succeed.

reflection day 27

marinawells — 2019-10-14 17:41:59 UTC

today, October 2
Today was a quieter day, my project was almost over, I just needed some more adjustments to the structure.

I went into the print room and after a few hours we could assemble the whole structure, now we just needed to know what material we would put on top, and I felt like it was metal, so we tried various things, nails, bottle caps, and even wood But what made the best sound and was the most visually pleasing were forks.

I was very happy with the result of the instrument, it was very clean which I found very interesting and his sound was great! So I was very happy.

reflection day 28

marinawells — 2019-10-14 17:48:30 UTC

today, October 3

Today we were all ready with our instruments, so we had all day to "learn" how to play our instruments, make a band and then record.
I loved testing my instrument, it has a very incredible sound delicacy and I was very happy with its results.
My band was Thom, Nicole and Bruna.
Nicole and I had instruments with more similar sounds, while Thom and Bruna had more percussion sounds.

In deciding the name we chose “pretricor”, which means the smell of rain, and soon tenths that our “music” was going to be about rain, and so it was, we made an incredible sound intrepretando a coming cloud, then it starts to rain slowly, and as she goes by gets stronger and then she goes away again.
I found the concept very cool too, I love rain and being able to interpret it was amazing, everyone who heard the song could understand that it was a rain grandson I think we could reach our goal.

and them I realised that for my next task that was to do a graphic score it was going to be very easy, so a I grabbed a roll of paper and put it in the no and started dripping blue gouache paint on the paper, making it feel like it was rain coming, lighter on the edges and more "full of rain" in the middle.
and I really loved the result.

reflection day 29

marinawells — 2019-10-14 18:01:14 UTC

today, octuber 4
This morning we had an artist invited us to show her work, and she made stop motion and several other very amazing animations, her art style was more creepy, and even though it doesn't match me much I found it amazing and inspiring.
Then we had some more time to finish our presentation and then critique it.

We started the critique and I was impressed by everyone, all the work was impeccable, I really think this project had amazing results and I was really happy for all my colleagues.

Our critique was great, we received great advice and compliments, this was certainly one of my favorite projects.

reflection day 30

marinawells — 2019-10-14 20:04:43 UTC

today, October 7
Today we started a new project: zines!
Zines are independent, nonprofessional magazines for various purposes. The term zine came from fanzine, fan magazine agglutination - literally “fan magazine” - initially popularized as a means of disseminating artwork, literary, musical or any particular culture, from fan to fan.
The purpose is to be as original as possible. There is no recipe, or right and wrong. It is very important to open up to experimentation. It's your business.

There is no rule, this is the coolest part in my opinion, because for me that is a lot of freedom to create, and for me this is very important.

After being introduced to zines we had to think about what we would do our zines, and then I made a mind map to decide what I would do, because I had a lot of ideas, but I knew if I wanted to talk about politics, random vibes or about poetry.

But anyway I am very looking forward to this project!

reflection day 31

marinawells — 2019-10-14 20:05:53 UTC

today, October 8
Day of generations of ideas, today was the day to think about what we would do our zines, I was still not sure what I would say, but was very eager to decide and start producing. We did a brainstorming exercise that was to write 30 ideas in 10 minutes. It was great because exercising the brain is very good for unlocking creativity, and I was pretty indecisive, so after that exercise I was sure: I would talk about poetry. Poetry for me are velvet words that fill the heart with happiness, I'm a big fan of poetry and I've always been very emotional about a lot of poets, so now I needed to do a difficult task, choose an author and a poetry to put in my zine. But first I thought, “But how would I illustrate this? What material will I use to make this zine? It blocked me for a long time, I still don't know which material to use so I will test as much as possible.

Reflection day 32

marinawells — 2019-10-19 16:06:04 UTC

Today, October 9

Today I had my first zine ready, I did one with a poetry by Cecilia Meireles, talking about the autumn leaves, and to me that was very much related to the oshibana technique of collage with real leaves, and the result was very beautiful and sentimental and I was very happy. So I was calmer and thought I could do another zine, so I started thinking more about what I would like to talk about, and at the same time I was full of ideas but couldn't relate to the posters I wanted to sell, in the market. of the mushrooms I made with stencil, so I thought I could do something more related to psychedelic stuff, and then I started thinking about psychedelic stuff and it came into my mind the 60s, and Woodstock, and LSD. But I didn't just want to do traveling illustrations, I like things that carry history, so I started thinking about how I could do this, but I already knew what I'd like to do.

reflection day 33

marinawells — 2019-10-20 15:43:36 UTC

today, october 10
today I woke up with very psychedelic thoughts, so I started researching woodstook, the 60s, etc.

and talking to my friends about my idea I had an idea to make a zine about lsd travel stories, so I started thinking how I would do it, whether I would put the stories on the collage side or not, or if I just I would put the collages or the drawings in the zine, so I realized I had to first hear the stories, so I started asking people's stories and asking how they felt, what was the trip she had, if she had any music to put on deep in this breeze which one it would be, and then I began to think about which stories I would take, making a choice from what I thought would be most interesting to illustrate.

reflection day 34

marinawells — 2019-10-20 15:45:21 UTC

today October 11
today arriving at ebac, I was already certain, I was sure what I wanted to talk about, the media that I would use, collages in the case because I think it goes a long way with this 60/70 psychedelic astenic, etc.

So when I got there I decided that I was going to print some images to help me ground what I wanted to talk about, even though I didn't want my work to be so literal in that it had exactly the characteristics of the story, but the feeling of the story. .

So I chose the images based on the stories and found that I was very interested in the digital collages I found on the internet, I thought they have a greater versatility, but at the same time I love being able to have "contact" with the role and choices of more “random” images given the fact that this was the first job I actually printed images to make collages.

After much effort to find the perfect images and get more stories from people, I ended the day very pleased with the process my work was going on.

reflection day 35

marinawells — 2019-10-20 15:52:53 UTC

today, October 14
This weekend I was already very quiet about what I was going to do and just really needed to start doing, so I took my collages to class to produce, but a mental block dominated me and I could no longer do collages.
I was wondering if it was the right media, if I should illustrate or paint, and all morning I was suffering from not knowing exactly what to do, but after lunch I calmed down a little and decided to paint the acrylic background. waiting to dry I managed to make my first collage of eight missing, take a deep breath, try not to despair, see the time, 16:30. As time went by so fast and I just made a collage?
I try not to freak out and go home trying to make some more acrylic backgrounds.

reflection day 36

marinawells — 2019-10-20 16:01:09 UTC

today, October 14
Today I decided that I would not go to class, I could not organize my mind and it was very difficult for me to produce with other things rolling, because I was so focused on my collages that I could not produce anything else.

So when I started to get organized I got the inspiration to start creating and making the mixes connect in a way that I felt represented a lot about the stories and what I wanted to go through, so it was very useful for me to stay home so I could concentrate best.

After hard work and concentration at the end of the day I was able to finish all the collages (thank goodness).
At this point I had already decided that I would not put the stories aside because I felt that people would want to see the stories exactly in the collages, and often the collages were super abstract, but the people who had the trips could recognize them at first. which made me feel like I was going the right way.

reflection day 37

marinawells — 2019-10-20 16:33:25 UTC

today, October 15
Today when I arrived (again)
I felt everything was very quiet because as my zine was ready and I just needed to scan, print and sew, I had the bright idea that in the morning I would be helping my friends and ended up scanning in the afternoon in the innocence that It would be super fast.

But coming to maclab I came across several students freaking out with the scan machine and a huge line to scan, so internally I freaked out but I was there and when I started I had to ask Henry for help, who was an angel and helped me from beginning to end, because for me all that is very difficult.

But at the end of the boring part that took millennia, when I went to the graphics the spelling said that I could only get my things the next day, but still fine, because it just had to sew, and my zine would be ready.

reflection day 38

marinawells — 2019-10-20 16:41:11 UTC

today, October 16
Today I went to the print shop, took my 20 warm zines from the print shop, after a while I was able to sew them all.
And one of the things I noticed during this process is how it looks different when you print or scan something that is analogous like a handmade collage.

But anyway I was very proud of where my work was going and the comments I was getting, it was a very crazy process to get there, lots of mind maps and lots of brains stroms.

But I felt that I managed to get a lot of what I wanted with this whole project and the theme that I decided.
After sewing all the zines I decided that I would not do the other poetry zine because I would not have much less time to talk to the rest of the work totally focused on this more psychedelic footprint, so I would follow this line more.

reflection day 39

marinawells — 2019-10-20 16:49:49 UTC

today, October 17
Today I started to produce the other things that I would put in my stall at the fair, because as I was already done everything I just needed to increase my materials.
So I started brainstorming which design I would put on the ecobags I had bought, if it would be the same design I would put on the shirts I bought for the fair etc.

It was a little tricky at first because there are a lot of things that can relate to psychedelics but as I was going for a more 60/70 footprint I decided that I would do something more old school on the shirt so I decided that on the front of the The t-shirt would read the title of my zine which is "have a nice trip", and on the back a melting smile, which is a very old school symbol of acid, lsd and general psychedelia.

so coming home after class I put my smiley drawing on the silk screen and made my smiley posters on an A2 so I could sell at the fair along with the other stuff and the result was really cool

reflection day 40

marinawells — 2019-10-20 17:04:03 UTC

today, October 18
last day of production !! Today was a busy day for many people who were finishing work, especially in the silk screen room, but as I was very quiet in the process of things I had to do then I started helping my friends so they could get the work done. also ready for the end date.

So in the afternoon I started making my shirts with the smile, recorded a small screen with the phrase “have a nice trip” and started producing the shirts I needed and the result was getting so beautiful, I was super happy with the result of everything.
And at the end of the day I already had my zines ready, my smile poster, the shirts and coming home I remembered that I had a mushroom stencil so I made some posters and made the mushrooms in the ecobags that I would be giving to anyone who wanted to buy the t-shirts.

I was very happy with this work, I think it was a very incredible opportunity to be able to exhibit our work and to put us in the art sales enhancement world, I think it gave us a lot of opportunity to produce exactly what we wanted and what we wanted. We wanted to say that for me it is the most important, I think you can self-publish something yours is very cool in the sense of freedom of expression, I could have contact with the work of several friends of mine and was very happy to see that they like me, were happy with the results and really thought everyone is to be congratulated for the amazing work and creativity, I loved this project and was very happy with the outcome of all.

Feedback Part 1 Assessment

2019-10-23 15:19:09 UTC

inhotim

marinawells — 2019-11-04 17:05:55 UTC

Inhotim is located in Brumadinho, MG, is the largest open air museum in america lantina.
Even before the trip, I already knew that my visit to this place would change my perspective on art.
coming to each gallery I felt I was covering various areas of my art conception that I had never imagined, such as arts that complement each other with human action, or at least with the person and art relationship, unlike anything I had ever seen. .

but I think for me the amazing thing about inhotim is the “all” of his space, the landscaping all forms in perfect harmony.

I feel that all the works have shaped me, so it is very difficult to choose one as a favorite, but I think the one that impressed me the most was Claudia Andujar.

The retrospective of Claudia Andujar's work dedicated to the endangered indigenous Yanomami occupies two floors of the IMS Paulista with approximately 300 images and an installation by the photographer and activist, as well as books and documents on the survival trajectory of the people.

The set outlines a broad panorama of Andujar's long work with the Yanomami, revealing little-known aspects of the photographer's struggle for demarcation of indigenous lands, a militancy that led her to unite her art with politics.

and for me this is very much related to my first contact with art, which was photography, I always really enjoyed talking through photography and the fact that I see that you can “mix” arts with photography.

this whole trip has been turn changing and my brain is bubbling with ideas and inspiration.

part 2 reflection

marinawells — 2019-11-07 21:38:06 UTC

today, November 4
"To be or to be 4D"
Today on our first day of part 2, let's do some research on our trip to Inhotim and how it affects our work / inspiration.
I decided that as hard as I chose a job to talk about, I'm going to talk about Claudia Adujar, an amazing woman who lived with yamami Indians in the Amazon and how photos in her pavilion in Inhotim, which was a very amazing experience, especially for me who love photography.

After a part of the afternoon, we were introduced to the rooms that will split between 4D and general general arts, or “vision communication” which is more about design.

I already knew from the moment we talked about what I would go to arts, I love design plus my passion is arts and I feel that all my work is geared towards that.

And with a conversation we had with the teachers it was clear that they also see me as an artist and not a designer.

reflection day 2

marinawells — 2019-11-07 21:38:57 UTC

today, November 5
Today in class we were introduced to how to present our portfolio, how to assemble it, what to do with it, how it talks about its work and how to prepare for this expected moment that is the BA portfolio, and Cezar was giving us a lot of great tips on how we can send our portfolio out etc, I really feel like going out to study a year or something and for me that was very important because now that I know that I already have to go thinking about like I'm going to set up my portfolio so I can go to college outside.

So I started to think about how some of my work was not so well documented and how I have to pay attention to losing work and recording and taking pictures of everything, at ropa they need to see a lot of evidence of their processes because I wasn't doing it So much so, but now that I know what I need to do to get through I need to focus, get organized and know that by working hard I can.

In the afternoon we went to a bookshop “factory” and it was very interesting, it was really cool to see how a real notebook store works and how creativity can flourish in that environment, but what interested me most was the owner's marbled papers From the store, wonderful and very cool the fact that he passed the step by step how to do it, I loved to know more about this technique.

reflection day 3

marinawells — 2019-11-07 22:15:12 UTC

today, November 7
Today we meet at the Mendes wood gallery,
Arriving there we entered the exhibition of Anna Boghiguian, who is an Egyptian-born artist and she calls herself a nomad, and her artwork is very interesting and in this exhibition she had done the artistic intro of a text by Clarice Lispector, which was very exciting given the fact that I love poetry.

The second artist is Mimi Lauter
Who is an American artist who makes abstract art with pastel chalk, I found the textures of his work more interesting, he does not put glass in the paintings to be able to pass exactly the textures and even the smell of the paintings.

And arriving at ebac we were introduced to a new project, which is required for us a 3D sculpture that moves or intends to move.

I already enjoyed this work very much and was very interested in how I could do it, and then I came across a work that I really like the Helio ocicica that are the Parangolés, an outfit that you move into, is a work of art in motion, meant to be used on the body, and so that's what I thought of, something that involves the movement of human beings as with dancing or with the energy of nature as the wind.

Reflection day 4

marinawells — 2019-11-08 19:07:41 UTC

today, November 8
Idea generation Today when I arrived I was very sure that I would like to do something related to body, wind, cloths .. so I thought it would be through the dance that I would express doing the Parangolés, but today with Henry I started thinking, What if it was a dance without a body? So I started to develop dance and body ideas, and how could I talk about dance without a body, is the body crucial to what I want to talk about? So I started thinking about transparent cloths and how transparency will be needed. So my idea is still taking shape but it will be (hopefully) something like a fan with some rags tied and dancing as the wind, but I was researching and in the museum of tomorrow there is a sculpture that is several mini fans forming a circle and in the There is a cloth floating around, which made me fully consider the fact that the cloth is stuck, so maybe I can reread that work, sometimes talking about life and the movement of life, of inconstancy. I'm still not sure what I'm going to talk about the certainties I have is that movement covers a lot for me body and dance and I think the material that I think goes well is the fabric.

reflection day 5

marinawells — 2019-11-11 20:37:10 UTC

today, November 11
today we continue with our 3D sculpture project
And over the weekend I was able to buy the fabrics I wanted to do my “performance” which I'm still developing but so far the project boils down to:
The project is called: the diving, and is based on a performance where is placed blue fabrics of 2 meters in the air pipe of São Paulo (on the floor), where a dancer dances with water, is a project that talks about the movements of the seas, and of course, from Iemanjá.

It is still taking shape, but the concept is already established and the dancer is already setting the date so we can shoot and then edit this video.
I'm thinking of a classical song for him but I still don't know which one, but I'm also interested in how it is a rereading of a dancing Yemanja sometimes putting a song that honors her.

reflection day 6

marinawells — 2019-11-19 13:10:10 UTC

today, November 12
so I have researching for songs to use on my video and what type of dance will she do, and after looking for a lot of videos I decided to do a more intuitive dance, my idea was that when the fabric started to move that she mix herself with te fabric, a fluid dance.
because of the wind I though that maybe she could kind of "fly" too, and she will kind of be the moon that moves the sea ( the fabric), because the hole idea is to be about the tides and the way that the moon affect the sea and ourselves.
this is all in my head but I wish it comes in the best way possible.
I will test the fabric on the van's tomorrow and see if the fabric goes up wish the wind.

reflection day 7

marinawells — 2019-11-19 13:30:26 UTC

today, November 13
today we don't have class but I did I billion things, I test the fabric and it worked very well, and I was alone on the paulista testing it and when it was done a lot of people came to me and asked "what is this?" " can I take a photo?" "what it this for?" and that was the first time that I was doing an intervention as an artist, and it felt very good because In the whole project I never stopped to think that it would affect the people who are on the street, and I had not thought about how they would react, and all this without the dancer, people were already super happy and interested and it make me think how amazing it will be when is ready.
it made me very happy to be able to bring happiness and beauty to people's daily lives

reflection day 8

marinawells — 2019-11-19 13:38:58 UTC

today, November 14
today was shooting the video day, in the morning I went to buy a tripod, came to abac, got the rest of the fabric that I needed and went to paulista to film it.
getting there I meet the Isabela Orsi and explained th hole idea once again and then we started to organize the fabric and when the were all together flying it was so beautiful, so I was on the middle of the street filming her dancing and all people respected so much and didn't pass in front of the camera, and a lot of kids and people asked to take pictures and the feedback was amazing,
when she was dancing people stoped what they were doing and just stayed there watching her dance and it was all so beautiful and exciting.
after we filmed I got home and started to edit the photos and they all look so beautiful that I thought about making my 3d sculpture with them.
and this was the result:

marinawells — 2019-11-19 14:10:16 UTC

reflection day 8

marinawells — 2019-11-19 14:15:22 UTC

today, November 15
today I finishing editing the video, I have never done this before but I really like the result, I think that what matters is the intention and the fact that this is only a prototype of something bigger, because I was thinking about the people who were so interested by it and how it takes the people of there confort zone when they see something like this on the street, and I thought about doing a bigger project with photos of normal people that want to " dance" with the sculpture.

reflection day 9

marinawells — 2019-12-09 12:58:04 UTC

today, November 18
well today we did a critic about the projects, and I was very happy to see everybody work's. I think that we had enough time to finish it and for me that was essencial to finish the way that I wanted.
everyone reacted very well to the work as a whole, the criticism was more focused on the dress of the dancer which I super agree I could be more appropriate, but in the project that we will redo old projects I intend to go back with it and improve it. But so far I am very happy with everything I did and feel that this project will have a beautiful result when drilled better.

reflection day 10

marinawells — 2019-12-09 13:11:31 UTC

today, November 19
Today Cezar has passed a new project called IDENTITIES whose we have to choose an identity, create a scenario (small) and put ourselves in the scenario and produce a gif.
And yes, it's very confusing, at least it was confusing for everyone in the room because it's so hard to think that we have to find a subject that fits all these aspects and media.
So I kept thinking and doing mind maps to see what subject I would be talking about, but all I thought is not yet exactly what I want, but anyway it will be all right I just need to do more research.

reflection day 11

marinawells — 2019-12-09 13:54:52 UTC

today, November 21
So I've been thinking about the in holiday I would like to talk about, and even with some time I'm still having a hard time deciding, my first idea was to play with the light and make a ying yang mask, showing a “good side” ”And a“ bad ”one.
But this idea didn't go much further because I thought I was very focused on gif and not on process.
So I focused on deciding an identity, looking for the other foundation identities projects I saw Daniela's work, whose she is a mermaid, and I really enjoyed this fantasy wave, because I love this fantastic world and the most fantasy things, so I I'm going to do more research to see if I'm really going to talk about it.

Reflection day 6

marinawells — 2020-03-09 19:35:48 UTC

Today, November 12
Today we decorated the room with our references and it was really nice because we could visualise the others people work, and your work it self, I think that for me is easy to get inspiration of I am so rounded by it.

cadjoo — 2020-03-12 19:45:13 UTC

mapping my mind day one

marinawells — 2020-03-26 18:53:04 UTC

Well, I had already done a mind map for the Pré Foundation , which helped me a lot because I already had a base to start.
I was very frustrated in the first days in relation to not yet, because I felt that I didn't deserve it, so I had difficulty to start doing it even knowing how to do it.
But when I started I got very involved and was impressed with the ways of my mind, exactly as I had done in the pre.
I started rereading my research on the padlet and putting together everything that was interesting for my final project, which turned out to be incredible.

mapping my mind day two

marinawells — 2020-03-26 19:04:25 UTC

Well when I started to put my thoughts together to find out how I would do the mind map, as I am far from my artistic materials, I only had pencils, chalk and some sheets of paper, so I thought of making a minimalist mind map, totally different than I was had done it before (large cardboard).
To challenge me to do something that I don't like very much, which in this case is small drawings.
However, I'm still developing this idea and seeing how the materials will collaborate as I want to do

mapping my mind day tree

marinawells — 2020-03-26 19:07:49 UTC

Well, I tried to make a small mind map, at least a sketch of what I would like it to become, but the frustration was greater than me.
I was angry at being caught not yet, I was angry at being away from home and my friends, in the end I kneaded and threw everything away.
I'm still kind of mad about everything that's going on in the world and in my life.

mapping my mind day four

marinawells — 2020-03-26 19:10:22 UTC

Well, rise and shine.
I think I have gone through all the mourning processes (from my academic life)
I didn't believe I had caught the not yet, then I got angry, then sad and now I'm in the acceptance process.
Even though I didn't believe I deserved it, I knew I had to deal with the situation, and deal with the head up.
So, I started researching more things to put on my mind map, and then I started reading a Jung book about symbols and it made me realize how much I like to read and research more about the things that I'm interested in.
My little mind map was a failure but I keep thinking about how to make a big mind map since I only have A4 sheets

mapping my mind day five

marinawells — 2020-03-26 19:14:58 UTC

Well, I already had a good research on what to put on the mind map, but I was still very discouraged and didn't know how to start.
So I started doing some sketches to relax, and it turned out that I started to have a great idea based on a work I saw from Carlos, where he put several sheets on the wall.
And then PLIM! I had the idea of doing the same with my mind map, because what stuck me was the fact that I had to do something small due to the lack of large leaves, but if I glued several leaves they got big, so I started to plan my idea that thanks God was going forward.
I still don't know if my mom will let me stick things on the wall, but at least I'm halfway there.

mapping my mind day six

marinawells — 2020-03-26 19:22:10 UTC

Well, I asked my mom and she let me stick the leafy things on the wall, which leads me to test the materials to find out what type of pencil / chalk / pens to use to make the mind map.
After some tests I really liked the childish effect that the chalk gives, and it relates a lot to the feeling that I am now, trapped inside the room like a child.
My research was already well structured and I had already done several sketches of how I wanted it to look, so now it’s just putting Mao in the dough.

mapping my mind day seven

marinawells — 2020-03-26 19:26:31 UTC

I was already ready, research done, (which by the way made me open my eyes to a lot of things I'm interested in and hadn't realized yet, such as how I love to research psychologists, and I already knew I wanted to do psychology but I didn't realize that I put this in my art so much)
Anyway, I started to do the mind map, I decided that I will make a word for each sheet and cut it if I feel the need in relation to the harmonization of the word with the size.
everything is glued now, it was much chill than I expected :)

final project reflection

marinawells — 2020-04-13 18:58:14 UTC

well, my idea for the final project is very much related to light, and this spiritual feeling that nature transmits, and in my room I have a prism, which reflects the rainbow in my room when the light hits it, and seeing my crystals today I decided to play with the crystals and the rainbow, to see how it would reflect and the result was this.
I found it amazing that as it is transparent it really adapts the colors and makes it almost look like it really has all the colors, but the most interesting thing is that when you turn it it will change because the crystal is rough and has different levels, which it looks pretty psychedelic

quarantine reflection

marinawells — 2020-04-27 18:17:28 UTC

When all this corona virus started, I was already feeling that it would change the way we live a lot, and soon it would change our reality and the art.
When I talk about quarantine I can only think of missing you, but as the memories are not reliable, I decided to make a small “quarantine diary”, because I always wrote my feelings a lot, but this habit was lost in time and now in this phase from the quarantine I’ve been eager to write, perhaps due to the fact that we’re having to deal with our thoughts and loneliness, but anyway, I think it will be a good way to remember what that phase was like, from beginning to end end of quarantine, and how it affected me and affected my art.

quarentine reflection

marinawells — 2020-04-27 18:25:04 UTC

The quarantine made me very sensitive, I have been very fond of talking about feelings, and passing this on to my art, before the quarantine started I made a collage, and then I had to leave the house where she was, but she marked such a special moment and I wanted her close to me, so i made a drawing of the collage, which reminded me a lot of the pre foundation drawlage exercise where we had to do a “collage of drawings” and I loved the result

reflection light

marinawells — 2020-04-27 18:37:42 UTC

Light and color
In my bedroom window there is a prism, that when the light hits it it forms several irises around the room, and these days I was noticing how beautiful the effect that the rainbow produces on the eye, because you can almost keep the colors of the arc iris in the reflection of the iris of the eye, so I started doing some tests with video, I really liked the way that with video the movement can be noticed, but I will do some tests with photos too

reflection

marinawells — 2020-04-27 18:42:15 UTC

Reflection
Today I did some tests with pastel chalk and posca, a combination that wound be very good, given the fact that the chalk has a texture that doesn’t “match” much with posca, but I had a very strong desire to make character designs with bigger lashes, more like a cartoon, and I loved the way that changed the expression of the characters a lot, I'm enjoying practicing this type of drawing, I think I'll develop this practice more

reflection collages

marinawells — 2020-04-27 18:48:20 UTC

I've always been a number one fan of collage, I feel it's a very neat way to mix text with images, and lately I've been very interested in seeing artists making collages about feelings related to quarantine, the way of using random texts and putting together I am interested in them poetically, it is also related to my passion for poetry and films.
I know that I'm testing various media and apparently it has nothing to do with the final project, but I honestly don't know how I'm going to proceed with it and sometimes I just wanted to focus on something else, but keep producing.

reflection quarantine collab 1

marinawells — 2020-04-27 20:37:02 UTC

long story short, i needed to get some artistic materials from my house in sao paulo, where my friend who is also studying arts is living, arriving there we decided to repaint a painting that was there, and it was something very natural and improvised.
I really liked having used paint and collage in the process, I realized that I LOVE to paint with my hands, and I always did it, I just didn't notice it, but I love to feel the paint and see the texture that the hand leaves on the painting.
it was a very interesting experience even more because I was "sharing" the screen with someone, making collabs for me is not always easy because I am a bit controling, but since the beginning of the idea of making the painting it was "let it happen" without controlling anything, what took a weight off my shoulders, I still don't know what the end of this picture will be like, but I really liked the process.

reflection quarantine collab 2

marinawells — 2020-04-27 20:45:48 UTC

well this painting has not yet come to an end, but it brought me some questions that I liked to understand, I had not practiced "decollage" since the pre, which is the act of pasting and tearing or removing the pasted paper, giving an aesthetics well punk, but in the case of the picture it fit perfectly, even though I preferred the ink overlaying the collages.
another thing i realized is that the act of painting with hands has always accompanied me, i always liked the feeling and the effect on the painting, something i would like to explore more.

reflection final project: spirituality

marinawells — 2020-04-29 13:50:37 UTC

I have been interviewing some people regarding their opinion of God, and how he relates to nature.
and it has been very interesting to see how uncomfortable people are when talking about spirituality, as if it were something very difficult to answer, being that I'm just asking "what is a spiritual experience for you?"
I believe that nowadays, because of science, people have moved away from spirituality, which I think is a pity, because spirituality has nothing to do with religion, spirituality is a state of mind.

reflection final project: the brain and spirituality

marinawells — 2020-04-29 13:54:16 UTC

I'm reading a lot of articles about how the brain reacts to being connected to a greater force, but how spirituality changes a lot from person to person, various parts of the brain are affected, science cannot locate a specific region in the brain where the self is located, as we do with memory or anger. The idea that there is a space in the brain where the self, or our consciousness, is hidden does not make any anatomical or scientific sense. Thus, if consciousness is not a limited space, it can be altered or expanded. Spirituality is this transcendence of the self.

reflection final project: James Turrell

marinawells — 2020-04-29 13:59:35 UTC

this was a reference that really changed the way of work, I knew that I wanted to work with light and with spirituality, and when I got to know James’s work everything fit my head, the way he can pass the feeling of connection with God a clean way, just using light and architecture, transforming environments in a very powerful way.
I saw some works he did in a church, I believe it is the church he attended when he was a child, and he did it as if it were a square on the ceiling, in the middle of the church where the light hits and gives a very magical effect, which I really enjoyed.
he also participated in a project in a Buddhist temple, with the same proposal, very incredible the way he mixes spirit with art in my opinion.

reflection final project: meditation

marinawells — 2020-04-29 14:04:10 UTC

During meditation, the mind wanders to so many places. Once Sri Sri said, "Let the mind go where it wants to go." Does that mean that my mind and I are different entities? If so, then what is the mind and who am I?
When you try to control your mind, you run here and there. When you become aware of the wandering mind, then you realize that you are greater than the great mind.
Then you realize that you are not the mind, it is not this body, it is not anything else, what remains is the Being.
And in knowing yourself, you can recognize the Supreme Being. So, you think you discover that you are everything. You are the mind, the thoughts. You are the whole world, but what happens on the second level? When you know yourself, you know the divine. Everything is a deity. Knowing this, it is established in that knowledge.

reflection final project: materials and midia

marinawells — 2020-04-29 14:17:07 UTC

Well, I was thinking about how I could pass this feeling of connecting God with nature, in a very clean and inspired by James Turrell, so I was thinking about using lights, because I believe that the lights have a very interesting effect when talking about god, or a greater force, because it has a magical effect, almost divine.
so I'm doing some tests with lights and prisms, which reminds me that I have to do some tests with prisms in the dark.
and I still don't know exactly how the presentation of the project will be because of the corona virus, so I'm testing it as much in video as in "real life"

reflection final project: light

marinawells — 2020-04-29 14:26:41 UTC

well, I already decided that I want to work with spirituality and I believe that light will be the raw material for my work, now the question is: what kind of light? Sun light? colorful artificial light? light passing through a prism and turning into a rainbow?
I am still testing and thinking about it, I find it very interesting to use light with colors like James Turrell does, the purple color represents spirituality in color psychology, and it relates a lot to me because it is my favorite color.
but I'm not sure what I would be able to pass with it, I also thought about using a prism to make a rainbow, maybe something like the pink floyd album, a light that hits a prism and creates a rainbow, something that two components of nature (light and water) form an experience of colors.
but I am still reflecting on how I will proceed with these tests

eflection final project: installations

marinawells — 2020-04-29 14:43:58 UTC

since i went to inhotim my view on installations has changed a lot, it has expanded.
soon i wish i could produce something with the same effect that i felt there, or at least be able to occupy a room with information that fills every corner, all in sync with the immersion in the theme

reflection final project: rainbow

marinawells — 2020-04-29 16:13:40 UTC

So, I’ve been looking a lot about artist works related to light, and prisms, and I started testing the rainbow at home, as a way to control this manifestation, and the results have been incredible, the rainbow in a round shape relates a lot with the aurea of the human being, which is basically his light seen in the subtle world, and I'm thinking of sometimes making a portal
or a rainbow reflecting on the wall with CDs, I'm still developing the idea, but I was certainly interested in using CDs for the holographic effect, maybe doing the test with broken CDs in the mosaic style.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e9crnQEA78

reflection final project: testing materials

marinawells — 2020-04-29 16:23:56 UTC

I was very bored about life and didn't want to think too much, but I would draw so unconsciously I started to draw a crystal and when I realized I was already painting it with a rainbow, I was very impressed by the fact that I wanted to escape thinking about it I couldn't get away, and after the drawing I put it over the rainbow, I didn't like the effect of the light on the paper but that's okay

lauren_housego — 2020-04-30 03:32:08 UTC

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e9crnQEA78

testing and testing

marinawells — 2020-04-30 19:25:26 UTC

I am testing the relationship of the eyes with the soul
the relationship that we are unable to hide our feelings for the eyes and as they are the windows to the soul, do I also believe that the combination of light and the iris of the eyes is very interesting? I think he saw continue testing the rainbow on his body parts

exposures

marinawells — 2020-05-14 14:23:33 UTC

today in class we had to do a keep moving task to make a doble expouser and it was an incredible experience, I had never done this before and I loved the muddy effect, like two photos can fit together so well and create an amazing composition, I used a lot of collage images which was very incredible because the end result looks like a big digital collage

psychedelics plants and the connection with God

marinawells — 2020-05-14 14:30:30 UTC

psychedelics and the plants of the forest have always been a subject that interested me a lot, I am very connected with the religion of the daime where ayahuasca is consecrated, a leaf tea and a vine, and I am interviewing members of the daime about their opinion what is a SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE about?
In their view, the first person I interviewed was Eduardo Pomar who has been participating in the daime for 25 years and has already lived in a psychoactive mushroom research community that was very incredible for his view and his theories about it. I don't know if the video of the interview will be too heavy to put in the padlet but I will be able to make it accessible for you teachers to see

plants of the gods

marinawells — 2020-05-21 13:28:48 UTC

After having an incredible interview with my uncle who participates in the daime he recommended me a book called the plants of the gods that talks a lot about plants that have some psychoactive effect, but from a spiritual point of view, and I am reading and loving it

Rainbow and its spiritual meanings

marinawells — 2020-05-21 13:34:44 UTC

in ancient Greece and its mythology that the most significant records about the phenomenon emerged. According to her, the rainbow was formed whenever the goddess Iris, herald of the gods, deity responsible for communicating mortals about important events, came down to Earth to do her work. The rainbow was a sign that the goddess passed through Earth and brought some divine message, leaving a trail of colors across the skies that she crossed.
The rainbow was, in Greek mythology, a sign of communication between men and the gods. The strength of the mythological explanation was so strong, that we see that the rainbow got its name because of mythology.

Buddhism and enlightenment

marinawells — 2020-05-21 13:37:04 UTC

The rainbow body is a concept in Tibetan Buddhism, which means one of the maximum levels of illumination when everything starts to turn into pure light. The rainbow body precedes the state of nirvana, being the last stage of enlightenment in consciousness before it.
In the same way that the spectrum contains all possible manifestations of light and color, the body of the rainbow means the awakening of the inner self to terrestrial knowledge, that is, the perception of the totality of material reality and spiritual origin that surrounds us.
In addition to the rainbow body, in Buddhism we have one more reference to this spectacle of nature: after being enlightened, Buddha descended from the heavens using a seven-color ladder, that is, a rainbow as a bridge between the worlds

reflection tutorials

marinawells — 2020-06-01 15:12:36 UTC

After one to one tutorials with Cezar, I was encouraged to experiment with the movement concepts I had in mind since last week. Doing it intuitively, only to visualize and materialize those thoughts, . It was too light to keep moving, so I had to push the back and forth-like movement with my hands. I liked the light flow of the earrings although I still need something heavier to make it work. I also made some documentations with it using the shadows the pendulum made on the floor with a source of light above it. It looked more misterious, and obscure.
I used an old kodak digital camera to do so, with B&W effect. There's also a set of pictures describing its movement, focusing on the matter itself (earrings, colos, light and string).

reflection research

marinawells — 2020-06-01 15:14:06 UTC

On this day I'm focusing on research. For many weeks I was kinda ignoring past interests in the making of the project, instead of uploading different medias of inspiration and study.
In order to this, I used my afternoon to research artists both from KM activities classes as well as from my brief.
It helped me to start a path of practical ideas, and I'm now planning to make a sculpture with a small staircase - placing different symbols on each level.

reflection tutorials

marinawells — 2020-06-01 15:14:50 UTC

Today I had a small meeting with Cezar to talk about the project proposal for the show and about further works that I still need to plan and add to the exhibition.
I'm planning to use the prism as a representation of "divine". I also need to look over more objects, lights and create shootings or videos that represent this idea of spirituality and all kinds of behavior it can involve, such as dealing with ego, patience, peace, energy etc.
I still haven't started these further steps, but I'm planning to use and experiment more with candles and crystals.

reflection research

marinawells — 2020-06-01 15:16:16 UTC

Today I realised there's still plenty of things to do, making me a bit worried. There is more research to be done, the website documentation/experimentation to do.
Besides studying artists for inspiration, I also need to research materials and availability to use on a sculpture. I'm even thinking about showing a video mixing the still media of a sculpture with moving images that reveal sides of what each level from the staircase can represent.

reflection tutorials

marinawells — 2020-06-01 15:19:54 UTC

Today I had a talk with Lauren about my project concept. Since I was quite out of rhythm lately, the absence of work was making things hard to be put on track, specially with the many concepts I wrote on my Project’s Concept.

At first I thought there would be more pros than cons, since even though the contextualization is complex, it merges everything I would like to propose/work with. Doing the list, I realized that for every con I had a pro - which is not a bad signal, I planned to make an immersive installation/space along with the need to curate ideas a bit more. Too many topics where at first a ‘mind blowing’ feeling, but now that I actually have to make them tactile, felt, seen, it’s revealing to be a lot of information.

I realized the problem is not with the themes, but on how I should approach them. Refining ideas and paths are now my goal. I will keep doing a broad research until the next two weeks, so after going through many places I can decide where I fit best.

reflection concept

marinawells — 2020-06-01 15:22:04 UTC

I had some objects that went into my mind about possible ways and symbols to keep my concept and content going. I thought about metal, prism, pendants and a pendulum. Something that calls suspension, at the same time trustable but worrying if something goes wrong. Like a relationship and its paranoias. These things are slightly calling me during the last couple of days. I think they all can relate to Ambipolarity, spirit and journey of my project's content.
Thinking about this, I remembered Ernesto Neto's exhibition at Pinacoteca (2019), specially a crochet vest that supported 3 people at once, each one on an extreme of the piece. They would all support each other by body weight and position, and if one left the relation and balance is also absent.

reflection: video

marinawells — 2020-06-01 15:28:07 UTC

Today I shared the testing version of the video to a friend who didn't know about the project, his feedback was really good in a way that I know that I must make it more clear that is about spirituality. Other than that I am really frustrated with photoshop as a video editor, it keeps crashing out of the blue, next time I need to make sure I have enough time to get comfortable with Premiere.

reflection: concept

marinawells — 2020-06-01 15:30:19 UTC

Something that I can't stop thinking about is that perhaps I have almost everything figured out for the project (conceptually ) and that this might be hurting the project, in my mind everything is set, I already know what I want to do. This is getting in the way of researching and looking for different ways of performing the concept that could be better overall and that might have a bigger impact.

reflection: connection

marinawells — 2020-06-16 14:44:21 UTC

Well, I'm in the final parts of my work, I'm very happy with the progress and where he's going, I feel that I'm increasingly connecting with him after a phase that I kind of lost interest in the subject, I believe that given the fact that I'm three months thinking about it.
But every day I am connecting and watching it become something beautiful and part of me.

reflection: testing

marinawells — 2020-06-16 14:47:15 UTC

Today I am going to do some tests on my favorite tree, it is a very old chestnut tree here in the valley of Matutu MG and I am very happy to be able to have this close to me for this job, it is one of my favorite trees of life for its energy , its size and its strength.
I'm going to do the prism tests on her at 4pm, which is when I know the sun is going to hit her at the right angle to reflect the prism.
I'm very excited to see the result and see if it worked.

reflection: testing

marinawells — 2020-06-16 14:51:23 UTC

I have done several tests with the prisms and everything is going according to plan.
The test with the chestnut tree that I did yesterday even worked, but as the tree is very low and the sun does not enter it very much it didn’t give as magical an effect as I wanted, however it was beautiful and I managed to take some interesting photos .
Now my question is how do I go about finding a place to pass on this divine feeling, which is what I want to go through with work.

reflection: ayahuasca

marinawells — 2020-06-16 15:03:30 UTC

Well today I'm going to do a ritual with ayahuasca with my family, the first idea was to take and make art, but after talking we think it will be better to just connect with God and then what has to happen artistically speaking will happen later.
I am very happy to be able to connect with this force again, here where my family lives is in the middle of nature so I will be very close to what Espinoza said and I will be able to really experience my final work with the effects of this divine substance, I am very excited.

reflection: what is my work really about

marinawells — 2020-06-16 15:08:14 UTC

Well yesterday I took ayahuasca and it was a beautiful experience, we sang several hymns of the daime, and we meditated, and when I was meditating focusing my thought on the final project a beautiful light came to me as in a dream, and for me it was clear that nothing else mattered, only that light.
My work is not about rainbows, prisms, or anything so irrelevant.
It is about the divine light, that light of god that exists on earth, I totally detached myself from what I thought I wanted to see and started to focus on what I wanted to go through with my work.
It was a very beautiful and very powerful experience to be summed up in words, but I feel that from now on the prisms and the rainbows don't matter so much anymore, but the feeling they generate.

reflection: it was right on my face all along

marinawells — 2020-06-16 15:13:04 UTC

Well, when I had this insigth about what I wanted to go through with my work, my mission was now different, to find a way to pass on this vision that I had.
And then I started to think, going back to the beginning, "WHAT IS A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE?"
And then it came to me as if it was always right in my face: nature.
God for me is nature, sunlight, wind and sky.
So I now have to reflect a little more on how I am going to do to create this divine environment that I am looking for, and that is right in front of me given the fact that I am in the middle of nature, I just need to pass on what I see

reflection: the right place to do it.

marinawells — 2020-06-16 15:20:10 UTC

Today is Wednesday and I decided that I would go up the mountain with a friend who is helping me to think about my work.
Here where I am is a very high mountain, but there are still wonderful places that you can reach by going up 2 or 3 hours of walking.
And whenever I go up I take some psychoactive substance and enjoy the peace and the bed of being in a place so sacred and tainted, because there is never anyone besides you up there, and I really feel more connected with the God of it from above.
So today I'm going to go up with my camera and take pictures of trees and places that I feel could be a good place to put my prism installations, then I'll tell the result

reflection: places.

marinawells — 2020-06-16 15:25:13 UTC

Well, yesterday I went up the mountain with my friend and we took a drop of lsd.
here it is considered a very spiritual place, because it was founded by hippies practicing the daime religion, and energetically people from many other religions consider it a sacred place, in the old days Indians from the region came here to do healing rituals, so there is indeed a very strong spiritual energy, and yesterday my friend and I super felt and connected with this energy, when we saw a tree that is on a lookout facing all over the valley, you see the portal of the peak of the parrot and the fence of the lion that are two super high mountains create a portal to the valley, and in this trees with this view I want to do my job.

reflection: research plants of the Gods

marinawells — 2020-06-16 16:15:48 UTC

Well today I’m going to focus on doing my research on the book I’m reading “plants of the Gods" and a little more on the history of the lsd that I’m studying, my intention with this research that relates to my work and see the connection between nature x psychedelia x God.
I believe that they are connected in many ways and reading these books and studying more about these types of rituals I find more and more that my concept of spirituality has a lot of backgrund, which makes me feel I am following the right path.

reflection: Yana Clarck

marinawells — 2020-06-16 18:19:17 UTC

Well today I spoke with an artist that I admire a lot called Yana Clarck, she is the great-granddaughter of Lydia Clarck and she is coincidentally the daughter of the producer of prisms in the region, so while I was talking to him I discovered this and soon asked to talk to her about the work that she did that is very related to mine.

She is a Brazilian artist but has lived in the USA for a long time, and she is very influenced by yoga and ayahuasca, and talking to her was very good because we had incredible exchanges of content and she showed me a lot of meditation techniques and told me about her last work, which for her is "the representation of reflection, we are the world, and the world we choose to be, we are pure light and we have to be a reflection of that light in the world".
I loved meeting her and getting to know this job.

reflection: I did it.

marinawells — 2020-06-16 18:33:02 UTC

Today I set up my installation, I wanted to pass on the energy of God, so I climbed the mountain at 3 am to be able to be on top at sunrise, and catch the light of the beginning of the day.
It was quite a climb, and when I got there, my friend and I hung up the prisms, and watched the sunrise with the prisms, we said a prayer and took the pictures.
The sunrise was special, everything came out the way we planned and everything was so beautiful and special that I can't explain it.
I felt god there with me at that moment, and at least for me it was a success.
I felt what I wanted to go through, and for me that is all I needed and wanted with this project. It was quite an experience to go through it and I am very grateful to ebac and my incredible teachers and friends who helped me make it real. I will be forever grateful.
outcome: https://livescream.hotglue.me/?marina

NY

marinawells — 2020-07-02 22:44:44 UTC

Light Project
The theme Spirituality is very stimulating and organic for me,
I believe that at the beginning of this journey I did not know what was waiting for me, but in the creative process of this project, after some reflections the light came to me as a raw material, because in moments like the one we are in now, it is still accessible to all of us , the light is always around us.
To "illuminate" my project, I sought inspiration in us humans and our journey through time.
Through the broad and deep views of history, science, philosophy and religious mysticism.
In each survey, I developed my outlook on spirituality.
in the early days: the light of fire and its strong influence on our evolution.
The human fascination with the sun, a great incandescent star in its magnitude, was a symbol and source of divine light in countless religions and is a great archetype of divine until today, the heat and brightness of the sun, the father of every color is also the most white light Newton talks about when studying the prisms and the spectrum of colors, that exist in this magnificent sunlight.
And when I wanted to know what the philosophers thought about this divine sunlight, I read about Espinosa that says everything I believe, that God IS nature, he is the sunlight, the air, the trees, he is everything around us , because God is in everything, and that puts me in a position where I find more ground to be able to affirm what I already felt, I just needed to know how to pass it on to people so that they would feel what I feel, so I continued to seek the spiritual connection with the sunlight and found numerous architectural projects that have also used the sun as an inspiration, since ancient times, civilizations use sunlight to illuminate special points of the temples, pulpit and altars radiating through the light the power of the supernatural.
In Gothic architecture, cathedrals and their charming stained glass windows, and countless other spiritual temples.
In other words, since the beginning, all religions have hailed nature as the source of greater divine connection, be it as the garden of Eden, or the Egyptians with the Ha (sun), all religious figures hailed nature as sacred, as mother of all purity and strength.
When developing the project, I followed an intuitive line with nature, I looked for the tree of life, the model for the support structure of the prisms, as an analogy to the journey from life to enlightenment.
In the geometry of the prisms and their meanings, each prism star has an archetype behind it, bringing also to each prism its own energy, and in them joining materials of great reflection of light: glass and water.
I believe that this project made me research a lot about the historical line of light and the connection with spirituality in general, and with that I affirm within myself that light has always been present, and always will be.