Friday, January 29, 2010

LATENT ADMENSURATION

5 comments:

Daphne Longo-Okcuoglu said...

Hey! This is great! - like still lifes I am supposed to be doing in my studio...and am not. But, I will soon and I REALLY think we should have show together at flower shop of friend of mine - you have lots of great flowers lately - even this one counts - dead rose! I'll try to get advanced students to do it as a requirement too - including a cool texture layer...perhaps you will come as "guest artist" for a day -we'll caht about that - would not be for over a month til we get to tha tin class...I have 2 email u asap soon - I will try by tom. night.

Jeff Reeder said...

Daphne, it was one of your assignments that Jenny was working on that sparked me thinking about Surrealism, dreams and unconscious thought. I had been gathering things for years to use to represent items in my dreams and thoughts. I started photographing them years ago, but started feeling like I was over thinking and overworking them, which kind of defeated the purpose of representing unconscious thought...so I started simplifying things. I am now inspired to figure out ways to work them back into my work. I am always into coming into the school. Just let me know. As for the show, Hell yes!

Jess said...

I see your face in the jar again, still love that. I like most the bible(?) on a scale, interesting visual metaphor if so.

Jeff Reeder said...

Yes, the repetition is all part of the dream idea. The bible is not really a bible, but was intended to make you think it was...and the metaphor was intentional... is it wrong to make intentional metaphors to represent an unconscious thought process? This is where surrealism has always hurt my head.

Daphne Longo-Okcuoglu said...

just reading this now...yea...I think surrealism is great notion/mindset to have while gathering objects...just saw "Alice..." at movies - now I am 2x inspired by ur thoughts here + movie to gather some objects that have moved me this way over the years that I have gathered around the house + re-look at them + their relationship to each other in studio.