Wednesday, October 6, 2010

3D Hard and Soft sculpture.

This is the final version of my sculpture hard and soft project. I wanted to contiue the duct tape onto the walls and the floor but I ran out of time. I think it turned out pretty well....

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Reaction to Persona

Persona Response
 Last week in my drawing class our professor said that we were going to watch a movie I got rather excited. Usually when I watch a movie I zone out and it is a time for me to relax and take in the simplicities of a movie and its plot and characters. However Persona was not one of these movies where I could sit back and relax. Persona was by far one of the most confusing movies I have ever seen, as my professor could infer from my facial expressions throughout our viewing in class. I am quite used to the Hollywood way of making movies where there are plot lines that are quite easy to follow and the characters are easy to follow and understand. Persona was not such a movie persona was difficult to follow and every confusing.
            One of the main things that confused me about persona was Elizabeth’s condition. It really confused me as to what was wrong with her. Her one aliment was not speaking. I do not feel however that something was wrong with her. I believe that she made a choice to not speak and it’s really bothering me as to why she made that choice and why that appeared to be a choice to her.  This part of the movie really irritated me and that part of the movie really made me mad after the movie was over and I am not quite sure why it made me so upset.
            The next section of the movie that really bothered me was Sister Alma’s personality she was just a strange women. One of the scenes that I found to be really strange was the scene where she was throwing herself around in the bed. I just really had no idea what she was doing or the reason behind it. Also her reactions to many events that occurred throughout the movie where just really strange to me.       
Another section of the movie that really confused me was Sister Almas and Elizabeth’s relationship. In the beginning it was that Sister Alma was the nurse and Elizabeth is the patient.
Pretty simple right? Yeah not really their relationship was so much more complicated even at that point, but compared to the rest of the movie that was nothing. For example when they get to the beach house they are still kind of in that awkward stage of nurse patient relationship. As they spend more time and more time with each other they start to become a sort of friends. But it is a one sided relationship I feel because Elizabeth isn’t speaking and thus has very little to contribute to the conversation. As the movie goes on their relationship develops and they begin to trust each other but rather Sister Alma begins to trust Elizabeth. Sister Almas trust is then violated when she reads a letter that Elizabeth had written to her doctor that mocked Sister Alma.
            Then came in the most confusing scene in the entire movie for me, this was the “fight” scene. I couldn’t tell if it was really happening or not, and if it was what on earth is wrong with these grown women and why where they fighting like five year olds. It was by far one of the strangest and confusing things I have ever seen in my entire life. It was really that strange. Also the aftermath of the fight was even stranger, the make ups and the fights that happened again and again. At a certain point I was thinking oh goodness please get over yourselves and move on please.
            There was one point to the movie that I absolutely loved and that was the way in which the movie was shoot and how beautiful the entire movie was. I am a huge fan of very high contrast with very light whites and dark blacks. Every scene in this movie was thought out and each was paid attention to and I really loved that about this movie. I had never seen such art in a movie. I think the reason that I was really able to focus on the beauty of the movie was because after a while I gave up trying to understand the movie and really began to focus in on the beauty. One of the scenes that I though was beautiful was when Sister Alma was lying in bed and Elizabeth was standing at a distance back. Sister Alma was almost in complete darkness and Elizabeth was in complete light. It was absolutely gorgeous. Another scene that really caught my eye was the scene in which Sister Alma is standing up against a white wall with her very dark sunglasses. The contrast was beautiful and breathtaking.