Critical Analysis of Devon Rinn's Piece

As I approached the bench between the Baressi and Cannon dorms, I saw a figure collapsed on the bench. Her head flopped backwards and her arms and legs were completely limp. As i came closer, I realized who this morbid character was. Here was Devon, in almost all black (except for her socks), sprawled across the bench looking very much "dead." I had not read her artist statement ahead of time but I knew right away what she was trying to portray. It was pretty obvious from the way she sat and how she had done her makeup.

I loved the lighting on her when we went to view her performance. The sun was very intense and made it seem as if she had died during the night and was just left on the bench for the morning. It made me wonder what her "cause of death" had been. I also couldn't help but stare at her. I almost hoped I would catch her move. I wondered if Garrett's cigarette smoke was going to bother her and show on her face when the wind blew it by her. But she really impressed me by how motionless she was, even her breathing was extremely shallow. I want to know if anyone approached the bench and worried that she really was dead. It would be interesting to see how many good samaritans there were that would call for help or see if she was ok.

The fact that Garrett was next to her smoking was a funny coincidence. It did seem to look like she had died from second hand smoke or that she was a look into the future as to what would happen to Garrett.

The one thing that did bother me about the piece was that she was fighting for attention between Garrett and Lauren's piece. It was kinda like she was squished in between them. I feel like her piece would have been much stronger if she was all alone.

If they could read my mind

Myself and Courtney DeNoto, wanted to create a piece that would allow personalized thoughts that are supposed to be "invisible" to any outside viewers to be visible. We wrote down every thought that came to our head, no matter how much we wouldn't want someone to read it, over the three hour time period. We both faced a sense of fear and discomfort throughout this piece. Also we uncovered an endurance that had to be faced; which was leaving yourself alone with only your thoughts for hours, your mind starts to get easily confused and we began to forget a lot.

performance proposal

We, Kathy Kraus and Courtney DeNoto, will be in Cohen Studio on Thursday. We both will be completely dressed in white, every thought that comes to our heads will then be recorded using permanent marker onto the other person's clothing as the three hours go by. We will not be allowed to speak at any time. At the end of the performance it will seem as though we are inside of each other's heads.

Sonic Postcard Remix

Sonic Postcard Remix from Kirsty Reeves on Vimeo.

Sonic Postcard

Kinetic Sculpture "Rain Box"

Rain Box is a piece that focused on the use of mechanical devices to reenact the sound that rain makes as well as portray the difficulties of trying to mimic nature with human contraptions.

Automata

the handle turns makes the flower spin up around and move up and down

Documenting Time

Throughout the day, I would write one word on the paper to describe one section of time through out my 24 hour time documenting period. Just by looking at each word, I can remember what time of day it was and what activity I was doing.