Didactic Panels

Panel #1

So that's what it looks like
So that’s what it looks like

Jaichan Kirty
Born 1996 in Guyana
Lives and studies in New York
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Oh! So that’s what it looks like, 2015
Sharpie on paper, 7.5″ x 5″

Kirty created this piece using an X-Acto knife to carefully cut this square out of the page, revealing the Portrait of Ivan that is on the previous page. Also, Kirty uses sharpie markers to cover up a huge amount of the pages leaving out a few words that create its own new story; Oh! So that’s what it looks like.

Panel #2

Inside the House

Jaichan Kirty
Born 1996 in Guyana
Lives and studies in New York
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“Inside the House” 2015
Sharpie on paper, White computer paper, Highlighter, 7.5” x 10”

Kirty blocked out a huge amount of the pages and selected words and phrases to emphasize, “Opening her eyes” and “Photograph of the house when it’s winter”. Which he used to create images. Kirty uses paper to cut out the shape of a house. The cut out of the house was glued on the previous page.

Panel #3

Blueprint
Blueprint

Jaichan Kirty
Born 1996 in Guyana
Lives and studies in New York
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“Blueprint” 
2015
Paint on paper, 7.5″ x 10″

“Blueprint” was created when Kirty painted over a picture with the saturated primary colors. Kirty painted a blue box, and inside that box is a print of a foot-step. After painting over the picture, Kirty then closed the book allowing the paint to print over on the other page creating a paint splatter effect.

Didactic panel for poster

Brandy Ortiz

Born 1997 in Bronx,NY
Lives and studies in New York

Picture Perfect Family 2015
Pigma Micron Pens(0.2, 0.5 and Brush) and Faber-Castell Brush Pen

Drawing inspiration from Phillips’s Humument project, Ortiz transformed Brimstone and its thriller theme into one with a theme of family gathering. The concept behind this composition is that through the selected text,  the artist depicts a family that enjoys getting together.By outlining the frame with micron pens followed by inking the rest of the page with the brush pen, the frame within the margin area transforms the text to make it look like a family portrait.

Didactic Panel

Xingfu, Ye

Born 1997 in Zhejiang, China
Lives and studies in New York
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From reading The House of Memory. Xingfu recreates the page into a image by using Pigma Micron 05 and PITT artist Big brush. To convey life and death in the image, he drew circles and line taps, half of which were filled in with black ink and the other half left blank. The idea was came from the text, the words “dead,” “live” and “spirit”. he’s trying to express that live and death are so close, circles are represent the spirit.

Revising Didactic Panel


Jingyi Jiao

Title: The Stage of Value

Materials: Inking brush pens (black, dark gray, and light gray) and book pages from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

For this project the artist chose to articulate value, the lightness and darkness of a color. Using inking brush pens to block out specific words, Jiao chose the word “stage” to incorporate the fact that Macbeth is a famous play itself. Using the skill of placement, the page shows value from the darkest blacks to no color at all.

 

Didactic Panel for the Poster

  • describe Tom Phillips’s project
  • guidelines for our project
    • in a used book, represent different projects and concepts
    • re-envisioning of the book’s theme
  • use inspiration from Tom Phillips to incorporate visual and written expression: a goal of our Learning Community
  • the complete project is slated to be on display in the library in the Spring 2016 semester

First sentences:

  • The Humument book by Tom Phillips was an inspiration for this project.
  • Tom Phillips’s Humuments refashioned books as platforms for visual art while making use of the book’s written contents in order to create something entirely different.
  • Sourcing inspiration from Tom Philllips’s A Humument, Learning Communities COMD 1100 and ENG 1101 teamed up in order to curate a project that includes both text and visuals.

Draft of text for the poster:

Sourcing inspiration from Tom Phillips’s altered text, A Humument, COMD 1100 and ENG 1101 teamed up in the Ways of Seeing: Adventure with Image and Text Learning Community to curate a project that integrates both words and visuals. Like Phillips, students found inexpensive used books to transform into new artistic creations both in appearance, using ink, paint, pencil, cut-outs, folding, and burn-out, and in theme. The resulting work merges image and text for each new project or concept in both courses.

 

 

Didactic panel

Brandy Ortiz

Born 1997 in Bronx,NY
Lives and studies in New York

Picture Perfect Family 2015
Pigma Micron Pens(0.2, 0.5 and Brush) and Faber-Castell Brush Pen

The Humument book by Tom Phillips was an inspiration for the vision behind this project. The theme of family gathering juxtapose the source Brimstone theme of thriller. The concept behind this composition is that through the selected text,  Ortiz depicts a family that enjoys getting together and the frame with in the  margin area makes the text appear to be the picture to make it look like a family portrait.

Brandy Ortiz

Born 1997 in Bronx,NY
Lives and studies in New York

Love exist 2015
Scissors and Pencils(HB-6B)

The Humument book by Tom Phillips was an inspiration for the vision behind this project. The concept behind this composition is that through the selected text, Brandy Ortiz depicts that love is a great feeling to have in the world we live in. Most of the page is shaded by pencil and represents low key. The heart shows that love will always be there even when surround by darkness.

Didactic Panel

YingYang Zhang

To represent Of Mice and Men’s themes of dreams, loneliness, and sacrifice, Yang used an X-Acto knife to cut out shapes of a dark cloud, lightning, and a bird from black bristol, then glued them on the page to create the obvious composition. The dark cloud and the lightning stand for the obstacles of our dreams, and the bird is used to represent loneliness. Yang also used a No. 6H pencil and a black big brush to create the concept of pattern. The irregular lines staggered together makes it look like a broken mirror, represent the idea of sacrifice.

Didactic panel

Jingyi Jiao

Title: Ambiguous, stage 2015

Jingyi chose Macbeth by William Shakespeare to be her humument. She creates the compositions by using tools of  ink brush pens: black, dark gray, and light gray, papers from Macbeth’s book pages , and the basic ideas of graphic design principle I. The concept used for the first composition is ambiguous, the compositions of the black color and book paper made up a new figure ground. The second page shows the contrast of volume from dark to light, and also squared the word “stage”. Since Macbeth is a famous stage show, she showed that through both the language and design.

 

 

 

Didactic Panel draft

Xingfu, Ye

Born 1997 in Zhejiang, China
Lives and studies in New York
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From reading the page of a book, and thinking differently. Making the page to a differently story than the original book. Xingfu recreate the pages in the image of Line and Rhythm by using Pigma Micron 05 and PITT artist Big brush. The first image is representing a great position, where he drew Lines and solid bridges to support the center. The idea was come from the text, where he found the words “great position”. The second image is representing Live and Death, he drew circles and line tap which half was filled in with black ink and leave the other half blank. The idea was also came from the text where he saw the words “dead”, “live” and “spirit”. Xingfu said this is trying to express that live and death is just between one line, the line tap was draw twist to show Rhythm. Circles are represent the spirit.