Parent Video
Title: Mother Daughter Bonding
To start off I have a step dad, my bio dad was a complete and utter asshole, I’m surprised he isn’t behind bars. My step dad is lovely, I consider him my real father, however one person has been with me since day one and that would be my mom. This assignment revolved around her and myself and our bond with each other, she is my person, she has supported my decision with everything since day 1, that includes this profession. Love you mom.
I thought it would be fun to take her to a rage room, reasons being if you’ve ever seen her mad and or just driving. we have comments back and forth about wanting to hit something or someone just because how stupid people can be, some comments also refer to the water in our area like “what is in the water, did everyone drink it today and become incompetent!?”. On top of that the topic of a rage room has come up many times. when getting this assignment I called her and asked “wanna go to a rage room? great? we have a reason to go now!” when I got home to do this assignment I found out that half my family and my moms childhood friend would be joining us. This made it difficult until I found out that there was 2 rooms in a technical sense, my brother and step dad were in room 1 and myself, my mom and her friend were in room 2. We each got a crate of breakable items but for the video I bought an extra item, being an electronic for my mom and myself. My mom and myself are in many ways similar, sometimes in a scary way, this was just another interest of ours that we got to do and an experience that we got to share together.
This was extremely therapeutic and my mom says so in the video. We had to much fun and honestly wished we had more crates so then we didn’t have to leave right away. In the end I got a small clip of everyone walking across the screen, they were supposed to stay in frame but that’s a small conversation that can also be heard. When getting in the car I made the comment about us needing to make this a family tradition, maybe sometime around Thanksgiving or Christmas, my mom loved that idea and I can’t wait to go back.
Side note: we wen’t to a bar after and got drinks, not my bother, he was left at home.
people involved: My mother, Aaron | My step dad, Jay | My moms friend, Sabrina | My brother, Jaxon | Myself.
music in the background consisted of Grandson, Joost Klein and ______
A.G.O/ Power Plant Trip
In the first part at the A.G.O I looked into (enter gallery name here) I loved the visual elements that it gave and in was very immersive. The only thing I found hard was the audio, I know it’s a part of the installation itself, however, personally I couldn’t take the audio. Not that I didn’t like it, it was interesting.
The second part of the A.G.O was more favourited than the first part, I loved the colour, all the visuals, with texture, the sculptural elements, mixed media, the audio rooms, ext.
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when arriving at the Power Plant, I wasn’t expecting the immersive installations with colour and sound that I was about to walk into. The first one I visited was (name here) and that was my favourite out of the 2, the dark ambiance with the accents of multiple colours and shapes… continue
lastly my upmost favorite part of the trip: As much as I loved seeing everything at the AGO, seeing as it being my first time there. I found these piece’s and other’s like them to be my favorite part of the trip and out of all the art work we got to see. I felt at home in these areas, calm, and really happy. I didn’t go to picture crazy because there are so many of these on the internet, but I wanted to commemorate the firsts, the first Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, etc. I was so close to tears.
video Assignment #1
Title: Internal
Edit: I took the advise from crit and took out the audio and replaced it with subtitles, I don’t know why it isn’t popping up.
This is my stolen video art.
For my video I went with a “day in the life” video genre, however its just a few minutes in the mind of someone that has ADHD. I wanted something to show to people what can really be happening in ones mind and that ADHD isn’t all on the outside, it never is. This video is meant to reach people who don’t have ADHD, but it doesn’t mean it’s targeted for them to be the ones to understand what is happening. The people targeted for understanding is other people with ADHD/someone that might know another. This may not pertain to everyone with ADHD, but it will reach a good amount.
The idea for this came about when I didn’t fully understand what the project was supposed to be and when talking with Diane, she said something that made my mind jump to “All videos are like a representation of our own minds” however I have ADHD, I thought it be funny to make the video and the intention was to have it be lighthearted. In the middle of editing I opted on doing a voice over and make it a 50/50 in laughter and sadness. I also wanted the voice over audio to be a bit worn and not top notch for it to represent it coming from my mind, it is not clear and shouldn’t be as such. I enjoy the end result of the voice and think of it as myself stuck in my head, maybe in a glass bubble or metal box just trying to pick a fight.
This would be my very first exceptionally personal Art-Piece. Growing up not knowing I had ADHD didn’t help with school and other things in my life. At some point I genuinely thought that I was lazy and was going to have nothing in life, many situations left people in the same thought process. I want people to see what might be going on in the mind. Someone might look like they don’t care or want to do the task, but they might just be fighting with themselves internally to do the most simple thing, standing.
NOTE: The video is not coherent, it is supposed to be a mess.
These 3 videos would be my inspiration for my ADHD video.
Banners: Standing And Falling
Artist statement:
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