KARYN EASTON
Nov 19
by Karyn in 3d, Abstract Art, Artists, Augmented Reality, Drawings, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Work, Photography, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: 3d, Abstract Art, Artists, Augmented Reality, Drawings, Experimentation, Ideas, my work, Photography, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

Epic Making Session

Yaacov Agam Inspired Work – Over many months now I have been wrestling with a myriad of ideas.  In my Study Statement I was keen to develop a new form of hybrid human, digital and AI art.  I also wanted to include an element of mystery and discovery whereby elements of the work were hidden. During my search for inspiration I came across two artists that particularly resonated with me, namely:  Alexander Calder and Yaacov Agam.  I particularly liked the idea of movement and mobile art seen in Calder’s work.  Indeed I was so taken with his work that I went to visit the Tate Modern to see some of his pieces there. However, Yaacov Agam’s work really did inspire me.  In his Artist’s statement he says: “My aim is to show the visible in a perpetual state of becoming”. I think this is a beautiful way in which he describes his work. However, I personally would liken it to, showing the visible in a perpetual state of change. Given the nature of the subject matter that I’m exploring, his work for me very much aligns with this notion of change as well as ‘becoming’.   Below is a short […]
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Feb 11
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Animation, Context, Drawings, Evaluations, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, My Work, Problem Solving, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Animation, Context, Drawings, Evaluations, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, my work, Problem Solving, Videos

Boring, Boring, Boring

Nothing is Ever New – I often tell my students about a great piece of advice that I received as a photography student over 30 years ago.  The advice was simple, but it has had a profound effect on my work through the decades. It goes like this…… “When you have your finalised brief or theme – go away and brainstorm 5 ideas and write them down on a piece of paper. Once you have your list, screw it up, or better still tear it up and throw it in the bin.  Why???…Because those 5 ideas will probably be the exact same 5 ideas that everyone else will come up with.” I now always pass on this little piece of advice to all my students. They usually give me a look of abject horror, having just spent the last two hours working on the first idea that came into their heads. Yesterday Noah, one of my fellow students, kindly alerted me to an artist who is working very much along the same lines as me.  Here is an Instagram link to his work. I am not really surprised by someone else working in my area of trying to marry up […]
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Feb 01
by Karyn in Animation, Books, Drawings, Videos, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Animation, Books, Drawings, Videos, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 14

The Art of Seeing – This week we ran a really interesting exercise.  We were asked to look at a photograph and then look again more closely and then keep repeating this.  It is amazing how much can be missed with a cursory glance at something.  Our group discovered so much by analysing the image over and over again.  The little details gave away lots of information.  For example the police officer in our image was wearing a red poppy.  Instantly we knew that the photo must have been taken somewhere in the UK in November.  The poppy is synonymous with Remembrance Day which happens around that time.  This week we also did another 5 minute free writing exercise.  Our task was to look around our immediate surroundings and then say what it all meant.  I talked about all of the disruption in my front room because of having the room below it plastered.  We are extending the house and everything seems quite chaotic at the moment. One thing which I found absolutely fascinating was the idea that my salary will actually be the same as my salary averaged across the salaries of my friends.  Even more interesting was the […]
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Dec 21
by Karyn in Ai, Drawings, Experimentation, Food for Thought, My Learning, My Work, Videos, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: ai, Drawings, Experimentation, Food for Thought, My Learning, my work, Videos, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 10

Programming with Processing 😊 – This has to be one of my favourite sessions so far. I love all of my zoom sessions, but the chance to learn a little programming is always a positive for me. Until today I hadn’t come across the programming environment called ‘Processing’. I downloaded the software onto my computer and I attempted to play around with it a little. This was to familiarise myself with it a before the start of our session. I found the tutorials really informative and I very quickly got the ‘gist’ of it. We also had a guest speaker Matthew Edwards, who came in to give us a demonstration and work with us through some example code. It was a very good pace and pitched perfectly for a total beginner like myself. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the results of my little programs. I also thoroughly enjoyed the group conversation afterwards. Jonathan introduced us to GPT chat. This is an advanced algorithmic program that can write highly intuitive essays from user text prompts. It can also write code. This week I’ve had lots to think about and explore. I have updated my ‘Zentangle’ gallery to reflect all of my little […]
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