Day 1_Portfolio Review_Introductions

Day 1.  We are giving a 10 minute description of our work and some of the conceptual and aesthetic foundations and inspirations from other artists (in the contemporary arts).  The guest artist reviewing the work is Ron Baron, who will be leading the residency workshop for the next five weeks.

My goal for this residency is to refresh, learn new skill sets and technologies, and give myself a chance to reinvent the direction and aesthetic behind my work.  For the past 4 years, my work has been centralized around the idea of the "visual trigger."   A term used in addiction theory to reflect the conditioned response that can occur as result of a visual cue.  The observer (addict) will sometimes lose sense of right and wrong and participate in unwarranted or unhealthy behaviors.  Of course, visual triggers are experienced by everyone.  Who hasn't been told to "buy this, eat this, or do that" through advertising?   Visual seduction is used by food photographers all the time, and videographers shooting commercial work are expected to make something look fun, romantic, or otherwise positively engaging.   And sex, well, the saying goes "sex sells."  It's everywhere.    My work will continue with "visual triggers" as a conceptual fulcrum,  but the new work will pivot around more tangible and recognizable imagery that reflects human desires (of sex, food, technology) while exploring and persisting in


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