See Ourselves Seeing

Visual Language
Homework: September 8
Due: September 15

“Turell’s work allows us to see ourselves “seeing”. Whether harnessing the light at sunset or transforming the glow of a television set into a fluctuating portal, Turrell’s art places viewers in a realm of pure experience.”

Objective: The Objective of this exercise is to “see ourselves seeing”. Observe and analyze your relationship to your environment, light and time. This will be done through a series of drawings and written responses.

1. Research:
-Choose a space/landscape/room, which will have available light from the outdoors coming into the area
-Go to this place 3 different times of the day: early morning, mid-day,
sunset or evening
-Describe the place, the time of day, objects, space etc. during these different times.
- Describe what the light is literally doing. How does the light describe the place, objects, and space?
-If a person were blind how would you describe the most interesting time of day to them?

Total: 9 written responses
Post at least ONE of these responses on your blog. (You may post more.)
Write the other responses in your notebook.

2. Analysis:
-Go to the place 3 different times of the day: early morning, mid-day,
sunset or evening
-Make a drawing in this space with the SAME attention to framing and composition in each drawing.
-The difference will be how you describe the light through your drawing in this place.


3. Do this exercise in THREE DIFFRENT places.

Total: 9 drawings (spend at least 20 minutes on each drawing)


Materials:
-Composition Notebook
-Charcoal and/or Pencil
-Sketchbook paper and /or newsprint (no smaller than 8x10”)


Methods: Contour & Value Drawing

Resources:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/ www.abelardomorell.net