creative environments Noble Kelsch

This is an overhead view of my ideal creative environment. The safe one. The one that admittedly not the best, should have outlined it with sharpie and documented it better.

As for the risky environment. I think the idea of just doing it all while out in the open or on the sidewalk would be very unsafe for me. I would not like that and I honestly don't know if I could do it for more than a few minutes before I stopped and went back to my room or the studio.

Creative Environments Christopher-Woodward

Safety

Location: Cape Meres, Oregon

    Advantages: Tillamook is approximately 15 to 20 minutes away and is a tourist trap making the ideal location for a prominent coffee shop

    As Well as if base location for art gallery is between shear wood and portland oregon this is within about an hours travel this is ideal in separating work from the studio space however makes travel a little more difficult

However it would make this an ideal location for a separate workspace

Square footage: About 820 sq ft

floor vinyl

Light grey painted walls

Black and Chrome modern furniture.

The building while mostly windows which I find necessary because of my appeal for nature needs to be confined so locks are a definite. I also prefer music but my music so speakers are necessary as well. I also need outdoors, yes I draw and paint birds so that is obvious however I find most of my ideas, even ones that are not birds, are best developed when I'm walking outside. I prefer wooded areas and rain thus Oregon. I also find that I enjoy having a very limited amount of people around while I work. However it dosent improve or negatively affect the actual creation of the work it helps me figure out my ideas. The best part about windows is being able to enjoy the outside while being in comfortable conditions such as temperature and no wind.

Risky

For me risk comes with knowledge, and risk comes from interacting with others. It in many ways is a self derived action and when applying it to art, I believe, it comes from a mind set. So to perpetuate this kind of behavior in an environment I believe I would need to be constantly learning and surrounded by intellectuals of differing degrees and lifestyles. For this I would invite people that I barely knew but you'd inspiring to live with me or share my studio for an amount of time the duration isn't important it is more about how much I can gain from having these people in my life.

People such as:

Andrew Salgado

Diana Al Hadid

Marina Abrovovik

Ben Sang

Creative Environments - Jamyn Scarlet

Risky Environment:
Isolated shelter in an arctic area.
In this space I would only be able to spend a very limited amount of time outdoors, I would have an extremely limited amount of human interaction and as a result a limited exposure to any sort of culture or outside ideas. I probably wouldn't have internet access and maybe a couple books if I was lucky. This place would make it extremely difficult to look at and study other artworks and would also take away access to news.






Safe Environment:
Art Gang
My ideal environment would be a large group of artists, from all over the world. Each person would agree to make a space or share space where another artist could live and work for a limited amount of time where ever they live. Each person would submit when they wanted to stay at their own space and when they could travel to a different one. Ideally I would have musicians, writers, dancers, philosophers, and all sorts of different people from different practices, as well as visual artists, to contribute to each others creative practice. With this residency hot potato kind of group of people everyone would make new connections and friends as well as being able to explore new places and cultures and getting to bounce ideas off of all sorts of people with different backgrounds.

Safe/Risky Creative Environments - Makena Willis

Sensory Deprivation - Makena Willis

Sensory Depriavation- Ivy Petersen

I decided to repeat what we did during class and walk around my dorm and through campus blindfolded. while I walking around I took note of the types "see" through my eyelids. I found that it was very interesting to experience light in different ways, like how I knew what color a wall was because of its reflected light, or like how bright direct sunlight came through. After I was done with my walk I went back home and created a painting depicting the different types of light that I experienced.

Sensory Deprovation - Ryan Simmons

 

 

 

This work began with an interest in exploring body, landscape, and artmaking. Similarly, I wanted to take a less traditional approach to my personal artmaking. Unlike normal, I had little concern for product with this project, and this work become much more about experience. Leaving my personal belongings behind I hiked to a distant location where I could be stripped of communication, clothes, and time. Using two limited edition relief prints I blindfolded myself with one and displayed the other one in front of me. Blinded to my surroundings I stood there displaying the print, until the cold air became warm and the frozen ground burnt. Below is a short gif displaying two seconds of the approximately 30 minute experience. I then redressed myself and hiked back.

 

Interested in ideas of:

Art created by body - Body becoming art
Art about landscape - Art in landscape
Display of artwork - Display of body
Art about Utah culture - Body as a product of Utah culture
Art vulnerable - Body vulnerable


Observations:

Noise seemed to grow louder than quitter then louder
Aware of cold, slowly grew warmer and warmer
Wind was far more noticeable
The temptation to remove the blindfold diminished significantly over time
Gunshots in the distance,
Constant barking of dogs
School bells
Sound of snow melting and being absorbed by the earth.

Sensory Deprivation - AJ Roberts

Muffled

For this project, I decided to experiment with the loss of communication. Not too sure how I can really document such events but ill try with the overall experience and what happened. So for 5 hours, I restricted myself from speaking whatsoever. Not just by choosing not to speak but by physically silencing myself with tape.  It's strange to think how a loss of such a sense can hinder you so much. I would try to interact with my family, ask when dinner was ready, how their day had been. All without making a single word, sure I'd make a few muffled attempts. However, I had to rely on mostly my expression and what it conveyed, as well as hand gestures.

The restriction while not necessarily heightening my other senses, forced me to operate in a way or ways that were alien to myself. To dabble in new ways of communicating, to emote, to get peoples attention as well as get them to understand what I was trying to get across. It also gave me this sense of helplessness, If one was born this way I understand they would have found ways to compensate. However, if say you were to suddenly loose speech you would have to learn a completely new language in a way. Everything you once knew would have to change. Even after I removed that restriction it would feel strange when I spoke, I would stumble and tremble through my words a bit, my mouth felt numb. And I'm sure I would learn far more if I were to go even longer without speaking.

Sensory Deprivation - Jamyn Scarlet

Senses are messages from your body to your mind. The messages are constantly being sent but not always received. A common example of this is sleeping. How well do you remember what happened when you were sleeping?

 I wore heavy makeup that I knew would leave the residue of me sleeping on the paper, the remnants of something I felt but have no solid memory of.

Sensory Deprivation - Kiersten Rakisits

https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive

For my sensory deprivation I didn't talk for two days, on the second day I lay perfectly still in complete darkness for an hour and blocked out all sound except the white noise of a fan playing through headphones.  My goal was to sit for two undisturbed hours.  I created an audio piece to replicate my experience.  At first my mind was very busy with thoughts and trying to keep myself busy so time would pass faster, and the noise of the fan was obvious and almost to the point of overbearing.  I was anxious and a little stressed.  After a while my thoughts slowed down as I tried focusing on the sound of the fan.  Once focused on the fan I became less anxious and was able to calm down.  After some time had passed the sound of the fan seemed to be more distant or to disappear altogether.  I was at a relaxed state almost to the point of falling asleep.  Once close to an hour had passed my hair tie was starting to hurt the back of my head.  The more I thought about it the more I grew increasingly aware of it and wanted to move to relive the pain, but I figured it was only another hour or so left before my timer would go off.  I tried distracting myself with other thoughts to not focus on it anymore.  Just a little over an hour in however I recieved a text message that interrupted.  I ended my experiment at one hour four minutes and eight seconds.  If I did this or something similar again in the future I would make sure notifications couldn't  come through and no one could enter the room, and I wouldn't put my hair up.

Sensory Deprivation Emily Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz_eIN_ykO0&authuser=0

Deprived of sight, my tactile senses had to compensate, letting me know what products I had, remembering where to put them, the movement I use, the textures they were meant to have, etc. 

Disconnecting my appearance from a sense of intense shame forced me to contemplate where my intrinsic value lay. 

I was inspired by Naomi Wolf's book, The Beauty Myth, and how it talked about how women are trained to have a sense of shame surrounding their default, and to spend their time, money, effort and thought in changing that. I contemplated how it might look if I applied makeup as blindly as she purported they (society, beauty companies, men, women, etc) wanted me to. It did, indeed, look as ridiculous as it felt. 

Sensory Deprivation - Christopher Woodward

https://:.be/aGCtPoXWedo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LESVP9KpTtM&feature=youtu.be

Personal Interpretation: Video 1 Walking
-Time spent: 20 minutes
-Temperature: 35 degrees
-Distance: .5 miles

Actual: Video 1 Walking
Time spent: 6 minutes
Temperature: 36 degrees
Distance: -

Response: Video 1 Walking

-Sound was louder
-Time was slower
-Wind was stronger
-Wind was louder
-Internal sounds were louder
-Balance was decreased
-Direction was lost
-Placement was lost
-Physical feelings amplified (such as pins and needles in feet)
-Concentration was harder
-Paranoia increased
-Confidence decreased
-Mediative feeling

Personal Interpretation: Video 2 Standing
Time spent: 15 minutes
Temperature: 30 degrees

Actual: Video 2 Standing
Time spent: 5 minutes
Temperature: 36 degrees

Response: Video 2 Standing

-Sound was louder
-Time was slower
-Wind was stronger
-Wind was louder
-Internal sounds were louder
-Meditative feeling
-Paranoia increase
-Anxiety increase
-Physical actions were more noticed ( such as sniffing or wanting to fix hair)
-Stability decreased

Sensory Deprivation Noble Kelsch

I had a very difficult time doing this because nothing came to mind that wasn't already done for a very long time. Or that I felt was worth doing. But I just decided to go with three things. One was to sit in silence with noise canceling headphones in and listen to silence for a moment, and then open up my mind to a single word and then try to explain where that word came from. I did this fifteen times.

1. Adderall- at first I didn't understand this. But then I thought about how overly active my brain has been and then remembered adderall is an adhd medication and it kind of made sense to me.
2. Fetus- because I have been watching many things and thinking about abortion and its morality and why I believe what I believe on it.
3. Nervous- because I was nervous that I would show up without my assignment being handed in again.
4. Armor- I am close to starting on creating an outfit of a character I created which would be my first step towards making suits of armor.
5. Anthem- video game I played that I found entertaining but debated on its potential.
6. Guilty- felt guilty about not going to class because I had to get a lot of stuff done that day.
7. Pleasant- random thoughts about physically attractive women that I know which led to...
8. Attractive- my fiance is absolutely awesome. She can be gorgeous, cute, beautiful and I love her.
9. Silence- I enjoy silence and find it relaxing.
10. Purpose- I have been attempting to find a genuine purpose that will drive me forward and give my life meaning for a while. I'm close, but I still don't know for sure. Closest I've got to an answer is children.
11. Food- I'm hungry and haven't eaten yet.
12. Health- I want to workout and eat more to take care of myself better.
13. Friends- For nearly the first time since I was 10-12 I have people that I might actually consider my friends. It's a very interesting thing to consider and I'm doing my best to adapt to it.
14. Fraud- How I feel about my art a lot of the time. Like I don't belong because a lot of mine isn't as 'deep' as other art.
15. False- My thoughts about my thoughts of my art from the previous word.

The next thing I did was thinking about my idea of sense of color. And the idea of whether or not all of us see colors the same way. or if we switched eyes, the world would be completely different. Example below.


The third thing I dealt with was sense of self. And I thought about DnD, or Dungeons and Dragons. A game in which you play as a separate entity and control them to an extent. So your sense of self is essentially voluntarily altered. I decided to post two examples.

This is Anfa Croga. He is the first character I created and has been one of my favorites. He tends to be a lot like me personality wise only more intense. He is a bit more antisocial and socially inept than me, while at the same time being more confident and lacking in anxieties I express. He tends to er on the side of pessimism and rage. He doesn't really care about his own life either, this is because he doesn't really see himself as useful or necessary. His purposes are, first and foremost to take care of and protect his younger sister Atheera, and his wife Valena. And second is to avenge the deaths of many loved ones. Orcs killed in terrible ways all but the last two of his loved ones, and therefore he hates orcs viciously and will potentially kill them on sight even if they aren't threatening him or anyone else.

The second character is named Zanatas Uzza. He is almost seven feet tall and is viciously strong. He is a paladin of Fate. In his worship of Fate he has made an agreement to do Fate's will all the time. The way he determines Fate's will is to flip a coin. This coin has Hercules draped in the pelt of the nemean lion. The other side depicts the three fates in a way. He also carries a battleaxe that he uses to carry out Fate's judgments. There are 9 specific tenant of Fate, and if anybody disobeys them, Uzza flips the coin into the air and before revealing it gets them to guess which side of the coin it is. If the individual guesses wrong it is Fate's will that their thread be cut and they die. If they guess right, they live. He also makes many decisions based on yes or no questions determined by the coin. This makes it frustrating to play him sometimes because while he is a genuinely kind individual he has to obey Fate. This means that he will kill anybody who breaks the tenant and guesses wrong, even elderly or children. It is very extreme but luckily the tenant are hard for most to break except particularly egregious or bad people. Good or good natured people generally don't have anything to worry about with him.

Sensory Deprivation- Eliza Briggs

I wore noise-canceling headphones for 2 and a half hours and just painted. I thought I would be painting to the sounds of silence, but it was a very inward experience. I was painting to the rhythm of my breathing and my heartbeat and the noises my joints make when they move. I was alone with my thoughts and I found my self paying attention to simple things, like how it felt to move my arm up and down when I made strokes. I was more aware of my body. It was almost like a form of meditation. 

Sensory Deprivation - Anthony Ryder and Nakita Shelley

I have Synesthesia- is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Which means I can see color,shape,line,etc. When I hear sounds especially music. I can also taste most colors. While listening to music I would describe to Nakita what I was seeing,feeling,tasting,etc. I was in a place on the other side of the canvas to eliminating my input to the piece (eliminating my control and allowing Nakita to interpret my daily experience). Nakita would take the information I was providing and interpret it in her own way. The music was blasting on a speaker and near the end total silence for her with me just listening to the song through headphones. This went on for about an hour with different songs from three different musicians.