Experimental Media & Structural Form
The high-contrast silhouette connects to the course's ideas of experimental cinema and structural media-making. Like Stan Brakhage's Mothlight, the image removes its subject from its environment, and combined with the white silhouette, forces the viewer to focus on movement and shape. The black background and white figure use the course's ideas of removing conventional visual information and how it forces the viewer to engage differently with the piece. Instead of seeing a skier, they see tension, motion, and energy itself.
Knowing by doing art and space
This image ties into the course's fundamental ideas of "knowing by doing," drawn from Tim Ingold's ideas about learning with rather than about the world. By painting the mountain while sitting inside the landscape itself, the artist is not simply documenting, but rather participating in the world around them. This also connects to the "Art and Space" ideas, where art transforms and responds to the environment it is in. This piece collapses the boundary between representation and lived experience.
Art and Space / Interrogative Design
This image is a reflection of the ideas from the "Art and Space" unit, more specifically Krzysztof Wodiczko's concept of interrogative design — the idea that art opens up communication rather than providing answers. The downward perspective and geometric repetition challenge the viewer's sense of orientation, turning ordinary architecture into something disorienting and thought-provoking. The graffiti on the upper stairs further illustrates how public spaces are sites of contested meaning, where people establish themselves and their voice within structures that were not made for that purpose.