User:Hillegasbrittany1

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Hello my name is Brittany, I am a first year student at Seattle's Art Institute. I've been pretty intimidated coming back to school since I dropped off for a good four years. I've spent most of my time moving around the US, doing miscillaneous drugs and listening to infinite courageous, outrageous, interesting, traumatizing, insightful, and sometimes nausiating stories from the ex-hippies, roadies, current hippies, drop off musicians, proffessional travelers and beatniks that I've met along the way. I am currently working on the first quarter of my life, and in the meantime I am attempting to add some aducation during my journey. I am in the interior design program at school. I am an artist and I enjoy the large scale canvas that interior design lets me work with, and to be completely honest I just want a career that will not only be fun but will allow me to express myself...and make money. I spend most my time reading, painting, playing guitar and/or working. Now I spend a good portion of that free time at school so I look forward to meeting all of you that are on the same journey. Creative people motivate creative people so I'll catch all of you on the flip-side :-)

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Brittany Hillegas GE 100 02/10/09

Roy Mcmakin

 <When first approaching Roy Mcmakin’s Untitled (cement bench, metal green chair, and metal file box) sculptor at the Seattle Sculptor Park, I asked myself, “how is this art?” At first glance I actually thought someone had brought their green plastic lawn chair to sit and ponder my same initial question, but accidentely left it there when they came to the equally sad conclusion. Although the sign said “DO NOT TOUCH”, I had to disobey to find that this chair was not plastic; and it didn’t move. It was in reality, metal, sculpted and painted to resemble a green plastic chair. It was also a part of two other pieces one being a cement bench that looked pretty practical, and what seemed to be a white cardboard filing box but was also made of painted metal. I was excited to find my first piece of art that I actually hated.> <Since then, I have researched a little on this Roy Mcmakin character. I have come to learn that majority, if not all of his art pieces are based around home furniture. Although some of his art consists of contrasting furniture put together, I have found on the contrary that he also designs and makes his own contemporary furniture. Since I grew up with a carpenter as a father who dabbled in furniture design, and a mother who liked purchasing nice pieces, I grew up with a small appreciation for well put together, artistic, functional furniture. So as I researched more, I was able to appreciate more and more of his art because I was becoming introduced to more and more of his hand-made furniture. Despite his pieces that are not functional art, the few pieces I found that I really liked that I wouldn’t mind having in my home would be his Untitled (inflating chest) which is a beautiful 4-drawyered big leaf maple chest of drawyers that happens to look like it has taken a breath into the middle of its body, and his Untitled (vases about language and redemption) which consists of seven multi-colored and multi-shaped vases lined up. I like the use of lighter hued colors, and the different shapes and sizes that create variety and unity. For his actual hung art, he chooses to take pictures of different angles of furniture which I think is a creative way to get people to look at the things that we use on a daily basis in a different light, or place.> 

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