interstellarcontracts

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

goals

Goals goals goals

Well uh. I started off the semester trying to focus on school. So i guess my goal then was like hey lets get through all our classes!

but then my mental illness got really bad. i started dropping. so i shifted my attention to my mental health

I overcame my insurance hurdles, prescription, and therapy sessions.

and i wouldn't say i've achieved my goal of stability? i mean, i'm better than i was. but i'm probably going to have to stick to my original plan of spending the summer dealing with this.

sighs

as for art

i really just wanna finish i want my treasure back because my friends wanna see it done rly bad

and maybe draw some more neopets and homestuck. :)

Evaluate: Medical Ethics

I did the Russian Sleep Experiments for my medical ethics piece. In this inhumane experiment, prisoners of war were forcibly kept awake while under the effects of an experimental gas developed by the Russian government. The test subjects eventually mutilated themselves past the point of return, and were driven mad when cut off from the gas.

From this piece I learned the extent of the horrors humanity will go to, and the blurred line between science and science fiction. I translated the essay from the account of one of the surviving doctor's on the case into the russian alphabet and overlayed it on the photomanipulation I made. The encroaching script represent the inhumanity of the scientists performing the experiment, and the blackness sleep itself, with the subjects were driven mad with fear of. Inside the jaundiced, grey, bloodshot eye of the subject is a small, cramped room, a prison really, with a one way mirror for observation This room is much like the one the subjects were kept in and tormented in, and the room inside the eye represents how the experiment took over and destroyed their lives from the inside out.

Book Project

have you read the childrens book I want my hat back? if not go here it's ok i'll wait

read it? good.

Meet the cast of the parody "I want my treasure back"

Or hero, Vyra Xi-Lung, a fiesty dragon blood sorceress who just wants her jewels back

Sondrin, the weathered old battler with the sassy talking sword, Cali

Ezekiel, the cleric trying to purge the world in the name of his god

Ugh, the rebellious, lovable scamp bard-barian with the irish accent from The Rocks (he took her treasure!)

Jude, the half elf ranger noble who is too androgynous for their own good

Slippery Dan, the salty old sea captain who loved a kraken

Larry, the skittish apprentice necromancer

and....

Wort the Battle Corgi

Evaluate: Shadow of the horse

My piece "Shadow of the Horse" depicts Andrew Hussie, creator of the website Mspaintadventures.com and webcomic "Homestuck", holding a fanwork while he stands in a beautiful field populated by unicorns and a horseheaded giant off in the distance over the mountains. Over his face is a shadow of a horse mask, with his eyes eerily peering out in a pure white.

His eyes give a haunting sense that clashes with the bucolic and bizarre scene before him, both in the meta-painting he's holding and the background behind him. While the mood of the scene behind him is tranquil, with flowers, trees, a village and unicorn, the looming horse headed giant past the mountains and Hussie's shadow ridden gaze give the impression of uncomfortable foreboding.

Really, what I was going for here was trying to capture Hussie's own sense of style, his bizzare and unnerving way of twisting something cute and adorable into something vaguely creepy and haunting. The use of horses was a reference to his obsession with them, a running gag in his artwork. The horse mask stock imagery used is also a popular internet meme, due to its awkward facial expression and hilarity in making any situation ridiculous. Really, it's just one big internet joke, this piece.