Blog#2-Trevor Brooks

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Viola the Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant.

The piece starts out slowly with a piano piece playing. The subject stands alone in a field of flamingos. The voice over tales the story of her feelings to where she is and her sense of isolation in the room. The little motion in the piece is magnified in the pace of the background as well as in the foreground. The motion of the piece does match the slow and somber music piece as the voice over continues to tell the story of her climb. We as a audience never lose sight of the girl, it is as if we are taking part in watching a tragedy of youth turning to adulthood. All spoilers aside as the piece continues the world turns into a more chaotic and anarchic place, the steps behind the subject fall apart, the weather changes, and the steps ahead of her end with nothing there to hold on to.

I chose this piece for two reasons mostly. The first reason is that I have always been a fan of the surreal aspects of the human mind and what pushing the box can create in everyone. This piece takes the basic challenge that we all go through on a every day basis especially as children and applies a very surrealistic sense of mortality to it, which in turns helps visualizes how we as kids and how we as adults feel when compared to the rest of the world when we are trying to escape those around us. The second reason that I chose this piece was for the personal relationship that I felt that I had with it. I am consistently judging myself and considering giving up on the road I'm on and turning back the way I came. This piece has a message that you can never go back once you start going, the further along you are the harder it is, but the fall is so much worse in the long run.

In relations to my work in digital design and this piece simplelly put it is what I want to do. The only real "style" that I have ever had was my desier to get a message across (not evil/negative one that everyone assumes) as well as having that message be recieved on a sense of thought and reflection. In regards of the use of the medium this is what I have been working towards. I have no real skill in the foundations (drawing, painting, photography), but I have always been able to take a series of images and turned them into something else. This piece seems to be a collage of found images, traditional arts, and poetry (which is very wear in the world of motion today in my opinion). Seeing this piece and some of the other ones (the candy land Armageddon for example) give prove that people like me with no real talent can have a future on taking other peoples works and turning it into something different and calling it out own.

In terms of medium and the artist style it is beautiful. The motion was very fluid and timed perfectly with the musics somber pace, and the girl fit the surreal aspect and enviornment perfectly with the Wednesday Adams apathy.