Generative Processes

I am analyzing the second generation. This generation created several color compliments, with each pink (or red-violet) color coordinating to its complimenting green. The triadic color to a yellow green is a blue violet, which can also be seen in this generation. The slightly pink hued grays are monochromes, for a white was added to the pink color. Its split complements are red and violet, when referring to the original green color. Overall, the complimenting color relationship, yellow-green to red-violet, is the strongest color relationship.

Response to Donald Judd's Specific Objects

Judd’s work is conceptually complex, and contains so many intricate levels of thought that the reader gets lost in his constant analysis. His quote “Nothing made is completely objective, purely practical or merely present,” establishes a conclusion that I think addresses the question Why is minimalism theatre? Since nothing is completely present in minimalism, and it only is there to serve a purpose (the purpose being to entertain a viewer) Judd compares the level of minimalism with theatre. However, I am rather lost in deciphering how this pertains to minimalism being viewed as a theatre. In his essay, Judd specifically identifies the insufficiencies of painting and sculpture, and his entire paper is devoted to this single idea. Given the vast amount of artists referenced in his essay, Judd addresses minimalist art as a whole movement, which only confuses me more. The only way I can decipher minimalism as theatre is through the simplified forms and idea so that the message can be better conveyed by the viewer. I have a feeling that Judd is saying that painting and scuplture are the easily identified art, and that they display their conceptual ideas directly, like theatre.

Narrative Sketches Based on "The Little Green Monster"

For my narrative project, I decided to work with the idea of a plant being the little green monster, or an intrusive species. I originally started with two fairly concrete ideas. The first being a "weed" that grows up in a flower bed of near perfect flowers, and these flawless flowers are disgusted by the horrid thing growing in their bed. All the while, the human garderner is watching the flowers distastefully bludger the poor growing plant. Finally the biased and ultimately cruel flowers stretch their stems and gather above the poor plant to block its daily sunlight, slowly killing it as it can no longer make its own food. Eventually it dies, after pleas and silent woeful thoughts. When the gardener comes to remove what is left of the plant (remember he was completely ignorant of the situation and watched the poor plants destruction with interest) only to have the other proud flowers see that it was a bulb flower like themselves, and a rare one at that. Yet they feel no remorse.

I thought this story through very thoroughly, but did not decide to go through with it. Instead, being very interested in the character in The Little Prince, I decided to work with the idea that in a perfect world a plant is growing that is not familiar to the boy. Despite its normal qualities, it does not appear to belong, and so the boy uproots the plant, only to find that he destroyed something precious and dear in his world. To me, this evoked a stronger emotional loss than the first idea. Perhaps it is just me, but I could not feel an extreme amount of loss when he uprooted the plant, for it was so sad that individuals rarely give things that they do not understand a chance.