InkAid

Im going to start experimenting with a gloss product called inkAid to apply inks to nonporous objects.

http://inkaid.com/

I'm hoping that I can use this material to apply images to metallic objects [etc.] via oil and paint thinner transfer methods. It should work according to the website. We will see as soon as I get a chance to work with it- updates to come before too long.

The evolution of an idea.

Change begins somewhere. Change can grow. Change is exponential in reach.

Winter is quiet.

I was chillin outside one crazy snow riddled day, when I noted that the more it snowed, the more I seemed to be making the only audible noise, even though I was in the middle of town.

I began thinking of old sayings and how people say winter is quiet. I think I understand what they were referring to now. Snow absorbs sound waves.

That freaks me out. But it also means that I reacted to less external noises that could bring me to occurrences throughout the day. I focused more on internal reflection, since the snow dampened my senses.

In conclusion, snow holds memories waiting to happen that aren't able to become reality. Winter is quiet.

knifed fingers!

So I was thinking.
One change leads to another change, leads to another change, and soon, one minimal detail in someones day could exponentially change the course of the futures of many.
Change begins small.
To demonstrate, I'm thinking of doing transfers onto a kitchen knife with some of the following manipulated images and such.
yum.


basically, one side of the knife is the story of a family ready to dine that is stopped by an accident and ends up bonding. The other side is the same scenario in the beginning, but upon no incident, fate twists and the family falls victim to an auto accident. Simple variants in a day can manipulate on a large scale.

Initial Proposition for the Semester

I was considering hosts of ideas for what I would like to do this semester and I decided that I wanted to do something that would greatly improve my growing portfolio, as well as be able to incite change in the world.

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I started out thinking of destruction as a form of creation, but upon speaking with Jessica about it, I believe I can wrap that entire thought into the butterfly effect as well as branch off into several other quadrants of the idea that I would love to explore and work with in the project.

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The butterfly effect, the idea that change begins small. Minor things can make major differences.

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Defined:

Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.

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The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. While the butterfly does not cause the tornado, the flap of its wings is an essential part of the initial conditions resulting in a tornado.

The idea is based in Chaos Theory and sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

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I would like to harness this theory to promote ideas surrounding the butterfly effect that coincide with modern life.  I will be using mixed media applications. -Likely doing prints and doing gel medium transfers or something of the sort, onto different surfaces relevant to the piece. I will likely do somewhere around 15-20 pieces this semester of varying size and shape (depending on size of mounting surface and relevance to idea)

I will of course, do as many as it takes to complete the thoughts that are flooding me right now, so don't quote me on the numbers, lets call it a minimum.

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Pieces regarding the theory, as well as using the theory itself regarding my small actions herein, this semester should be a big step for me and I look forward to critique.

obscenity.

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