https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/browse?output=atom2024-03-28T09:18:53+00:00Omekahttps://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/127In this audio file, Neeraj Sebastian describes a painting completed by Marysa Huffman entitled Life's Blessings. He discuses the colors used within the painting, and how the characters are portrayed. Neeraj goes into great detail describing the clothes, the setting, and various small aspects of the painting. He describes the painting perspective, mentioning the position of characters from the viewer. ]]>2023-04-14T17:19:00+00:00
This piece was made by Marysa Huffman for Tiara House. Life’s Blessings is a 16 by 20 inch vibrant and colorful digital painting of a stylized group of people on, below and above a stage where a long-haired dark-skinned woman in a magenta dress is playing a golden yellow harp. On her right are two women dancing; on her left are two lionesses. Near the lionesses are light-skinned characters: a man with a child on his shoulders looking up, a woman sitting pointing up with two children in front of her. Above the stage are three dark-skinned figures on a platform. A woman in a white dress with her head turned away from the viewer sits on the left: magenta and purple spots float away from her dress, which extends all the way to the floor, and are caught by various characters; a woman in a green dress with her hand raised up reclines in the middle, while a small boy sits playing the violin on the right. A naked cherub is suspended below the platform with strings. A man on the floor in front of the stage has two spots in his hands. There are floating musical notes to the right of the stage. In front of the stage, onto which a child is climbing, is a woman who appears to have a mobile phone raised as if to take a photograph of this scene, while another is looking over her shoulder towards the viewer. A hand in the foreground, on the bottom right of the composition, closer to the viewer, is pointing at the stage.
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Audio Recording
Duration
1 minute, 50 seconds
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/126An audio description from John Taylor about the digital collage "Be Love" by Wesley Durham. Taylor describes the layout and colors of the composition and touches on the aspects from Stacy Ross' life Durham drew inspiration from. ]]>2023-04-08T04:47:09+00:00
This artwork is entitled “Be Love” and was created by Wesley Durham for Stacy Ross who works at the distribution center of the Industries of the Blind, located in west Greensboro. The original artwork is a vibrant, surreal digital collage:
A dolphin leaps in from the left side of the composition, a bird with a television set for a head flies in from the right. They face each other above a bright sun. Across the bottom, in bright purple letters, is the word YOLO, an acronym for the optimistic phrase “you only live once.”
The dolphin on the left side of the collage is a photograph of an actual dolphin with slick blue and grey skin. The artist outlined the dolphin in a blue crayon-like line, making the grey fins pop against its bluish belly. The dolphin looks like its jumping into the composition, since its nose is pointed toward the center of the collage, and part of the dolphin’s tail is cropped by the left edge of the composition.
Just above the dolphin, in upper middle of the collage, is the photograph of the bird. It stretches out its blue wings to reveal its light brown chest, soft white underbelly, and black talons curled against its body. The wings are softly blurred, suggesting dynamic movement. Where its head should be is a drawing of a blue television set with zig-zag antennae. Instead of a beak, a photograph of a white arm reaches through the black screen, extending a bouquet of pink, yellow, and red gerbera daisy flowers toward the dolphin.
They hover above a sun emerging from the lower right corner of the composition. The sun is made up of overlapping web-like yellow lines, suggesting the hot, glowing surface of a gaseous star. Each ray is outlined in dark red and radiates outward, extending beyond the edges of the composition. The soft background behind the whole scene is soft, splotchy washes of pale yellows, soft purples, and a light pinks.
The bright colors, impossible scene, and energetic aesthetic of this artwork are evocative of video games, which Stacy likes to play, but the surreal juxtapositions of the dolphin, TV, and bird may also relate to her interest in psychology and the mind.
Wesley’s collage includes some of Stacy’s favorite colors – bright neons, pinks, and purples—and reflects Stacy’s active approach to life: she plays Pokemon Go, watches pro-wrestling, drives go-carts, and takes her godson to playgrounds and on beach vacations. True to the spirit of YOLO, Stacy does not limit herself.
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digital
Duration
3:04
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/125A digital collage featuring a dolphin and bird with a television set for a head. They face each other above a bright sun. In purple letters, the word YOLO appears along the bottom of the composition. ]]>2023-04-08T04:46:04+00:00
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/124In this audio recording Max Baynes describes the digital collage "Black Boy Joy." They describe the structure and content of the image and offer a short interpretation about learning and family. ]]>2023-04-05T17:27:10+00:00
This artwork is a digital collage done by Phillip Marsh. It is inspired by Marsh’s interview with Industries of the Blind partner, Bianca Johnson. The piece is entitled Black Boy Joy.
In the center is a photograph of a young black boy sitting cross-legged, reading from a large, blue book with a focused gaze. The boy is wearing blue jeans and brown Velcro shoes. The book he is reading covers his torso and stops just below his nose. In his lap there are three closed books. The center book has a bright, red cover. The bottom book has the name, DEVIN, in capital block letters showing in front of the pages.
From top to bottom in capitalized block letters the artwork spells the words, SON S-O-N, AUTHOR, and POETRY. SON is behind the boy’s head in an opaque, light blue. AUTHOR is split into two columns. The top one spells A-U-T and the bottom spells H-O-R. These letters are in front of the boy and the bottom half of the word SON, but they are transparent yellow so they do not block the other images. They span from the top of the boy’s head down to his knees. At the bottom, the word POETRY is in black letters. The letters P and Y are opaque, but the rest of the word is slightly transparent in front of the boy’s legs and feet.
That is the objective description of the artwork. My interpretation is that the artist was inspired by graphic advertising iconography. The way the letters are stacked and capitalized is reminiscent of sports advertisement like Nike’s Just Do It campaign. Judging by the title of the artwork, the choice of words and the boy’s curiosity for reading, the piece evokes a sense of growth, possibility and joy for learning. The words son and author imply that the boy has family guidance and that one day he may write books himself.
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Audio Recording
Duration
00:01:58
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/123A digital collage featuring a young black boy reading. The words "son", "author", and "poetry" are layered on top of and behind him in brightly colored block letters. He sits crosslegged with a stack of books on his lap. ]]>2023-04-05T17:27:50+00:00
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/122"Creators Funk" is an eclectic funk piece that takes it's listener on a journey. It incorporates sounds that are reminiscent of a bustling city on a summer day, such as the resonating echo of a train whistle and children laughing and yelling throughout. The piece contains classic funk and soul themes such as syncopation, strong downbeats, and grooves. It ends with an intense combination of sound effects and instruments and a warm but haunting voice that continuously repeats the phrase: "He's got the whole world in his hands."]]>2023-04-05T18:10:28+00:00
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/121This is an audio interpretation of the artwork" Infinite Track" by Ari Mason for Roberto Roberson. This 2:40 audio goes multiple has a repeated rhythm throughout lased with bells, drums and animals ]]>2023-04-05T20:03:05+00:00
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/120An audio interpretation of "Black Boy Joy." The audio begins with the sound of pages turning and then an echoing voice begins to read poetry.]]>2023-04-05T19:27:22+00:00
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/119An acrylic painting depicting two black silhouette figures standing on black silhouette ground. On the left, the figure is in the shape of a woman, her arms down by her side. Her right hand is connected to the smaller figure, about half the woman’s height. The smaller figure is the shape of a girl wearing a skirt. The background is purple, gradually ranging from lighter shades in the center of the painting to darker shades at the edges.]]>2023-04-05T01:42:39+00:00
]]>https://uncglibraries.com/publicart/items/show/118An audio description of the painting of "Have Faith" by Sarah LaPonte. In this audio description, LaPonte describes the painting in great detail about the landscape and where items in the landscape is placed.]]>2023-04-10T00:49:49+00:00
The 8.5x11 watercolor illustration titled Have Faith, by Ioana Anghelescu depicts a surreal landscape in which two large hands are seen emerging from the sky from behind an isolated radio tower that is topped with a cross. The pale skinned hands are ensconced by white fabric sleeves that have been delicately rendered with tonal gradations of white, gray, and cream. The hands surround the cross, reaching out towards it as if to cup it completely. Beams of light radiate towards the viewer from behind the cross, and extend in front of and out beyond the hands. Simplified, pleasant looking clouds surround the tower on either side, and at points fade into the draping of the robe’s sleeves. This painting is very low contrast—there are no harsh shadows or dramatic clashing colors.The radio tower is depicted with precise black lines and is perched in the middle of a slightly sloping hilltop. The hillside is rendered with various shades of green colored pencil, and sparsely populated by a few scraggly, extra thick pencil marks that suggest shrubbery, brush, or trees. Towards the base of the tower, in between the horizon line of the hillside and the lowermost level of clouds, braille spells out the phrase, “have faith”. There is no indication of a body beyond the depiction of the hands—they seem to be the hands of God, materializing out of the blue sky which surrounds the tower and can be seen between the clouds.
In regards to the inspiration behind this piece, this illustration was made in response to an interview between the artist, Ioana Anghelescu and CJ Wallace, a Greensboro man with vision impairment who aspires to start a faith-based radio station or podcast . Throughout the interview, Wallace’s positive outlook on life is instantly apparent and contagious. He credits his positivity in part to his relationship with God, and wishes to share the power of faith with others. A deep love of nature and music are also important to Wallace, and in creating this piece, Anghelescu sought to depict all of these influences in a harmonious, calm, and positive way.