Final Project Images

"Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves." 

Henry David Thoreau

"So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labor, my sufferance's my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger- because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being."

Jack Kerouac

Art Sign Ups Suck.

For whatever crazy reason, UNH Art Department still has students sign up manually, first come first service style. As a senior I've done this now 8 times and every time it's sucked. Since this was my last sign up Myself, Danielle (MIATwin), and Sydney (TwerkMaster) decided to camp out in PCAC for the night. I had my camera and decided to document this fun fun time. One picture every 30 minutes. Timelined Bitch. 

10:00

clearly very excited and have no idea how the night will play out. 

10:30

FRIENDS! The only human contact we will see until approximately 1 o'clock

11:00

Perfect time to watch Rugrats holiday themed episodes. 'Hanksgiving, and Hermonica. 

11:30

Rugrats allowed for roughly 10 seconds of sleep. 

12:00

TwerkMasterSyd has arrived. Craziness starts. 

12:30

#TrueLife. #Artmajors. #NeedSleep.

1:00

This was the perfect hour to go explore the depths of PCAC without anyone judging us. We made new friends included Crazy Sam and Heather the Janitor. We had enough exploring by 1:15.

1:30

Selfies. 

2:00

By 2 o'clock friends showed up in the form of Nick and Alia. Then things got weird when Syd, D, Nick and Alia produced this crazy love child somewhere in between Christmas songs and the Beyonce Dance off. 

2:30

Yup.

3:00

Gotta Brush Yo Teefff. 

3:30

Upon moving upstairs, sleep took over my two amigas. The sweet sounds of 13 going on 30 lulled them to sleep. 

4:00

Line was officially pasted the corner. We still hadn't made friends with the girl who sat in front of us. 

4:30

Cell Phone Pics. Everyones sooooo excited and annoyed that I'm still taking pictures. 

5:00

Syd is still down for the count. #SleepingBeauty.

5:30

People really started arriving. Mary Duke was the only one happy to see me taking pictures. 

6:00
Sad sight. to my left, a nice empty hallway, to my right, Crammed full of people and TwerkMasterSyd in a caterpillar suit. 

6:60-7

This was a strange time with no pictures to account this time. I believe there may have been some sleeping, or my camera ran away. Regardless, this picture pretty much shows what the art hallways looked like. 

730

Best time of the morning. Not only did God come down in the form of Dylan to bring me coffee but more people showed up, and even "let" me take their picture. 

8:00

Thirty Minutes to go and the line is way beyond the Music Department. Wong was in the building. 

8:30

GOT MY CLASS!! Thanks Wong. 

Another pre-reggy over.     :( 

Collaboration Prints

Final VanDykes.

Rocky Shore Series  October 2012

Portland Museum of Art

We went to the Portland Museum of Art the 18th to see the Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine and the Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project. I really enjoyed Portland, the city, but I wasn't too impressed with the Photography exhibit. I loved the Winslow Homer exhibit but thats hard not to like. His work makes you feel something out of a bleak and sometimes ridge landscape. Once walking through the Homer exhibit, I had high hopes for the counterpart photo exhibit but I was sadly disappointed. The idea behind the photo projects, or so I thought, were for the artist to go into the landscapes and home that Homer went to to create his art, along with using using processes used in Homers time. I guess I was just disappointed because Homer's work gave me so much feeling and emotion and I wasn't getting any of that through the pictures. The only photos I really liked were some of the ones by Alan Vlach because they reminded me of work I had been doing previously. I also was slightly underwhelmed by the Abe Morell print. I think it reads very nicely from afar but due to the size it was I lost what I liked about it when I saw it in person. I think just overall I was underwhelmed. What I did love about the trip was the actual museum was beautiful, the way it was set up and was maze like. And I liked the trip because I liked the people we went. Good company, good times. 

Still Life Shoot