The Radio Protector -65days

A couple of the many, many sketches:

The final project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jxvy7W9bqo  
Radio Protector- 65daysofstatic

I absolutely loved this project. For this project, we had to pick a song that was nonlyrical and create a 2D artwork that represents the song but it had to be abstract (no symbol, nothing recognizable), black&white, materials: gesso, ink, charcoal, graphite. When Lee first introduced this project, I had so many songs in my head but Radio Protector was the first in line. I chose this song because it has three different stages but the piano is about exactly the same all through the music and because it’s amazing :]. To me, this was one of the many projects that if you thought way too hard, it’ll make it very messy and hard to follow, especially following my song. 
     There were times when I got frustrated because I didn’t know if I was reading it wrong and I had so, so, many ideas I wanted to use.. something like that. But I drew what I felt the music would look like. I used ink just because I love the medium and I understand it better than the rest (I also used gesso and charcoal). The song was long so I decided to make the width lot longer than the height, emphasizing it. My favorite part of the artwork is the one in the middle with all the splashes representing the drums and each block, piano notes. 
     What I learned from this project was being able to understand visual language.. not just by my own eyes but also trying to understand the artist and how he/she understands it (during the critic review). I also like knowing what the audience felt through it and how they interept things. If I could go back and do this project again.. I wouldn’t! I’m satisfied with the outcome.

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