Miguel

This is Miguel. Miguel is a professional gamer, but it hasn't always been that way. He was born in the humble town of Mississauga, Canada. In high school he considered himself a lone wolf. Instead of belonging to a particular clique of people he was friendly with everyone and moved without conflict throughout ALL the high school tribes. Upon graduation, he ran into quite a conundrum. He had no aspirations to continue his education, nor did he have any REAL life skills (because that isn't the type of thing they teach in high school). He had but one passion: fast, intense, online gaming. Miguel decided he would make it his purpose to earn a living off online gaming or die trying. Counter-Strike was Miguel's game of choice, so he picked up his controller and he gamed his way to the top, but he didn't stop there! PlayerUnknown's battlegrounds came out, and now Miguel is not just another player of the game but the NUMBER ONE STREAMER ONLINE! "Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness" - Confucius

Irreversible Change/Selective Memory

     At first glance at this piece in Terry Hays thought provoking "Irreversible Change/Selective Memory" it

just seems like a couple of burned up trees but as with a lot of art the more you look at it the more you see.

I looked closely and noticed that hays started off with just a black background and formed a pattern using

white dots. From there it seems as though he started putting circles and different shapes such as triangles and

 even little cockroaches onto the pattern to make it more interesting and less boring. The way he created

depth into the piece with wooden cutouts of fire and even using actual tree branches added yet another

dimension to this piece. The little nuances he incorporated into the pattern on the burned up branches really

makes them pop.


     I did some research on Hays background and influences and in addition to the obvious influence from

 traditional art in regions such as Japan and Australia, Hays' was influenced by graphic novel artist Frank

Miller (one of my personal favorites). Hays states on his website that this exhibit was inspired by natural

disasters going on in the world at the time. He is interested in the way a natural disaster can wreak havoc on

 lives and cause a sudden change. In a moment a person can go from having a life that is fine and peaceful,

 to knowing that nothing will ever be the same again. This piece specifically seems to be inspired by the

 California Wildfires of 2012. I believe because of that, that this abstract piece conforms to Richard's

philosophy of art that it is symbolic and conveys a message and feelings.

Look at this photograph!

This art conforms to the platonic philosophy of art because it combines the real photo of DeTavian, and then combines it with color filters to create an IDEAL version of the world: Colorful, bright, and happy!

This photo ALSO conforms to Richard's philosophy of language being an art. This photo is a lot darker, I used editing software to intensify the highlights and the shadows in this image. I like to think of this image as just a moment in time in the middle of a storyline where a man is rolling a die for his life, and has a brief moment of hope. All this man's hope, however, is shattered at the moment of this image where the die lands skull side up, which is obviously an indicator of his fate. 

An avant-garde photo, where I edited with the details so all you can see is black figures and white spaces, edited contrast for little spots of color that POP! I was trying to create beauty, but also enhance my environment.

This photo conforms to the Aristotelian idea that art's main focus is to imitate nature. This photo of an empty classroom with light shining in from the outside found beauty with no need to add color lenses or any special effect. Life: beautiful the way God created it. 

This photo lives up to Richard's philosophy that art is a language. This piece is saying "I'm Diego, and I'm a cute playful puppy licking' my chops!" I love the way you can see the little tooth hanging out on the top. Just one though, thats super important!

Dat painting doe

This is an abstract painting I have created. It was inspired in part by the piece "Owh in San Pao" by Stuart Davis. I decided I liked the word "owh" so I threw it in there to make my homage to Davis true and obvious. The bottom half almost reminds me of some minimalist art, the way the solid color trumpet stands out against the blue background. The top half of the painting, however, has a lot more going on, and I kind of like the fact that thats how it turned out. Almost like a yin-yang balance sort of deal where the top half has all this chaos, and a jagged transition between the two background colors and everything is uneven and distorted, while the bottom half is a lot more calm but not in a lame way. The bottom half almost demands your attention more than the top part because the trumpet is the origin of all the chaos. The other neat fact about this painting was that it seemed to paint itself. I started with the word OWH and everything came from that, inside at the last moment I decided I wanted to put a trumpet in so I did.