Howework 5: Deconstrution

                                 Andrew Meyers, Life's Deconstruction Phase #5, bronze.

1. This is a sculpture of a man that has been broken into pieces and then reassembled but not completely.
2.  Here the artist is attempting to "depict a breaking moment that accompany traumatic life events." (http://andrewmyersart.com/portfolio/lifes-deconstruction-phase-5/) Meyers asks his models to break the sculpture while "reliving" a traumatic event in their life or being in the heat of the moment. He reassembles it to create a "new" self portrait.
3. I think the process of these self portraits is very important to the result and meaning. If he had just broken it and then put it back together, that wouldn't have been as impactful. Having the model shatter it, relive the trauma, and then put themselves back together speaks to the overall piece and experience.

                              Mark Chadwick, Fluid Self Portrait, acrylic on canvas, 2012.

1. Chadwick distorts and deconstructs the figure until it is almost unreadable. It has the effect of paint flowing in water, swirling and mixing with other colors to create something new.
2. Chadwick states that this is an experimental painting/self portrait and that he wanted to do something new. But from browsing his gallery, he does this same method with his abstract paintings. The self portrait then becomes abstract as well.
3. It did take me a bit to spot elements of the figure and piece it together in my head because of how abstract it is. But once you read the title, I think it is easy to understand. It seems like a fun experiment.

                         Valarie Brooke, Deconstruction (Self Portrait series), photography.     

1. Brooke deconstructs the figure and space until it all becomes a blur and is unreadable. The end result is a pixelized "mess"  of colors that realies more on you to try and put it together.
2. As her title states, this self portrait series is about deconstructing the figure and the artist. Going through this series of images was fairly difficult, which seems like the point. There were some images, like this one, which you can sort of make out or at least mentally you can piece it together; then there were other which were blocks of color that made no sense which sometimes made me question if it was even a picture of a figure let alone the artist. There is no way of knowing.
3. This seems like an image that may need a bit of an explanation. I can image many people seeing this and having no idea what it is. Once you know it's supposed to be a figure then you can start to figure it out but that doesn't really apply to all the images in her self portrait series. Overall it feels distant and sad, because of the deconstruction and the cold colors.