Jody Chapel
artful pursuits
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      • Contemporary Icelandic Art: Hallgriskirkja church
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      • Nouvelles vagues
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For the next few months, I will be working on a multimedia project for the Interstitial Identity exhibition in June. I will also be sharing my progress with this project with my students, so that they can have a first-hand experience with how an artist works. I ask my students  to deepen their art making through inquiry and research so I will be modeling this type of artistic behavior. Hopefully my students will not only be my inspiration and motivation, but become collaborators in the process.

To Begin....Notes

 
My multiple professional identities:
Artist
Teacher
Designer
Photographer

From the call for entries:
Art teachers are more than teachers and the work they do inside and outside of the classroom is influenced and enriched by the various professional expertises they hold.  Within the overlapping spaces of a teacher’s professional identities lies novel, varied and unbound practices that deny formal labels and categorization.

How does an artist/educator perceive his or her professional identities? How might these identities intersect? What do they look like and feel like to the individual? And what impact might these intersections have on his/her profession?

Conceptual Ideas:
Movement through space
Underwater freedom—not drowning
Suspension of weight

Intersections and Dualities:
Painting/photography
Still/movement
Freedom/Fear
Sound/silence
Art/technology
There/not there
Focus/sharp
Abstract/real
Pressure/weightlessness

What comes of it:
An idea spurred on from a suggestion  (teacher) mixed with a desire to paint water (artist), pushed further with the excitement of sound and motion (teacher+artist) to tell a story of dualities (personal) and the place that lies between (artist).

Rephotographed sequence of me scuba diving.
Picture
Where all good ideas begin--on a bar napkin.
An inspiring video from the Blink Exhibit, Denver Art Museum
Article on Blink Exhibit
Underwater swimming scenes cut from the movie Creature From the Black Lagoon, 1954, directed by Jack Arnold. The swimmer is Julia Adams.This film was originally shot to be viewed with 3D glasses.
Picture
Just had to include this image. It's so great!

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