Post 4 - Creative Thinking - Diana Saintilme

I: Two Quotes:


“I use color as an invite and then leave the decision to the viewer if they will actually stay and be with the content or if they’ll avoid interacting.”


    The reason I chose this quote is because I feel like this is something a lot of artists think about. We want a way to grab the viewer’s attention so that they can decide whether to view them or not. Color or imagery in an artwork are used to draw a viewer in and then they decide if they want to keep looking at it or move on to something else. As artists, we invite people to view our work but we can’t make people stay and look at it. While we want them to view our work and try and understand them, at the end of the day we can’t force them to make the decision to stay.


“There can be a lot of violence in how we look at one another, how that look informs perception, and how that perception challenges our own understanding of self as the person being gazed upon.”


    The reason I chose this quote is because it describes how much power that gaze has. The act of simply looking at someone or something can cause so much to happen. Looking is how we judge something or someone and how we preserve what we look at and what’s going on around us. Through perception we are able to challenge how we see and understand things and how someone sees and understands us. This one quote reminds us how powerful the gaze is.


II: What inspired LeSeur? Compare what motivates you to create meaning in your work.


    I believe LeSeur’s main inspiration is her body. At the beginning of the interview, she describes her body as a recorder, something that carries experiences and memories, and allows her to explore different mediums. Through her body she can store memories and express different experiences in different ways. While I don’t use my own body in my work, I do take inspiration from my own experiences. Like how LeSeur describes her body, I would consider by my mind a recorder. It records my experiences and I let them out through my work.


III: How does your choice of material, process, aesthetic, content, etc. reinforce your message?


    My choice of material, process, aesthetic, content, etc. reinforces my message because it allows me to convey it in a creative way. As a graphic designer, I mainly do my work digitally and my material of choice is my laptop. My content reinforces my message because the subject of my works mainly involves sights and experiences that everyone sees and goes through. When it comes to aesthetics, I enjoy using eye-catching colors in my work to grab people’s attention. Depending on how I do everything, I do believe that the elements I choose and how I use them can reinforce the message I want to get across.