Nail Art is the Future of the Contemporary Movement

    Things have been too busy for me to post anything here, and I have missed writing out how I’ve been doing and what I’ve been seeing. The most interesting thing was that I painted my nails and used my nail stickers, mainly the bug ones.

    I used my slime green nail polish because it's so fun, and so slime. So the theme is bugs and slime. I used tweezers to pick them up and place them, making me feel like those people who decorate photocards. The color scheme was blue and pink (just as an accent) since I only have sparkle top coat (it glows in the dark too…) I thought this contrasted with the slime well.

    Here’s my artist's interpretation. I made this during my earthquake class and I really truly hope someone enjoyed watching me do this on my trackpad bc I was really struggling. I think you can kinda tell what's on the nails.

    I’m really obsessed with documenting, perhaps because I am so obsessed with proving to myself that I actually do things. But it takes up all my storage, and I never really look at my photos. Instead, I want to try playing with documentation, playing with how realistically I render things, instead of always taking pictures on my phone. What can I say through all dimensions of this document?

    The medium is important for setting the tone. Shitty pixel art, for example, reads as simplistic, personal, and silly. And I wouldn't want you to get anything else out of this drawing. How you decorate or where you post the final piece also factors into this. I don't need to frame this, it's not that serious or something I am incredibly proud of. I do like it and want to share it with my target blog audience, my future self. I tend to make silly art and post it here, and serious experiments in my journal (sketches or self-portraits, ideas, etc.), a place where I can lock them up or cover them up if I need to.

    This is my analysis of my own work. It seems like I think very hard about all aspects of some shitty drawing I did in ten minutes during a class but really, this just feels right to you, as an artist. The subject dictates medium. Things that do not deserve a canvas, for example, end up in the sketchbook. It doesn’t take a lot of thought for the artist, but the point of art-viewing, for me, is to understand as much as I can. The thought process is in the hands of the viewer, as long as you’re looking to get something more out of a piece.

    I truly believe that often we are not taught to look at art actively, causing a disconnect between thinky artists and the Modern Art Hater. And that is fine, it is okay to just want to see beautiful things. I am not really interested in the complexities of composition in music for example. I just like the music that I like. Interestingly, modern music is a lot more popular than modern art, while classical art is considered the standard for depictions of beauty, and classical art is something most people, like me, don’t care to understand.

Did not think my nail doodle would get me here but I might be starving for art analysis and history after all these bland history and anthropology readings. 

Bye ✎