Samantha Grandy Blog 2

 This lecture was very interesting and long just because she was really into what she was talking about and had passion for her art as well. The presentation was by a speaker namer Harmony Hammond, where at this lecture she talked about the feminist movement and gay rights. The first art piece that she showed us was not a painting but rags of cloth hung to a cloth grid, which i thought was a little funny because she is talking about the feminist movement and having her work with different kinds of fabric was just ironic to me. A lot of her piece were made out of the trash, things that she found that she did not have to pay for. The found materials brings meaning to her art work because of where it comes from. Hammond also does a lot of paintings. She loves building on layers to her pieces. She thinks it is really boring if there is only one layer. Hammond loves creating different types of textures to her art. She described the painting as lumpy and bumpy like our body's. How everybody's body is different just like her paintings. She also thought is more interesting to have a painting sit on the floor then the wall. One of paintings is controversial, having an inappropriate phrase in the painting that you do not really notice right off the bat. She also make flat sculpture on the floor which was made out of rags found from the dumpster, also describing them as floor paintings. The different patterns in the piece came from the different patterns in the rags. She said the pieces were 5 1/2 in diameter. The floor paintings were made in a circle, having no ends points/hard to break. Also it could be a meditation circle, all depends on how you look at it. Another piece that she made was a very big canvas were she hung buckets on. The buckets were found from the trash somewhere, like usual with holes in them, just worn out buckets that she hung. and then throw red paint on the back of the canvas so it could bleed through the front. She even had a painting where there was a bullet through a horse skull that she put onto a painting. It was very violent which is a social state that we are in. There were so many art pieces that she should us and could talk about. Overall she was a great speaker and it was interesting to see how she interpreted life in general.