Kristin Becker's DTC Classes at WSU

Picture Taken Outside On the Way to WSU

This reminds me of Barry’s book because Barry seems to me to be a loner contemplating on what Life is in general. It is a very vague thing and a lot of her thoughts though cynical mirror how I feel. In grade school you see all the kids that are better then you at something at you and you figure “why even try” this exposure continues deep into life as you have to witness people more successful and better than you every single day. Some people might think, but hey your drawings are good. Although Barry has similar thoughts to me, although art used to be a thing that would set you free, now you are bound by the chains of self doubt every piece you make is an excruciating experience of what people might think. It’s hard to find anything of yours worth value and you start to spiral into a thought chain of why any of anything matters anyway. Your thoughts lead to What Is It? What It is? I chose this scene because the yellow pedestrian logo is all alone, and I could see Barry using a cutout photo of this sign in her work.

I took a picture of my television inside my apartment as I felt it was a great example of “framing” and how it frames the content and media that exists on that plane of entertainment. If you think of it as a sort of plane, the contents of the plane are constrained to exist only within the frames of the  borders and do not extend beyond them. The television may contain other frames within the frame, such as menus or guides or simply how images and media are divided but they ultimately only exist on the singular plane that is the square box they call their “home”. Imagine if a television was not constrained to its frame – would it “leak” everywhere, for lack of a better word, or simply exist entirely all at once? Frames divide our world so our brain can process and understand the divisions individually and separate A from B.

This picture of a building in Washington State University Campus is a great one to describe how framing work. Each brick is a frame, each window is a frame, and they all form the wall of the building that is a frame also. Reading the chapter about framing made me think how everything could be a frame for something smaller. The whole picture has it own frame. We can focus on each small detail that form that picture and find out that even the rails are frames.

This box of Kleenex reminded me of Point, Line and Plane from Graphic Design, The New Basics due to its intricate patterns that consist of a bunch of geometric points that make a lot of jagged lines. Those lines are placed in side by side to create shapes, which are also known as planes. The boxy textures on this tissue box remind me of  some old 8 bit games like Mario or Pac Man, and some of the quilts my grandma used to have.