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a______ A&E Students and staff bring art to life WedNEsdAy, FebRUARy 27, 20 02 DAISY BAIN A&E Editor The art, music and English departments combined stu dent talent this term to pro duce an animated CD titled “Birth, Growth, Destruction and Rebirth.” Rick True, art department chair, approached the Center for Learning and Teaching for a grant with the proposal that visualization heals. Ac cording to True, the inspira tion came from the Sept. 11 attacks. The grant was given, and the art department re ceived a $1200 Mega Pixel digital video camera to pro duce the CD. Over 60 art students par ticipated in creating the 8x16 foot picture featuring two poets (Bonita M. Richardson and Eli Jimenez) and two musicians (Kit Taylor and Issa Kitterman). As the art work is being presented, a poem is read. Music plays between each poem, setting an emphasis to both the art work and the poem. “It went really well, except that it took forever,” said Rolanda Faucett, art student. The project began at the be ginning of winter term and is expected to be finished on March 13. The idea was to create a “moving” picture. A shot must be taken after each image has been drawn. Over 100 shots are taken to create TljE ClAckAMAS PRiNT this effect. Faucett said she probably spent about four hours on the artwork herself. Students gather in groups of four to five and about 20 shots are taken ”of each group’s additions to the piece. “Once Rick started putting the pictures together people started getting excited about it,” said Faucett. Seven instructors worked together to make the CD come alive. Rick True; Dave Anderson, painting instruc tor; Nora Brodnicki, design instructor and Gene Flores, drawing and painting in structor; Kate Gray, English instructor, helped pick the poets to be featured; and Tom Wakeling, music department chair, helped pick the musi cians. Patrick Sheehan, de sign instructor, worked as the editor and adjusted every shot to make sure the images looked good. The CD will be shown at the Skills Contest tomorrow, Feb. 28. It will also be shown on the school website and it will be submitted in the Student Showcase to let people know what the art de partment has been up to. “I’d also like to have a bunch of CDs cut so I can give them to everyone who has worked on it,” said True. True would like to do a simi lar CD using claymation in his basic design and three-di mensional classes. Top: A photo taken from the CCC art department's first animated CD. As the CD progresses, the art work changes shape, gets torn down and then rebuilt, which goes with the theme: "Birth, Growth, Destruction and Rebirth." Bottom: Students from various art and design classes work as a team to create the art featuredin the CD. Both poems featured in this week's Poet's Comer have been cut short due to space issues. You can hear both poems in their entirety in the animated CD that is set to be fin ished on March 13. The Rain is Falling by Bonita M. Richardson The rain is falling It is raining today My Oregon diary fills with rain Rolls down the page runs off the table Puddle pools around my wet shoes * Eleven years old Everyday I ignore the war Everyday it rains "The Rain is Falling" is the first poem heard on the CD. Richardson has seen the unfinished project and worked with True to pick the most fitting poem to the art work de picted. As my cousins put on dry navy uniforms My books float to school The spaniel Winston drifts in Sogged, sharp dog Smelly-wet The driveway rivers to the street with rain I taste Rain I bathe in Rain It ^wallows my coat and boots 1 Each night, behind blackout curtains I tell my diary secrets under the covers Words framed by flashlight, Rain Rain Rain All the world trembles, burns and bleeds snow All the sirens chant Fire My heart Constantly beats Rain Rain Rain PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED BY THE ART DEPARTMENT "Studio 205" was written about the current art building, which is set to be tom down in about one year. Various pieces of the torn-down building will be used in the new construction, coincidently also fol lowing the theme of the animated CD. Studio 205 by Eli Jimenez The artist stares beyond confining walls The old Smuckers canning shed, Unassuming, aging Clanking machinery Walls plastered with production schedules, Safety posters, eye popping calendars. Everywhere the penetrating aroma Of strawberries, raspberries, pears, apples. His imagination wanders, concocting shapes from shadows of mountain climbs, ocean scenes, and ancient gardens. His thoughts probe the complex windings of the mind- Long forgotten images of yesterday surface, a setting sun firing off a volcano, a French painter on the Left Bank of the Siene, the unforgettable blackness of a desert night sky. Thoughts probe unseen places, The creator spirit meanders Padding softly through the Labyrinth of the mind. Slowly pieces of the puzzle come together Random, undefined figures give way To a quiet river scene, trees, flowers, ocean beaches, A fragment of the emerging whole arises. There is a flash of light, It is the smile of the heart as it sees.
