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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
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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
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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
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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.