Post 7 - How do you make it - Nicole Corvi

 How Do You Make It?

1. Sky Hopinka is a video artist known for using film, animation, archival material, and audio recordings to bring his work to life. Video is the medium he claims most. While seriously pursuing film, Hopinka was also studying and learning the Chiunk Wawa language; a language derived from the Columbia River Basin. Because he was studying two separate communicative avenues, Hopinka came to the realization that he sees similarities in their structures. He senses a deep connection to personal history and culture through language, and integrates that meaning into his film artworks. These video projects tend to be deliberately assembled with clips that Hopinka finds intriguing. he takes inspiration from the right-now, and what his artistic eye is drawn to; but also his roots, inevitably so. 

2. In my head, there's two umbrellas: one for ceramics, and one for photo. My creative process under the ceramics umbrella is a little more straightforward. To create my objects, 90% of the time, I am using centrifugal force of the pottery wheel paired with a clay body of choice (mostly stoneware).  After initial firing, I am using various combinations of glaze chemistry to decorate the surface, followed by a second firing. Although the objects I make are no one else's, I tend to follow a traditional creative process, not separating me too much from other ceramicists. The photo umbrella has more room for exceptions. I shoot most, if not all of my photos, on 35mm film; color and black & white. When I go and take photos, I do it with intention. I spend days driving in my car, exploring New Jersey, pulling off on the road to capture where my eye wanders. Typically, I look for items and architecture that have bee run-down, or left behind. Once these photos are developed, I sometimes leave them the way they are with quick digital editing. Other times, I print the images out and physically write on them or glue things to the images. Then, I scan them with the additives, creating a collage-like photographs done by hand.