I find visual poetry is harder for me to understand than other forms of art, I guess because I didn't react to it emotionally as immediately as our previous photoshop projects. The only piece she showed us that I reacted to was "The Omission Report" by Ronald Johnson, and I felt that he conveyed not only the horror of the event to which the report referred in its unaltered version but the absolute hopelessness of the situation they were in by intentionally leaving the only complete-sounding sentence in his work "Everything will be okay if you just stay quiet." The work actually reminded me of The Ticking is the Bomb author Nick Flynn who visited campus last semester. During his presentation, he showed works of his own that used the same style and subject as "The Omission Report", as well as showing us works by another artist who used the interactive digital poetry format that our guest speaking showed us at the end of her presentation. I guess the reason I don't react with strong emotions is that the format really is blurring the line between art and design- which is fine, the Pop Art movement has been around for decades. But I don't react emotionally to a Campbell's Soup can either.

These are my three favorite textures that I used in my image. I edited them for color and scale, but here they appear unedited.

Emilee's Texture Mapping Process

This is my Final Texture mapping project. I wanted to play with the concept of the natural being influenced by the manmade.  To that end, I used the image of the hawk and overlaid it with images of metal studs, a gem, various knitted and woven items, and the texture of a napkin. 

There were some effects that I wanted but was not able to find an item to scan. To avoid copyright issues, I chose open source images that are free to the public. I used two different background images that I merged, and neither of them are my original work. Another image that I borrowed was the gem used to create the hawks eye. However, I used seven different scanned textures of my own to transform the image.

Here is the original open source stock image: