Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Meet The Soule

Soule is a clothing designer that Sheilah knows. We had a Skype interview with her a while back during social sculpture course. Her main job is to help design theater actors' costumes. On her own time, she makes shirts that send positive messages such as being green.

We got a chance to see how she organizes her research and even some of the work that she had done and what she was still working on. It was interesting to see how she puts her research together. She printed off all the images that inspired her and pasted them all on a board. It looks like a collage. That way she gets to see all of the images at once.

Since that interview happened a while back so I don't have much clear memory of what exactly did she say. However, what I read from Tina's post, I recall she said something about how she first went to an art school for the passion of "beauty" but now she considers the "ideas" within an artwork more. I kind of disagree with that idea. I mean, how do you compare "ideas" and the "beauty"? What does a good idea mean? Does the idea of doing drugs mean a "bad idea"? What about "beauty" What is "beautiful? Most people would say anything that most people agree appeal to look nice would be something that is "beautiful" But doesn't the sense of beauty change from time to time or even from different culture to another? What is the true beauty then? The answer is both the level of the quality of "beauty" and "ideas" should depend on the audience as an individual. A "good idea" could be expressed in many many different ways. The job of an artist is to preform that idea she or he wants to send out, in the form that the artist wants the people to see.

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