{"id":12996,"date":"2016-11-30T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12996"},"modified":"2016-12-02T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T17:53:37","slug":"camosun-visual-arts-exhibit-focuses-on-student-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/11\/30\/camosun-visual-arts-exhibit-focuses-on-student-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Visual Arts exhibit focuses on student freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking 100 photographs and then arranging them in an artistically sound way is no small task, but that\u2019s what Camosun Visual Arts students have done in Typologies<\/i>, an exhibit up at the Lansdowne campus until December 6.<\/p>\n

Camosun Visual Arts instructor Nancy Yakimoski says watching the wide array of creative property that students come up with never gets old, and that there is more to the art than what initially meets the eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had to select one particular object or subject matter, and then take 100 different images of it,\u201d she says. \u201cThe typology is creating these 100 separate images, so when you look at the separate image, there\u2019s something in each image that is interesting, but then when you take a step back and see it within the context of 99 other images, you see that in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assembling 100 photographs together so that they capture new and exciting meanings when viewed as a whole is a very different process than taking separate images, says Yakimoski, who adds that new artistic elements become apparent when you view a photograph as a typology. Yakimoski says her role as instructor is often to instil a sense of artistic freedom in her students; whether they want to take photos with their phone or with a fancy Nikon, she tries not to influence the students\u2019 processes too much after the initial instruction.<\/p>\n

\"Typologies<\/a>
Typologies<\/em> is running until December 6 at two locations on Camosun College\u2019s Lansdowne campus (photo by Jill Westby\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhatever you find interesting and think would make a good typology, you know, go crazy,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

There is never a dull moment in Yakimoski\u2019s class as a result of the freedom that she works hard to incorporate into her teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn previous years, my gosh, we\u2019ve seen 100 tongues, 100 nipples, 100 photographs of landscape shot through a piece of red glass,\u201d she says. \u201cI just open the door, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Okay, show me what you can do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun Visual Arts student Wynonna Hess created her typology out of items people had in their pockets: keys, wallets, toy dolphins. She says the hardest part of the project was finding the courage to walk up to complete strangers and ask if she could take photos of their belongings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot of cell phones, but was also a lot of random things that they were almost excited they had been carrying around with them,\u201d she says. \u201cAt one point somebody had a miniature shark in their pocket; [people had] little trinkets, wallets, and even food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hess approached people over different periods of time, and she says she wanted her arrangement to be \u201csporadic\u201d to represent the time period over which the photos were taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cMine was about 100 different interactions with people,\u201d she says about her typology, \u201cand what they deemed important enough to show me. When it was all completed and printed out and had to be arranged, I didn\u2019t have much thought other than the occasional mashing of colour in different images, because the picking of people was so sporadic that I wanted the arrangement to be sporadic as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Typologies
\n<\/i>Until Tuesday, December 6
\nLansdowne library mezzanine and beside Young 111<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking 100 photographs and then arranging them in an artistically sound way is no small task, but that\u2019s what Camosun Visual Arts students have done in Typologies, an exhibit up at the Lansdowne campus until December 6. Camosun Visual Arts instructor Nancy Yakimoski says watching the wide array of creative property that students come up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-november-30-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13006,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions\/13006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}