{"id":19542,"date":"2020-05-21T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19542"},"modified":"2020-05-20T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T18:21:15","slug":"camosun-visual-arts-students-take-year-end-exhibit-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/05\/21\/camosun-visual-arts-students-take-year-end-exhibit-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Visual Arts students take year-end exhibit online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun College\u2019s 2020 Visual Arts grads have had to take their year-end exhibit to the internet. Originally, the Visual Arts grad show was supposed to run for two weeks in April, but because of current limits on in-person activities due to COVID-19 concerns, it will run from May until September online. Second-year Visual Arts student Autumn Pye says that it was a hard adjustment for a lot of students but the class persevered and now Loop Eyes<\/em> is ready for viewing.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few of us stepped up and got stuff done and really just made the most out of it,\u201d says Pye.<\/p>\n

The show consists of photography, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture; Pye says the different mediums really capture the essence of the Visual Arts program at Camosun.<\/p>\n

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Autumn Pye’s “S Stands for Smoking” is part of the Camosun Visual Arts students’ year-end Loop Eyes<\/em> exhibit (photo by Autumn Pye).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe did a little bit of insight on Loop Eyes<\/em>, what it means\u2014the end of the loop as you\u2019re coming to graduation,\u201d says Pye. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been like there\u2019s a beginning and an end. It is more of a loop, just because of everything we\u2019ve been through. There\u2019s been so many ups and downs.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the things that\u2019s so great about the Visual Arts program at Camosun, says Pye, is that students are taught so many mediums.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt very much, I think, gives the essence of what the Visual Arts program is at Camosun, just how vast everything we learn is,\u201d says Pye. \u201cI think it\u2019s really great being able to showcase all that, and everyone\u2019s different strongpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her project, Pye worked in photography and ceramics, and when it came to working with the pottery wheel, she put her own spin on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m like the average photographer\u2014I don\u2019t do nature, food shots, stuff like that,\u201d she says. \u201cI just like to pull from my own perspective and emotions, like when I see something that\u2019s kind of weird, or like it shouldn\u2019t belong there, I just have this strong urge to take a photograph of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her piece in the show, Pye made 10 ceramic ashtrays, perched cigarettes in them, filled them with Alphagetti and took a photo of it. Ceramics wasn\u2019t something she was interested in before Camosun, but once she discovered it here, she put her own style into it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not very good on the [pottery] wheel, so I just kind of took it onto my own,\u201d she says. \u201cI have my own weird spin that I put on things. That\u2019s what makes me most excited about art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pye says she likes to have her pieces connect to her but also be open enough that other people can look at it and gather their own meaning and put their own story behind it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had about 10 ashtrays, and they didn\u2019t look similar, like the project suggested,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I filled them with Alphagettis and tossed in a few cigarettes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loop Eyes
\n<\/em>Until September
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