Holly Urspringer

Installation 5/6/2010 Tweed Museum of Art University of Minnesota Duluth

2010-05-06T21:43:29Z

I was very happy with the end product of my work. My "Digital Flowers" really bloomed into something that I was satisfied with and felt that it was a solid idea. I was glad we ended up being able to use the student room for a show because I finally was able to put all my effort into a piece that had a place to go and didn't need to hold back because I wanted to do a installation kind of piece that had no where to go. The entire flow of of everyone's work went really well together how it was arranged and I am glad it worked out in the end.

FINALLY! Installation break-through

2010-04-26T02:24:41Z

To keep in the creative spirit of flowers and gardening I decided to take garden fencing with 1'' squares to display my digital flowers as well as a artificial flower piece I have made, which includes a digital picture frame with three 1.5" display screens. I am going to be hanging the green fence and hang/drape it from the top of the ceiling and have at least a foot on the floor to display other artificial flowers. I am also including some of the greens from the artificial flowers and incorporate them with in the fencing. I have also printed photographs of flowers that I have taken and the digital/pixel flowers that I have created that will put on the fencing to show the contrast of digital/pixels, photographs, and artificial "real" flowers.

^^ I have taken the digital picture frame and inlaid the digital frame to blend more and be less distracting.

Digital Idea

2010-04-15T18:47:23Z

I am thinking of possibly using some kind of digital picture keychain to take place of my pixel flowers. I think it would really enhance the digital aspect that I am going for, I am unsure of how to display them with my installation piece.

these are some of the possible ways I am exploring to display them

More installation ideas

2010-04-13T02:05:29Z

I really like the idea of there being multiples of one thing, and going with my very first idea of this class I think covering the wall with fake flowers and incorporate my pixel/digital flowers some how. I want the flowers to "fall" and spread onto the floor as well. I am thinking of playing with the idea of using the fake flowers hanging on the wall as the "art piece" and the digital flowers coming up from the ground looking planted, so its like the flowers you think would be display like art work are actually "growing".

This is something I made as a temporary try of how to possibly cover a wall with flowers

Here are some other interesting installation ideas

Installation Idea

2010-04-06T03:05:51Z

Pixel Art

2010-04-01T19:02:05Z

I really got intrigued by this pixel art because having such a love for photography, the best thing to achieve is a clear picture (plus a good photo), but this new fascination with making things look pixelated and "digital" has been really inspiring to me.

Lucky Star: Rachel

2010-03-30T20:30:00Z

Testing of Video Transfer Method

2010-03-30T19:04:12Z

I tested out the freezer paper transfer method on thursday March 18th and it was very successful. It ironed on easily to cotton fabric and I had no trouble sending it through J.Rock's printer.

Fun Stop Motion Commercial

2010-03-30T19:01:22Z

Transfer Method

2010-03-23T17:29:06Z

Experimental Digital PS Flowers

2010-03-23T02:14:28Z

Going through different options of digital flowers using photoshop

^^ As of right now I am really enjoying the way these flowers look for the digital aspect of it and want to produce different flowers by myself using the square paint brush tool

the next set of flowers are different options and techniques that I tried to make my flower photo more digital

Inspiration

2010-03-11T20:50:28Z

Rachel Urkowitz

Choi Jeong Hwa

Patrick Shearn and Cynthia Washburn

Rose Nolan

Takashi Murakami

Yoshihiro Suda

Andy Goldsworthy

Theodor Geisel

Robot Flowers

2010-03-11T20:49:31Z

I really like the idea of doing a possible Robo-Digital-Flower

Flower Printer

2010-03-04T17:42:15Z

Researching different flower techniques I came across a printer that actually prints on live flowers and thought it was a really unique and exciting technique that I haven't seen before.

Possible Installation Piece?

2010-03-04T17:13:47Z

After critique I decide that I am really fond of the minimal simple flower that I created in photoshop, but felt as though it needed something else. I love the idea of extremely large flowers or possible outrageous quantities of my "digital" flowers filling a room and think a possible installation piece of these dream flowers would have a great impact in a space. I created one of the possible "digital" flowers that I could make for the installation and I like the overall idea and look of it but I need to explore different digital flower techniques I haven't found one that I am happy with.