Emotions: Stories of Places

By Carly Seyferth

Places

Places are a part of our every day life. It is critical for people to understand how places..

• Can have an emotional tie to human life

• Can influence our emotional behavior

PART 1 DAY 1Stories of Places

How can a place influence our emotional behavior?

How do you behave in different places?

Through Color!

Through Space!

The way things are placed or arranged can make us feel relaxed, anxious or empty.

How do these places make you feel, how do you respond to them?

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How would your mother react to these rooms?

Through Decoration

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PART 1 DAY 1 ACTIVITY1

• We just learned a lot about interior design and how decorations and space can effect our feelings when we are in a certain place

• Lets make our own versions of the art room!• How would you want the art room to be decorated?• How will your decorations make people feel, what will

be your goal?– Scary?– Welcoming?– Nervous?– Excited?

PART 1 “How can a place influence our

emotional behavior?”

Cultural Places

How can places make you feel?

How do you behave in different places?

Stories of Places Part 2 Day 2

Everyday Places

Cultural Places ContinuedCultural places are places that are popular and you see

them almost everyday

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Cultural Places ContinuedHow do you react to these places?

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Cultural PlacesWhat does this place remind you of?

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Cultural Places: Camp GroundsPlaces have emotional histories and memories, what

memories do you recall of a certain place?

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Cultural Places• How can places make you feel lonely?• How can places inspire you?

Cultural Places Continued

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• Places have memories and history, what place have you witnessed or made memories?

PART 2 DAY 2 CONTINUED “How can a place influence our

emotional behavior?”

Historical Places

How can places make you feel?

How do you behave in different places?

Historical Places

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• How would you behave if you lived in one of these places?

• How would you react to our modern world?

Historical Places

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PART 2 DAY 2 CONTINUED “How can a place influence our

emotional behavior?”

Natural Places

How can places make you feel?

How do you behave in different places?

Natural Places Cont

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•What attracts us to natural places?

Natural PlacesContinued

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•How do natural places bring people together?

Natural Places Continued

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•How can natural places make us feel trapped or overwhelmed?•How can places inspire you?

PART 2 DAY 2 Activity 1

• Think about all the places we talked about

• Choose at least two different places that you would like to depict

• Draw them

• Explain on the back of your paper why you choose this place what emotional tie you have to it

PART 2 : Artist Sally Mann

TERMS TO KNOWNegative Shapes

• What is a negative shape?– Negative Space

(aka negative shape)Empty space around an object

– Is empty space between an object– This space is not part of the object– this helps create a sense of form

or volume, making the object look more real

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TERMS TO KNOWPositive Shapes

• What is a positive shape?– Is the exact opposite of

negative space, it is the space that is filled in with detail or shading

– It is called the figure, it is the focus of the picture

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Sally Mann’s Valentine Windsor

Examples of Sally Mann

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Deep South Sally Mann• What spaces are negative?

• What spaces are positive?

Deep South Sally Mann

Series At TwelveSally Mann

• Leaves scratches & imperfections in her work

• A lot of her work deals with her family and intimate places

• “The things you are closest to you photograph the best. If you are not loving what you are making you are not going to make good art”

• She welcomes uncertainty

“Immediate Family” Sally Mann

Sally Mann• What spaces are negative?• What spaces are positive?

Final Activity

• Choose one of the places you want to depict from the first activity

• Find a copy of a photo that portrays that place and bring it to class

• We will be creating monotypes of our favorite places

• We will be using a similar palette to Sally Mann’s, meaning only gray, white and black will be used

Printmaking

Printmaking: 1. is an image on a surface plate it’s either cut

or painted on a plate

- the plate can be wood, metal, Styrofoam etc

1. then ink is applied

2. paper is pressed onto the plate through a press, spoon or hand

TYPES OF PRINTMAKING

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Intaligo

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Monotype

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Monotypes

• What is a monotype?– Is a drawing or painting on a

smooth non absorbent surface

• Methods– Additive:

• You can paint your image onto a plate

– Subtractive: • when you take the ink away by

rubbing with rags or drawing with q tips

• http://craftvideos.blogspot.com/2009/01/subtractive-monotypes.htmlSubtractive Example

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FINAL PROJECTSUBTRACTIVE & ADDITIVE MONOTYPES

• In our final project we will be using subtractive additive methods monotype

• SUBTRACTIVE– We will create negative and positive

shapes by leaving dark spots and creating light spots

• ADDITIVE– You can draw the place you choose

on the back of the plexiglass with sharpie

– With the black, grey and white ink you can add colors and create negative and positive shapes

Subtractive

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Additive Camilla Taylor flickr.com