Sam12975's Comments (6)

Love the image! Davy thinks it looks like a castle :)

I like what you’ve done here, buddy— by shooting the teapot and cup in the foreground up-close, and blurring the background, and applying that deep filter to emphasize the red and the Chinese character, you’ve made the work feel “flat” but also “atmospheric” and therefore more like an actual painting. There as an artist in NYC , at whose retrospective I worked, named Richard Prince, who used a similar strategy in a lot of his works, taking up-close and heavily exposed photos of advertisements in magazines and newspapers (in other words photos of photos) which made his images also feel flat, but full of rich color and therefore more like paintings. I also like that you centered the shot on that chinese character on the teapot— it reads “shuangxi”, which means double (shuang) happiness (Xi). It’s a sort of good luck character that you put on wedding gifts. You write shuangxi by doubling the character “xi” , happiness (the doubling is supposed to express that you are making it extra happy; like writing “she was happy happy”) because that’s how Chinese grammar and psychology work. But this is supposed to be art class, not language class ;) I like that you wanted to really emphasize the red because you remembered it’s significance from Chinese new year celebrations. I look forward to see more photographs buddy, good work, Dad.

Hello buddy, The title and subject of the work is very striking, and I like your use of color throughout. Of course it’s a curious thing for me to watch you react to and process NYC and the events of 9-11, given that to yourself and your peers that is all distant history; but that’s as it should be, in fact when the event was still fresh/ongoing and everyone was full of fear, sadness, anger, a thought that gave me some sense of peace was to think that it would of course someday become ancient history, specifically to very young children then and in the future (which is to say , now). Of course you shall have to be careful how you talk about some of this stuff, because to those who experienced it the history is still present — they can close their eyes and still see it and smell it, and this causes them pain buddy. For example : I can still smell it. But that’s just given: again, I’m glad you are working thru it as a theme, and I know you are also excited about dreams and nightmares in art because we got to see that surrealism exhibit in Mexico this summer. The dream city can indeed become the nightmare city, and it’s always a good idea to pay close attention to those dreams and where they take us, and what they can teach us about the world and ourselves. As always I’m proud of you, Dad

I love that you’ve played with so many different materials and processes to make this work, buddy— and I like the combination of playing card with popsicles emerging like fingers holding it in a magic trick. I especially like your use of color tuned to a specific light— neon yellow for dim lighting. Good job buddy! Love you, Dad

Really like the the way you balanced the colors red and blue in the body of your robot to give him more life/energy; I also love the yellow figure in the background, is that a cat? Love, Daddy

Love your fish painting, buddy! I love that you made the fish’s body using “negative space”, and that you added different highlights for the silver head and copper-y scales; is this a fish you saw on Chasing Monsters? I also love the combination of colors, red, black and yellow. Very proud of all the work/thought you put into this! Love you very much, Daddy