Elena Deng – Looking Outwards 09

For this week’s assignment, I have decided to look at Xindi Lyu’s Week 7 Looking Outwards Project and Lee Krasner’s painting. I decided to review this entry because I really enjoyed that week’s promo of randomness as well as the way that Xindi interpreted this assignment. For me, I still chose to continue with something relating to technology and did not consider stepping out of that field into fine arts. I enjoyed how she describes the simplest elements of strokes and slashes to create something random and yet still beautiful. In addition, the story behind the painting attracted me to reinterpret the visual language of the strokes and look at the painting differently than how it looks upon first glance. (I’m also a huge Jackson Pollock fan). As a whole, I appreciated the choice to step out of conventional choices for projects and this post inspired me to branch out with future subject matters for Looking Outwards.