i wanted to represent the components of myself that are directly connected to my art and the ways i get my ideas for my work. the first panel represents my vision, the sunglasses are reflecting daisys which represent my grandmother. she recently passed away and we were very close. everything i look at seems to remind me of her and i wanted to portray that. the second panel represents my thought process. it is much more chaotic as i believe a thought is. if i had to paint what i thought the brain would look like while processing a thought that would be it. my picture that was done digitally is of me with my thinking face on. there are crayons behind me and lightbulbs representing ideas and the crayons represnt how i think of color when i look at things. for some reason i am very intrigued by color and consider colors in every object i look at. the third panel is about my heart. the pictures of me show me unbuttoning my shirt then revealing my heart to the viewer, it is a human heart that shows not one of those cheesey love hearts. i also redid the words on a heart diagram to make up what i think the main components of my heart are. i did this panel very childlike because i feel i am childish at heart and bright and cheery. the last panel is about my output of expression. i took a bunch of different pictures of my hand with different artists utensils and made a treelike structure out of them.  i made butterflies fluttering out of the outspread hands at the top and i scanned sketches from my sketch book and put them under the hands. there are some common motifs among all of the panels such as real flowers and a screen printed face. drying flowers has always been something i have done with my mom and grandmother and i still do it all the time today (there are actually bundles of flowers drying in my dorm room now) and i am very inspired by nature. i really had fun with this project and though there are a few things i would like to tweak i am still satisfied with the outcome and i hope everyone enjoyed it.

i really loved the dia: beacon. i found the entire building to be fascinating with its factory like feel and its abundance of artists i recognized. it was exciting to walk into a gallery and know of every artist in it. "the privet" by john chamberlain really caught my attention. he had a few metal works at the dia: beacon but this one really caught my eye. the metal had a soft look to it that made you want to feel it. the colors and patterns on the peices of scrap put it on a new aesthetic plain changing the metal into pure color and shape.
my other favorite artist at the dia: beacon was richard serra. i have studied him in other classes and have been intrigued by his work in print, but these are to be experienced not just read about. his work gives off so many vibes, it is exciting, playful, interactive, demeaning, rough, dizzying, unsettling, and comforting. the combination of feelings experienced through his pieces can be described but can not be understood unless experienced.

The font i used for my word visualization is Giddyup Std.
My word was Grow so i used flowers to portray this because they are quickly associated with growth.

The Man In The Glass
Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.


When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest
For he’s with you, clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.



I perceive this as a poem about self-visualization. i think it is expressing success in life through self-fulfillment and he is telling the reader that they are the only ones that matter most and to make yourself you own priority or you will not be happy in the end with yourself. in the end it is your own judgment of your life that really matters. for my project i am going to make a book with mirrors as the cover and a mosaic of broken mirrors for the back cover the pages will be able to come our and stand on their own with 10 different faces and personalities on each page and the poem will be either on the cover somehow or under the faces, not quite sure yet.