Triptych Description

For my triptych project, I wanted to explore the conflicting aspects of the humorous quality to my life. I like to consider myself to be a pretty funny person and most of the people around me would agree with that. Recently I asked my floor to complete a survey for my conceptual art class and asked them one simple question, “what do you think about Tim Brown?” While a good number of people had very nice things to say, there were still a number of those that choose to take shots at me. I realize that at times I cross the line and really offend people with my jokes. The problem is that people don’t remember the fifty times I made them laugh, but rather focus on the one time I made fun of them. Even the same jokes can deduct completely different reactions from people. One day they find it hilarious, while the next day I’m a big jerk for saying it. These jokes are really a double-edged sword, as I like to keep things lively and fun, but I am aware that with the territory I also over step my boundaries at times. This is the concept that I wanted to focus my project on. The very same thing can get a different reaction, even from the same person at times. The final project ended up being two pictures of my friend and future roommate, Steve, and one picture of myself in the middle. I used Photoshop to get the images out of their backgrounds and did a little editing such as changing the color of his shirt. The rest of the project was made completely in Illustrator. Despite my unfamiliarity with the program in the beginning, I feel like the software really grew on me as I worked with it. Using the pen tool and the brush tool, I was able to make the stylized backgrounds for the three panels. I didn’t really want to make the three pictures all that large, so I stuck with the 12 by 18 printer. I haven’t talked to Steve about it, but maybe we can hang these pictures up in our room next year since they are such a manageable size. I took the prints and simply double mounted them to some foam board. I really had trouble when it came to cutting the board. I tried just about everything to get a clean cut. I used a box cutter, exatco knife, and even made a trip to the library to use the large paper cutter. All of my efforts resulted in mostly straight cuts, but I would’ve liked for them to be much cleaner.