So I didn't realize that this was due.. TOTALLY my bad, definitely forgot. But in my hope to salvage my grade and maybe get some credit i decided to interview my sister, Kelsey Griffith, who graduated from the University of Buffalo with a major in Communication Design. I know this isn't the exact blog description, but at least I'm trying?!
So here it goes,
This is Kelsey and her beloved dog, Jackson, named after Jax on the (greatest ever) show Sons of Anarchy. Kelsey is currently working at WIVT/WBGH-TV, a news station in Binghamton, NY. She graduated from the University of Buffalo in 2011 with a bachelor of arts in communication design. At the TV station she has the title of Master Control Operator, which yes sounds like she belongs on a space ship. Because the station is so small she gets to do a lot of other things too. She is responsible for creating station promos, commercials and PSA's for air and web. She also is responsible for the creation of all TV, web and print graphics and creating video segments and promotions for NBC and ABC to air.
Kelsey draws a lot of inspiration from literature, novels and just other things that she has read. She combines that art form with the graphic art form. She creates a narrative by using words in her art. She became intrigued by the idea of taking letters and words and making them into something different, like using the forms and sentence structure to create something else. That way it was readable, but also had another different element to it that a book doesn't have, creating something totally new.
Kelsey's art making process has been an exploration through college and now into "the real world."For the specific work here, The Logic of Decay (below) she used masonite board, paper, transparency and light to tell a story from different people's perspectives. By placing an emphasis on specific sections (the bigger, more pronounced words) she created a narrative in an abbreviated form. Her process for this work was to create the back board with just some of the words on it. She then created the transparent layer with more words on it, and hung it over the back board. She used a lot of transfer letters and transfer techniques to create this piece and others as well. Each separate narrative is shown through a different typeface and color, but all the different layers and narratives work together to create a sense of movement and three dimension. In Kelsey's words, "they push the fictional narrative past what it has traditionally been on paper."
