Meredith Mighell
January 29, 2008
Intro into Visual Culture
The other day I was in art class making gesso. As it turns out Gesso is not the easiest thing in the world to make. It can be quite difficult to get the proportion of rabbit skin glue, water, and whiting right. The fist thing I thought about was who ever thought to boil a rabbit down and make glue. While I was pondering this, I started to reflex on what we had discussed in Intro into Visual culture class about authenticity and what it means to be real.
Is making my own gesso going to make my art feel or appear to be more authentic? It is a tremendous amount of work, so I hop that this more “authentic” gesso is going to turn out to be more impressive than gesso that is made in factories by big machines then packaged and shipped all over the world.
I do think it is these exact kinds of touches that give things/products that authentic feeling. Like food taste more authentic when it is homemade than from a can or box. It is just a feeling of a higher quality, however if you are not aware of the subtle differences than is it irrelevant?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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