http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/jessica-stockholder

Jessica Stockholder is an artist from Seattle, who works a lot with installation art. I really enjoyed her pieces and I loved seeing a little bit of the process of paper making. Like Jessica, I also like to work on my art alone. I thought it was really interesting how she makes these grand, beautiful installations using very cheap, very boring materials--materials not many people would consider using as parts of a sculpture. Not only is she recycling and putting waste to good use, but she's using it to make meaningful art that has a profound effect on others. Like she mentioned, her work is very playful in the sense that she doesn't really know what the end result will be. Her work is similar to Herrero's in that case, because there is also some risk, unexpectedness with his work as well (film in water technique).

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/arturo-herrera

Arturo Herrera is an artist from Venezuela who focuses largely on collage, photography and wall paintings. When watching this clip, I was extremely inspired by his technique of letting his film sit in water or coffee to give it this really cool, spontaneous effect. It reminded me a lot of the Ancient Chinese porcelain-crackling effect. I definitely want to try it out myself. I also really resonated with his pieces that incorporated images from childhood popular culture, like Dopey (Snow White was my absolute favorite film as a kid--I watched it about 5 times a day, not exaggerating), which I think was the point--to connect with people using symbols like that. I thought he made a really beautiful point about his abstracted art--how he takes images that are blatantly representing something, and then combines unrecognizable pieces of those images in a collage. It's really mysterious/secretive almost, making subtle references to many different things, which I really liked a lot.