Well I feel like this whole project was a disaster for me. First off I wasn't able to start it till late in the week, because everytime I get home from work I end up passing out from exhaustion. Second I'm staying with my grandparents who don't believe in computers, or any other technology invented after 2000. So I had to use my phone as a mobile hotspot, which normally I wouldn't mind, but since I'm already over on my data limit, I had to use it sparingly. Thirdly, when I was able to muster up the energy, I tried accessing Artstor, but it wouldn't let me in. I tried putting in my Buff State username and registering and all that, but it was no good. I couldn't access it. So that being said I hae a real difficult time picking out a theme. My goal was to find a peice of art that I could base my theme around, but being that I couldn't access Artstor, I didn't really know where to begin. I started to look at the example projects and those of my fellow students. One girl I looked had her exhibit centered around fashion. It was different from the rest in that it didn't follow that stereotypical art exhibit. She formed an exhibit around a topic that interested her, and it inspired me to do the same.
Which lead me to my theme of comic books. Again it's something different, I doubt anyone else has done it, and it's something that interests me. I started off at the root of comics by going for Action Comics #1, which is the first appearance of Superman, and is essentially what made comics the way we know them today. Fairly recently DC Comics restarted all of their titles including Action Comics. So I thought it would be fun to pair the original up with the revamped edition. Honestly I could have done my whole project around different cover art, and looking back on it might not have been such a bad idea. I figured people would want a little more variety so I included other pieces like "Explosion" which has no connection to comics other than the fact that it is a explosion would would see in a comic book and it is created in comic book fashion using tiny dots in order to create the image. From there moved onto other pieces that were not as mainstream as the big 2 (Marvel and DC). I got a Peanuts comic. Once again it is a comic but not in the traditional sense that we know them to be. From there I got pieces from The Adventures of TinTin, and I compared its evolution from comic book to the silver screen. I then transitioned back into the more mainstream comics like Batman, Superman, and Spiderman. One thing I did manage to include were some different statues depicting characters from different comic books. Another thing I included was a couple of different settings in which comic book enthusiasts gather, just because it relates to the the overall comic book experience. I would have liked to have added more but I was cut short on time.