Instagram Artwalk Project Installment One

0 CommentsSaturday • February 26, 2011 • by Imei

The Old Rainier Brewery art folks (Sietch and Sabaki) held their first Artwalk for the year on Feb. 12, 2011. Opening its doors to the public, we had over 135 people checking in on the various galleries and studios throughout our large building on one of the rainiest days of the season.

Thank you to the thirty-five people who participated in my first Instagram Artwalk Project. I sorted through pictures and selected some of the best, and threw in a couple of my own pictures from the evening and day surrounding the Artwalk.

Below are just a couple of samples, but the public project can be viewed on Facebook as the Instagram Artwalk Project. All participants gave their permission to have their photos taken and their images published on the Internet.

To get the people posed into what I call “emotion sculptures”, I asked them to consider two things:

1. Describe what are you feeling RIGHT NOW. (don’t think about it too hard).
2. Take 30 seconds to embody that feeling in any way you wish.

After participants figured out what they were feeling, I took my knowledge of music (space and time) and dance (movement and emotion), posed them according to the story they were telling with their feelings, and merged them together in a snapshot of groups of people. The challenge: make all the participants connect in some subtle way ot the others in the picture, even if they didn’t know eachother. You can be the judge as to whether or not the project was successful, interesting, or provocative.

Light rail yard. At night.

Do you like Instagram? If you are unfamiliar with Instagram, check out the blogpost I did about this fun app for your iPhone. Put your works of art on the Instagram site, and be sure to send a copy here if you’d like share your favorite picture using Instagram.