Tomlinson/Sheridan Responce

Ruth Tomlinson

I really connected to Ruthie's work because of her take on what exactly constitutes a sculpture.  Her process of tracing the shadow of an object multiple times over a few hours of a day in different colors to show the journey of lights in and across a room immediately spoke to me one who primarily works 3-dimensional because I often am without inspiration to draw on a flat surface. this travel of light from East to West is prevalent throughout the entire planet but it makes so much sense for it's beauty to reveal it's self to Ruthie only once she moved to Montana. Having never lived outside of the North-West, I can understand how different it would be to live somewhere where the horizon is viable without a hill or lake in every direction. There are so many less things to cast large overarching shadows over an entire ridge, making the even of sunlight so much more of a constant. Moving on from that, I find the mailing process of each pillow she's slept on, as well as all the letters with three numbers mailed across the country is, to me, Ruthie's capturing of 4-dimensional art.  Not only is each piece mailed occupying space as it is transported, but also receives a mark from the effects of time, as they are all handled with different care and stamped with different designations of times.


Kelly Sheridan

Kelly's presentation included not only her work as a painter and digital artist, but also followed her career it grew throughout the hairdressing world and with technology.  It was very interesting to learn that Kelly has some many associations to such big names in fashion and inspiring to me how she continued to advance her artistic capabilities after a successful career and took into a new evolving world of technology for her own sake as an artist.  Being a part of today's younger generation, having grown up with computers and the internet, playing video games before I could read, i find it fascinating to hear how drastically different technology was and how much more impressive it is to have used such dated software and programs to create images that would be impressive today.  As someone trained in formal painting and already in a high position in her field, it would have been easy to take a look at this up and coming "Art" on a computer screen and say that it is limited and not to the same caliber as other forms of art. I for one am very slow to embrace a new medium if its one that I am not accustom to, thus I applaud Kelly for diving so deeply into a media that is not only new to her, but also new to the world, working with it as it grew into the entity it is today. Not to mention the fact that many people would kill to be able to say they met their husband or wife on an MMORPG.