Casey Goodwin Critique

    Casey's appropriation project incorporated human qualities with inanimate objects. She includes body parts as well as human apparel in her work. The added parts are cleanly appropriated and are pleasing to the viewer because of the perfect fit of the images.
    In Casey's prints, the eyes and eyelashes are cut out cleanly and look to be extremely tedious to have cut out each individual lash. The eyes and houses all look towards the viewer which is a great use of  direction, although I personally wish the larger eye in the corner was also looking in the same direction. In the abandoned school print with a shoe on the roof, Casey used a worn-out shoe which blended nicely with the run-down atmosphere of the background. Although it is a good use of two similarly beaten-up objects, the street in front is at an able, and I wish the shoe was fully touching the roof, or at a more interesting angle than just placed on top.
    In Casey's digital images, the body parts coordinate perfectly with the lines and coloring of the photo. On one image in particular, the hand holding the patio deck, Casey used negative space to extend her image. Although it could've been a major flaw to have the sketched hand layer reaching past the edge of the background, it looks natural and was very successful. I commend her for taking this risk to create a very interesting image. Another favorite of mine is the spine replacing the edge of the staircase. Each column appears to be a step on the stairs and was a great decision for this photo. Furthermore, I enjoyed how the opacity of the colorful lip graffiti was somewhat opaque to appear as paint on the bricks, and how the brain on the fountain appeared to coordinate with the entire color scheme of the image... it appears to be in the shadow along with the shadowy side of the fountain.
    Overall, Casey's project was extremely successful, although some minor tweaks mentioned above could enhance the images. She included an interesting artist statement, concept, and a great unity of the images.