CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE CM ADiRgtitias ltC R E A T I V E M U L T I M E D I A MAGAZINE From stage to screen and everything in between! FALL 2022 PC Drama Students Interview Art of Collage by with Portrait Anson Wallenfang Photographer Angela Miller Nature, Nurture and Artistic Imagined Realism Perspective” by by Michael Catherine Barrows Paul Miller Interview with Nature Photograper Cade Barker Cover photo and story by Angela Miller
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CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE ARTISTS Angela Miller Anson WallenfCaRnEgATIVE MULTIMEDIA Catherine Barrows Cade Barker Peninsula College drama students: Dr. Lara Starcevich Danute Duffy Savannah Hickman Graham Nott Elizabeth Pettigrew Levi Pulsipher Carolynn Pype Malachi Rediger Michael Paul Miller Marina Shipova Cade Barker Dan McKenna Phillip Renault Liz Bumgarner Jesse Nichol
TABLE OF CONTENTS Angela Miller .................... 6-19 Anson Wallenfang ...............18-29 Catherine Barrows .............30-37 Peninsula College Drama Students ....38-43Michael Michael Paul Miller .................44-51 Marina Shipova ......................52-57 Cade Barker ............................60-67 Dan McKenna ...............68-71 Phillip Renault .................72-75 Liz Bumgarner ..............76-79 Jesse Nichol.............80-83
CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE CM CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA Angela Miller https://ohheyitsangela.com/ instagram.com/spacecatcreative instagram.com/amethystimagery Interview with Portrait Photograper Angela Miller Hi Angela! Could you please introduce My interest in photography was present from a yourself? young age. My mother had an old Kodak Ektralite 10 Camera laying around and I began using it. I Hello! My name is Angela Miller. I am a Digital took photos of the cat, the tree in the front yard, the Artist and Photographer living in Tri-Cities, WA. I family car. If it existed around my home, I photo- graduated from Peninsula College in 2021 with an graphed it. I started taking it to my elementary A.A.S in Multimedia Communications. school and photographing my classmates and over 25 years later I still have some prints from 6
those days! Looking back, I realize that I was often the flexibility and forgiveness of digital images. directing little photoshoots with my friends even if I I recently was gifted an old Canon AE-1, so we didn’t realize it at the time. Instead of just taking a will see if I still feel this way after I get to dive back photo of them on swings, I instructed them on how into the film world a little bit. to hold the ropes and to make sure to maintain eye contact with me while in motion, among other What does the term creative mean to you? things. In high school I took Auto Shop. One day I used it as an opportunity to direct and take images To me creativity is taking the desires of the imagi- of people changing tires and removing fuel pumps. nation and making them tangible or visible. We all The other students were excited to see them and I have those little moments where we daydream a was mortified when I accidentally opened the film concept or idea, from a practical solution to surreal door before it had been secured. It popped out fantasy. “Creative” is the spark that brings some- and ruined the roll. I was very excited to transition thing to where there was nothing. The solution to to digital photography a couple of years later. I the problem. The color in the void. appreciate having experience with film but prefer 7
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CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE Could you please give us insight into your Angela Miller creative process. https://ohheyitsangela.com/ My creative process typically starts with one of those instagram.com/spacecatcreative sparks. I get a vision of something that I think would instagram.com/amethystimagery be interesting or visually pleasing. If it’s something I’m really excited about, I’ll dive in right away and start CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA planning how to make it reality. I think about what I want the final piece to resemble but I also keep that vision very fluid and negotiable. I have found that some of my best work has come from ideas that I had very specific execution plans for but then in the moment saw things in a different way and gave it a shot. I’ll start working on a piece and I’ll keep asking myself “and what else?” in reference to what to do with it next. I know its finished when I stop asking myself that question. How do you get inspired? And what inspires you the most? I am most inspired by the anomalies and the outliers. Ideally, I want to create art and imagery that speaks to those who are inspired by those things too. I do enjoy typical portraits and photographing things as they are just to capture their natural beauty, but it’s so satisfying to do something different that you know will get some- one’s attention. How would you describe your unique style? How does your personality affect the way you take photos? My unique artistic style feels like it is continuing to manifest and evolve. A lot of my early work is centered around celestial elements and things that related to outer space. I still do gravitate towards those things and will often include them in projects in some capacity, but lately my ideas are starting to become more earthbound. I also tend to gravitate towards purple color palates and like to incorporate color in unusual ways. I am normally a very reserved introvert. I can sit at my computer and edit images/create art for hours without 10
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CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE coming up for air and I need to be left alone to my 35mm with me also. I switched to the 35mm, achieve peak flow. When I am taking photos its asked my model to stand on a slab of concrete, like I have this separate personality that only exists and I laid on the ground below him at a very when I am holding a camera. I get energized, awkward angle. The perspective turned out to be I feel social, I love being in that moment and just right and it looked like it was well planned. telling people how amazing they look or that they nailed the pose. Photo sessions that I say will take What is the message you hope to share 30 minutes often run longer than an hour or more with your visual work? because I am feeling it so much and just want to keep going. Ultimately, the message I would like to send with What is the most challenging shot you’ve my artCaRndEApThIoVtoEgMraUphLyTIisMthEaDtItAhere is magic and ever taken? beauty in things that are quirky, different or surreal. The most challenging shot I have ever taken was The world around you is so interesting. You just have not actually something super artistic or something to be willing to suspend any preconceived ideas of I had planned to do in advance. I was taking how something should be. senior portraits for a young man, and he asked if I could get a photo of him at his elementary What are you working on at the moment? school with the name of the school behind him, to show how far he had come. I said sure no At the moment I have a couple of projects I am problem. When we arrived at the location, I saw getting ready to start. One is a photographic was that the building was very tall, much taller representation of the relationship between than a normal school building and that the name the sun and the earth using two of my favorite of the school was very high up on a wall. I had to models. I am also working on trying something figure out how to get the young man and school new for editing. I will be shooting some staged name in the same shot and it had to look good. holiday images and attempting some fine art I was shooting with my 85mm but luckily had style Painterly editing on them for the first time. I’m excited for new challenges and hoping it all goes well. 12
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CM CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA Anson Wallenfang Is A Picture Really Worth A Thousand Words? Exploring the Intersection of Visual Art and Poetry A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes any- Rilke have all played a notable part. But where, perhaps ways, but when I submitted a thousand random words strewn you’re wondering, is the intersection of written and visual art about a canvas to my high school art teacher, she was however? Is there one? Some photographers advise reading neither pleased nor impressed. One could argue that the poetry in order to improve one’s photo composition, and the concept is readily reversible though - certainly to disabled poet too can certainly benefit from imagery to draw from. individuals needing an alternate form of accessibility - but In the visual practices of making collages, creating double is this saying formulaic? Of course not, there’s far too much exposures, or blending layers of imagery, one can arrange relativity in the realms of personal expression and varied and rearrange images as if they were words, and in the experiences. I believe part of the craft of writing is to convey process tweak and refine the intended concept, message, maximum meaning in as few words as possible. Another and symbolism. The irony of all this however is that one still side of the craft however, particularly for poetry, is of course needs an artist’s statement. Something I’ve found myself very to make it aesthetically pleasing, and thus to braid together uncomfortable with, and resistant to, for a number of reasons, beauty, meaning, and minimalism. I’ll say that my work isn’t which perhaps don’t need to be explored here. Though I’m quite as refined or distilled as something such as a Japanese sure many of you can relate, it’s uncomfortable to put our haiku of antiquity. The long rolling verse of Alen Ginsberg work out in the world. It’s vulnerable. David Whyte would has admittingly had an influence, but I’ve also been inspired say that it risks our being found out, to be seen and criticized, by the work of mystic poets such as Rumi, Kabir, and Myrabi, but this is also ultimately something to be let go of for the German power-house and renaissance man Johann Wolf- sake of growth and expansion and not making ourselves gang von Goethe, and the work of present-day poet David small out of fear. So, with that I would like to add that the ide- Whyte and his commentary on poets such as Goethe and al that I strive for is that my work may serve as an invitation 18
for personal liberation, elevation and expansion, as well as my own personal prayer for this within myself. “We’re all just walking each other home,” as Ram Das said, and doing the very hard work of transcending the most destructive and divisive cultural paradigm the world has ever known. My desire is to create art aimed at uniting the ordinary aspects of the human condition with the extraordinary. To highlight whatever current progress I can amidst our myriad of normalized crises. It is my aspiration to hopefully, and ultimately, contribute towards the cultivation of conscious community and anything that may help to catalyze this process and lead us to greater unity and coherence. Lastly, I’ll add that aside from all these de- sires, aspirations, and intentions, sometimes the work comes out just as art for art sake, to create something that will make people think, and hopefully perceive as beautiful, and hopefully bringing them, even if only for a moment, greater peace that may spread to those around them. Anson Wallenfang 19 CM ADiRgtiti as lthttps://ansonwallenfang.myportfolio.com/
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Bend Reality Breathe truth, awareness and love. Be bold. Anson Wallenfang Be brave. Be awake to see the stars It’s unbelievable and remember that’s all we are. that the details can cloud the essence. That the conglomeration, the collaboration, can create disintegration. Poised to collapse So when you ask me we need especially not hold our breaths. to bend reality Fall into one another this cannot mean to force and sink with the embrace, always, or maybe even ever, rest in it, but to perceive, then rise to the moment to observe. and face all fears Observe the arc of meaning engraved into our minds imbued in our perspective. our memories be fierce Born of the lens be vulnerable through which we see the world, don’t give way to the programming molded out of our beliefs setting into traumatic in-operation, forged from our traumas. the life paralysis And if your mind isn’t yet seen postponing the manifestation of your true potential. as another mere reality to mirror reality, Give way to mindlessness I write this to you and this will become a destiny, a fate, in the most affectionate of ways, carved out of inaction get bent. born of indecision. So don’t. Just don’t. CM DAiRgtitiaslt 21
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BlockagesCREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE Anson Wallenfang Cacophonous mind chattering bewilderment busy body, lazy bum to the hard work CRtoEAthTeIVreEalMwUoLrkTIMEDIA (of non-judgement) of growth and letting go. Making room. Getting out of your own way. Releasing yourself from your programming, Our cultural conditioning, traditions and beliefs. Seared into your consciousness, Nearly forever preventing you from embracing art, Your art. Yet to be made. Waiting. Waiting for you to wake up. To snap out of it. This is your birthright. To play! To create. Go now, life is precious And this will not wait for you. 24
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Eating Almonds Anson Wallenfang Eating almonds New and present self (though now long past) writes poem. With the awareness that each and every almond that I place into my mouth was visited by a honeybee a sweet, loving, dedicated, dancing pollinator. The foundation of life as we know it. A fuzzy, buzzy devotee of the flowers Dula of the fruits. Careful and persistent to aid in the birthing of more sweet sustenance, nourishment and medicine into the world. The seasons pass, the trees bud and bloom fruit and fall. The bees work diligently And know precisely when to rest. CM 27
Empty-ishCREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE Anson Wallenfag They say that the hollow bones of birds are what help give them flight. That there is a strength in their brittleness. Ruminating on the benefits of hollowness while silently experiencing my own howling emptiness, the abdominal cavern, plumbed and palpated created nonetheless, in darkness, echoes the void of a communal impoverishment. A gasping loneliness behind screens, a twisted sense of self doomed and damned to comparison, but this is only because we are vessels. We must remember this. We must remember to fill ourselves not only with nourishment and joy but with permission, expression, forgiveness, vulnerability… …grace, mercy, courage, compassion, love… Rather than the fear, judgement, jealousy, scarcity, and inadequacy slopped into the trough of our social media “feeds” aiming to exploit our insecurities, manipulating our actions and desires, fostering the bellowing voices of angst, fear, and shame with heavy programs welded into ridged structures of thought from which we hang knowing 28
CM that if we do not bend then we will surely break. If I continue to deny myself the right of expression, feeling like the clouded stench of diesel, I’ll surely implode with the compression. Submitting to this status of societal norms, focused on merely earning a living, -as if life itself was not an inalienable right- the irony is carved into my backbone having betrayed the very things that bring me to life, first postponed and then forgotten, or worse yet abandoned, rediscovered, withered, and rotten. As I reach for my oxygen mask I smother the best part of me worth saving. All out of fear. Falsified, injected, and projected. It’s been ground in, woven, recorded as the needle scratched the wax. It’s a cruel carousel, and there’s no escaping this without breaking the vinyl, we have to change the story! WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE STORY! Overcome the ego. Let go of the glory. Rewrite the narrative, I implore thee to dig deep within. Your heart’s a quarry. 29
CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE CM CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA A CAT’S-EYE VIEW HOW NATURE PLUS NURTURE INFORMS MY ARTISTIC PERSPECTIVE by Catherine Barrows Art is a powerful communication tool, it can simulataneously express a singular artist’s point of view and invoke an emotional response in the viewer. But where do our unique perspectives as artists originate? Some point to the age-old debate, “Nature vs. Nurture”, that argues whether genetics (nature) plays a larger role in determining a person’s characteristics than lived experience and environmental factors (nurture). Upon examining my own artistic perspective, Catherine Barrows I have come to believe it is not one or another, but both in equal proportion. https://catseyesdesign.com instagram.com/catseyesart I grew up in the San Fransisco Bay Area of California in the shadow of the Vietnam War as one of a set of twin girls to Berkeley-educated parents, themselves hobbyist writers, photographers, musicians and artists. 30
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CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE When my father came back from Vietnam CM injured and traumatized, my parents chose to join the growing 60’s counterculture scene; a CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA hippie freedom movement rooted in a collective disillusionment with war, corrupt politics and conventional societal hierarchies. As a result, I lived a nomadic childhood, growing up in various communal housing along the Northern California coast that held other societal dropouts and soul- searching artists representing a multitude of countries, races and religious backgrounds. At a young age I was exposed to the wild and wonderful world of multicultural sketch artists, painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers, thespians and mixed media artists. Expressing one’s creativity was a practiced mantra in every household. My mother consistently provided a large art table with a broad range of art supplies and constant encouragement to engage our artistic side whether it was drawing, painting, photography, playing music or even cooking. 32
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CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE It is my belief that no matter what our respective CM backgrounds are, creating art is as natural and intrinsic to humans as our need for food, water, fresh CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA air and shelter. A roving, perpetual student of many disciplines, I delight in the process of learning, research and discovery. And so I create a variety of works such as photography, digital art, watercolor, mixed media and graphic design. Typography and brand design have also become passions of mine that fortunately complements my long-time employment background in product sales & marketing. Considering my current educational journey with Peninsula College, and the nurturing provided thus far by such talented mentors as Marina Shipova, it will be interesting to see where I am taken next. 34
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CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE Dr. Lara Starcevich CM “Hi. I teach speech and CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA drama and I’ve been at PC since 2008. I think live theatre can change the world because it reminds us all what it’s like to BE in the real world without gadgets and gizmos separating us. Call me old fashioned, and I probably am, but I think some things are worth hanging onto. I’m stepping down now off of my soapbox. Thanks for listening!” From stage to screen and everything in between! Drama at Peninsula College encompasses a wide range of performance: from stage to screen and everything in between! By enrolling in one of our drama classes, you will build effective communication skills to enhance your personal and professional goals in life. 38
Malachi Rediger “My name is Malachi Rediger. I like playing music, sports, and acting. I am interested in filmmaking and business.” Savannah Hickman “I’m Savannah Hickman and I like to write, draw, and play videogames. I’m on PC’s esports team and I’m currently studying psychology.” 39
CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE CM Graham Nott “I’m just here for the strawberry rhubarb pie.” CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA Danute Duffy “Is ‘technically’ not allowed at museums after ‘incidents’ involving the ingesting of ‘oil paintings’ when the museum was ‘allegedly’ closed. Also the catalyst of your everyday experience with entropy… you are so welcome.” 40
Dean Rynearson “Hi. I’m Dean Rynearson. I’ve been in plays such as Mary Poppins and Singing in the Rain. I’m 17 and I am a Boy Scout with Troop 90.” Levi Pulsipher “Hi. “I am a Running Start student looking to get a leg up on my future. I enjoy drawing and crafting, as well as sewing and crocheting fun little crafts. If I could make it in life even a little by doing my craft I would be happy.” 41
CMCREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA Elizabeth Pettigrew Eliza is a seventeen-year-old theatre student. Some of her previous roles include the Nurse in PC’s Medea, and Meyers in Feeling Super. She will also perform in the upcoming panto Goldilocks and the Ultimate Rampage as Baby Pig and Chipmunk. She is very excited to continue pursuing acting! 42
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Imagined CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE CM Realism CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA BY MICHAEL PAUL MILLER My work explores the sublimity of exis- tence often through a dystopian envi- ronment emblematic of death, disaster, and destruction without abandoning subtle indications of hope and awe. I am fascinated by perseverance and find this primordial instinct and necessity of life to be both noble and suspect, especially when the path is perilous, and end bodes to be bleak. The artwork I create is usually catego- rized as imagined realism. The imagery in the work is often altered, conflated, and recontextualized from photographic sources. It’s then translated into traditional mediums which are applied by hand through a long studio process. I seek out the symbolic gray attempting to raise open-ended questions that are subject to interpretation while presenting an alarming beauty. The subject matter depicted allows for an open-ended inquiry into the bewildering human condition and may address an extensive range of contemporary challenges such as climate change and adaptation in the era of the Anthropocene. 44
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