One More Of The Saugatuck Dunes From February 14th Of This Year.

One more of the Saugatuck Dunes from February 14th of this year.

Hey, check out my new art ed project if you get the chance! 

With (extra)ordinary Jihyun Hong invites us to see everyday objects not by their familiar functions, as sponges, spoons, pineapples, etc. but as the interesting visual objects that they really are. A pineapple is a piece of food, sure, but also a bright, spiky, sweet-smelling ball of armor. For her installation, she collects objects, spending time with them until she gains an affection for them, finding ways to present them in odd, new ways. In her work at the UICA, she’s placed these objects within a colorful space covered in silver plastic. I asked her where we are when in the space, “A cartoon? A dream? Your mind?” She replied, laughing playfully, “my mind”. All images courtesy of the artist. More images, info, and a great video profile on Jihyun can be found via her Art Prize profile here.

Zachary Trebellas. Foreign Resident Ethnicity Form/ 居留外国人の民族性用紙。Ink, marker, inkjet print. 2015. This is the updated version of a draft I created earlier this year. You can find the earlier version here. The title of the form reads Foreign Resident Ethnicity.  In the lower portion I used the Japanese test marking symbols: X = no, O = yes, and △ is somewhere in between (typically a ½ point). The left side heading reads “Please enter your appropriate ethnicity” and the right “Please enter the appropriate ethnicity of the applicant.” So, the left side is my answers, and the right is what I feel could be an average Japanese person’s answers about me. 1. Foreigner (at times derogative, lit. outside person) 2. Other 3. Foreigner (neutral, lit. outside nation person) 4. Japanese 5. Of Japanese descent (lit. Japanese-type) 6. American

A logo I made for my workplace’s (the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum) upcoming exhibit.

A 1950′s map of Kyushu I scanned in today and reworked. 

Zachary Trebellas. Ancestry. Text on 35mm photograph taken at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens. 2016.

Thoughts I had while standing before this temple in Athens last summer.

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This piece is part of the series I’m working on, Nippo Greco American, exploring my relationship with the three ethnic groups I in some way identify with.