andi valdes valdes

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  5) Inkblot patterns  for you to print and make your own collages with*
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Posters


One Small Step 





Details:

This poster was printed at 36x48in. And yes, the blue did print that bright! This poster is “A comparative study of the successes, failures, and the inbetweens of the Moon missions.” This poster is a visual representation of the missions to the Moon from the first one in 1958 to 2013 (although there have been more). There are four levels of completion for the missions: 1) Did not leave Earth’s orbit; 2) Left Earth’s orbit; 3) Reached Lunar orbit; and 4) Reached the Moon. There’s a key that labels which country each mission is from (USA blue, Soviet Union red, etc.) and another key that points out what type of line means unmanned, manned, or animal passenger. Additionally, there are some photographs scattered around the poster with facts about important missions. There are also images of what Mission Control looked like, which is what informed the aesthetic of the poster. If you want a full res pdf of the poster, feel free to send me an email to andi@andivaldes.com



Sueña conmigo




This poster was for a small gallery exhibition with the Latines Unides Club at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design library with the theme of “Dream,” whatever our interpretation of that might be. Printed at 15x20in. The size encouraged viewers to get close to the poster to read the small text set at 7pt.

The text reads:
The tall towering trees sway like algae in the ocean and the light filters through like it filters through the water and we’re walking until the grass feels like knives on the soles of our feet. But we’re still blissful and blessed. We’re together and we have fire flies in our eyes and roots sprouting from our fingers. The dead speak through us and we speak through them and they say that the grass above them is starting to green. Your eyes are green today, too. Like the grass, they cut me and I bleed forgotten dreams and summer rain. But it’s not raining, it’s snowing and I’m freezing because you won’t look at me. Stop appearing in my dreams but also never leave them because that way you’re with me even when I’m asleep. Tuck me in, please. Sleep on the couch with me at 4PM when it’s hot outside and it’s pouring and the earthworms have come out of the ground and they wriggle wriggle wriggle. I was drunk last night and I dreamt of you and I missed you like I miss the sun that was out last week, where did it go? Where did you go? My heart chakra is hidden in a fist in a thrice-locked chest. My chest. I love you I love you I love you. Why won’t you talk to me? It’s my dream, you should do what I want you to. I need you and I’m learning to accept and honor that feeling. Sunshine through the rain, you warm up my hands as they clutch my chest, my thrice-locked chest. I want it to thunder so hard that the roof of my house caves in and the rain drenches all the books I keep and all the clothes I wear. Verde, vert, green, what is green in Japanese? Midori... We’re running through the puddles, the mud gets all over out calves and shins and when we get inside it dries and our pant legs get stiff. I’m still walking, looking for you in the forest and gazing up because that is where the breeze will take you and where the trees aspire to be. The rain sparkles as it passes through the sunshine that filters through the clouds, it is misty and the mist reminds me of your eyes again, they’re moody, why are they everywhere? Stillness, a painting in oil that I then want to finish with acrylic, it won’t mix and I keep trying to force it and I should stop but I can’t so I keep muddying the colors and ruining what I’ve already painted. I’m painting the light that shines through the leaves. Komorebi, I think that’s the word for it. Green light bathes your hands and the peach blossoms are falling so fast and so hard that I keep breathing them in and they’re choking me, they’re in my lungs, where your name belongs, and I only want to breathe you. Your hand appears and grabs mine — where is the rest of you?— you’re pulling me somewhere, to safety? I want to believe that you only have my best interests in mind and I’m weeping because you’re far away, I only have your hand. Then you appear and you are crying, too. You’re crying because you’re scared I’ll abandon you too. I keep telling you I’ll be here, planted, with my roots deep in the earth. You’re the one that will leave me in the end.
When I wake up, there’s no green in my room.


A Liability


I designed this poster after a friend sent an image of a 3D render glitch from her work (as seen behind the letter “A”). I was listening to Lorde’s “Liability”, as well as talking to a different friend who was studying law. I ended up meshing all three things together. This was printed at 24x36in and all colors showed as bright as the digital version, which really hurts when you look at in person.



Imitate Myself



This was printed on the Risograph at 8x10in with a halftone effect on textured paper (I’ve been meaning to scan a print, I should do that soon...) The theme is “I Imitate Myself Constantly”, it talks about my feelings towards my own personality when dealing with mental illness and medication and the ever-lingering question of: Is this who I really am? Or am I just pretending to be me?


Inkblot


Inkblot is a double-sided poster of an experimental typeface. It was made by writing names in cursive along the y-axis of symmetry of magazine-stock pieces of paper with a fountain pen and then folded in half vertically to get a Rorschach test-like effect with the letters. These were then scanned in and I took some of the most interesting shapes and made them into symbols. Both filled out and outlined. I really enjoyed the horticultural and ornamental aspect to them and so decided to make them into patterns. Which I later cut out into shapes... I even printed a book of the patterns in different scales and spiral bound it. That book (it seems I lost it!!) was meant for manual exploration of cutting, pasting, and collaging. I think it would be interesting to organize these patterns by grayscale percentage, lightest to darkest, and then perhaps using that guide to create portraits or more complex illustrations. Again, the files are available if anyone is interested! I myself will be revisiting this sometime soon.


Palimpsest


Poster based on the word palimsest, seen in light mode and dark mode.

noun: palimpsest; plural noun: palimpsests
  1. a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
  2. something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.