Lisa Walcott

Month: February 2010

  • Rope Swings are Free

    Free to use if you find them. Freeing in the way the fling you and swing you. They themselves however are the opposite of free–I’m glad for the tethering that enables me to hang. Swing-like rope in my studio Rope swing images from Google

  • Relationship?

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  • More Dusty Ideas

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  • Holding and Shifting

  • Notes from reading about Gober by Hal Foster

    My notes are directly related to ways that I identify myself in the ideas in Gober’s work, so this is quite slanted reporting (but it’s a blog, so that’s expected, right?). Gober creates uncanniness through moods of aloneness, voyeurism and lack of sense place and time. Primal Fantasies: the fantasy is not the object of…

  • If you, then I

    If you sniff and daydream; suspend belief; jump and remember; peek and wonder; consider then remark; identify yourself under the sheet; think of two things at once; disrupt your assumptions- then I have succeeded.

  • To Cleanse

    More pictures from the performance…

  • Burden

    I’ve got all of these phrases running through my head about burdens and not being given more than you can handle. I burdened this tree more than it could handle or at least it must be close to the threshold. I was so excited about the formations that I didn’t fully consider the destruction to…

  • Still Sprinkling

    The piece is still in progress. I am currently worried about the tree branches which seem to be really struggling with the weight of the ice. In some places the icicles are getting close enough to the ground that I am hoping they will begin to support the burdened branches. The bush is also quite…

  • Sprinkling, Freezing and Crashing

    I could actually see the sprinkler with the lights from my studio and the metal shop behind it! Things are cracking and groaning under the weight of the ice and the sprinkler is still oscillating like it’s totally normal.

  • Sprinkling the Snow

    I’ve created my own ice storm within the snow storm we’re having. The sprinkler had been oscillating for about an hour an a half when these pictures were taken. It’s dark now, so I will have to wait until morning to see what has happened in the hour and a half afterward. Sisyphus’ plight once…

  • Dusted

    There is a piece formulating in my mind using dust. I’m not sure about everything yet, but a finger wiping dust off of something is really interesting to me. The mark left is interesting with the soft dust compared to the clean, shiny surface. It’s a test of “is it clean enough”. Imagine the white…

  • a piece a day (or so)

    Here’s my latest piece. No time to crit, must move forward! *I accidentally removed this video, but am keeping the post for the sake of record keeping. There was a little bit of urgency at this point before the thesis show! (2/12/11)

  • Performance

    I did a performance piece yesterday for a crit. The props/sculptures were originally created for a video (which I still plan to make), but a critique space opened up and I really wanted to get some of these things worked out. I ended up desaturating my entire studio in order to create a sort of…

  • Milk Drips and Cotton Balls

    (research)

  • Animated Gif!

    Obviously I really like loops/repetition. The animated gif has grabbed my attention. Perhaps there will be a piece or at least a website element that includes one. I ran across this while google image browsing for a piece I want to make: Great, huh?