Lisa Walcott

Category: ideas

  • Hanger Wobble

    Like someone just grabbed their coat.

  • 29 Left Over Birthday Candles

    (thrift store purchase of a pack of 29 left over birthday candles floating in water)

  • Views from a Home

  • Blown Away

    Blown Away, 2013Fan, wedge, hammer, paper, pin

  • Drips as Visual White Noise

    A work in progress including a horn loudspeaker and a drip of water.

  • Factory Square Fine Arts Festival

    In October, I went down to Cincinnati and showed in The Factory Square Fine Arts Festival’s kinetic container show along with Celene Hawkins, Leah H. Frankel, Mike Hoeting, fellow Cranbrook sculptor Alexandros Lindsay, Meg Mitchell, Phil Spangler, Thunder-Sky Inc., Steve Zieverink and UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Also participating in the festival…

  • The Ambition of the Short Story

    The Ambition of the Short StoryBy Steven MillhauserPublished in the New York Times on October 3, 2008 The short story — how modest in bearing! How unassuming in manner! It sits there quietly, eyes lowered, almost as if trying not to be noticed. And if it should somehow attract your attention, it says quickly, in…

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  • Documenting Drawings

    All of these drawings are from the past year. Some are illustrative of sculpture ideas, some are meditations.

  • Notes from the Studio Walls

  • Dependent

  • Photography Ideas

  • Looking up

  • Paired

    OUT DUSK STRAIGHT FULL

  • Stillness in Life

    It’s difficult to understand stillness, let alone be still. There is a positive take on stillness which includes calmness, contemplation, meditation. The negative sense of this idea is being stuck, unable to move. This needs to be developed further for me, but for now, here are some references that are informing my ideas. Cliche? Maybe.…

  • Specific Synonyms

    bull’s eye, categorical, characteristic, clean-cut, clear-cut, cut fine, dead on, definite, definitive, different, distinct, downright, drawn fine, especial, exact, explicit, express, flat out, hit nail on head, individual, limited, on target, outright, peculiar, precise, reserved, restricted, right on, set, sole, special, specialized, straight-out, unambiguous, unequivocal, unique Specific Antonyms: general, indefinite, uncertain, vague

  • List from Mel Bochner's "Repetition: Portrait of Robert Smithson" 1966

    Referenced from the piece that is ink on graph paper, 7.5 x 6.75 inches

  • My Mythologies

    Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies” has been a very influential text for me recently. Often it just takes a small, beautiful moment in a text or lecture or time in my day that triggers the idea for the next piece I make. “Mythologies” is chock-full of these nuggets. Barthes constantly reinvented his theory on what he was…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Milk Drips and Cotton Balls

    (research)