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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…
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Milk Drips and Cotton Balls
(research)
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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?
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My "To Read" List
I have been trying to compile a list of ideas, subjects, artists…etc. to look at as I try to focus my thoughts toward a thesis project. As always I’m interested in a very wide array and resist categorizing as I find that boring. Defined = Boring (to me) Anyway, here is what I have come…
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Sisyphus
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king punished by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down. The endless labor of my art work that repeats in a small loop (Bless You, Pull Strings) relates to the Greek myth. I like to think about the work…
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Ludic
: playful in an aimless way
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Gestural Objects
(Artist Statement in progress…as always) “Large things tend to be unwieldy, clumsy, crude; smallness is the realm of elegance and grace.” -Steven Millhauser Smallness lends itself to being sweet and modest. It is not clouded by grandeur or overarching themes. It is simply what it is, but by being so poignant it is able to…
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automatism
I had a great converstation in my studio yesterday with our Critic in Residence, Lane Relyea. He was really good at deducing and understanding my work as a whole (not sculpture vs. drawing vs. photography). He pointed out surrealist tendencies that I have. Almost everything is based on real experience, but it is shifted in…
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Simultaneous Peripheral Observation
In the space between tactility and language the beautiful and unassuming linger. They exist in the peripheral, weaving in and out of clarity, difficult to get a clear handle on, resistant to words. There is room for the mind to guess and imagine. With a skepticism in the ability of language to contain our bodily…
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couch
(what’s in there?)