these are amazing. How big are they- and are you ok with the space you have at the Wood gallery? If you need more we should talk about the wall in my space...I can't believe the energy generated by these pieces- I am looking forward to seeing them in person. It is a strange feeling - I am not "making" anything really for my installation- I know I am "creating"- but it is different- no hands on drawing, cutting or anything- mostly writing- editing text and images- a very different approach for me. I feel a bit out of control-translated as without control- maybe that's a good thing for a control freak Mama.
The piece is 8feet by 24feet and growing. I plan on encasing the walls of my studio. This is a sketch I am going back into to continue layering. Labor intensive making drawings cutting them up finding the right kinds of found paper to use or colors I mean all the color comes from paper I am finding. I want particular colors so takes time. Still the process is based on chance, randomness, and intuition.
I have been spending way to much time on the art as usual and neglecting the writing. I read your paper it is amazing. I just read Virginia Woolfs A Sketch of the Past. Her essay made me write and rewrite and think about my writing so much I sort of gave David something clunky and disorganized, sloppy and well I have a lot of work to do on the writing front. My spelling and grammar are lousy.
That said I am thinking a lot and I like the direction the work is going in. The movement and energy of the piece excite me and I feel like I am finally realizing what I have been working on this whole time.
What a hilarious video!! Thank you for that- it brought back a lot of memories- I am loving the Oven Mitt as weapon!! I see the houses too Leah! I could only zoom into the bottom piece. I have the opposite problem- not enough time spent on the studio work-too much time on writing A PAPER- every semester. crazy. Brian, from the beginning people have been telling me to let go and let the poetry in writing come through- I was trying too hard to write an "academic"paper ( or what I thought was an academic paper). When I was discouraged about how to pull the exhibition and paper together- it seemed too massive an undertaking for only 5 months- Faith suggested I think of them as parts of a whole- "stations" along the way-truly for me this is/will be an ongoing project. I reconsidered my segmented approach and thought about the paper as an extension of the final exhibition- that helped me begin to think about a form for the paper - a nonlinear/scattered/disjointed collection of thoughts- the installation for the exhibition (so far) is a collection of disjointed elements- a collection/archive of my search through a historical and personal past- kind of what trying to retrieve a memory might look like (for me at least). Perhaps it might help to think about those theoretical and formal elements that drive your studio work today-you mentioned chance- and explore their complements in writing. What would your neverending drawing look like as an essay? I don't mean to confuse- or direct you away from whatever your advisor is suggesting, perhaps you could try an approach as just for you- an experiment of sorts that no one has to see...My AT last semester suggested I work on installations that I wouldn't show-(those pieces led to work that is interesting to me now).It helped me some then but more so in retrospect. Blah, Blah, Blah. Happy Halloween.
these are amazing. How big are they- and are you ok with the space you have at the Wood gallery? If you need more we should talk about the wall in my space...I can't believe the energy generated by these pieces- I am looking forward to seeing them in person.
ReplyDeleteIt is a strange feeling - I am not "making" anything really for my installation- I know I am "creating"- but it is different- no hands on drawing, cutting or anything- mostly writing- editing text and images- a very different approach for me. I feel a bit out of control-translated as without control- maybe that's a good thing for a control freak Mama.
The piece is 8feet by 24feet and growing. I plan on encasing the walls of my studio. This is a sketch I am going back into to continue layering. Labor intensive making drawings cutting them up finding the right kinds of found paper to use or colors I mean all the color comes from paper I am finding. I want particular colors so takes time. Still the process is based on chance, randomness, and intuition.
ReplyDeleteI have been spending way to much time on the art as usual and neglecting the writing. I read your paper it is amazing. I just read Virginia Woolfs A Sketch of the Past. Her essay made me write and rewrite and think about my writing so much I sort of gave David something clunky and disorganized, sloppy and well I have a lot of work to do on the writing front. My spelling and grammar are lousy.
That said I am thinking a lot and I like the direction the work is going in. The movement and energy of the piece excite me and I feel like I am finally realizing what I have been working on this whole time.
Brian, these look great!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could click on them to make them bigger, though. For some reason the links aren't working for me.
Do I see cartoon houses in there? Or am I crazy?
What a hilarious video!! Thank you for that- it brought back a lot of memories- I am loving the Oven Mitt as weapon!!
ReplyDeleteI see the houses too Leah! I could only zoom into the bottom piece.
I have the opposite problem- not enough time spent on the studio work-too much time on writing A PAPER- every semester. crazy.
Brian, from the beginning people have been telling me to let go and let the poetry in writing come through- I was trying too hard to write an "academic"paper ( or what I thought was an academic paper). When I was discouraged about how to pull the exhibition and paper together- it seemed too massive an undertaking for only 5 months- Faith suggested I think of them as parts of a whole- "stations" along the way-truly for me this is/will be an ongoing project.
I reconsidered my segmented approach and thought about the paper as an extension of the final exhibition- that helped me begin to think about a form for the paper - a nonlinear/scattered/disjointed collection of thoughts- the installation for the exhibition (so far) is a collection of disjointed elements- a collection/archive of my search through a historical and personal past- kind of what trying to retrieve a memory might look like (for me at least).
Perhaps it might help to think about those theoretical and formal elements that drive your studio work today-you mentioned chance- and explore their complements in writing. What would your neverending drawing look like as an essay?
I don't mean to confuse- or direct you away from whatever your advisor is suggesting, perhaps you could try an approach as just for you- an experiment of sorts that no one has to see...My AT last semester suggested I work on installations that I wouldn't show-(those pieces led to work that is interesting to me now).It helped me some then but more so in retrospect. Blah, Blah, Blah.
Happy Halloween.
woah, Sumru, that is really insightful. No "blah blah blah" - just helpful.
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