The New Year

Hey all, I want to wish you all the best in this upcoming year.On this new years eve I have decided to celebrate handing in the final draft of my process paper at approximately 1pm today by drinking the largest glass of wine ever and completely rearranging my house. I am so sore from moving furniture.
I can not beleive that graduation is only 4 or 5 weeks away...
I am totally stunned that I made it this far...
I can not wait to see all of your faces and spend some quality time with you. I have been through the most intense year of my life and it is about to end, and I intend on walking away from it all. I am looking forward to celebrating with all of you and each of our accomplishments as artists. I look back now at all that this program has asked from us and to complete this program is one of the greatest tests that we will have. I hope you all realize just how amazing you are and how incredible this final show is going to be.
Graduating this february or not, I am so proud to stand with all of you.
Lots of love,
Diana

i want to sleep on the beach
for xmas
happy happy im so sleepy holiday

Sorry! I didn't mean to to forsake...

Merry merry guys!!!
Here's the latest, some of the final projects I am focusing for the last 2 minutes left to our semester (gahh).

I am still working with clothing and looking at the manner in which it is made. I started this semester with making funny cloth hand like forms, but the funniness in their appearance wasn't totally intentional, I just had know idea how to make a glove like fabric form, which was surprisingly complex to me. So I started collecting tape handcasts of my friends, and asking them to either make me a glove (if they'd like) or if I could design a glove for them. So the gloves project has a been a process of collecting other people's approaches to making and conceptions of form, along with attempting to refine (or sort of refine) my own approach to making.

(Check out my zipper glove, lower left, for my friend David! I have since started to cover the seams where the zippers are sewn together with space themed fabric, which suits him. My zipper glove is maybe my favorite thing I have made this semester)



Still on my "reclamation of making" kick, I also started to construct a pair of pants for a non generic bodily form I constructed out of packing tape and saran wrap. So I am looking at patterns, but re-formatting them to suit my this funny body. This is in an effort to gain a more intuitive sense of designing clothing. The first pair came out so ugly, I am onto pair #2, there will probably be another to follow.

And I am working on a sort of paper body cast held together with embroidery imitating machine made stitching. Working backwards a little bit, looking at that which holds our clothing together, but is usually not showcased within the final product.

I am in mad seamstress mode, I can't wait to get back to Vermont, see you guys soon!

Have an awesome holiday!!

Hello- I emailed Sabrina about early arrival and more importantly- setting up our exhibitions early- before Monday. She responded yes, we can do that but we won't be on the meal plan until Monday. I think that is great- since I will need more time than two 8 hour days to set up- However, I'm not sure if this is accurate- has anyone else asked? Would you? I am planning to get there Sunday anyway (solidarity - big group meeting etc) but would love the bonus of being able to start installing that day as well. Should we ask Robert? Not sure how to continue...
Any thoughts?
Miss you and am looking forward to seeing you ALL. (Casey and Carrie- where are you? If you need to come in early because of weather- let me know)
Sumru

Had to show you...

The Magnificent Seven: Paulina Olowska CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Paulina Olowska, "X," 2002. Oil on canvas, 63 x 38 3/8 in. (160 x 97.5 cm).*

http://www.wattis.org/exhibitions/po