Laura Mart

So last week I was incredibly sick. So sick that I couldn't really think, and that's a problem when you're trying to do concept-based artwork. So the only thing I had really thought about for my project was open spaces, from which I went to the bridges of the Arno, and then I was lost. I was originally going to make a film, but when we watched the clip from ART:21 on Wednesday about Andrea Zimmerman (or Zimmer, or something beginning with a Z) I decided that I really wanted to crochet something. There's something about creating one cohesive thing out of string that really gets me. But I also wanted to combine the sort of incoherent-narrative bubble elements from my last project, and the ink drawings. So I decided that I was going to make a web of desires, make a bunch of images of elements of my surroundings here and and back at home, and weave them together. It's going to be a textured indication of the things I think about as I walk over the Arno on my way to well, whatever's on the other side of the Arno. So there's a nutria, and the duomo, and the university's harp, et cetera. I've also made a point of adding in text, because I really love text combined with image.
Also on the Flickr image set is my project from last time, as well as images of the things I made during the art pARTy. I want to do that again. I really liked the thing with the square of fake grass.