vassallo

greetings from a chair in the studio on which i have been sitting for the past several hours......... so as the blessed event we like to call midterms waits to grace us with her presence, i will thrill you with my thinking behind the alleged "pasta landscape" that i have been spending my time on.

my "back pocket" idea that im working with is basically the wild shapes and figures that i created using fabric in order to make my gelato... as julia put it, i did something with that material that it usually does not do. with that in mind, im working now with pasta (because clearly i have somekind of sick obsession with foods of all kinds...). but rather than stick with pasta, im going to make the landscape grow into somethings else. iv been searching for objects that have the same qualities that i find so interesting in the pasta. so iv come up with some cardboard tubes... hair curlers... hair scrunchies... you name it. and rather than make the pasta grow into these things, im thinking maybe these things will grow into said pasta! yeh, im going wild. because none of these objects have all of the qualities im searching for, but perhaps combined they do... so as these objects combine, they grow into pasta? ok... and to top it all off... im gunna SPRAY PAINT IT... i think. the reason being... im interested in the shapes going on, im trying to make the most intriguing composition possible out of rediculous materials, so why be confused with the color? i want everything to be MONOCROMATIC... then the viewer is forced to focus on the shapes and composition, rather than be distracted by ugly pasta and colorful haircurlers. but what color? silver? black? white? hot pink?... clearly i have some thinking to do. but im on top of it.

and i am proud to say that the amount of times that my new and beautiful hotgluegun has burnt me is minimal. and im trying to keep it that way.

CIAO CIAO FOR NOW