finally - a witty update!

I apologize for the severe lateness of this update.

Where to begin?

Patchyness. What is it? It is applying the medium in - well, patches - or not applying the medium is larger tonal areas. It is a lack of sensitivity, without a sense of gradation or gradual build up. So I needed to try and resolve this. The prescribed means for the resolution was a series of ink drawings. At first, the process and new medium was very frustrating. Then it got better. Then I fell in love with it. Now I wish I had time to go back and finish that last drawing after a Sofonisba Anguissola painting I saw at the Galeria Doria Pamphilj in Rome.

Then it was on to spectacle. Somewhere along the way I decided to draw my own wall paper. And did. Then built an installations around it, then staged a performance piece in front of it. Vidya encouraged the class to eat fruit in the installation - what I saw as a constructed space meant to reference the world of Dutch still lifes - she spoke French, until everyone participating ate the fruit, then she switched to English, thereby ending the performance...... One can see in the photos that the wall paper was an adam and eve snake pattern -- meant to lay down a sense of specificity for a site constructed as a place to encounter the symbolism of fruit.....

.....and now, the work continues. More wall paper like pattern filled drawings - more carefully planned and constructed photos taking place in the installation -- and we shall see how all of the above will be resolved!

a dopo

John