Friday, April 18, 2008
Carters Pics
Julia....here are some pics of stuff....some progress pics. it is coming together really nicely. i am integrating the body with the chair. the ropes of the seat are coming up and molding into the wax. hee hee so fun
Sunday, April 13, 2008
vassallo
GREETINGS JULIA AND FELLOW BLOG READERS.
soooo this week is all about rituals. good times. i am somewhat keen on rituals because of my slightly ocd tendencies. so last week for the miniature project i decided to use my rubix cube as my ritual. i have this sick obsession with my cubes (i have three of them) and always do them... like constantly, whenever im bored. so i made this sweet movie, using pictures i took of the cube. i put it on a table (refer to pictures for a visual, please) and took a picture of it after every single move i made. then i put it on imovie and played the pics really fast. and then i played a very catchy and enjoyable postal service song in the background. sortof techno-ish. i loved it. i love that damn cube. the pics werent that great though becuase i stupidly didnt use my flash, but you cant win em all. and i dont think anyone even noticed.
so for the big final-o project-o, im combing my lovely obsessive compulsiveness with a weaving technique i love to do. so i just wanna weave tons of stuff. cubes, blankets, chairs. and perhaps make a little haven for myself. so thats what im working on. and then in regans class, im making very adorable and slightly oversized stuffed animals! yes, theyr so fun. im making them big so that theyr not just stupid stuffed animals. but im trying to be really detailed with them. its very time consuming though, but now i have regans sewing machine and it is the most magical device ever, i love sewing. so thats what im workin on. very artsy and enjoyable. the end is near.
CIAO... JULIA WE MISS YOU!
soooo this week is all about rituals. good times. i am somewhat keen on rituals because of my slightly ocd tendencies. so last week for the miniature project i decided to use my rubix cube as my ritual. i have this sick obsession with my cubes (i have three of them) and always do them... like constantly, whenever im bored. so i made this sweet movie, using pictures i took of the cube. i put it on a table (refer to pictures for a visual, please) and took a picture of it after every single move i made. then i put it on imovie and played the pics really fast. and then i played a very catchy and enjoyable postal service song in the background. sortof techno-ish. i loved it. i love that damn cube. the pics werent that great though becuase i stupidly didnt use my flash, but you cant win em all. and i dont think anyone even noticed.
so for the big final-o project-o, im combing my lovely obsessive compulsiveness with a weaving technique i love to do. so i just wanna weave tons of stuff. cubes, blankets, chairs. and perhaps make a little haven for myself. so thats what im working on. and then in regans class, im making very adorable and slightly oversized stuffed animals! yes, theyr so fun. im making them big so that theyr not just stupid stuffed animals. but im trying to be really detailed with them. its very time consuming though, but now i have regans sewing machine and it is the most magical device ever, i love sewing. so thats what im workin on. very artsy and enjoyable. the end is near.
CIAO... JULIA WE MISS YOU!
Christy - week something or other
Right, I officially have no more sense of time, but oh well. The basic reality is that we have very little time left, and I have lots and lots to do. Presently, I am taking over the seminar room, and simultaneously drawing a movie, and four large animal drawings. I think I have drawn for at least 6 hours today, and it is a rather good feeling. Once I finish this post I am going to go draw for a couple more hours! All in all I'm enjoying the progress I'm making, and sorta figuring things out as I go along. I am also having fun jumping back and forth between projects which makes working seem less endless because it changes periodically (aka. whenever I get tired of one thing).
Ok, so a little bit more about my actual drawings:
Right now I am bringing four different, large-scale animals up to finish together. At least that is the plan I still have to start one of them, and restart the first one I did, so that it fits into the set (yay for plan changes :/). The concept behind those drawings is pretty much the same as I started out with (getting the idea of the animal through small parts of it). I'm using this concept as a metaphor for how museums present information.
On the ritual end of things, I'm drawing. I finally decided to start drawing an old photograph of me when I was six years old. Originally I was considering doing another self portrait of me now over it, but I think that it might be too cliche, so I decided to draw images that relate to different periods of my life. I have only drawn the original self portrait so far, so I guess we will see how things go.
Ok, back to work....
Ok, so a little bit more about my actual drawings:
Right now I am bringing four different, large-scale animals up to finish together. At least that is the plan I still have to start one of them, and restart the first one I did, so that it fits into the set (yay for plan changes :/). The concept behind those drawings is pretty much the same as I started out with (getting the idea of the animal through small parts of it). I'm using this concept as a metaphor for how museums present information.
On the ritual end of things, I'm drawing. I finally decided to start drawing an old photograph of me when I was six years old. Originally I was considering doing another self portrait of me now over it, but I think that it might be too cliche, so I decided to draw images that relate to different periods of my life. I have only drawn the original self portrait so far, so I guess we will see how things go.
Ok, back to work....
vidya: mutual observation
Maybe because I'm a woman, because I'm Indian, because I'm American, because I'm human, or all of the above, I feel really watched walking down the streets here. I've never felt more aware of my race, either. We all do it - we look at one another from afar, but I wanted to push people to put themselves out there, face to face, in front of someone else. Since drawing is seeing, I've set up what I call a "Mutual Observation" booth in several piazzas in Florence. People come to the booth, I do free pencil portraits for them as long as they agree to do one of me. Then we trade. Fun! I give them the drawings envelopes that resemble my "momento" envelopes and seal them with the personal seal I designed in drawing and had engraved for my momentos. I then encourage them to find a stroke of generosity and send the drawing in the mail to someone else. I've also succeeded in opening up a small dialogue about watching, racism, immigration in Italy, and the act of drawing. People are afraid - to come up to my booth, to ask what I'm doing, to actually sit down and draw. I sit for two or three hours and I get two or three people. I assure them that I don't care what the drawing looks like - just that they are courageous enough to do it. The box I carry around with all my stuff is slowly becoming personalized, and it will be my ritual object. All the things one needs to perform this ritual.
I like meeting strangers and talking to them and sharing with them. This, in some ways, is a self-portrait. Because, after all, I am going to end up with a bunch of drawings of me. I'll post pictures as soon as I can of everything from this and the last projects.
I like meeting strangers and talking to them and sharing with them. This, in some ways, is a self-portrait. Because, after all, I am going to end up with a bunch of drawings of me. I'll post pictures as soon as I can of everything from this and the last projects.
Andrea Noble
Okay, so I've finally arrived (pretty much) at my final project. Unfortunately, it always takes me forever to work out what I'm actually doing and what I want it to be about.
At first I was thinking about going inside my box every day for an hour and writing inside of it, and then opening it up at the end as kind of an artifact. However, I decided that this didn't really seem finished enough for me, and that it wasn't a proper goodbye to my box. Then I began to think about commemorating the box by either memorializing it or slowly taking it apart (the ritual of taking apart the box.) For memorializing, I began to think about possibly filling it with cement or plaster (similar to a Rachel Whiteread), but I wasn't really so sure about this. I didn't like the idea of just being left with a giant block of house. I decided instead to focus on taking apart my box and somehow leaving it in Florence, relating this idea to my leaving Florence (leaving my home behind) as well as leaving behind anxieties (often times I let out all my worries/anxieties in the box). Regan suggested that I pick apart the box with my hands. This idea was appealing because this would be a way for me to really interact with the box, as well as letting out frustration and other feelings. Furthermore, I liked the fact that this would be a performance piece, which would relate to my previous work.
Anyway, my box is now torn apart. (I have posted pictures) I filmed this process and I'm either going to create a documentary or simply display photographs, because I love the way the photographs turned out. I still have a lot of decisions to make. For instance, I was thinking about possibly burning these remains so that they turn to ashes, and possibly sprinkling them somewhere-- either in the Arno to represent movement or in the train station (to bring my project full circle). However, it might be nice to also just end the project as it is.
I'll fill you in on how it goes!
At first I was thinking about going inside my box every day for an hour and writing inside of it, and then opening it up at the end as kind of an artifact. However, I decided that this didn't really seem finished enough for me, and that it wasn't a proper goodbye to my box. Then I began to think about commemorating the box by either memorializing it or slowly taking it apart (the ritual of taking apart the box.) For memorializing, I began to think about possibly filling it with cement or plaster (similar to a Rachel Whiteread), but I wasn't really so sure about this. I didn't like the idea of just being left with a giant block of house. I decided instead to focus on taking apart my box and somehow leaving it in Florence, relating this idea to my leaving Florence (leaving my home behind) as well as leaving behind anxieties (often times I let out all my worries/anxieties in the box). Regan suggested that I pick apart the box with my hands. This idea was appealing because this would be a way for me to really interact with the box, as well as letting out frustration and other feelings. Furthermore, I liked the fact that this would be a performance piece, which would relate to my previous work.
Anyway, my box is now torn apart. (I have posted pictures) I filmed this process and I'm either going to create a documentary or simply display photographs, because I love the way the photographs turned out. I still have a lot of decisions to make. For instance, I was thinking about possibly burning these remains so that they turn to ashes, and possibly sprinkling them somewhere-- either in the Arno to represent movement or in the train station (to bring my project full circle). However, it might be nice to also just end the project as it is.
I'll fill you in on how it goes!
Nason April 13th
HEY GUYS!
at this point, i wasnt quite sure which photos to add because i am at a half way point, and dont want to post photos of the project i am working on just yet. I am posting photos from the specola again, but this time specifically ones that relate to the body as a point of possible entry/exit and contact. Though both of my projects for our two studios seem pretty far apart (for Sketchbook i am making drawings of snakes and the body, using the body as a metaphor for entry and exit of lessons learned, emotions...what have you. actually not having anything to do with sex despite how sexual i guess you could make it seem. for Body and Architecture I am essentially making a cloth phone booth that relates to communication/dealing with Obsessive Compulsive-ness in general, from which i kind of suffer if you cant already tell. well, maybe its not obvious, but chatty Cathy over here feels like sometimes it is), they are very related as i have found.
i was inspired to center my projects on major changes that have taken place here in me, and while immediately looking at my projects might not show this exactly, they are both ways for me to work out what i have figured out here. What have i figured out? I feel now, kind of simply put i guess ---because otherwise you're in for a long, boring talk on my mental / emotional states, both of which i am constantly overanalyzing---more clearly than ever the importance of knowing and trusting oneself as their own source of advice, their own authority. I am tired of looking to other people to tell me what to do...and its still taking me time to work through whatever insecurities constantly find me asking other people's approval.
This may seem like a distant connection, but it all comes back, to me, to the human body, and respecting my own (your guys' own, too, for you, respectfully) as my home for the next howevermany years.
I am going to get overwhelmingly corny, but this explains the pictures ive added, perhaps.
holler back.
at this point, i wasnt quite sure which photos to add because i am at a half way point, and dont want to post photos of the project i am working on just yet. I am posting photos from the specola again, but this time specifically ones that relate to the body as a point of possible entry/exit and contact. Though both of my projects for our two studios seem pretty far apart (for Sketchbook i am making drawings of snakes and the body, using the body as a metaphor for entry and exit of lessons learned, emotions...what have you. actually not having anything to do with sex despite how sexual i guess you could make it seem. for Body and Architecture I am essentially making a cloth phone booth that relates to communication/dealing with Obsessive Compulsive-ness in general, from which i kind of suffer if you cant already tell. well, maybe its not obvious, but chatty Cathy over here feels like sometimes it is), they are very related as i have found.
i was inspired to center my projects on major changes that have taken place here in me, and while immediately looking at my projects might not show this exactly, they are both ways for me to work out what i have figured out here. What have i figured out? I feel now, kind of simply put i guess ---because otherwise you're in for a long, boring talk on my mental / emotional states, both of which i am constantly overanalyzing---more clearly than ever the importance of knowing and trusting oneself as their own source of advice, their own authority. I am tired of looking to other people to tell me what to do...and its still taking me time to work through whatever insecurities constantly find me asking other people's approval.
This may seem like a distant connection, but it all comes back, to me, to the human body, and respecting my own (your guys' own, too, for you, respectfully) as my home for the next howevermany years.
I am going to get overwhelmingly corny, but this explains the pictures ive added, perhaps.
holler back.
taryn
eyyyyyyyyy i didnt really post but one picture this week ( a still from a little vid from ken's class documenting my daily routine of putting on makeup). For ken's final project I am focusing on my ritual of Feminizing myself ~ and thus creating a shrine to it. kind of both a glorification and "eff you" to femininity (hopefully). tinfoil. WHATever.
The book i am working on for regan's final is killin' meeeee. cutting out tiny little details from wings and lace.... its funny that someone as dirty, uncontrolled and expulsive as i chose to make a book of delicate little shmeebops. its purdy though and some of the cut pages feel reallllllly nice.
The book i am working on for regan's final is killin' meeeee. cutting out tiny little details from wings and lace.... its funny that someone as dirty, uncontrolled and expulsive as i chose to make a book of delicate little shmeebops. its purdy though and some of the cut pages feel reallllllly nice.
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
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
allegra fisher
last week for my ritual I worked with my daily, morning espresso. for that I painted a small espresso pot with the left over coffee that I drank that morning. now i would like to continue with that ritual as i move into the next part of the project. i have been trying out more ways of drawing with coffee as well as possibly making a short film about making coffee.
Sarah Q. 4.13
ciao ciao ciao
so for my ritual i chose the glorious palio of siena. i just talked about it and how fascinated i am by all of the mini rituals that each neighborhood/contrada has (as well as individual families and groups of friends...) so fun! i had a slide show in which i included the holiness of the horses, games that children play, dinners, specific food that is eaten, etc. i love the palio and have seen it twice and for me and all of siena its a very ritualistic event.
i am playing around now with thinking of the symbols of the palio - the horses, the armor and outfits, and the main patterns that all of the contradas have based on their mascots. for example, "bruco" (the caterpillar) has the colors yellow and green - which are represented on their flags, armor, outfits, horses, everything!! and it has been this way for hundreds and hundreds of years!!
i was thinking of doing a drawing combining the patterning of the contradas mixed with another ritual, like add horses in the foreground to represent the actual race. i have been experimenting with mixed media again too - so like doing the contrada colors in watercolor in the background and having a more rough and abstract take on the horses battling to take first place. thats alllll for now!
peace
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so for my ritual i chose the glorious palio of siena. i just talked about it and how fascinated i am by all of the mini rituals that each neighborhood/contrada has (as well as individual families and groups of friends...) so fun! i had a slide show in which i included the holiness of the horses, games that children play, dinners, specific food that is eaten, etc. i love the palio and have seen it twice and for me and all of siena its a very ritualistic event.
i am playing around now with thinking of the symbols of the palio - the horses, the armor and outfits, and the main patterns that all of the contradas have based on their mascots. for example, "bruco" (the caterpillar) has the colors yellow and green - which are represented on their flags, armor, outfits, horses, everything!! and it has been this way for hundreds and hundreds of years!!
i was thinking of doing a drawing combining the patterning of the contradas mixed with another ritual, like add horses in the foreground to represent the actual race. i have been experimenting with mixed media again too - so like doing the contrada colors in watercolor in the background and having a more rough and abstract take on the horses battling to take first place. thats alllll for now!
peace
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