Last week:
1. non ordinary negative work
2. more work on the paddle.
and a studio visit.
Charley gave me a dead (but intact) dragon fly. I made some non-ordinary negative prints form it. I was excited about the idea, but don't think it was ultimately successful. Yoni was also in the darkroom with me, and he was using the only enlarger that can print large format negatives. (or I could not find the longer lens that fit my enlarger... I looked.) Hence I could not get even light cover for dragon fly, which was frustrating.
In the paddle department I am sort-of stalled by not being able to use the planer. frustrating.
I looked (out side my house in our wood pile, and in the forest adjacent to the spokane river ) for some work-able birch bark, but did not find any. There might be some in portland/hood river for the up coming weekend... perhaps its only a north woods area thing, in which case I might be able to get some mailed to me. So for now that project is sort of on hold... sad.
I find myself hap-hazardly making/doing things that are extremely comparable to art in my art history book, American Art Since 1945, but I don't think it is a type of art I want to be associated with making. (Or to be making).
For example; I put a 50 cent glove around a empty ground coffee container (that my house mate just leaves out instead of throwing away) and used it as my own coffee drinking vessel. The glove was for insulation because the container had a thin aluminum wall. The object was similar to many ways to other found object and assemblage art and the thumb of the glove coming off the can spoke to a non-existent handle. All in all not a boring juxtaposition, but not the type of art I want to make.
1. non ordinary negative work
2. more work on the paddle.
and a studio visit.
Charley gave me a dead (but intact) dragon fly. I made some non-ordinary negative prints form it. I was excited about the idea, but don't think it was ultimately successful. Yoni was also in the darkroom with me, and he was using the only enlarger that can print large format negatives. (or I could not find the longer lens that fit my enlarger... I looked.) Hence I could not get even light cover for dragon fly, which was frustrating.
In the paddle department I am sort-of stalled by not being able to use the planer. frustrating.
I looked (out side my house in our wood pile, and in the forest adjacent to the spokane river ) for some work-able birch bark, but did not find any. There might be some in portland/hood river for the up coming weekend... perhaps its only a north woods area thing, in which case I might be able to get some mailed to me. So for now that project is sort of on hold... sad.
I find myself hap-hazardly making/doing things that are extremely comparable to art in my art history book, American Art Since 1945, but I don't think it is a type of art I want to be associated with making. (Or to be making).
For example; I put a 50 cent glove around a empty ground coffee container (that my house mate just leaves out instead of throwing away) and used it as my own coffee drinking vessel. The glove was for insulation because the container had a thin aluminum wall. The object was similar to many ways to other found object and assemblage art and the thumb of the glove coming off the can spoke to a non-existent handle. All in all not a boring juxtaposition, but not the type of art I want to make.
Studio visit...hmmm... I invited faculty in what I thought was a reasonable and respectful manner, but none came. (One of the invites made a comment before hand that my email was "the right thing to do"). Any way I found the studio visit not supper helpful. People focused more on a method of work I have been doing for a long time. (Chemograms)
Speaking of something completely different, I found some work that I like a lot. Here it is:
http://design-milk.com/wool-chair-by-architecture-uncomfortable-workshop/
Oh and in the vain of stealing more things from Charly there is a image I took out of the trash in the darkroom, which I scanned several times, and left un fixed in black bag on my studio wall.
Up and Coming: hopefully planning the current paddle project, perhaps starting a single piece kayak paddle (depending on what home-depot sells) , throwing some on the wheel, perhaps playing with Katie Gorman in the darkroom, and