Better editings of documentations for Amending and Unmakings:

{from the blog things organized neatly: rotary dial phone disassembled; The famous “Kelly” bag by Hermès for the book Zerlegt ; Derick Melander sculpture; Anouk Kruithof; eduardo hernandez}

{henrique oliveira}

{eva hesse: Repetition Nineteen III (1968) ; Untitled (Seven Poles)}




{charlie trosclair: intra (2010); ernesto neto: bouncy white humanoid blobs; unknown title; edges of the world (2010)}

{comme des garcons}
{charles simonds: unknown title; corner smear (2008)}
{annette messager: À corps perdu (2008-2009); From the series Articulés-Désarticulés (2002)}

new ideas

my work needs to move away from the figurative nad towards the abstract—clothing as a subject already references the body effectively, and the abstraction will move my work in a more conceptual direction. Still very concerned with mapping/systems/rules also. What systems should I employ here and where do I set myself free? In my head the definition of installation is synonymous with a stage set. I can create a world that speaks. I was thinking today—one of my first inclinations on how to make formal work have more meaning is to juxtapose very different bodies of work that center on a few common themes to create a dialogue between the two. Like in my thesis, I employed two opposite abstracted conversations about clothing (knit projected videos and sewn material sculpture) that hung together in the same space and by nature of their nearness, spoke to each other about what they had in common. Zach today called it “unmaking and wrongmaking,” which is really what was going on in both. I was thinking about while I want to move past my thesis and leave those restrictions behind, I want this installation to have a similar power and simultaneous formal and meaningful poetry. I was thinking about making the opposite of my thesis—a sewn video – maybe of a seam drawing, moving, (and then projected onto an actual still version) or a video of backwards sewing? juxtaposed with a material knit installation that wrongmakes? Then I was asking myself, why does this show have to be 2 things at once? Can’t it be just one thing? It could be just a show about knitting. Knitting, purling, knotting, intertwining, tying, tying the knot, knotical, bending, fastening...

{photos: my own work in progress.}

so i've decided to start a blog. it seems fitting to record my studio process chronologically, day-by-day, mirroring the stitch-by-stitch or frame-by-frame nature of my work.

i plan to paste things that inspire me from things i read and see, and update whoever may read this blog on my process in the studio. i also hope this blog can be an interactive conversation-- perhaps the people who follow it can leave me feedback in the comments.

i'll start with my artists' statement that i have been working on for sometime (it never seems right and i welcome edits and criticisms. i always worry about my tendency to lean on 'art speak' and academic language as a blockade for the fluidity that needs to happen. i want people to be able to peek over my shoulder to see what i'm thinking about and in return i'd love to peek over theirs.

"I construct my sculpture within a world that builds and recedes around fragile systems, in the space between the human body and the anonymous material world. The overlapping and evolving discourses which clothing inhabits form tangled and interconnecting webs that continually reorganize, expand and ebb around culture, society, industry and commerce. I see my material world teeming with labor, history and potential. As an artist, I am interested in exploring how objects grow disconnected from their process of construction. By mapping knitted and sewn systems or the age-old directions which govern clothing making, I re-interpret through stitches, snips, marks, sculptural installations and video projection, the places where followed and miss-followed directions collide, where the vestiges of labor become drawings and where obsessive rituals encounter industry. I call this process “unmaking.” My intent is to find new meaning and include others in labor’s rituals, both personally invented and globally used. Through unmaking, I metaphorically break down the cloth barrier between the intimate and the external, while simultaneously addressing the importance of making itself. "

more blogging from the unmaker to come!