today i am feeling a little like nesting and organizing my mind jumble, so i went through the blog and my written notes and sketch book and pulled out themes, both concept-based and visual. words in bold means they came up a lot in the notes:
*concept:
-material (anarchic energy of making, handmade, technology, artist identity)
-stories/ time/ value (history, sentimental, journeys, portals, traces,)
-architecture/ protection/ apocalypse (harshness of the world, elements)/ cocoons (convertibility, shelter, survival, utility, destruction, landscape)
-Repetitive action/ ritual (meditation, practice, rewinding, unwinding, Penelope), -system-generated work- systems/ directions/ mapping/ drawing (rules, information)
*visual: -installation (as a whole will include): string, discarded clothing (bargain barn, closets, outfits), clothes stiffened with epoxy
-printed dopplegangers (camo, sari, jackets? Tent?): screen printing (tankini pattern)
-mutants: plaster, (plaster over clothes, a knitted sweater)
-slideshow: video? photographs? maybe not
-seam drawing installation ‘seam combines’? combine together some?
*these are ideas i had while on the road:-mingling ‘art show’ crowd of people
-mutants/drawings are 50/50
-communication/clustered
-juxtaposition of solid & heavy/light, negative/positive space, familiar/strange
-labor and subsequent ‘unlabor’
-2 (or 3) different multilayered processes: show divided up into seams*, mutants*, and dopplegangers*
*seams
(drawings), seam drawings, seamed drawings, -depiction of labor. -Found clothing—the blurry line between my wardrobe and my materials, familiar
-Drawing/Mapping of clothing/bodies, Activation of drawing in human scale, limited disclosure of information, -suspended, hanging by system of strings
*Mutants
(etymology = to change), familiar remnants, mutant clothes, plastered mutants, mutant relics
-Remnants cut away from seam drawing and reattached; covered in plaster, stiffened relics (process multilayered) -relics (imbedded histories/stories)
-Inside out things, tulle, you can see the seams, extroverted, grotesque
-Surfaces, seamy (unpleasant) side out, extroverted, familiar (material traces of making)
*Doppelgangers
(etymology= ghostly)
-hangers to bookend pieces
-hollowness, hands-on materiality, multilayered processes
-personality
{photos are my own, last is a sketch i did in eureka of a seam drawing outfit suspended from a web of string and a plaster mutant outfit. i want to make finished examples of these asap to show travis and zach. i'm really excited, we are putting together a 'crit schedule'!}
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