Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Thoughts for the future
My usual pattern now is to focus on the immediate...I'd like to take a step back and muse about the future.
Body of work:
Create an uncanny vestige of life riddled with memories of my pleasures and abuse. Transform a series of rooms with nature and decay celebrating vigorous life and inexorable dilapidation. Create a series of experimental hand printed black and white photographs juxtaposing the beautiful and the graphic. All to lament and treasure the curious corruption of innocence.
Within the next few months:
Begin more earnest experiments using live plants and found objects. Measure the potential of these mediums in a series of small scale compilations. Plant the first crops of materials. Begin preparations for first photo shoot including costume design. Execute a preliminary photo shoot. Explore alternative film formats, developing times, and print methods. Scout locations and gather more and more furnishings.
Within the next year:
Increase the scale of these experiments using the most successful processes discovered in the previous months. Acquire larger space to cultivate and build. Photograph, develop, and print all I can along the way. Finalize shoot locations and exhibition spaces. Hold series of shoots, photograph, develop, and print final shots.
Body of work:
Create an uncanny vestige of life riddled with memories of my pleasures and abuse. Transform a series of rooms with nature and decay celebrating vigorous life and inexorable dilapidation. Create a series of experimental hand printed black and white photographs juxtaposing the beautiful and the graphic. All to lament and treasure the curious corruption of innocence.
Within the next few months:
Begin more earnest experiments using live plants and found objects. Measure the potential of these mediums in a series of small scale compilations. Plant the first crops of materials. Begin preparations for first photo shoot including costume design. Execute a preliminary photo shoot. Explore alternative film formats, developing times, and print methods. Scout locations and gather more and more furnishings.
Within the next year:
Increase the scale of these experiments using the most successful processes discovered in the previous months. Acquire larger space to cultivate and build. Photograph, develop, and print all I can along the way. Finalize shoot locations and exhibition spaces. Hold series of shoots, photograph, develop, and print final shots.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Workshops
Woo! My first workshop!
Here my classmates and Professor Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo
are creating their first aquascapes with me.
It was fun figuring out how to conduct a workshop...so many things to consider when dealing with tricky materials like glass mason jars, live plants, and so much water! The jars could break if dropped with enough force. The plants could be bruised if handled too roughly. And all that water spills everywhere!
I was a bit worn out by the end of the demonstration, but I was really happy with our results!
The Arts Council of the Brazos Valley was excited to see my finished work.
They invited me to hold a workshop at the Texas Reds Steak and Grape Festival. It was finally time to unleash my idea!
We shared a booth and made it through all the rain, thunder, and lightning!
I'm so glad attendees were excited to participate!
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