I've been a little lax about blogging lately. woops! Busy busy.
I've been delving deeper into the reasons why I am using the materials I am using. I feel like in my work I tend to use materials and concepts I am very uncomfortable with. This started with my work with reliquaries, specifically with my Ant Reliquary:
I hate ants. I mean HATE them. It stems from when I was a kid, probably about 4 or 5, and I stepped into a red ant hill. They swarmed up my legs before my mom picked me up and brushed them off, and ever since then I hate them!
When I was younger my mom handed me a bag full of hygiene products, briefly explained what they were for, and that was it. We never talked about it again. I've never felt comfortable with the whole menstruation thing. So when I beaded that pad, and saw how cool it looked, I thought that there is no time but the present to become comfortable with a process that I will be dealing with for the next 40 years (if family history is any indication). Reading about it, searching about how it's handled the world over, and directly exploring the products associated with menses, has made me much more comfortable with the whole thing. I feel like i've overcome something that I should have been comfortable with from the beginning. And that allows me to continue to work with these products in more ways and to push the work as far as it needs to go.
This is what i've been looking at:
I am the little Dutch girl
in the log cabin
I hunt and chop wood
and I repair and build
and I frequently bear the financial burden
of my little cabin.
I still wash clothes
and cook, and clean
and I will birth the children
and feed them from myself
I still like to look and act feminine
but i'm not entirely comfortable with the concept.
Trying to be a woman
but fill both roles
is hard.
In my critique today we were talking about the difference between gender issues and feminism. I think that the reason I am loathe to get rid of the word 'feminism' from my project, or from thinking about my project, is the vast history and the brave contributions of the women who have braved the waters of feminism. I also think that there would be no gender politics had feminism not happened, because it opened up the dialogue that everyone should be equal in all fields.
There is a cultural notion of what feminism is, and that is not always positive. I find that if more people who were into 'gender politics' could acknowledge that feminism gave them the freedom to be into gender politics it would be more socially acceptable as a label and as a way of life.
Working hard to catch up to myself. My thoughts are running faster than my body can work! Nervous about my thesis review Friday, but i'm sure i'll get a lot of good feedback!
I am diving into sewing and creating some wearable objects that communicate people's feelings towards feminism. I am really interested right now in how men feel and think about feminism. I set up a facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/carmensmiththesis , to get some views on some questions about feminism. Please go there and answer the questions i've posted! The answer I think is really cool was answering the question: "I am a feminist and... it doesn't make me any less of a man".
Getting public feedback on this topic has been interesting. There is an interesting disparity between different ages of women and men.
This is what i've been looking at this past week or so, lots of internet time.
I should have done my project about my health. I can't seem to get back to level of healthiness since this summer. Was supposed to have a relaxing weekend working on my paper and reading but ended up with the flu, miserable and watching day time television at my grandmother's in Sandusky, Ohio.
So, taking tomorrow to get home and hopefully get back to a base of health, and then jumping back in for the third time this this semester. Crossing my fingers that this doesn't happen again, and I can complete this semester strong and get a lot of work done.
http://elizabethbarton.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-importance-of-being-titled.html
An interesting blog about the importance of titles by master quilter Elizabeth Barton!
We were talking about titles in class today with Tamara Tweel, which got me thinking. I love titling my work. It's almost my favorite part of making something. When it's coming together, I have thoughts about it, whether to make it apparent what exactly I am thinking with the piece, or hide my intentions, or just go with the ever classic 'untitled' and let the public translate for themselves. I usually over think titles, and under think presentation. It's something i need to work on!
Reading so much about femininity and feminism, and everything that has gone into culture to bring women to where we are today, I am reminded of my luck. Reading the book The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, written in the 90's but still very relevant, I can't help but think about relationships I have had in the past, where I would try so hard to be thin and made up and beautiful. It wasn't for me that I was doing these things, and I remember obsessing and stressing. I count myself lucky that today I am in a relationship where when I dress up, I do it for myself, and when I lost weight, I do it for myself. I am lucky enough to be in a supportive and loving relationship.
I know this blog is about art but I just thought i'd share what my research has got me thinking about today!
Here is my revised thesis proposal, my work has taken a sudden left turn!
Embroidery, before
the Renaissance, was a job for both sexes. Men and women working in workshops
produced the fine garments and banners that now hang in museums. Around the
Renaissance, embroidery became a talent of upper class women and trickled down
to the middle classes. Embroidery became a sign of an educated and refined
woman, one who has the patience, concentration and fine hand to produce
beautiful decorative textiles. For the upper class women, these were given as
favours to suitors, as gifts to friends, or to the church. For middle class
women, their embroidered objects were used in the house as napkins, hankies,
sheets and clothing. Embroidery has a rich feminine history, and continues to
the subversive embroidery that is used today in art. I plan to use embroidery
to explore what it is to be a woman and a feminist in today’s world.
As a base for this
conversation I am using objects that are specifically attached to femininity.
These could include feminine hygiene pads, tampons, lipstick, eye shadow, nail
polish, dresses or skirts and bras. I acknowledge that in certain situations
men use these items but, through a survey of friends, I have come to the
conclusion that they are still attached strongly to femininity. I will then
embroider these objects with words or patterns to emphasize their connection to
the feminine sphere.
I would like to
bring forth a conversation about why the words ‘feminist’ and ‘feminism’ are
negative words for a majority of the women in my generation, and maybe open up
a channel for these women to investigate feminist language and content. I also
want to have a conversation with myself about what femininity means to me. It
has always been something I was uncomfortable with, and I’d like to confront
that and start to understand why.
This week I am exploring what Feminine means, what decoration means, and what objects are associated with feminism in the eyes of a cross-section of my peers.
I am also exploring why feminist is a negative word in the current generation, and what that means for women in today's world and in the future.
Work in the studio has been productive if a little difficult this week. Pieces have been developing but I have been second guessing myself a lot. Looking forward to my critique to get some feedback on what is working and what isn't. Been trying to get some pieces semi-done or at lease mock-ups for critique, so that I can show everyone what I have been working on.
Here is what I have been looking at this week: Bart Hess
I know i've posted his work before but it's still amazing
Overcoming impostor syndrome
An article about 'impostor syndrome', which is when women over compensate at their jobs because they feel inferior to the men around them. It's interesting but I don't know if I agree with all of it.
This week i've been working through the first part of my actual work, while thinking ahead to what's coming next. I dyed 20 yds. of fabric in my kitchen in preparation for the next step! Thinking about what exactly i'm going to do has lead to a lot of questions, and a sneaking suspicion I need to rewrite my thesis proposal. I've been exploring questions of feminism and how feminist theory permeates culture. Also why feminist seems to be such a dirty world in today's generations. I started this project exploring the decorative in everyday objects, and chose the most interesting object, feminine hygiene pads. This led to all of this feminist discussion that is going on in my head. I want to work with the form of the feminine hygiene pad and decoration to express my ideas.
I am back and ready to kick some arse. After a good strong round of antibiotics I am off the couch and working hard. I have a lot of new and exciting ideas from my first group critique. I am considering very highly doing some quilting, and tackling some difficult subjects dealing with what makes someone a woman, femininity and female politics. We'll see what it ends up as!
I am reading a really good book called The Subversive Stitch and another one dealing with The Everyday. I have others on board to be read once i'm done with these two!
So I dropped the ball. This is me, blogging two days late. It's easy to blog when I don't have to but when it's a necessity I seem to forget...
In any case, this week has been filled with visual and literary discovery. Woohoo! I am working with items and processes and trying to discover what is gendered and what is not. Through this research, using books and discussions with other artists, I hope to get to the root of which objects I might focus on for my show. I am exploring the technique of embroidery on cardboard, paper and other combinations of materials.
These are the artists I have been looking at this week, along with many embroidery artists found in books. MAtthew Stone
First week of school is (almost) done!
I was nervous but everything has gone pretty smoothly, including teaching. Need to work on rivets, i'm so bad at them. Teaching them wasn't hard, but most of the students had better rivets than my examples! That's pretty poor. I practiced quite a few times to make good rivets for the demo, but of course in the demo I couldn't get a good rivet to save my life.
I have started experimenting with a few things for my thesis. Still need to hash some things out, looking for help from my advisor next week. Got about 2 hours of real work done tonight, and socialized quite a bit! It's been fun to meet all of the incoming grads, and to say hello to all the 2nd years once again.
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
—
James Joyce
First week of school has started and is going strong! I learned Monday what it is like as the teacher when making a dumb mistake in front of the class; VERY embarrassing! The class went off without a hitch, and i'm interested in seeing what the ladies in the class come up with for their projects.
Here are some artists i'm looking at as I go into my first week:
Sitting at a computer in the BEAUTIFUL Arrowmont library. This whole campus is just amazing, very comfortable and peaceful. Who would think there is a street full of tourist trap goodness right down the driveway!
Just finished with an Abstract Quilt workshop with Elizabeth Barton. She was a very good teacher, helping all of us to achieve good design and teaching me the basics of quilting. She opened my eyes with a few new tools. I was especially amazed by the darning foot for a sewing machine which allowed me to sew a freehand pattern onto my first ever properly made art quilt. The dye process for the fabric was also incredibly exciting. I immediately went back to my room and ordered dyes so I can do it at home!
Being away from home and immersed in art is an experience everyone should try. I plan to come back here every year, finances willing, or try a different art institution to get my fix. It allowed me to work in a new and exciting way, to change my style and way of thinking about work. I also learned valuable skills that I will hopefully take into my thesis work.
Elizabeth was a big help in pointing me towards some great female artists. Here is a list of some that we used as information or learned about:
Sonia Delaunay
Lee Krasner
Agnes Martin
Julia Loffredo Triebes
Mary Fedden
Elaine De Kooning
Beverly Pepper
Joan Mitchell
Helen Frankenthaler
Yayoi Kusama *
Lee Bontecou *
Bridget Riley
Eva HEsse
Rosie Lee Tompkins (Effie Mae Howard) *
Pat Stein
Elizabeth Murray *
Amy Sillman
Rachel Whitehead
Tracy Emin *
Ghada Amer *
Tomma Abts
Tara Donovan *
Sun Kwak *
The ones with the stars next to them are the women I was particularly inspired by.
Also she suggested Diane Itter
So it seems to me that most of the work that i've been into this summer has been destructive, decorative or work that uses the body directly in the work or in the making of the work.
I suppose all work uses the body in some way, but these are more direct ways of using the body where the piece depends solely on it, and if you were to remoce that specific body the piece would be completely different.
I am very interested in the destructive, or the seemingly destructive. To me it ties directly into the disposable, because disposable things are inherently destructive.
As for the decorative, I have an addiction and refuse to seek help. Decoration is what makes my world beautiful and I refuse to give it up. So there.
Off to Arrowmont school of arts and crafts this week to dye fabric and create abstract quilts with it. Another tool under my belt!
Hello blog world!
I finally got my artist website up. Visit www.Carmensmith.weebly.com for all your carmen smith art viewing pleasures. Also visit creations-by-carmen.com for all of your carmen smith art buying pleasures!
Been working on beadwork projects so far this summer. I am in a contest for a necklace I made. You don't win anything but the title of bead queen! I would love that title.... haha. Here is a photo of the necklace:
I am collecting disposable objects that have decoration on them, in preparation to start working with them. My idea is to create an object and a wearable object with each disposable thing, thus making these every day disposable decorative objects precious.
This summer I plan to explore feminine issues through making adornment for the body. I am going to try to use alternate materials as a base for my beadwork, as well as create pieces that are quick sketches of things I may do in the future. I am going to try and update this blog once a week on Thursdays, so that I can record my process and progress through what I am working on. We'll see how that goes!
Here is the work I did this semester accompanied by my artist statement and a video of these pieces being performed:
My work is based heavily on ritual.
According to Walter Benjamin, the advent of photography freed the work of art
from ritual, as it made everything reproducible and therefore inauthentic. I
find it hard to separate artwork from its history of ritual, and believe that
it doesn’t need freed from it. Art comes from every day ritual, whether it be
photography or the creation of objects. It comes from inside of a person, and
from this person’s interests. Interests become ritual; they become something
thought about and seen everywhere, and then looked for everywhere. Ingrained in
art is ritual, whether that art it reproduced or not.
This body of work explores ritual
in an every-day context. I started this work by exploring cultural rituals that
people do every day without thinking why they do them. This led me to explore coming
of age rituals. By exploring these topics, I came to the conclusion that ritual
is important because of a craving of familiarity. Humans stick to repetitive,
ritualistic, habitual behaviors because they are comfortable. These behaviors,
though comforting, feed into the restrictions that we put on ourselves in our
daily lives.
Carmen Smith is an MFA candidate at
Columbus College of Art and Design. She received her BFA in jewelry an metals at
Bowling Green State University in 2012.
Hello blogosphere,
I'm here, I promise! I have been a little lax on updating.
I've been working hard, finishing up pieces and getting photos done. I had two photo shoots over the weekend, and they went GREAT! Liz Roberts is a beautiful model, and the men from Army of Infants were rocking the house. I have a few adjustments to make to the garments before the performance, but the motions are working out well.
I'm also working on final drawings. It's been hard being confident in drawing and creating in a new way, but I think it's going well.
Teaching methods has been interesting, learning about teaching philosophies and how to write them. So much goes into one, I don't know how i'm going to keep it short!
Sorry blogosphere. I have neglected you. But here I am, typing characters on this screen.
I have a critique this week, and here are my thoughts:
I am just working along right now. I am done thinking about my work too much. I have done that all semester, and now is crunch time. I feel I can intelligently justify my work, so i'm just chugging along!
Here are some people I am looking at as i'm chugging along:
As I chug along I am thinking seriously about next semester. I have no idea about what i'm going to do. Woo! But i'm sure it'll fall into place. Or i'll force it. Somehow i'll know. I know I want to use more beadwork. I know I want it to be wearable. I know I want it to involve how the body moves. And there you go. Beyond that, I know nothing.
Here goes.
I've been reworking since my first crit of the semester. I feel like it was late to get the group crit, and now i'm scrambling to rethink and rework. I've had some individual critiques over the semester, but nothing that made me really rethink everything.
I've taken apart the balls dress and am working on a redo. Hopefully I will have some photos in my Wednesday presentation. Where I hopefully won't get ripped apart. Hyenas, don't be too harsh.
On that note, please come to my presentation Wednesday at 11:00 in DSB!
Right now i'm stressing about this paper for Theory. I realize we don't have to write very much for this program, but I feel like these papers always come at the worst times. Can't we write one right away, then one three weeks before midterm when we don't feel like we're expiring from lack of sleep and stress about our work getting done? In any case, the final touches are just being added and it's a huge weight off.
I'm not ready to go back to Battelle building and live in artificial lights tomorrow. Although I was planning a side trip to Hills Market, if it's not too cold. And if it is, well Battelle, you are my home for 14 hours tomorrow.
So I have been so focused on my studio work everything else has sort of fallen behind. My lovely boyfriend and housemate is gone for two weeks, and i've been living at CCAD even more than I usually do. As a result, my mind is way too focused and I need Spring Break! So excited to go home to my parents, and my work is small so of course I can work on it there too! haha. No break for the busy.
In any case, I am working with the piece I have done, taking more photos and experimenting on what is working or not working. Also working on making my multiples of the beaded piece, and combining bubbles from bubble wrap in modular ways. I am experimenting with how to neutralize objects that may have pop culture references. For this I am using colour and combining them in different ways.
As a base I have been using clothing. I am interested in seeing what people think about these very wearable and sometimes oddly comfortable restriction that I am adding to the clothing base.
I am also having a crit with Nari Ward tomorrow before class, so it will be a SUPER CRITIQUE day. I will make sure to put on my big girl pants. And remember my mantra... I am rubber you are glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!
I'm just kidding. I am looking forward to this, actually, I am trying to get al the opinions I can.
Here are some artists and articles I have been looking at since last time.
Nari Ward video
The host in this bugs me but he's good at speaking and I feel like we have a lot in common. Emily
Dead things! video
Strange video but wonderful video It's adornment!
Hair as adornment excess
Hello fellow artists and artist sympathizers.
This week I was surprisingly productive. I say surprisingly because I was sick yet again and missed two fill days of being in the studio. But, despite that, i finished one of my pieces. I have yet to really document it, but here is a very silly photo to give you an idea:
On the right is Lolita, my trusty sewing dummy.
I also managed to do a tracing, which I have been a little lax on and which seem like they're fading into the background. I think I will get back to them in more detail in the future, but right now I am focused on other things.
I am working hard to get these modular rosettes done. They will form some attachments to a shirt.
It is kind of interesting getting feedback on this project. I mean, it is always interesting getting feedback, but I am thinking about this project in a way that is not necessarily being projected. All in all, I don't think that this is a bad thing. To me, these things I am making are jewelry. They attach to the clothing, but the individual objects are forming in my mind as jewelry. I realize that because they have the direct attachment to the clothing and not to the body, this creates a disconnect from traditional jewelry and somewhat sends them into the realm of fashion.
At home I am working on creating hollow forms out of beads. This is very challenging and a nice break from my studio work here at school. Right now in my life I have two very different studios. It will be interesting to see how they merge after I leave CCAD.
In teaching methods this week we went over some of the issues we are having in our classes. I am still not quite sure what to do with my problem, but it is nice to get some feedback on it. We also went over syllabi that we had written either for classes we hope to teach next semester, or classes we created. It was hard to create a syllabus! I didn't take into account the lazy attention span of students. I will need to edit mine down to bullet points or something to make it more easy to take in. I think it is hard to really understand the students sometimes. I am not that far in age from most of them, and yet it seems like much farther. I have much more in common and find it easier to connect with the older people in the class. This is something that I need to figure out, as I'm sure it only gets worse with time!
Went to NYC with some marvelous ladies last weekend. We visited some amazing artist studios! We visited Tom Burckhardt and Kathy Butterly first. They had a very beautiful studio/living combination. I was really drawn to Kathy's work. She spoke very eloquently (as did Tom), and I connected with her statements about working in a small scale. She explained that as she works on a particular detail, she gets lost in it and it becomes the whole universe. I really understand that impulse and losing oneself in the particular details of the work. Tom's work was very layered and I enjoyed the transparent quality of the painting. The fact that he casts each base for every painting is really involved.
The second studio we visited was Simon Evans and his wife. They were both very interesting and inviting people. The work we saw there was evolving and becoming a coherent body of work. I enjoyed the suggestion that the paper they left on the floor of their studio becomes patinaed in a way by walking on it and living around it.
The second day I was unfortunately ill. I missed seeing Jan Huling's work, which I have posted on my blog before. I was very excited about this, and sad I missed it.
Since being home i've been trying to get back into my work. Meeting today with Trenton Doyle Hancock really enabled me to do that. We spoke about the concept of having each piece be a character, and of enacting them. I am becoming more used to the idea of performance. Also more open to the fact that much of my work may be about gender. These are topics and ways of working I have not been comfortable with. They put me in a place where I am excited and a little bit nervous at the same time, which I think is where I know it is a good place to go.
In Teaching methods we dissected syllabi and spoke about our rubrics. It was interesting to see what everyone would change in their class, and the different teaching styles that everyone's instructor has. The rubrics were difficult to make but in the end are very useful.
Here are some artists and things I have been looking at:
So this week was full of freaking out and being really stressed out. But, now that my house is clean and there are no more ants in my studio, I am feeling much better.
I started to trace Mourning Object #1 his week. This piece speaks to my comfort with mourning, with my grief about death. I am comfortable with where I am right now in this process, and felt I could start tracing this piece. I am using colour in this tracing, a different colour every day, just choosing whatever seems right. Here is a video:
I am also continuing to trace the other piece, because I feel like this ritual is also important. Here are some videos of that:
So on another tangent, i've been watching Malcolm in the Middle. I know, I know, it doesn't have much to do with this, but really it does. That show is so well written! There is an episode where the father takes a sabatical to paint, because it's something he's always dreamed of. So the whole episode is about how he's trying to get to that ultimate painting. In the end, his family comes to the garage where he's been painting, and they are in awe because it's amazing. He goes up to it, so proud, and OF COURSE, the paint layers are so thick that they fall on top of him. It's soooooo gooooooood!
Have been thinking about my work, and about what it is saying. Writing a lot on that. It's not coherent writing right now so I will post it another time.
In Teaching methods this week we talked about rubrics. I really believe rubrics are a great teaching tool. I feel like they inform the students exactly what is needed from them to get a certain grade. If they are aiming for an A, they know exactly what they have to do. Also, as a teacher, I can just point at the rubric and that's it. It was an interesting discussion. We also looked at some great photos of France and Italy. They made me so homesick! I am ready to go back to France for an extended period of time. I really do miss it.
This week I've been sick so not doing much. Working on reading a research, as well as getting some work done on tests and also on different pieces. I've been gathering materials from here and there to get started.
Here is a video from my studio:
And some photos where I thought I was recording but only took pictures:
I've set up the other garment-like mourning object on a piece of paper to start tracing it. Next week.
In teaching methods we talked about different learning types. I thought the text on Jung was particularly interesting, however I feel like testing people for these different personality types just puts them in a box. It seems kind of contradictory in some ways; if you know you're that type and put stock in it, wouldn't you let that dictate your actions? I kind of think Jung is pretentious. I guess that comes with the territory though.
Today in Teach Methods we talked about a lot of interesting classroom theory. We started by going over information from our last class, the most interesting of which I though was formatting your classroom to encourage engagement and risk taking. Allowing students to take a risk and possibly fail is an interesting concept, and one that seems like it could be hard to implement. I am excited to try though! Also, to write a syllabus.
We went on to study Blooms Taxonomy, Learning types and a Critical format template. Blooms Taxonomy I thought was kind of obvious, as was the learning types document. They seem like things that are face value parts of teaching. The critical format template was helpful. Critiques are hard to know how to run, and sometimes can get out of hand. If they are not run well, then the students don't get anything out of them. This document was a very good guideline document for future critiques, and I hope to use it to run critiques in my Teaching Assistants position.
I am interested in reading for next week, and running a discussion about the topics.
Here is my project proposal for Spring semester, 2013:
The thread that goes through the beads is woven in a certain path,
until, meeting a bead that has broken or is disjointed, it backtracks and
becomes entangled inside the beads. This event is that which the viewer never sees
The beads, while fragile and weak alone together become a heavy, strong whole.
And yet, individually, hit them a certain way or squeeze one and they break.
But even if one breaks, the thread holds the rest together. This idea of
strength and weakness held together in one object speaks to the human condition
to me. We don’t know how strong we are until something challenging happens, and
then it’s those tangled threads of knowledge and wisdom and maturity that keep
us together. But even though we are strong, sometimes we do break and it’s up
to those surrounding us to help us maintain our form.
This semester my work will consist of sculptural jewelry objects. I will
start by researching modern Jewelry theory, utilizing a text entitled “Thinking
Jewellry”. This text is based on the “assumption that the human need for
decoration is an anthropological constant that has accompanied man since the
beginnings of humanization[1]”
I am interested in how this text explores modern and historical views on
jewelry through a variety of lenses, including psychological, anthropological,
artistic and sociological.
Through this research, I intend to draw from additional readings about
the psychology of material studies, and visual research into historical and
African tribal jewelry and its uses. I am interested in the history of jewelry
and its shifting social purpose in Western society. A certain colour or design
could indicate that someone was of age to be courted, or married to a soldier,
or in mourning. People could take social cues from jewelry or dress. I am
interested in the semiotics between fashion and society.
I am curious about Tribal jewelry is used in the same way that
historical dress was used. In the Masai tribe of Kenya, for example, a certain
colour of necklace can indicate that the woman wearing it is a new bride. For
every child, a new necklace of a different colour or pattern is added. The men
of the Dinka tribe of Sudan wear corset type garments called Malual. They are
sewn onto the men when they come of age, and added to as they reach important
life steps. The higher and more ornate the corset, the wealthier and more
prominent the man is. The way that jewelry is still used in tribal African
cultures is very interesting because it dictates their social cues.
In my work I will also use the body as blank form. I will manipulate it
in ways that it is not used to. In this way, I am owning the body as display
space and medium. I am specifically interested in restriction by unfamiliar or
difficult movement and binding. By creating jewelry that restricts the body, I
will manipulate it into something different from what it normally exists as.
I am attracted to using beads and thread in particular is because it is
chaos and structure all in one technique. This semester I will use beads and
thread, as well as some metals and fabrics. I will leave this open to
experimentation though, as I feel limiting this would have a negative impact on
my work.
Presentation of this project may include the photographic or video
evidence of the work, displayed with the pieces.
[1]Lindemann, Wilhelm.Thinking
Jewellery on the way towards a theory of jewellery. 1st edition. Germany: Arnoldsche Art
Publishers, 2011. 14. Print.
In addition to this new project, which is very porous and will change over the semester, I am dealing with the ritual of my work last semester. I feel like the ideas of ritual and restriction are two things i'm bringing from last semester. While dealing with the ritual of last semesters pieces, I am filming it and will post those videos on here. Here are the first three, from this week:
Other than that I am going to write and read a lot more this semester, and make sure i'm thoroughly documenting my process.
I need to go more into depth on researching this person, Chase suggested him and so far the makeup is freaking me out, haha. I see where he fits into my research though.
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