onward.

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.

Here are some people I have been looking at:
Max Colby
This guy makes his own paper and them embroideries into it. Love it.
Heike Mutter, Ulrich Genth
Public art! A walkable roller coaster, how cool.
Information on yarn bombing
Igor Morski
Surreal
Dran
Hailed as the French Banksy, I like Dran's work better.
Ernesto Neto
How did I not know about this guy before!?!?!? Sculpter.
Julien-Aldolphe Duvocelle
Bae Joonsung
Love it.
Gaudi Cathedral
Lynda Benglis
Gender politics
Weird (and wonderful) fashion.
Contemporary Craft by Bruce Metcalf
If you are at all interested or involved in the craft world this is a MUST READ.
Kathy Ludwig
Mona Luison
Alternate materials. Don't love it, but it's interesting.
Adrian Villar Rojas
Eric Standley
Crazy intricate paper art! Love it.

It's Critique Time! Oh yea.

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

fashion photography

An early week treat

Here are some photos of my studio, and of a piece i've finished recently. Some little treats for the start of your week.

The week that was

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!

Here are some artists I was looking at this week:
preview of Nick Cage Sound Suits
Volker Koch
Bruno Catalano
asger carlsen
Maskull lassere
Kabakov
Lissy Elle
Hrabina Von Tup Tup
I mostly looked at the photo set here called "The Warrior". This is adornment!