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!