Hi all, I will be posting new artwork in the coming weeks! I hope you haven’t lost any faith in me yet. Things are getting a bit weirder, a bit more abstract, and I’m playing around with fabrics and plastic too. I may also start another Tumblr with pictures and ideas and things I like just to keep myself active over here. In the meantime, please visit the Concordia MFA blog to see what people in my program have been up to. Jenna’s been doing awesome work over there.
This one’s got a bit of a late-summer chaotic feel to it (almost like I’m feeling now with this humongous move ahead of me!).
… and another one! Happy August, everybody.
Finally have access to a scanner. Here’s a wedding gift I’ve been working on. More to come this week!
I’m working on some new drawings!
however:
1) My scanner cables are in boxes in somebody else’s basement.
2) My digital camera is broken.
I’ll tell you this, though. The new stuff is weird.
This project looks really interesting. Artists, writers, creators… contribute!
I started a project in 1999, asking artists questions about their artistic process. I thought, “It’s pretty clear what artists were trying to do in ages past, but what about now?” I polled a bunch of people but couldn’t figure anything out.
I revived the project yesterday and am compiling responses. (Please contribute yours! Writers, scientists, everyone is welcome!) Some things are already becoming apparent, like the importance of how the process feels, and how important discovery is, as opposed to a lot of weight being placed on artistic results.
I wonder if this springs from the abstract expressionist’s emphasis on the felt experience of art-making as primary, or our interest in ourselves from a psychological point of view, or a cynicism about things that are produced to be consumed; maybe artists want to distinguish their form of making from that form of making.
I don’t yet have a large enough sample to be conclusive, though. And I may be only noticing what I relate to.
Anyway, anyone who makes things — please contribute your honest thoughts here. And please reblog! I don’t only want the point of view of my friends.
I know I haven’t been around much
It’s been a crazy few months - eviction notices, overworked and underpaid at my day job, just trying to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing in life, so there hasn’t been much art lately.
But there will be.
I JUST GOT AN ACCEPTANCE TO THE MFA PROGRAM AT CONCORDIA. BACK TO MONTREAL AND BACK TO THE STUDIO. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Thank you everybody for your support, especially those who helped out during my fundraising blitz this winter.
Oh dear.
The drawing of the house (in the last post) doesn’t look too phallic, does it? I hate to give potential roommates the wrong idea (that I’m in possession of a phallus, for example).
I need to find a place to live! I made this ad and will soon be putting it up in all my favourite cafes (I removed my phone number here because hey, this is the Internet).
