Right now in Senior Studio I am working on making faces out of clay. Each one is about 5" long, approximately, and is made from air-drying clay (no kiln required!). I have 11 so far and am hoping to make as many as possible out of the 50lbs of clay that I bought.
For some of the more recent ones I've been looking at pictures of faces and drawing inspiration from unusual facial features and expressions.
Getting ready for the drive included jumping Sophie's car, losing keys and a backpack, cleaning out Sophie's car, etc, all of which delayed our departure!
Sophie, Victoria, Leah and Sophia in Chelsea. Cute!
Meredith on the phone through a gallery window.
Pipo with Sophie, Leah and Jimmy buying empanadas in the background.
Sophia in Topshop!
Picture of the week
This is an ongoing project originally started at Foundation 33 that was open to submissions from friends, colleagues and people passing through the studio.
Since starting Picture of the week, I notice myself looking for incidents, alignments, coincidences, view points, temporary situations, small things that go unnoticed that should be recorded. I see the work as conceptual observations and ideas not as photography. The image is not as important as the content, the title is as much apart of the work as the photograph.
An equally important part of this project is the submission from others received via email. These pictures are displayed in the Thank You section, and credited to their maker.
Door From The Car in Front: week 36
He has many different series of his work; the largest is probably the Thank You series, submitted by others. Other projects of his include drawing perfect circles by hand on many, many sheets of paper, covering a fruit bowl with fruit stickers (I'm currently making my own at home, haha), and generally searching to create an archetype which will become so widespread and well-understood that people will stop noticing it's there (this is the definition of an archetype). He designed a webpage layout that he hopes will become the standard for visual artists' online portfolios.
Display Book Shelf
MDF shelf, 6 feet long, 1 foot wide, 3/4 inch thick, resting on two metal brackets displaying books borrowed from Belk Library. The shelf sags under the weight of its contents in a graceful arc, the top edges of all the books are perfectly flush as a result of a conscious selection of volumes chosen to accommodate (or compensate for) the arc of the sagging shelf.
Theora Fits In at the construction site. Thank You Pauline Zaldonis.
Just my hair! It's a character all by itself, I think.
On one hand, I want to make these more 'performative' with more people in the background, but on the other hand, today in my Senior Studio critique of Theora Fits In, people seemed to respond more to the photos with simpler backgrounds and fewer distractions/ figures/ etc. They said that my framing and color choices were stronger in some of the simpler ones where I'd thought it out more.
Today I just tried to think less about what I was doing, and just DO it. Just FIT IN, take pictures. I did a bunch more locations than this, but these ones were the best.
Tomorrow, if it's not raining, outside on the playground and the construction site. If it's raining, grocery store. Regardless of weather: Tower City, in the suitcase, indoors and outdoor locations, art library.
