Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Embracing Collaboration and Relinquishing Control

Embracing collaboration: I'm honored to be working with poet, Jay Snodgrass and artist, Denise Bookwalter on the instruction sheet for Variance Invariance.

Embracing collaboration: Joelle Dietrick and I are beginning our work for an exhibition at the Alexander Brest Museum. We interviewed each other for Burnaway, coming soon.

Relinquishing control: I found fabrication help for the metal work on Night See. Bless you Bill Rice for bringing me out of paralysis.

Relinquishing control: I found design help for the Variance Invariance website. Thank you thank you, Jay Corrales.


Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The Ease Of The Familiar

While many of you are traveling to residencies and exotic places this summer, I am working in the studio, growing things, enjoying my family and animals, and feeling the rhythms of home. This inward turn has been a lovely shift after a stressful and busy academic year. With my three projects in midstream, I still don't have a lot to show -- even in process shots. But this pv panel arrived yesterday.










































Wednesday, June 5, 2013

More Night See

The designs for Night See are slowly coming together. Slowly, because I'm switching back and forth a lot between projects. I spent the morning sourcing materials and designing the light boxes and cradles. Here is an updated version:
I'm getting excited about fabricating this piece. PV panel will arrive early next week, at which point I'll start on the light boxes.