vernissage

Finally, here are some photos of my installation, I Stay Around the Positive Ones so I dont get Taken Under. I collected used tea bags from my peers in Lacoste, sewed them on raw silk, then created three dimensional vessels from the fabric. My gallery space had a beautiful stone wall and I knew I wanted to do something with it. The vessels hang or sit on the irregular wall with string connecting some together. In this installation, I created community and connections while representing the individual through metaphor.

studio and bedroom shots

My friend Christy and I did this tea bag installation in our studio window. After people heard I save my tea bags they started giving me theirs from the cafe.

I like the little cheesecloth ones.

A little sailboat embroidery.

This is a view of my bedroom from the doorway. I am really lucky to have my own room.

Mom, see that scarf hanging from the wardrobe? I hope you like it!

I think I might be the only one here with a double bed. It is hard as a rock but I guess it beats a twin and sharing a room with 3 people.

We are leaving for Paris tomorrow! I am going to try to photograph some of my work and post later today because I wont have my computer with me and limited access to the internet. Have a great day!

matali crasset

During Matali Crasset’s workshop we were given the assignment to build a new world only using paper. Our concept of this world was that the earth was no longer able to create seasons, so in order to avoid a year long summer in desert conditions, the humans created robots that lived in the clouds and manufactured the remaining 3 seasons. We were split up into 4 groups to work on things like architecture, transportation, nature, and robots. I was in the robot group and had a great time creating them and thinking of specific tasks they would perform.

Installing the structure

 

The robots. One makes water by combining hydrogen and oxygen, one holds the water, one condenses the water into ice, one is a fluffer to fluff up snow, one distributes the water/ice/snow to earth, one creates energy, and one communicates to the robots. They all have an orange engine with a yellow communication device built in.

 

My robot, the “distributor.” Other robots can dock at any of the 4 docking stations around the bottom and the distributor would shoot the rain/ice/snow out the large cone.

 

 

Matali with the cloud world.

What I learned from Matali:

I learned to ask questions. To dig deeper to find the most basic and underlying parts. Keep it simple, form should follow function. Color is a universal language.

 

two, three and four

two, 28 Jun 07

three, 29 Jun 07

four, 30 Jun 07

I am having a lot of fun with these daily collages! I am also getting better on being more disciplined with my studio practice. I made a calendar that outlines my entire day and it has been much easier to stick to.

These have been in my back yard for about a month and a half. After many thunderstorms they are tightening up and the felt is migrating down the stick. Some bits have fallen off and my hope is that animals use them for their nests. I still havent made it out to the marsh to see my other installations since my jeep died, but hopefully this week I can borrow Chris’ car.

im back!

Hello!

I know Ive been MIA for a while, but these things happen during finals and breaks in between quarters at SCAD. But I am back now and have a very messy place to start cleaning so I will leave you with some pics from the end of the quarter and my trip home to VA.

These are from my marsh installation series.

Sawyer helped!

My brother Matt and I at his graduation party. He just graduated from Univ. of Tennessee with a degree in engineering.

My brothers and sister and Maddy.

I always have good intentions of taking lots of photos when Im home but for some reason it never happens! I had so much fun with my family and friends and its never enough time to do everything or see everyone.

I have work in progress pics to take so I will be back soon to post those.

I’d like to take a second to say goodbye to my trusty ‘93 Jeep Cherokee. It blew the head gasket and over heated and is not worth the price to fix it, so thank you my trusty tank, you’ve gotten me through many moves and minor accidents, and Im sad to say goodbye.

a few things

The sticks after about a day. They are beginning to lock up but some pieces have gotten loose. Ive taken some short videos of the installation and will figure out how to upload that (any suggestions?). I think movement is very important in the work. Individually they take on a life of their own while still remaining a collective whole.

My four little birds have almost been completely cleaned off. Some stains seem to have transferred to the linen and Im sure the bugs have eaten holes under the birds. I havent decided how long I will leave these out, but it’ll be a while longer.

Im still trying to figure out what to do with my buzzard bird bones. I want to document each one then incorporate them with felt or rusted fabric. I am thinking of treating the bones as specimens on display.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

sticks

Just wanted to show this installation real quick. I wrapped wool roving around sticks and hung them outside so that they will felt up. The sticks are hung to resemble an abstracted spinal cord. By placing them outside I am letting the felting/disintegrating happen naturally so the weather becomes the process.