snow finally
yes, it finally snowed. i like the white stuff. so i walked to my studio today.
all bundled up. i only worked for a couple hours--between afterimage copy editing and hogans hideaway waiting tables--but i did get the studio cleaned up a bit and made some progress.
i am planning to do some gum printing of images i've taken; ones i'm still drawn to myself and have had for a while. i like to give things a while to sit, grow, ignore and realize when the time is right. so i was going through some of the old gum prints i made and began working on top of them. i can't get over the texture that the sized paper gives--i'm not so interested in full color images that are clean and perfect. my interest is in the mess of making them or the test prints. i guess i do like to re-work work. i started to draw lines and transfer text to the paper--using carbon paper and chartpak transfer letters. i guess my other thing is transfer--i love the processes of seeing something be an image---and move from one thing to the next. it's so great because i get to choose where it goes.
so i had some thoughts in the studio while working on the large xerox transfer onto contact paper--rubbing and rubbing and rubbing paper away--inch by inch by inch. my fingers will be raw by the end--that is why i do a bit at a time. but the thoughts were on permanence of artwork. i'm not so interested--i work on inexpensive, discarded, or common materials. this is somewhat of a paradox in my thesis--because while i am trying to commemorate the past, honor the past and show it's comparison or linkage [lines, strings] to the present, i still don't see the need to archive, preserve, retain, cherish the art.
or maybe i just think that it's not up to the artist to it. so this is a small gap in thinking that i need to work out.
there was something else i was thinking while i was working; i tried to remember it by a keyword but i forgot the key word.
all bundled up. i only worked for a couple hours--between afterimage copy editing and hogans hideaway waiting tables--but i did get the studio cleaned up a bit and made some progress.
i am planning to do some gum printing of images i've taken; ones i'm still drawn to myself and have had for a while. i like to give things a while to sit, grow, ignore and realize when the time is right. so i was going through some of the old gum prints i made and began working on top of them. i can't get over the texture that the sized paper gives--i'm not so interested in full color images that are clean and perfect. my interest is in the mess of making them or the test prints. i guess i do like to re-work work. i started to draw lines and transfer text to the paper--using carbon paper and chartpak transfer letters. i guess my other thing is transfer--i love the processes of seeing something be an image---and move from one thing to the next. it's so great because i get to choose where it goes.
so i had some thoughts in the studio while working on the large xerox transfer onto contact paper--rubbing and rubbing and rubbing paper away--inch by inch by inch. my fingers will be raw by the end--that is why i do a bit at a time. but the thoughts were on permanence of artwork. i'm not so interested--i work on inexpensive, discarded, or common materials. this is somewhat of a paradox in my thesis--because while i am trying to commemorate the past, honor the past and show it's comparison or linkage [lines, strings] to the present, i still don't see the need to archive, preserve, retain, cherish the art.
or maybe i just think that it's not up to the artist to it. so this is a small gap in thinking that i need to work out.
there was something else i was thinking while i was working; i tried to remember it by a keyword but i forgot the key word.
two walls in progress [they look upside down...but they're not]
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