some new rust prints and slow progress on another tedious sculpture

i've started using the spikes that i am making the sculpture with to make rust prints and i am getting some really satisfying results


so this is still only about a 1/3 of the spikes i have to use for this piece, and as usual i got them all for free from someone else who was getting rid of them

so i've been working pretty steady on these couple of pieces, and while i was making the welded spike sculpture it occurred to me that they would make great rust prints.I also hung the coffee cups at redux this week and that made me feel anxious. I always get a little bit of anxiety around group shows where i have no control over how the work is presented, and this weekend is especially nerve wracking since i am in two group shows that i had no control over what was being shown. I also get a weird sensation being around my old stomping grounds, i feel like i am right back in college which opens up all kind s of anxieties. So friday night will be the opening at redux, and on saturday i am going to go to sumter to do a site visit and make some plans for that show. Next week i leave for the ox-bow residency and hopefully i will be able to get the work organized and make a plan for sumter, because immediately following the ox-bow residency i begin the sumter residency. I had delusions of finishing the renovations on the studio before i left, but once it became a tolerable working environment, well i just started working. Today is brooke's only day off from field work so we are going to spend it looking for a car for her and doing wedding planning stuff. Oh and our save the date cards arrived so hopefully we will get those addresses and in the mail soon. and one more non-sequiter before i forget. i think today when people say they have been "researching" they really mean they have been googling and youtubing stuff, I long for the 4 hour trips to the library i would take in college. Back then research meant i would wander to the periodical section and read the village voice, and other newspapers from around the country. Next i would wander upstairs and walk the art aisle of the library scanning the spines randomly for the names of artists i recognized and then i would sit down with a stack of artists monographs and spend some time getting to know the work. now that was research, no googling experience will ever replace real research.