so i keep shaping and weaving my "test pattern". I am ultimately trying to make this into a donut sort of shape. after fleshing out the mid section I will weave until the openings meet. I doubt i will get to finish this before i go off to new york, because i am working on a couple other new things.
it is hard to see from this photo but i sort of keep rotating this one around the central cylinder to work on it. I think i can make this it's own discreet sculpture once i am finished with it, and maybe then i will put it somewhere, like a coffee shop or something. In addition to this piece i have been developing some new patterns for the rust prints based on these striated lines that keep occurring in my drawings. I will post those when i feel more comfortable with the direction they are taking
When I saw this show i was young impressionable, and under the belief that museums were dusty boring places with lots of boring paintings and boring experiences. Since I was too young to understand any sort of boundary between art and life, when i saw the Lichtenstein sculptures I just thought someone had brought the comic books to life. I was too young to appreciate the fact that he had filtered art history through the lens of comic books. That show filled me with an absolute sense of awe that I still look for in life today and strive for to a lesser extent in my own installations. With the Dam Stuhltrager installation rapidly approaching, I am hoping I can create an installation which inspires the same sense of awe and wonder I felt with the Lichtenstein. For me as the maker of the work, I experience a genuine sense of surprise as to where the process of weaving the stir sticks takes me. So as i get inside the less than 20 day till go time for the show i will continue to pace myself and focus on the task at hand in preparation for the building of the piece in brooklyn, but that is not to say i won't get even more nervous and anxious as the start of the installation approaches. I will try my best to just stay focused on the work at hand.
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