meanwhile back in the studio

I re hung the coffee cups so they could mingle with the related rust print and maybe give me some ideas
so I have been letting the plastic piece slowly consume my coffee cup collection and in the background i have been reorganizing the rust prints to create new groupings for future shows.
these are some nifty new coffee cup lids i liberated from a gas station in Tennessee. I really think they would make a great large scale public playground piece. the lids have a built in flap that makes a perfect connective system for chaining them together with other lids

so i started building the second half of this piece, and this will probably go with me to vermont studio center when i go on the 25th. Although I said i was taking this with me to the ox-bow residency, but this time i am 99% certain i want to finish it in vermont
i am master of my domain, a rat and roach infested domain, but master none the less.

so i got back in the studio and worked on some of the stuff in there. I have been agonizing over a decision and sometimes working in the studio helps clear my mind. To make matters worse tomorrow is my 31st birthday and I don't feel like i should be this old. I still haven't prepped for the print class i am teaching at redux on monday, but i think if i spend saturday and or sunday and focus i can prep all my demos and materials ahead of time. Unfortunately the moment i finish teaching at redux i have to hit the road and male tracks to vermont for my residency there. Oh well I guess when you get as old as i am you type things out so you don't forget them.

knoxville has got it going on

After sumter i went to Knoxville with brooke who was attending the southeastern archaelogical convention. While brooke networked with diggers and other science types I explored knoxville, and the university of tennessee at knoxville's, legendary printmaking program. Most of my time was spent working on applications and walking around the city of knoxville taking pictures of textures and other things that caught my eye



On friday night we went out for knoxville's first friday gallery crawl, which was really great we got to see the legendary yee-haw industries and many other of knoxville's finest art establishments. The highlight of the artwalk though was a swarm of bats that moved unlike anything we had ever seen, I tried to capture them on camera but it does not do it justice.

opening night and now i am home again

bob and jaime of transit antenna made the drive up for the openingseth curcio and bob playing jenga with the sculpture trying to find the one stick that makes the piece fall
my mother father grandmother, brooke's mother, father and brother all made the trip out for the opening
some of the youth percussion ensemble who performed at the opening
my mom providing tours of the shadows cast on the wall by the piece
Thanks to everyone especially the sumter county cultural council, peggy and booth chilcutt, Martha Greenway,karen of the sumter gallery, scotty peek, audrey, bubba, david shoemacker and the entire sumter community for supporting this residency of course a huge thank you to Brooke, my friends and my family who made the 1.5 hour drive for the opening. And now on to the next challenge, getting another batch of applications off in a timely manner and returning to work in the studio after six weeks of residencies. Oh and only 28 days until i leave for the vermont studio center.

Finished i think

Well I have reached a stopping point, or i have just reached the end of my time here. Like with anything I could easily spend another month working on it, but I am satisfied with the point I got it to. Next Time I do this I will definitely go bigger and longer and try and get a show where I Can work on the piece for a month before the opening. I am actually really anxious to get back in the studio and get to work on some other/newer pieces and maybe finish the renovation of the studio. After six weeks of residencies ands being on the road I am looking forward to spending the next month in my own bed before I take off for vermont after a month at home

today is wednesday i think and the opening is on saturday

I got my next couple of shipments and i have been working pretty steady . I hope i can focus and just keep building until the opening. in the few minutes before i collapse each night I have been working on some applications and other stuff, but mostly i am just trying ot stay focused on the task at hand, but I am ready to go home at this point.

day 8ish

so i am now waiting for the ups delivery to show up with my remaining 50,000 sticks, and i intend to work double time this week in order to get finished in time for the 5:00p.m. opening on saturday. here are a few more shots of what has happened as i keep working on the piece

day 6ish

i miscalculated and there may be a day without sticks, but i will make up for it by working overtime when i get more sticks. i swear i will never under estimate the supplies needed for a piece again, next time i will know that i can weave 500 sticks an hour on a good day.

day 5ish

i forgot to upload yesterdays progress so here it is i will upload again tonight after I finish. the peices has taken an interesting turn.

day 4 of accessibility 10 more until the opening

I plowed through another several thousand sticks yesterday including an extended stint on top of the genie lift. Last night I gave my little slide talk and people here really seemed to laugh at my jokes. I realized that when i was giving my talk last night it was exactly one year to the date since my thesis show opened, and i began to reflect on how much shit has gone on in the year since, and then i got really tired and realized that as soon as the accessibility show finishes i am going to take a long nap so i can get ready for the next challenge, since i only have 28 days between the opening of accessibility and the beginning of the vermont studio center residency

for some reason i just laugh really hard when i look at this video

accessibility day 3

12,000 stir sticks down, 11 days to go, 42,000 stir sticks left, can he make it