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“tower of babel”
image from installation for class
(stacked, sanded off alphabet blocks)
to be played with audio and looped every 2 min
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Road trip crazies. this makes me laugh so much. he is not listening to anything, just enjoying hearing and seeing himself with my phone. one of favourite parts is when he shows his comic book then says “cheesestrings, that book is so cool, it’s shiny!”
(give a kid an iphone!)
this is so amazing. i may have posted before but revisiting and checking out some other amazing work on the semiconductor film website
today!
a year ago..
a year ago I was shivering away in the cold spring rain in my garage with the door wide open to get decent light, painting, worrying i might explode myself with portable heater. i did that today. most of the paintings from that series are done, just trying to wrap up the last of the painting so i can begin working on the sculptural element. i have some amazing things planned that i can’t wait to get to.
what else did i do this past year. oy vay! so much! learned so much! i am blessed. blessed to be getting an education and even more precious, blessed with time. every hour in the studio i have to make count. all the running i’ve been doing is beginning to feel good..
i really like Pae White and had the pleasure of hearing her speak over a year ago.
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Homefront
The parameters given for this installation were to imagine that I was given a show in Europe in a public or private gallery which could only consist of what I could carry in a suitcase. Central to the work is a non de-script pie plate placed on top of a stack of suitcases, almost an alter. Placed inside the pie plate is a plaster sculpture of three new born sleeping baby rabbits. This sculpture is based around a memory I have of a mother rabbit eating her young when threatened. Often I find myself going back to this memory and find it holds new and different meaning for me. I can’t help think of all the stories told about the sacrifice of children both mythological and biblical. I ask myself, what would I do to protect my children? What separates human from animal and what instincts are with-in?
Surrounding the suitcases are heaps of discarded infant clothing. The clothes are covered in a fine dusting of flour. The flour, the heaps of clothes are indicators of neglect, the flour also referring to the baking process. On the wall is a roll of domestic vintage wallpaper, the type of wallpaper I remember from my own up bringing. It hangs from the ceiling and connects to the suitcases, mid way up a Tahitian Gauguin print is displayed. I chose to introduce Gauguin as he was an artist that made a choice regarding his art career and children. I think about the glaring double standards that society has for men and women. Every minute a 10 second clip plays of children laughing and playing, all moments captured because there was a witness.
this is the simplified version that was picked for retro show @ school.
polished plaster new born bunnies.
