tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83554814411739468992024-03-13T15:09:32.997-07:00Alison-Art-Blogaloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-59994580879576964642018-04-12T19:17:00.001-07:002018-04-13T06:30:24.659-07:00Introducing 'AlisonArtCyanotypes' and the Mother's Day SaleSince November I've been making progress on building <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlisonArtPhotography?ref=seller-platform-mcnav" target="_blank">my Etsy shop</a> by adding products that I believe will sell on that platform. I've decided to build an Etsy page featuring my prints and notecards. I think of my Etsy shop as a way to offer work that is affordable, yet features original artwork that I am proud of. My cyanotypes are a pretty good fit for that, given the ease of the process (for me), and the opportunities to experiment with materials and content while growing a portfolio. As an artist, I am often working on research and attempting to exhibit fine art photography projects in galleries. And it takes me many months and even years to get to show my fine art projects. Rarely do I sell from these bodies of work (Yet!). While I pursue commercial gallery representation (an entirely different blog post), I still wanted to make work that wasn't as research intensive and easy to produce.<br />
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But marketing my own work is quite the challenge. After being an artist full time for less than a year, I realized that if I were to hire anyone for my business, it would be a person who specializes in marketing. I am happy to do my own book keeping at the end of the day. After all, it has taken me since November to remind myself to write a blog post about my cyanotypes! And for what little I've done in announcing the shop and my work on social media once I made it, I've actually made some money from selling cyanotypes. In this respect, social media has been helpful but I want to increase sales on my Etsy shop, so I'm going the blog and email announcement route too. And once I have a booth at an art fair, who knows, I might even get myself a 'following.'<br />
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But before that, in this blog post, I want to share my latest sale, my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlisonArtPhotography?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank"><b>Mother's Day sale</b></a>. We often purchase flowers for Mother's Day and I realized that, leading up to the holiday, I should offer a floral print for sale (or two or three). The result is 11 prints available on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlisonArtPhotography?ref=seller-platform-mcnav" target="_blank"><b>my Etsy page</b></a>. All framed. All ready to ship. The flower prints fit nicely with the other botanical cyanotypes I made. And, I decided to add color with watercolor paint to my prints for this sale. I created three limited editions. One print features snippets of a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/606461933/flowering-quince-hand-colored-botanical?ref=shop_home_feat_3" target="_blank"><b>Flowering Quince Bush</b></a>, a bright red/pink bush flowering in Tower Grove Park recently. I hand colored all of the Flowering Quince prints. One edition of four prints feature <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/592930254/magnolia-flower-botanical-print-framed?ref=listing-shop-header-0" target="_blank"><b>Magnolias</b></a>, two of them hand colored, and the other edition is of four <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/592450958/forsythia-bloom-botanical-print-framed?ref=listing-shop-header-1" target="_blank"><b>Forsythia</b> </a>prints, with two of them hand colored. The sale part is that I am offering free shipping, quick shipping (everything is made and I even have bubble wrap and custom boxes on hand), and very affordable gift wrapping if you do choose to purchase one of my spring flower prints to give as a gift. As I am about to depart on my third residency for the year, I am hoping to sell this work to help support my art practice. Next week, I will be in Nebraska City at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts for a month.<br />
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In addition to introducing and showcasing work from my Mother's Day Sale (Spring Flowers Prints), I also wanted to post photos of the different kinds of cyanotypes I have been making. When I sold some of my cyanotype work at <a href="http://www.urbanmatterstl.com/" target="_blank"><b>Urban Matter</b>, a south city shop featuring handmade work by local artist</a>s, I was thrilled! Upon meeting one of the owners, she suggested I continue making cyanotypes on canvas and turn them into wall hangings. I did and she's purchased even more of them. I had a small trunk show at the Osage Arts Community in January and sold 3 pieces, which was a boon.<br />
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As I create my cyanotypes, my hope is they just as easily leave my home for another. I do put them on my wall. I enjoy them and think, 'I'd keep this and have it up.' But my goal is for you to have some affordable art by me too.<br />
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Above are the hand colored cyanotypes, the Floral Botanical prints, available as a part of my Mother's Day sale. The image in the left corner shows the gift wrapping for the sale!</div>
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Two editions for the Mother's Day sale, the Forsythia and Magnolias, have regular blue cyanotype prints because I decided I liked them without color too!</div>
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I started a Leaf series of cyanotypes. Here's two examples, (not for sale)</div>
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Some cyanotypes on canvas as wall hangings. (I think the goldenrod is at Urban Matter)</div>
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My trunk show at the OAC in January!</div>
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aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-56798233838332880222018-03-29T13:17:00.000-07:002018-03-29T13:17:15.388-07:00New Orleans on FilmI had been to New Orleans once before and just started shooting film for a project I later called "Wanderlust." At that time, in 2012, I was just beginning to photograph with my Crown Graphic camera again after years of not shooting consistently. My goal was to bring my Crown Graphic every time I traveled. Most of the film shot then in New Orleans, back in 2012, wasn't very good. I was nervous and had issues with exposure, focus, and dust! Six years later, I was determined to photograph in the St. Louis cemetery and Garden District again.<br />
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I will probably never give up shooting film, specifically large format, 4 x 5 film. It's exciting to see the film after hand processing it, scanning it, and editing-figuring out what worked and what was a good idea at the time. My challenge now is to not second guess a shot, to use the film I've loaded and not hesitate if I am compelled to photograph, no matter who is around. Obviously, New Orleans is unlike any American city I've every visited and it's always a gift to be able to go there. After my first trip, I watched "When the Levees Broke" by Spike Lee and will probably rewatch it soon.<br />
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The Lafayette and St. Louis cemeteries are perfect for black and white film photography. The day I went there was sunny with puffy white clouds diffusing the light, which is also very good for black and white photos. (I did manage to get a sunburn though.) Below are scans of the film, the shots that I found most successful, with no Photoshop 'dusting' or major edits, yet. I'll do that work in the darkroom. Even though I tried some new techniques to remove little dusty bits, I'm realizing that a brush with an anti static cloth is probably my best bet to remove as much dust as possible and just keep my fingers crossed. Even with the dust bits, I love the way film looks. I will add, only in New Orleans in a cemetery can I walk around with an old, large format camera and not have a single tourist talk to me about it. I suspect it is because everything there is a little old and a little strange and my thing isn't all that novel.<br />
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St Louis Cemetery No. 2</div>
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 2</div>
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I underexposed this but I like it too. My motto is it's not right if I haven't underexposed it.</div>
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Mary Hill Don't Cry, Don't Lose Your Foot. Note the tourist in the background. </div>
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Cemetery with the Power Ball sign</div>
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Downtown New Orleans</div>
<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-49154031825818747542018-03-26T17:52:00.001-07:002018-03-26T17:52:30.722-07:00New OrleansI spent a few days down in New Orleans. Spring has arrived in full down there and it was a pleasure to walk around and photograph with three different cameras. Included in this post are the images made with my digital camera. I look forward to processing my 120 and 4 x 5 black and white film and posting soon.<br />
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French Quarter at night</div>
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-37157459630164565822018-03-10T13:16:00.000-08:002018-03-10T13:16:24.967-08:00Hall of MossesEarlier this week when I was at the Hypatia in the Woods residency, I drove up to the Hoh Rainforest to hike and photograph in the Hall of Mosses. I admit that I picked this location because I wanted to visit a national park but I was a little concerned about doing a difficult hike by myself with a camera and felt that this location would reveal some beautiful plant life and it would not be as likely I'd encounter a wild animal. The short story is I did anyway (Elk). All the literature I read about hiking in the Olympics advises to not hike by yourself.<br />
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Well, after driving 3 plus hours into the rainforest where there was still snow on the ground, it was clear to me I was in a mountain and that there had to be bears and mountain lions there. Sure enough I exited my car and read warnings that bears are seen often and at close range and to not hike alone. And, there was a problem of Elk charging at people too. While I love all animals, I will happily respect the their space and I do my best to avoid wildlife.<br />
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Over the next few days I will be editing the images I took at the residency. I photographed while in residence more than I have in years. My goal is to keep editing and perhaps have a project to show soon.<br />
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Right now I am interested in how humans are connected and yet disconnected from an outside nature, a nature that we feel we need to explore, conquer, admire, or kill. How do we sanitize or corrupt the wild parts on our earth? Is it possible to coexist? Is it possible to re-wild? Are we really going to destroy this beautiful place? All these thoughts came to me when I first saw the mural at the laundromat. It is a really nice mural, especially for a laundromat. The people in the region are genuinely excited about seeing Orcas. Except the Sound's pollution makes it difficult for marine life to thrive. The pollution is caused by us, our industry on the water, and the growing amount of people living on the water. It's utterly depressing. But I'm still hopeful we can stop trashing our beautiful earth. </div>
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-90564730441004813622018-03-01T21:27:00.002-08:002018-03-01T21:27:28.193-08:00there are ticks hereI was having a good time, creating very romantic photos, connecting with nature and all that today. I saw two eagles and a humming bird. But then I found a tick burrowing into my side and that about set the tone for the remainder of the evening: fear, anger, and disbelief. I will not be doing this again without bug spray. Here are photos of me enjoying nature before the tick incident shut down production.<br />
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This place is magical, except for the ticks. They are not magical.<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-46621796395047845042018-02-28T19:33:00.001-08:002018-02-28T19:33:10.756-08:00the woodsI spent some time walking the property near the cottage where I am staying. I don't have to go far to be deep in the woods. I am enjoying all the textures - very mossy- as well as the bright green.<br />
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More photographing for me tomorrow....<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-22162590515452714872018-02-27T19:52:00.002-08:002018-02-27T19:52:32.982-08:00alison art residencyI am in the Seattle area for my second artist residency of 2018. This is the second time I've been to the area. The pacific northwest is quite nice for making photographs. The silvery water, the soft quality of light and mist, make for some stunning photographs. And there's something very cinematic about the place too. Without much in mind as far as goals (My only goal is to be in the forest) I've brought my cameras and I plan to make images every day. I'll post the ones I've edited from the digital camera. <br />
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I am also researching the area. Glaciers from the last ice age melted and made the puget sound and its various inlets. I'm near Hammersley inlet. I read about George Washington Bush, a man of color who settled here and was generous with other pioneers. He settled in nearby Olympia after coming from St. Louis.<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-55124461962529072612017-12-13T10:18:00.002-08:002017-12-13T10:22:41.560-08:00Toxic Mounds Tour and Coldwater CreekLast month, I joined a group comprised of artists, organizers, and activists to take a tour of the toxic mound sites in and around St. Louis, my new home. At a time when the group organizing the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/11/winning-the-nobel-peace-prize-confirms-my-lifes-mission-to-help-end-nuclear-weapons" target="_blank">International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize</a>, it is rather pertinent to discuss the production and eventual storage of nuclear weapons waste. A theme running through the Toxic Mounds tour was that all toxic sites became toxic with agents used for war: for bombs and chemicals like Agent Orange. And these materials have lingered throughout St. Louis, poisoning residents for decades. It seems our mutual destruction has already begun. I am, by no means, an expert on the topic, which is why a tour organized by an artist I met this year, Allana, helped uncover the problems and misery caused by nuclear waste impacting citizens here. Lindsay Toler wrote a far more thorough report of the West Lake Landfill's impact and history in the <a href="https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/president-donald-trump-could-be-the-best-goddamn-thing-to-ever-happen-to-st-louis/Content?oid=12015525" target="_blank">River Front Times</a>.<br />
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Initially, I heard about these toxic sites from an episode on John Oliver's Last Week Tonight. In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwY2E0hjGuU" target="_blank">episode</a>, Oliver mentions, Coldwater Creek, in nearby in North St. Louis. At first I panicked having just moved to St. Louis. But most Americans live within 50 miles of a site with radioactive waste or other serious pollutants. The problem is we have never found a proper way to transport and store the waste created by nuclear reactors. And that is especially dangerous because radioactive waste like Radium 226 has a half life of 1600 years. Radioactivity only intensifies over thousands of years. Residents living along Coldwater Creek, where Mallinckrodt left barrels of radioactive waste the company produced for the atomic bombs in the 1940s, experienced high rates of rare cancers linked to exposure to radioactivity. The cancers continue to impact citizens.<br />
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We went to the headwaters of Coldwater Creek and other sites on the tour. Below are photographs from the day. I encourage those interested in or worried about this to schedule a tour with Allana. I'm also eager to go on the North STL County Nuclear Legacy Bike Tour, a bike path near where radioactive material has been illegally dumped on its way to other dumping locations. But this will do for now.<br />
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Who will be held accountable for this? Supposedly Scott Pruitt will have a plan. The EPA has ignored the issue, possible nuclear fallout at West Lake, for decades. Pruitt claims he will have a plan next month.<br />
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Picnic in what was Carrollton</div>
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Carrollton, once a suburb near the airport</div>
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Home on a cliff in the distance overlooking West Lake</div>
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Dusk on a chilly November day, overlooking the West Lake landfill</div>
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-6648083535269778202017-11-17T14:19:00.000-08:002017-11-18T08:44:02.971-08:00Fall sessions and leaves changing<br />
With the leaves changing this fall, it's a great time for an outdoor photo shoot. I had the opportunity to photograph my friends Jay and Katherine with their pug, Ichabod, just as the leaves started to change in southern Illinois last month. Below are shots from that session and also photographs I've taken of Tower Grove Park, the park in my neighborhood in St. Louis. Not being a city dweller until recently, I marvel at how this park looks and its function in the neighborhood. The beautiful trees, paths, and pavilions, built in the early 20th century, are treasures I've never directly experienced until now. I am currently training for an 8k run and having the park close by to run in has been a relief. Even while I do not particularly enjoy running, the opportunity to be in the park during the fall color transitions has made it more than worthwhile.<br />
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Now is the time to schedule an outdoor pet and family portrait session with me. These vibrant colors won't last long. Email me or go to my website to see more!<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-17627161247083265432017-10-30T17:35:00.000-07:002017-10-31T08:09:02.993-07:00Photo shoot at an artist studioThis month, I've taken on a few more photo shoots. Just a reminder that through December 1, I am offering a 50 dollar discount for a one hour session taking pet portraits. In addition to pet portrait photography, an artist requested I document her art. Rachel Malcolm Ensor is an artist living and working in Murphysboro, Illinois. I loved that Malcolm purchased the home next to her house and turned it into a studio and art education space. Artists make good use of any space. I found the project to be exactly what I like: interior photography and working with artists. Below are images I made the day of the shoot.<br />
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Rachel Malcolm Ensor's studio (exterior)</div>
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Rachel Malcolm Ensor's studio (interior)</div>
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Bright, colorful work on paper/painting by Rachel Malcolm Ensor</div>
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-63260705213999347032017-10-02T17:02:00.000-07:002017-10-02T17:02:48.685-07:00Back to Osage Arts CommunityThis weekend I had the pleasure of returning to the Osage Arts Community, located near Belle, Missouri. The OAC hosts writers, musicians, composers, and visual artists throughout the year for their AIR program. It was perfect timing as I needed to shoot some more videos for the Excavations section of the project I am working on. I wanted to shoot the video on location and returning to the place where I started the project, at the OAC, made sense.<br />
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In addition to shooting video, I had the chance to reconnect with the artists there and revisit the building and infrastructure plans of OAC, which continues to impress. All I can say is if every small town in mid America had an arts program like the OAC, we'd live in a very different and, I argue, better world. Check out their work <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OsageArtsCommunity/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Below are photographs I took while there for the weekend. I will not be able to show the videos until they are edited and to my liking but these images reveal the immense beauty of this region. I am also totally smitten with the dogs on the property.<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-62643091129315316582017-09-23T16:15:00.000-07:002017-09-23T16:15:20.123-07:00Photo session with ManetEvery week, I am taking photographs of some pet, even if it's my own, to hone my skills at combining interior photography with pet photography. My approach uses natural light, the immediate environment of the pet, and then the subject within that environment. This past week's shoot was, in my opinion, rather successful. I had a lot of fun setting up a little mid-century furniture display and coaxing this handsome tuxedo cat named Manet into the scene. The furniture pieces include a mid century rocking chair with bamboo and a wonderful floral pattern, my grandparent's giant lamp, some books, and a green ceramic deer I purchased at an antique fair when I lived in New Harmony, Indiana. I then added a painting I purchased from an art student (I cannot remember her name at all) but I really appreciated her work. She was a on a mission to make a painting a day and you can only get better with that kind of work ethic. I knew I needed colorful pieces to contrast the black and white fur of Mr. Manet.<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-41212441324484171632017-09-13T15:16:00.000-07:002017-09-13T19:19:52.208-07:00Framing orders<br />
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In addition to photographing and printing pet portraits for clients, I am pleased to offer custom framing of those prints. I have years of experience working for art galleries and museums. The ability to produce custom, archival framing for works on paper is essential in any curator or arts admin gig. I quite like framing the pet portraits too. Even in the framing of the photos, you can be creative. My first client allowed me some time to work with this photograph of his cat Harley. I loved the result: an illustrated floral crown and a floral pattern on a mauve background. For this photo, I increased the saturation of the photograph, which turned Harley's fur magenta and blue. Side note: I love long haired black cats. My first cat, Gypsy, was a long haired black cat. With a cat like this, usually the fur is many shades of brown, reds, and then, when the kitty ages, some white and grey hairs. With the saturation increase, I think of this as a punk photo of Harley. And so the frame needed to be colorful too. I picked a dark blue/purple frame. The client encouraged me to do my 'art' thing, whatever looked good.<br />
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Below are photos of the framing process. The mat that came with the frame did not fit the dimensions of the print so I measured the mat board-acid free museum board- and cut a window mat. The mat protects the print from coming into contact the glass. I cleaned the glass and put that on the finished mat with the print sandwiched inside. And then I put everything into my purple frame. Below you see a custom framed, fine art print of the wonderful punk kitty Harley.<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-13650831573212451872017-09-04T13:44:00.002-07:002017-09-04T17:57:06.728-07:00Oh Illinois, a good priceCurrently, I am preparing for a small installation of my project <i>Snow White Black Sheep</i> at the Clemens Gallery in Paducah Kentucky. I began Snow White Black Sheep during my first residency at the Osage Arts Community about 2 and a half years ago. The <i>Excavations </i>part of the project includes 18 photographs and one video framed in handmade wooden frames (I built my own frames!). The photos are presented in three grids, which look like archaeological dig sites. While the printing and framing is complete, I am eager to finish the field notes for the grids.<br />
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After doing a lot of research online, I've found great tools (charts, etc), glossaries, and photographs of archaeological digs. For my project, the field notes act as the labels for the photographs. From my perspective, as an artist, the visual components of field notes resemble a journal, sketchbook, and map (cartesian grid) to reference when analyzing the dig site. Digs are inherently destructive and cannot be replicated. Therefore, digs need to be meticulously documented and field notes, in addition to photographs of the dig and recordings, are essential to capturing the features unearthed square by square in the grid.<br />
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My digs did not actually take place, so I am having some fun replicating field notes of an imagined dig and adding stories, maps, legends, and other information that enriches the story of the project overall. Ultimately, I am archiving my family history by eschewing the typical tree charts and using this media instead.<br />
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I have to add that my mother did extensive research of our family tree and shared that research with me. Otherwise, I wouldn't know half of the stories about my family. So I have her to thank for the inspiration.<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-79012567669148475252017-08-23T21:52:00.001-07:002017-08-23T22:09:02.269-07:00Bookmaking and Handmade PhotobooksThe last few weeks I've been working on a client's order. This client also is a good friend and has allowed me to take my time to work with the photos I took of his cherished cat, Harley. Normally I don't plan to mull over an order for too long but I'm just starting out in freelancing.<br />
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One of the things the client requested were a number of small prints to put into a photo album. He mentioned purchasing an album at the store and I make the prints. While I admit that I have done the same for my own snapshots, I decided that simply would not do for my clients. One of the things I've wanted to incorporate into my freelance work is a touchstone, a way to show that what I provide for my clients is art. And one of the things I love as an artist and admire in other artists' practices is the handmade book. Beautifully executed handmade books capture my attention and I'm always loving/feeling jealous of what other artists do. Ultimately, adding handmade photo books to the repertoire for my clients gave me another reason to make more books.<br />
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For Harley's album, I decided to do 16 prints on matte paper, all archival inks and paper. And for the book construction, I chose to do one of my favorite bindings: a Japanese stab binding. It is perfect for prints on individual pages that you don't have to fold but can stack together. And, the binding is very visible and very aesthetically pleasing. There are so many ways to approach a stab binding. Check the Internet and you'll see.<br />
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Below are some process shots once I got to the actual binding phase. And me flipping through the resulting book. My hope is that the client will keep this out, on the coffee table for instance, to look at when he chooses. It's handmade construction, decorative papers, and original prints inside will make it a cherished keepsake, almost as cherished as the kitty herself.<br />
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<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-13899111772418156522017-08-15T13:28:00.000-07:002017-08-23T22:13:25.844-07:00Holga Shots and Favorite ThingsWhen I lived in Albuquerque in 2008, I purchased a Holga from a local store. It was the least expensive camera for sale, a plastic "toy" camera that still set me back 50 bucks when I was incredibly poor. I shot one roll of film and was certain I messed up the loading of the film. I was correct. Recently, I had the roll developed. Nothing came out.<br />
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My very first photo shoot as the photographer took place after I won a camera in 7th grade (for being a stellar student in my art class). I couldn't wait to use my new camera. For the shoot, I did a whole set up with back drops of sheets, costumes, and got the cats to model on my bed. With it being my first camera, I didn't know how to load the film and after the shoot, I was crushed when my father removed the entire roll, it's shiny insides curling out towards the floor. All the shots of my cats, gone.<br />
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My inability to correctly load film into an unfamiliar camera led to nearly 10 years of me not touching the Holga. Until a friend brought over her used Holga to give to me, I remembered I already had one. I purchased 120 film and read the Holga camera instructions. In May, I started shooting with the camera I bought nearly 10 years ago when I hardly had a penny to my name. I wanted to use it as a reminder to make art every day-to photograph every day no matter what.<br />
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With film loaded correctly, it was fun. I brought the camera on my trip to France along with my Crown Graphic camera. The film I shot with my Graflex turned out great. The Holga not so much. I overexposed everything, unknowingly leaving it on the bulb setting the entire time. I was pretty crushed. I ordered another box of film to try again.<br />
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Normally I take pictures of my parents 4th of July gathering every year. It's my favorite holiday because of its simplicity: it involves sitting around eating, drinking, and talking to family in my parents very nice, very gardened backyard. These Holga shots capture the day and month of July overall. And even if the images aren't anything exceptional, I love them because I love the people in the photographs, the day in general was really nice, and the exposure is finally ok. I also enjoy the characteristic Holga vignette.<br />
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The month of July involved me being newly laid off and moving to St. Louis. With all the stress, I relish the familiar during the dog days of summer.<br />
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My stellar Aunt Dina. My Dad wearing his "Ditmars" t-shirt. Chianti.</div>
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call this photograph, “Us, playing in the ruins.” I made this picture while on a
trip to Europe last summer. On a bus in the eastern part of France with a group
of Andrew Marvell scholars (don’t ask), someone said that if the UK votes to
leave the European Union, it’s more likely that the United States will vote to
elect Donald Trump as president. I remember thinking, “We won’t let that
happen.” My belief in this “we," while technically a majority, was not enough
to prevent a Trump presidency. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sure many presidents, maybe all, have been sexist, racist, and xenophobic more or less, but
we (yes this we) were better than that, better than those who mobilized <i>because
of</i> Trump’s racist and misogynistic rhetoric. He bragged about assaulting
women. What woman would vote for him? Apparently, the majority of white women
who voted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I wanted to see the first woman elected president of the United
States. The morning of November 9, I cried. Assholes, aka anyone on or watching
Fox News, think we were whiny little children for crying. Every
brilliant, intelligent, educated, creative woman I know cried that
morning. Why? Not because we have emotional problems as one facebook friend
claimed (a woman to my chagrin), but because any woman with any ambition knows
what it’s like to be passed over. We know what it’s like to work harder and
longer, to be tougher and more intelligent than your male opponents and to be told, “No, we don’t want you.
Because. There’s something about you.” That something is called “ambition” and
it scares the shit out of men. To her credit, Hillary didn't cry. When she could've been devastated, she consoled women and told girls they could do anything. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We know from this election that misogyny, hatred, and
distrust of women permeates American culture. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">This is
definitively bad and heartbreaking. In addition to crapping on women’s rights, we’ve elected
climate change deniers. I have very little hope we can stop these guys from deregulating companies that pollute our air, earth, and water. We were making
progress there. Even the most cynical about politics can admit that. Now, it
looks hopeless.</span></div>
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remember in Munich we were in a church, one that had been rebuilt because it
was bombed out during World War II. In the church I saw flowers with a note, “UK
Please don’t leave us.” By the time I read that note, the votes were in and it
happened. Folks in the EU were genuinely heartsick over the decision. It seemed
with the war in Syria and the refugee crisis, panic over welcoming refugees ignited isolationism throughout the western world. The bigots seized this and ran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
day I took "Us, playing in the ruins," we wer<span style="font-family: inherit;">e on the grounds of the <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588);">Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. </span>Rather
than pay and wait in line to get into the palace, we took Rick Steve’s recommendation to walk the
grounds. We brought champagne, ate sandwiches and I lugged my large format camera with me. I am working on a new project tentatively titled “Dream Homes” so I set out
to photograph for that project. But the palace </span>wasn’t that interesting. I didn’t make a good photograph of it anyway. </span><br />
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the side of the hill on the grounds, there's an arch. Two figurative sculptures, of
a man and woman, seemed to duck away in the tall grass. It was unkept, wild,
and the arch was in disrepair. The light was perfect.</span></div>
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upon. Typically there are a number of monuments and statues at these public spaces. And I always think of the Regina Spektor’s
song, <i>Us</i>. “They made a statue of us. And put it on a mountain top.” Once you
memorialize a thing, it’s pretty much dead, a view of the past. I think that is
what Regina means when singing about being made into a statue. She's describing a relationship that no longer exists, that fell apart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve lost a lot of hope in the “we” I believed in so firmly last summer.</span> “</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">Living in a den of thieves. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">Rummaging for answers in the pages. Living in a den of thieves. And it's contagious.” Turns out, I am surrounded by this silent majority. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">There’s something about being in
the ruins of your perspective and hopes. My friend wrote
that her artist friends must continue to make art now more than ever. Making art is a way of playing, of investigating, of researching, of shaping. There's us, playing in the ruins and creating in the ruins. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">I
only hope to continue to play in the ruins, with all my friends smiling and
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aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-38029315275428508372016-03-02T20:02:00.000-08:002016-03-02T20:06:24.013-08:00Once Upon a TimeA while ago, I curated an exhibition called deTerritorialization. It's a show I think about a lot. I think about recreating it again. I am looking to apply to a curatorial fellowship and returned to the idea. The exhibit included work by Kim Beck and Jenny Kendler. Then I found something I wrote about the exhibit and never used it and figured, why not publish it here.<br />
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While I am no longer a gallery director, I still get to see
the last season of exhibitions I curated via photographs on Facebook. When I
curated shows for the upcoming season, I wrote a general curatorial statement
about the overall theme of the exhibitions, namely that I wanted to talk about
the transformative power of objects in a given space. I wanted to investigate how
we demarcate and claim spaces through objects and how these choices, objects,
and audiences reflect and inform social relations inside and outside the
gallery space. But really, I curated this exhibition season because of a very
specific moment in my career as a curator.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last year, I attended a national conference and sat in on all
the panels on exhibition development, with their savvy (braggy) presenters.
Most of the presenters mentioned site specificity and community engagement when
they spoke of creating exhibitions at an academic institution. I admire this approach,
but I found it difficult to do in my then current position. One presenter at
one panel said an art gallery was taken away on campus, so they “took over” the
library and made exhibitions about the building’s mission, the people it
served, and thus found a way to continue making art a part of campus life. Great
idea. This is innovative, this is genius, I thought and wrote. Shortly
thereafter, I also wrote: But I can’t do that where I work now. Why did I think
that? What were the constraints and the parameters that made me think this
ideal was futile? The last exhibition season I curated was an investigation of
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I lived and worked in a very small town in Indiana as a nonprofit
art administrator, so I can say with certainty that my feeling of hitting
specific walls, curatorially speaking, had little to do with not being in a big
city with cosmopolitan ideas. In Indiana, a good amount of the town was a
canvas on which to make site-specific works and public art projects. The
benefactors and community members welcomed that mentality and ensured that art
was a core part of the town’s make up. They didn’t care how or even where (at
least that’s how it seemed). Just get the art out there already! Make it
happen! That was how a community can shape its arts and culture. The galleries I
directed South Dakota came with a much different mindset, especially in the
academic community. Most noticeable for me, right away, was that folks in the
arts fought over and about the galleries-nearly constantly. Little did I know,
I had been dropped into an academic combat zone. Goodie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Granted, they were petty squabbles but ones that manifested
in very real ways, like a completely neglected sculpture garden so pathetic
that one conservator advised: “don’t even try to fix this in the next five
years. In fact, this is a 10 year project.” There was also a collection of art
dispersed across campus, most of which was in some state of disrepair or
completely lost. The fighting, the squabbles, and lack of consensus about the
appropriate place for the arts on this campus literally manifested in the degraded
state of the art objects themselves. This lack of community consensus over the
proper space and place for the arts produced an ironic, residual homelessness
for most of the art objects entrusted to the people there. There was literally
not enough storage space to house everything. Many objects were literally lost
“boys” if you will, caste out into the world with no security.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I say ironic because just as the art objects already under
the institution’s stewardship fell into disrepair, a sparkly new sculpture walk
came to campus. (And no, the neglected sculpture garden was not a part of this
sculpture walk. Because that would have been too obvious?) The sculpture walk
was a reigning endorsement that the arts were alive and well on a campus. See,
look at that nondescript sculpture (aka apolitical abstract bronze monstrosity)
that has nothing to do with the community in front of the business school! It says,
“We care about the arts.” All while the majority of the institution’s visual
art objects lay in shambles, dispersed amongst buildings collecting spider webs
and dust, out of the public’s eye, attention, and of little concern. One of my
former colleagues, an art professor, called this dispersal of art in the
hallways, “the graveyard.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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As a curator, I literally felt like the walls were closing
in on me when it came to putting art shows together because I had never heard
so much brouhaha about what art should go where and who should be most
instrumental in the creation of art exhibitions. Without a clear vision in
place before my arrival, it seemed like anything and any idea was up for grabs.
I quickly learned that this is VERY common at MOST places and diplomats learn
to deal with it. In fact, there are supportive message boards that essentially say,
“stay strong” and “you’ll get through this” for university arts administrators saddled
with advisory boards comprised of hapless art professors. These professors who
very often help hire the curators, like to spend considerable time, without
solicitation, telling curators which kinds of exhibitions should take place on
campus. Because let me tell you, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If
there was one thing I really didn’t know how to do it’s putting art shows
together. Forget helping me fundraise, or reaching out to other faculty to
build interdisciplinary academic programs around our collection. Forget even
bothering to bring your class to the exhibitions. What I really need is for you
to tell me what kinds of shows to curate. Uh duh.”</b> She resumes with her
finger in her nose.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was pretty naïve about the politics in academe but I later
learned that what I witnessed and experienced was a “theory of the
impoverished” where people fight over breadcrumbs instead of demanding a larger
slice of bread that would adequately feed everyone. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That the concept of scarcity reigned supreme in a state as
big, as spread out, and unpopulated (relatively speaking) in SD, was the most
baffling thing for me. To highlight this contradiction, artists from New York
and Boston would visit the galleries in astonishment: “It’s a HUGE space,” they
said. How could it be that there was not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">enough</i>
space or that the spaces were not good enough in the minds of the people living
and working there? Perhaps when people fought over territories for art, they
were really talking about resources, such as money, faculty lines, and better
opportunities to bring in bigger shows. I completely understood that. Because
those of us plugging away to make the arts a thing in that part of the world was
a very real challenge. What I did not ever understand was the reasoning in
these debates about art galleries as territories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These images above by Jenny Kendler. Her work can be seen <a href="http://jennykendler.com/artwork/3320790-Encrustation-Limpets.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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On the positive, yet ambivalent, side of the arguments, many
wanted to build more areas for displaying art without addressing the ones that
already existed (Hello! We already have a shitty sculpture garden!!! Why not
work on improving that?). On the other end, a few argued to restrict art to areas
specified because of their own misguided, bureaucratic control. It’s difficult
enough to encourage people to engage with art, but yes, let’s put <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i> restrictions on where things should
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In front of an advanced painting class, I asked the budding
artists why they were not “arting the rat” so to speak and putting art where
the damn well please. We, the professor and I, cited a gallery in a locker,
just to give them an example. “Because,” one student responded, “we don’t want
to get into trouble.” The myth of the rebel artist had been
revealed. We were all really people pleasers in the end. We all wanted to
respect people’s sense of privacy and claims over territories after all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I tried to talk about how the very philosophy surrounding
the debates on the “appropriateness” of exhibition spaces and art projects reeked
of censorship and truly limited our potential to make the arts a meaningful
part of campus life by entering every line of sight, every point of access.
People pointed fingers. Everyone had some certainty of how it came to be and
who let it get so bad and how to make it better. “That computer lab is useless,
let’s make it into a gallery” more than a few art professors suggested. My head
would hang and I would simply sigh as I thought of the poor college students who,
daily, used the computer lab because they didn’t have internet access at home
much less a PC. One time, I sat in on a meeting with a ‘spacial needs
assessment’ analyst (yet that’s a job) who asserted that the college of fine
arts needed more space. Yes, more space! Growth! Good things! But who will pay
for it and who will take care of it once it’s built? Me? Will there be another administrative
line added to help out? Of course not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The worst were the people who didn’t think there was a
problem at all. But the simple and honest truth was that the war over the
galleries was everyone’s fault. And I mean everyone. But then I was complicit
too and I needed to find a way to be honest with myself and to talk about the
issue in the only way I knew how: I would curate an exhibition about it. Institutional
politics aside, I decided that the only site-specific exhibition at that place
would not take place outside, or in a locker. The only site-specific exhibition
I could produce needed to reflect and directly address the overall anxiety over
territories that I had witnessed when it came to showing art in this very small
part of the world. Thus, deTerritorlization. It embodies every argument, every
philosophy about territories in the specific ring of the art world in the
epitome of the high modernism’s art space: the giant white cube. It’s the cube
to which I had been confined, curatorially speaking, for the years I worked
there and it is the white cube many others worshipped and wanted to claim even
as the cube confined them too. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In short,
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Sometimes people ask, ‘How do you curate?” For this show, I
literally had one thought in mind and it was a plant breaking through the crack
of a foundation and growing up into the space where it supposedly did not
belong. I wanted artists who could convey that image, that sense of breaking
through a threshold we hold as permanent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jenny Kendler and Kim Beck’s work shows two ends of a
similar philosophy: we claim space. Sometimes our take over is successful but
oftentimes and eventually, we lose our claims-for how does one own air and
earth, brick and mortar? Sometimes the natural ecology spits human advancement
back out and off it. Sometimes our own man made signs, built to last, show they
were in fact made to break. In short, our claims over territories are futile,
flexible, and as much a social construct as anything else. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But still, territory is what war is made of.</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no such thing as a professional gallery space, much
less an unprofessional gallery if we base that assumption on things inherent to
the space itself: its lights, its walls, its entrance, its floor. The walls
that box in an area do not define the space inside. The objects inside the
walls define the spaces. The subject’s movement inside the walls defines the
space. I wanted Beck’s fences and Kendler’s birds to call attention to the fact
that the white cube had been compromised and that the sacredness of the white
cube really doesn’t exist anyway. The white cube, its neutrality, its pristine
beauty, is a figment of our art world imagination. Our monuments, our arrogance,
will disappear long after we’re gone and other elements in nature will take its
rightful place again. I know the artists who agreed to participate in the de
Territorializaiton know that truth as well. Their work says so and it defines
the space that it is in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then again, the bronze metal might be around for quite some
time (into geologic time), but I’m hoping the art students will melt down the
shitty sculptures in the sculpture walk and from that bronze make something
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aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-45575719227369102562015-07-12T11:50:00.001-07:002015-07-12T11:50:16.714-07:00hello againI decided that it was time for me to start applying for exhibitions again. I've been making work and even showing work the last few months, but not applying for new exhibitions at all. Today, I looked online, on the usual site where I find postings, and found one exhibition that I will likely apply for.... only one.<br />
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For the first time, I am restraining myself from anxiously jotting down deadlines and applying for anything I can find on the listserv that might remotely connect to my work. Why? Because I know what I need: time to produce more work, access to quality facilities, and money wouldn't be bad either. So, I am finding the applying for exhibitions, well, tedious.<br />
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It could be that I am enduring a recent bout of jealously of other artists. <i>They</i> (and it really doesn't matter who) won some fancy-fance artist prize. <i>They</i> live in the hipster part of New York so <u>of course</u> they'll get into the residency I applied for.<br />
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Ick. I hate jealousy. But I feel it. Especially as a curator, I know them <a href="http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/" target="_blank">feels</a>.<br />
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Time to start looking for a studio space/space to build my own darkroom. I can take care of the 'needing access to quality (or I'll even take crappy) facilities' part. I have been sitting on my butt for too long in getting going. Any recommendations about studio space hunting will be greatly appreciated.<br />
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Cheers!<br />
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a recent installation</div>
<br />aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-41719027463155283392015-02-25T18:37:00.002-08:002015-02-28T19:30:57.963-08:00Last day at the OAC<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today’s temperature and sunshine gave me ample opportunity
to go outside and shoot. I feel a bit sad that I am leaving now. With the warm
weather, I can tell spring is just around the corner and the entire property
will transform again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am glad to have spent most of February here. Working
intensely on your art is a great way to pass the time during the dreary winter
months. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And even with my initial frustration of having animals ‘on
set,’ I will really miss the dogs, which came along with me on my photo shoots.
I will especially miss my pal Murphy. I wish I could take him home with me, but
I know I cannot give him so much freedom to run around and also, the cats would
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow I will drive back and then Friday, I return to the
museum for work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look forward to
planning my next residency. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-60470408036620701812015-02-24T17:33:00.002-08:002015-02-28T19:29:34.048-08:00Day 13<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I attempted 3 shoots today on account of the sunshine and
warmer weather but the wind fought me so I made only 2 photographs. With it
being warmer, I slipped all over the property on the muddy hiking paths. Still,
I am glad to be at the OAC in the winter. I spent most of the day outside with
Murphy by my side. I know I would not explore as much in warmer weather,
largely because of ticks and poison ivy. There is also no bad time to
photograph outdoors this time of year. The light is at an angle all day and it
is so diffused, there is no ‘ugly’ light. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow, I have on the agenda two more new photo shoots,
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aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-848284089754637982015-02-23T15:12:00.001-08:002015-02-28T19:31:34.483-08:00Day 11 & 12<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday and today, I felt like I returned to the world,
surfaced for some air. Yesterday, after photographing again in the
cold, I had the pleasure of watching the Oscars with other folks at the OAC. Today we went
into town to the art center to measure the space to make a floor plan for our
video exhibit next summer. I realize I haven’t left the property since my
arrival and my return home is looming. Now I feel like I’m running out of time.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m not terribly worried about it but I will have to think
about how to keep up my artistic practice once I return to regular life. Mark,
the OAC director, said that most artists don’t know how to manage an
art/work/life balance after their first stay at a residency. I know for sure
that I want to attend another residency after my experience here. But I also
want to go home. All of my clothes are covered in mud or who knows what else.
The hiking and photographing outside in the cold is exhausting. I’m glad I
pushed myself, but I can’t say I’ve treated the residency like a relaxing
vacation. It is still a cathartic and fulfilling experience. I need to make 4
photographs in 2 days. That is on my mind. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
aloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650932092284650659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355481441173946899.post-9487507697789504922015-02-21T15:19:00.002-08:002015-02-28T19:32:11.366-08:00Day 9 & 10 at the OAC <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I forgot to write for the blog but for good
reason. Tony, a member of the OAC board, arrived and prepared dinner for us
last night. Now that he is here, and because we are sharing a kitchen, Tony has
already cooked today’s breakfast, lunch, and will prepare another dinner
tonight. It certainly makes things much more pleasant when the house smells of
good homemade food and I get to eat more savory dishes instead of the
depressing meals I throw together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I worked outside for most of the day yesterday and today.
Yesterday, I put together the ‘bouquet’ installation and photographed it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today was wonderful with it being 40 degrees. I took a few
test shots around the property and worked in another creek bed where I painted
with mud. Touching the soil felt wonderful-a much better experience than
handling snow. At the end of the day, it became a little misty-a good thing for
photographs. So I’m pretty pleased all in all. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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