“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can only describe it from a certain vantage point of distance.”
–Charles Lindbergh
Now that I've had some time and distance to ruminate over the conversations, critiques and seminars of June's residency, I have determined which areas to concentrate on over the coming months.
Questions gleaned from critique feedback that will guide my research and practice this semester…
- Where am I in the work? Find a way combine personal connection with topography/patterning.
- Where does labor have value in everyday life? Where does the material become secondary to labor?
- What creates pattern naturally vs. man-made processes that cause stylized patterning?
- Is the work about making/constructing or material?
- How would the viewer relate to different materials?
- How does one record an ephemeral experience?
- How can painting and sand work inform one another?
- Historically women have preserved culture and traditions through their work. How can I reference this in my own work?
- What is the role of pattern? Where are pattern and ornamentation derived from?
- Why use sand? Is it specific to me?
- What is more important in the sand work media or pattern?
- What role does map making and topography have in the work? Research these topics.
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