It's been a while since I last posted. The end of the year brought a whirlwind of activity which culminated with my second residency. I have a lot of finished work to share, thoughts and feedback to process and plans to make for my future studio practice.The Candy Colored Creeks are a good place to start. This series began as an attempt to merge my sculpture and painting practices and also process childhood memories. Over the course of the semester, I used imagery inspired by my grandmother's backyard and experimented with different ways to use color, surface, texture and form to create objects that symbolize my experience in that landscape as an 8 year old. I'm happy with the direction the work is going in and feel that there is a lot left for me to explore here, which I fully intend to do.
After several conversations during the residency, including those with my previous and current advisors, Laurel and Kamrooz, my plan is to explore the following:
- Think of each work as a time capsule
- Build a specific visual and tactile language to depict memories.
- How can I synthesize sensory experiences to build narrative?
- Can I use tile format to build content?
- A square foot is a very specific unit of measure used to depict space, can I use this format more deliberately to tell a story?
- Is square format necessary? If not, experiment with different formats and scale.
- These works belong on the wall rather than a pedestal or table, but I need to determine why I feel that way.
- Experiment with working in a way where process/material is more transparent.
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