Manhattan waterfront

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Making Stuff: An Alternative Craft Book

Just received my copy of Making Stuff today! Exciting--a ton of great ideas and a great complement to Craftivity! I am glad to be a part of it.

Overwintering-in progress

Tagore, butterflies and the rain

Images from Patrick ASD

Here are some images that I really like from Patrick's Flikr set...The top one really works well with the trees outside which is especially nice because one of the things that I really liked about working on the windows was the collaboration with the building and with the elements of the neighborhood that are visible through the windows.

Afterthoughts

So I left the previous post as images because I felt there was a silence about them that I did not want to disturb with text.

Thoughts about the project? Definitely want to make more and explore surfaces. More mapping more thickless. Maybe some text too. People really liked the work. I was really happy making it because it sort of brought together painting, drawing, and woodcuts for me. Enjoy the collaboration with the architecture too...each location has its quirks and strengths and I like the process of negotiating that with a work. Someone asked me what stopped me from continuing to do all the windows in the room?! Time! It would have been really cool but would need several weeks just to install a work of that scale--though what a blast (a kind of headachy blast!) If anyone knows of a space...

thickless in situ

Backtracking: thickless

The show was fantastic. It was fun to do a large-scale work and meet other Toronto artists. The installation took about 5 days from start to finish. I thought that it would go faster. I spent most of my days a top a 15 foot ladder-no small feat for someone with a fear of heights-the ipod helped. Don't look down!



Most of the drawings were cut in the studio but some were cut at 224 on the glass or on a mat. Cat O'Neil photographed the show and I asked her to do some close ups of flatless. So, here goes...images from the last day of cutting

Note to myself

bring razor blade to cut silicon off around plexi panel....

Cutting and Pasting: Day II

Cutting and Pasting

Phase I: The Glamourous Work of Window Washing

Installation Notes: Bee on the Window

Making Room at 224 Wallace

After a couple of speed posts, I am off to 224 Wallace to clean the windows. I hope I can chisel away years of industrial grime and secrets before the end of the day so that I can install a few panels! Still have miles to go before I can sleep...much of the blue area left to cut. Check out Heather's website--it has loads of info about the artists in the show and Heather's art and curatorial projects. I am looking forward to seeing all the work and performances this weekend.

More later. As ususal, let me know what you think.

Making Room at 224 Wallace

Pink Monday

thinking

I am thinking again about cities but instead of looking at how to create spaces for human interaction, I am thinking about the city in a more abstract way. I think in my next project I want to look at how we carve out spaces and why and how that effects us (the people living in those spaces). But, I would like to express this visually. Also thinking about text and how to use it. I may include it in the Wednesday Wallace work.

I am again really enjoying the cutting and finding it to combine my love of carving woodblocks and drawing and the color of painting. More images later.

Shaping up: impromtu growth

thoughts about cities

"Cities like dreams are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, III, p. 43,