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color correction

I just posted my drawings but the colors are really different to what I posted. I am going to have to figure this one one. I used a CMYK file...So much to learn!

next version

I cannot choose.

Next version

Update: high voltage head pops

I am working on some new designs for the Making Stuff: Kids book. I am having such fun with everything but it is taking time to manage. Will post the images when I get the photos back. Meanwhile, I am working on a drawing. Not sure which version but will post a chain of them. Thoughts?

Why I will miss Sol Lewitt

Project Proposal- Berlin Alexanderplatz U2

Sketch: fabric pattern?

thickless line

Manhattan waterfront

TO Waterfront

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,

flatless: progress

think about how to use blocks of color...

Making Room at 224 Wallace

Square one. Cutting has begun. More later.

Little Art Show 2006

to benefit the Artists Network of Riverdale and the Annual Riverdale Artwalk. November 18th from 7-10 pm. Fun party and good cause. Saturday November 18 at BMW Toronto.

notes and measurements

Small Change

I visited the space on Monday to measure and look at the windows. For the exhibit I will have two bays rather than three so I am trying to work on some new drawings. Twos are so much harder than threes! I forgot my digi camera when I visited. Luckily I could use my cell phone but the image quality is not as good as my original images.

Another version

224 Wallace-Wednesday

Making Stuff: An Alternative Craft Book

Check out the latest in the Craft and DiY books to come out from Black Dog, interesting small publisher in London, and because I have a pattern included!

Text-swipe from the Black Dog Publishing Website:

Making Stuff is a craft book for the 21st century. Filled with exciting and inspirational ideas to make at home, ranging from felted teacosies, to knitted i-pod covers, bread lampshades crocheted plastic bag hats, and everything in between, this book is for all those who are beginning to tire of the high street, and who are looking for something a little bit more personal, a little bit more individual... something they’ve made themselves.

The book is laid out clearly and accessibly; An introduction by Bust contributor Victoria Woodcock explains how the perception of craft has changed over the past century. Her writing is an informal, energetic call to arms, and the proceeding pages explain how to respond to that call. The first section of the book provides explanations of the basic skills; knitting, crocheting, sewing, felting and paper mache. The rest of the book is a collection of over 50 ideas, or 'recipes', if you will, for things that people can make in their own home. This is subdivided into five categories:

• Made to Measure - clothing and acessories
• All that Glitters - jewellery to complement the look
• Hipper Homes - a collection of homewares
• Sticks and Stones and Ice Cream Cones - a selection of random fun things to make
• Small Wonders - things to make for and with children

The ideas have been supplied by crafts-people and makers from all over the world—both professionals and amateurs. Each one is personably laid out in easy to read, step-by-step instructions, with a short biography of the contributor at the end. Photography and hand drawn illustrations guide the reader every step of the way, and a clean contemporary design, provides a much needed counterpoint to traditional craft aesthetics.

Making Stuff brings a fresh, exciting approach to a sorely neglected genre, and gives a voice to a new generation of young people, who find inspiration in making something out of nothing. It is beautiful, eccentric and useful, all at once, and is sure to become a well thumbed favourite for all people of a creative nature.

Other info:

Available:

UK: October
US: November

ISBN10:
1904772617

ISBN13:
9781904772613

224 Wallace-Tuesday

Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities

…From one part to the other, the city seems to continue, in perspective, multiplying its repertory of images: but instead it has not thickness, it consists only of a face and an obverse, like a sheet of paper, with a figure on either side, which can neither be separated nor look at each other. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Chapter 7: Cities and Eyes: 5

224 Wallace

New project...visual thoughts on windows...

fantastic

today's drawing is for a favorite word swap. I chose "fantastic" because I like to use it either sarcastically or enthusiastically: there is the energetic "FANTASTIC!" and the sarcastic, "Oh, that's fantastic."

Backtracking: Alley Inspiration:

Backtracking: Alley Inspiration: Surface Detail

Backtracking

I am applying to the Szpilman Award for ephemeral works of art and need to provide extensive documentation. I felt that it would be easiest to do on my blog, so here goes. Sorry for the backtracking though may be interesting to those who like process.

my alley- first look