Very excited to have been a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago! What a great excuse to eat deep dish pizza.
Athough this took me a while to post the completed piece, here are one of two pairs of cufflinks I fabricated in July 2012. I’m including one progress shot that relates back to a previous post and delineates scale.
Materials: brass, copper, fabricated etched
Prior to translating these clothes into steel, I’ve photographed them from all angles. This will help me form all the wrinkles as well as ensure correct anatomical emphasis and gesture. Her hollow shoulders will anchor against the wall.
Black and White and Grey are enough for me right now. In the final piece, I’ll incorporate patinas through heat, rust and pigment.
Interview with Christian Boltanski in front of Monumenta 10—-collective mourning, objects [volumes of clothing] as monuments as public testimony to tragedy
“I’m interested in the clothes she wore the night it happened.”
Throughout the past 7 months I’ve cycled through a post graduate school detox. All the while I’ve known that when I start fabricating again, I have to make this piece. Wandering, spinning, I’m clamouring for focus. It’s time I investigate the recent present.
I’m returning to a Medium that offers me a great amount of versatility from a 2-D standpoint. I had stepped away from #watercolor for quite a while as I intensely almost soley focus on #object making for the last several years. I’m thinking about light.
Moving in, Setting up and starting over, a new studio in the works.
Preparing to teach a MIG welding workshop at Stonybrook Fine arts.
So, What HAVE you been doing Grace? And specifically, what HAVE you been making? Well, as some of you may know, my living situation was rather tenuous for a while and as such my studio remained packed in storage. Fortunately, in order to feel some level of sanity, while I packed my studio in preparation for storage, I created a spread sheet of everything I owned. I did this in anticipation of needing materials prior to settling and unpacking my studio once again. I must say, this spreadsheet came in handy several times and I was able to find the materials I needed to teach a TIG welding workshop at Stonybrook Fine Arts and set up for Jamaica Plain open studios in September.
In the mean time, I have been helping and learning from a dear friend of mine, Shingo Furukawa as he’s building this amazing shed in his backyard. Storage he says, for his lawnmower and it just so happens he incorporated a lovely loft area for hanging out on the second tier of his shed.
I entered the project after he’d set up most of the foundation and began learning to Frame windows. Most of these slides are the windows I framed while he worked on the sheeting.
Are you in or near Boston and looking to learn how to TIG weld? I’m teaching 4 hour intensive workshops once a month at Stonybrook Fine Arts. Sign up now through this link.
Today and tomorrow, Come see me at Jamaica Plain Open Studios. At the Chevrus building, 365 Centre Street. Currently my bench/bag combo titled “keepsake” is installed outside on Centre Street. Parking is available On site. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days! Cheerio!
Flippin a Fanny: Steel Fanny pack completed!
The content of my work is for the most part, quite heavy and while I was in the thick of thesis mentality, I constantly craved a way to turn my brain off. Sometimes you need to make a hilarious object.
Goal: Next time wearable steel fanny packs only, No exceptions!
Title: Fanny
Materials: Welded Steel, forged, fabricated, inflated
Packing my Studio:
As a recent grad of UMASS Dartmouth, I took advantage of the opportunity to have studio space and continued access to amazing facilities this summer.
Dear studio with a great view, you will be missed!
The hardest part now, is waiting to unpack, but I will not let this inhibit me from making. I find when these times come, I switch to sketching and research. I look forward to where this transition will lead me to next.
I’m SO excited because I received this pic from a wonderful friend! It was taken shortly after the MFA opening in April during Alloy Symposium. I’m sitting on my piece Keepsake.
I think this piece is complete with an owner and without.
Cufflinks!
One cufflink mechanism down, 3 to go toward my goal of finishing 2 pairs.
Time to finalize the designs on the front. To the spray etcher!
