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Table, Chess, and all the Mess!

Click Through For Process Info! It’s finished…… it’s finally finished………. My table and cushions and chess set! It’s been a fun time making all this stuff. Also, there were at least 7 times in this process where I was thought I was about to cause a mess of catastrophic proportions, but that happened at most 0.5 times, so I’m delighted about that! (I’m still very afraid of beanbag chair stuffing. It takes a hole the …

WFTGTD..?

…I’m confused too. Hi though! Three artists. Three wildly innovative ways of interacting with space. My thoughts on all of this: Neat! Simone Leigh Olafur Eliasson Nicholas Hlobo Simone Leigh Takeaway from this: LOVE the way she uses scale. Making a sculpture so huge is one thing (although, not insignificant! I imagine it’s super technically challenging), making the sculpture work with its size to command its environment is another, and Brick House does this super …

Response: Rare books at the Rose Library

I’ll admit, I didn’t have particularly high expectations for this trip. I assumed it would be very history focused and sort of dry, and though it had a definite focus in history it was probably the highlight of my week. All of the artist books were amazing! Expect a gallery within this post as soon as I’ve processed all the pictures I took. That aside, I’m sort of at a loss for what to write. …

Response: Robin Lynch and Scholarship Process

This presentation was a nice companion to the one Katherine Smith gave several weeks prior, in that it continued my search for answers to what the process of scholarly research really is. I really admire Robin’s love of the research process, although I don’t think I match it. I’ve grown to not dislike research as I’ve found ways to do it which combine with processes of information gathering I already enjoy, but I’m not sure …

Response: Liquid Darkroom

This was a trip down memory lane! It’s been a while since the film photography class I took in junior year of high school, and as frustrating as that class was at times, this was a welcome return. Thanks Calvin and thanks Nell! You don’t realize you miss that chemical smell till you’re back in the darkroom realizing you don’t know which tongs go where. Needless to say, this ‘trip’ was to a photography darkroom. …

Response: Visiting Big River Bindery

So, firstly: this was really fun!! Big thanks to Andrew for having us. Also thanks to Nell for picking this as a field trip in the first place, since it’s not something I would ever have thought about otherwise. The process of bookmaking is beautiful, and I loved seeing all the different things involved. It’s a lot different from the digital way I usually do things, where my entire “studio” can fit in my backpack, …

Response: Katherine Smith and the art of Research

I’ve never considered myself good at research. I’m very good at tracking down the information I want (if I want to find an obscure video I saw a few months ago but the only keywords I remember are “medieval wizard music in an old video game”, I will spend half an hour pulling every resource I can think of until I find it. Even if it’s like 1 AM. Ask my roommate. Sorry, Ray.) But, …

Visual Analysis: Information as List

because bullet points are fun I mean: look at them like poetry, kind of Subject Matter: Still life-y stuff two children (background) vase of plants (foreground) some fruit and nuts a cricket Black and white only woodcut print shading done with hatching Print is circular frame is square Line: it’s important different within work children are simple few lines flowers and vase very complex many small lines lines used to define different segments of work …