Visitation

I had a visitor today while I was in the back yard making prints. I don't usually enjoy visitors arriving unannounced when I am working. That's why they call it "work". I occasionally will make an exception and entertain the surprise drop in guest. Today was one of those days.

You can come back any time little lady. I don't mind at all.

I did get some work done as well.

I see things.

Humidity Stinks

That is all. The humidity is wreaking havoc with my printing. I am not content with this situation. Please stand by for further important information.

Prep for Gum

Have to flatten each piece prior to the gum application. Once the gum is on, you can't iron it until after the exposure and wash.It needs to be flat so that the negative will sit right on the print when it is exposing.

Getting Ready for Step 2

Contemporary Art and Memory

"The fact that memory is as vital as ever for knowledge of the self and for knowledge of the world is fundamental to the assertions I want to make concerning art and memory, in particular that art has become one of the most important agencies for the sort of "memory work" that is required by contemporary life and culture."

The above is from the introduction to Contemporary Art and Memory: Images of Recollection and Remembrance by Joan Gibbons.

This strikes directly at the core of what I am working on this semester, examining the idea that we, as individuals, operate based on a construct of ourselves that is rooted in memory. Memory which is highly malleable, potentially inaccurate, and sometimes outright false. This could potentially be positive, in the way that we interpret our memories to make us a better person. Of course if that is true, then the inverse would also be true, and that is a palpably horrifying thought.

Today's Progress Image

Me and my dog Mickie to give it some scale.

Important Information

"There is nothing wrong with being a romantic." - Tony Apesos

First Step in the Next Piece

Digitally stitched together to get a sense of arrangement. None of this will hold true once the final pieces are constructed, but it is a starting point. Final image to be about 6' high, and maybe 12' wide. there is more to add out to the side of this.

Mentor Secured

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that Stephanie Cardon has agreed to be my mentor for this upcoming semester. I feel like this is a great fit, and that she will be able to help guide me through this most critical of developmental semesters.

Memory and Forgetting

"Memory comes down like a rope let down from heaven to draw one out of the abyss of unbeing." - Marcel Proust

Reading Today

Back Up On The Wall

Last Nights Reading

"Postmodernism and Consumer Society" - Frederic Jameson

Jameson speaking about Postmodernism -

"the transformation of reality into images, the fragmentation of time into a series of perpetual presents"

Nice.