Today I built a wood box with a circular hole containing a lens (with much help from George). I think it pulls together the “She Plants a Head” animation, and I’m excited to put it in the next pop up show opening next week. I’ll also show it tomorrow for my crit with Catherine Murphy.

I met with Barb and got some advice similar to what Jim emailed me- that I should not be hesitant to address politics in a direct way if that is what needs to be the case. She also gave me a list of early films to watch and told me to watch the Netflix series on film history. She also gave me some advice on do it yourself residencies for printmaking. And on thinking things over and finding how I will reinvent what I’m doings, maybe taking drawings into a 3d stop motion set (some advice Patricia also gave).

I’m also trying to think over if it would be more appropriate to take a sculpture or a video class next semester.

The concept for my next project is based on Habits, the working title/ poetic phrase of inspiration is “Prescriptions for Losing a Loved Habit”. I would like to build a detailed set to work on. The project will also require me to create music- I would like to work in collaboration- possibly with my friend who sings opera, and another who plays cello. maybe drums and guitar as well. Not sure if the music should be made first, last, or with.

I’m also not sure how much of a script to come up with- if I should make the environment, then write a rough treatment, or it I should write it first, or if I should not write one at all. I think I will write one for this project though.

So the steps of this project-

write a loose treatment

Create stage/diorama, and furnsih

create characters

create music

revise treatment

animate

I also met with Ben Suga today, and we talked a little about using plaster, making molds, and using resin, rubbers, and plastics.

This Tuesday I will be going to the Moma and to Chelsea in my drawing class, hopefully we will make it to a good chunk of the shows that have been recommended to me.

This week (revised)

-crit with Catherine (show box animation), hand in resume, finish etching prints, write Art history Essay

-Work on Drawing written treatment, collecting objects, draw basic blue prints of set, set up pop up show

-meet with Basia to discuss animation

– go to new York MOMA and Chelsea

-watch some of the films recommended (The WildCat, film history netflix series,

list of artists & authors to remember to look into more (will continue to edit)-

kai althoff, john bock, trisha baga, raymond pettibon, Alexandre Alexeieff, Yuriy Norshteyn, Igor Kovalyov, Priit Parn, jim dine, lawrence jordan, Dorion Barill,Melissa Brown, Erin Dunn, Billy Grant, Haisi Hu, Amy Lockhart, James Mercer, Seth Scriver, Dash Shaw, Lale Westvind, Nouri Zander

authors-

robert walser, kleist, alfred jarry, Machado de Assis, Italo Svevo,

Thoughts on “She Plants a Head”-

To make art about Politics, I think, at least directly, feels like exploitation. “She Plants a Head” is in response to what has taken place in Syria and the actions of ISIS. But I’m not a part of that. So it is just about the idea of loss and growth from loss. The death of a loved one, or a loved idea. The repeated death of it, and the rebirth. Since Goya, it has not changed. The death of the artist, of the old way of working, it makes room for the next voice.

Thoughts on this coming week-

This week I hope to gather materials from searching thrift shops at home. I want to bring in more objects to the studio so that I can begin thinking about stop motion animating with them. I also want to make it out to the wood shop soon and scope out how I could begin making sets with scrap wood that is available.

This week I will be working on an etching for intaglio, to be completed for a week from this monday. I also will be working on a longer form drawing assignment, in response to the critique I had for “She Plants a Head”. I may begin to think of ways to incorporate color, and ways to take a break from the charcoal animation for stop motion.

I have been trying to consider what the conceptual basis for my next projects will be. I am hoping that by searching out objects this weekend I might stumble across it. Very general ideas have been related to pathology.

I’ve gathered together some ez borrow books- a brothers quay book, russian constructivism, Marcel Duchamp, and Kai Althoff. Hopefully thumbing through them will give me some more inspiration as well.

I also watched a bunch of short animations from a festival that I could not attend in Brooklyn (I just googled the titles) at the Tomato House. I liked the film by Haisi Hu (Transparent Trees, 2014, 6:37)

A list of things to accomplish-

Sketches/idea for etching, etching prints, collect objects for stop motion, concept for drawing class, go to woodshop and make rough stop motion set, crit with Catherine Murphy, set up pop up show, do Art History Realism Class Readings, look through DuChamp Book