Image Maker vs. Object Maker
We live in a world devoted to the image, both hardcopy and virtual, static and fluid.
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Author Archive
Diary Awe
You’ll find the darndest things when you do an intensive clean. For instance, you might find your grade 7 diary.
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The Hardest Part of Art Is Letting Go
Purging is harder than I thought it would be. Emotionally, I mean.
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Now You See It
…soon you won’t. I’m doing an intensive studio purge right now, getting rid of old, dried up paint and supplies I haven’t been using.
Here are some of the supplies I’ve been storing (some of it I haven’t touched for twenty years):
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Wish I Had Thought Of It First
My dear friend Tzaddi (who is super awesome because she always takes the time to send excellent info my way) sent me the link for a recent TED talk by artist Shea Hembrey. I think I’m in love.
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Ms. Interpretation
I love the unexpected results that I sometimes get from site searches. Take, for example, my recent Vancouver Public Library online catalogue search on the subject of “small game hunting”.
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iFesto
Who needs a manifesto you say? Everyone, that’s who! Even people who feel like they don’t have the gumption to compose a manifesto should write one.
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New Balance
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what my ideal studio routine would be. The norm usually involves all creative play and no admin, or all admin and no creative play. Neither situation is ideal – when I am totally engrossed in admin I have pangs of guilt that I am not spending any time on creative play, and vice versa.
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The Whale Has [Been] Landed
Here’s the completely overbuilt window “frame” Andrew and I manufactured for Moby the air conditioner:
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Thar She Blows!
Or she would, if she was in the window. Gentle reader, meet my Moby Dick:
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Bring Back That Lovin’ Feeling
Now that I’m all BFA’d and my job-as-hobby schedule has been lightened, I have the exciting and anxiety-ridden task of rekindling the relationship with my studio.
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This Is To Certify That
I have recently been made official. No…really. I have the props to prove it…
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Analyze This
As my last academic course (at least the last one I need for my BFA) gallops its way around the home turn I’ve been getting into the studio less and less. A bit disappointing, yes, but I expected as much. In an attempt to multitask and combine my practice with Cultural Theories, I’m doing a paper related to my Survival Games series:
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Extension
I’ve just finished a whirlwind week of prepping proposal packages, organizing receipts for my accountant, and wresting a first draft out of my reluctant brain for a Cultural Theories paper.
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Progress
I’ve been getting a lot of enjoyment from studio playtime these days. Here’s a peek at how some sketches for the new series are progressing…
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This Just In…
In an attempt to continue to procrastinate while still putting in studio time I started some mock-ups for what might turn out to be a brand new series.
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New Happy Year
While being New-Year-Industrious and cleaning out my Inbox I came upon this forwarded tidbit. I think it is most certainly worth sharing…
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Oh What Fun
Inspired by the mermaid animation test, I decided to experiment with putting the rest of the I Am Your characters in motion.
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Animatione Teste the Firste
Setting up the Canon to shoot every 4 seconds and animating in “real time” (which explains why my hands occasionally appear in the frame when I can’t re-position the characters fast enough) is exciting but nerve-wracking.
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Here’s a peek at something new I’ve been playing with.
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Better Than Brandalism
I haven’t witnessed any of V-TARP’s art-vertisements up close and actual, but I sure hope I get a chance to before SkyTrain Control figures out something is not quite right…
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Horse of a Different Colour
L53’s Writer In Residence, Carolyn Jervis, posts a considered and thoughtful piece on her experience of Slim et al.
You Can Lead A Horse to Water…
Amy Fung’s review of Slim for Edmonton’s VUE weekly came out last Thursday.
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New Work by Champ
So happy to see some new work cropping up in the ‘hood…
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New Graffiti: April 25
This is way outta sync (as in April 25, 2009), but I found it in my Drafts folder and decided it needed closure. These graf’s are long gone – casualties of the pre-Olympic sanitization of the neighbourhood.
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New Work at L53
I realize I haven’t posted any images of the new, four-figure piece I made for the L53 show. Here’s some for your consideration…
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Saturday Edmonton Post
Andrew and I planned on spending the rest of the weekend in Edmonton – sort of a post-work holiday. I’m proud to say that instead of going to see the spectacle of the West Edmonton Mall, we went to check out the Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair – recommended by April who even provided us with a google map to keep us on track (see, I told you she went above and beyond!)
I wasn’t inside 10 minutes before I saw something I had to have.
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L53 Opening Night (Friday – posthumous)
Oh, there is nothing quite like seeing your name stuck to a gallery wall in big vinyl letters…
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Why does having a camera in your face…
alter your ability to speak coherently?
Here is my L53 video pod-cast interview. Adam Waldron-Blain, L53’s Outreach Coordinator, did a great job of stitching together my stumbling answers into something cohesive.
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L53 (Thursday – posthumous)
With placement of the work complete, April takes on the lighting while I affix labels. After some slight shuffling of pieces to accommodate lighting limitations the space looks suspiciously like an exhibit.
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