For every one of my photographs I frame...

... I hereby promise to frame someone else's artwork until I run out of space or finish the box of loose photographs that desperately need some wall time. First up... Jason DeMartre's Bologna (excuse the i-Phone quality & reflections that make the matboard look dirty).



The two David C. Nolan and Marilyn Monroe prints were matted and framed for the Lust exhibition. Thursday I had a three hour gap between the faculty meeting and my first class so I measured and cut the matboard. It was perfect timing because I also had a Photo 1 demo that evening with the bevel cutter so I had ready-made examples. What I didn't realize until five minutes before class started was my demo print was the one below left. Try to explain that to a Photo 1 class!



Friday I walked across campus with a very large (roughly 4' x 8') piece of cardboard during a tornado warning. Needless to say, I had to succumb to the wind and bend it in half to get it to the Art Department. I am very proud of my near perfect box and packing (one can tell I worked in a gallery and am related to my grandmother who could pack 100 things in the smallest of boxes). I told Hannah when a box turns out like this, it's the only time I like math. She reminded me that counting cats also features arithmetic to which I had to change "only" to "rare."





[I did fill those small gaps with rolled bubble wrap but only documented it beforehand.]


The prints will be shipped off to the Lust exhibition next week (I am waiting to include return postage). Then it's back to scanning those cats.

Bologna

bologna |bəˈlōnē| (also bologna sausage)
noun
a large smoked, seasoned sausage made of various meats, esp. beef and pork.

A Trade is Made: Jason DeMarte's "Bologna"

One fake cake floating in Barton Springs for Jason DeMartre's Bologna, 2009. Of course I also want to acquire:


Sheepish Intimation, 2007


Pink Placebo, 2008


Forage, 2007


and Cream Filled, 2007

From Jason's website: "Utopic investigates how the artificial nature of our modern day interpretation of the natural world compares to the way we approach our immediate consumer world. I am interested in modes of representing the natural world through events and objects that have been fabricated or taken out of context. This unnatural experience of the so-called natural world is reflected in the way we, as modern consumers, ingest products. What becomes clear is that the closer we come to mimicking the natural world, the further away we separate ourselves from it.

I work digitally, combining images of fabricated and artificial flora and fauna with graphic elements and commercially produced products such as processed food, domestic goods and pharmaceutical products. I look at how these seemingly unrelated and absurd groupings and composites begin to address attitudes and understandings of the contemporary experience. I represent the natural world through completely unnatural elements to speak metaphorically and symbolically of our mental separation from what is real, and compare and contrast this with the consumer world we surround ourselves with as a consequence."

SPE Atlanta 2011 (The I've Semi-Caught-up Entry)

Photobooth with Amelia at the Exhibits Fair.


Dinner with Camden Hardy and members of the Postcard Collective. Did a belly dancer really have to make an appearance (twice no less)!? The above image is from Camden's Expedition series. Mile 14 of the Pantano Wash, Tucson, Arizona.


Looking at cakes in the display case at the Metro Cafe with Amelia rather than the sea of blue shirted Kentucky fans that were also sharing downtown Atlanta.


The Lichtenstein House at the High Museum.


The swimming pool at the Sheraton Hotel.


A mini-Clemson reunion with Anderson Wrangle, Zane Logan (image above) and Gene Ellenberg.


Allyson Klutenkamper (above) won my raffle print! I proceeded to fall in love with one of her photographs of a white lampshade in front of a white wall in addition to...


... Jason DeMarte's Utopic series.


A trade is in the works with Nate and Marni! Hooray!

I'll spare everyone the embarrassing dance party photographs which were the next biggest highlight. Oh yeah... Nancy's and my talk went a-okay. Next year the theme is "Intimacy and Voyeurism" AND it's located in San Francisco. Can't wait!