I'm starting out the New Year with counting. I have reached my cat quota and now I must purchase a new scanner since the one I have can't update to Lion. 3670 cats here I scan. Many thanks to gifts like this appearing randomly in my school mailbox:
and those from a stranger whose name I couldn't read (friend of Amelia):
The update on the lists that I keep collecting (for reasons which I hope unveil themselves soon):
Certainly 2012 will bring more additions to this stash.
I moved all the Nine Fake Cakes and Nine Bodies of Water posts from In Search of the Center to this site. Now it looks like I've had this blog for over a year but 29th December 2010 was indeed the first day Something Between Want and Desire went public. I haven't grown bored yet with this blogging business so here's to another year of seeing, creating, and thinking about art. Thank you for following!
My Nine Fake Cakes and Nine Bodies of Water self-published book is now five months overdue. Here are some artist's books that have inspired me in terms of materials, layout, and presentation.
Hannah's new painting that has nothing to do with this exhibition proposal but reminded me of hay bales behind an electric fence (at a Midwestern penitentiary filled in H):
Hannah and David sorting through work to be photographed:
Writing a proposal (if Jen wasn't sitting against the window with poor lighting conditions, I would have sneaked an image in of her too):
The ongoing series tentatively entitled Autobiography utilizes objects to chronicle the passing of time. Autobiography monumentalizes the mundane, elevating sagging swimsuits and stained lunch bags into chronological markers that define a life. A significant move is indicated by the changing collection (each city lived in requires a different object collected for that time period).Other important elements include: changes in employment, the bridge from adolescence to adulthood, and hereditary comparisons between generations.
I spent yesterday prepping for the meeting with Hannah, David, and Jen today to discuss a potential show centering around "containers." I made working prints of all the lunch bags, clear water samples, and 5 objects photographed before thrown away. This morning I am running around collecting 3-D materials to bring as well. Not sure if I am fully prepared to think about this series yet but it's moving forward whether or not I am ready. I have a very good idea what it is about and will be posting that paragraph shortly.
Each were printed at 8.5" x 11" but the choice for which one to print large at various sizes was in between these two.
11" x 8.5" or 19" x 13" or 30" x 20"? I can't lie. The big one wins first place for me but that may change if I'm displaying them in a grid of 12.
I've been thinking about Mark Flood's paintings lately (above: Wait Here, 2010). I was happy to see him return to humor that isn't indicative in his lace paintings of the last decade (although the lace black panther I once saw in his studio remains one of my favorite pieces).
Mark Flood, Another Painting (Leaves), 2009
Mark Flood, 25 Additional Paintings, 2009
His overt text references sum up how I feel right now after grading and grading and meeting and meeting and grading students for what feels like every last minute of the entire month. Sometimes it's great to have it spelled out, especially at 1:39 AM.
I spent many hours of my evening attempting to get my inbox down to a manageable size (under ten). I failed but there is still tomorrow. When Google searching "answering email," the following image pops up (which is appropriate in a bizarre way):
Because it's that time of year when all I can do is post other people's art because I have no time to make my own AND mountains represent escape (and home and and and).