here’s a couple of peep-holes into the peripheral worlds that you may have been unintentionally overlooking lately, or rather, welcome to my choice of focus.
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Category Archives: looking at looking
focussing in on the everyday…
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
…& finding new visual galaxies hidden in the most unexpected of objects.
making a loud place quiet, a fast place slow, and a busy mind empty…
Saturday, February 14, 2009
this winter, i set out to subvert my viewer’s perspective by encouraging them to dramatically reduce the speed at which they look at the most habitual of their surroundings. my hope was to perhaps rekindle the public’s love affair with daydreams and inspire them to actively seek them out on their own watch.
so i searched for the unfamiliar [...]
worlds trapped in windows…
Thursday, January 15, 2009
this winter, i’ve begun to re-route my investigation of unnoticed visual wonder by making an effort to shift my own perspective on my surroundings in a manner that allows me to meditate not merely on the object in my sight, but on what is/may be/appears to be contained within the object. i’m in love with [...]
the source of me…
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
for my core samples class, we were asked to create a presentation that showed our creative history, our influences, what inspires us, what we surround ourselves with, or in other words: our sources.
behold, my source presenation:
exercising my perspective…
Thursday, November 13, 2008
in last week’s lecture at risd, john stilgoe preached to “bloom where you’re planted”. then during a phone chat on sunday, abe morell excitedly told me to remember that “fairly close by, there’s a lot of extraordinary stuff going on”.
& so on a particularly blustery fall morning, i sat inside my slightly warmer living room [...]
found inspiration.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
from sir albert einstein, of course:
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to WONDER and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.…To know that what [...]
oh, wonder…
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
i met with two of my extra lovely advisors, matt monk & nancy skolos, today & it was suggested that perhaps what my thesis truly is about is wonder: to create wonder, display wonder, give wonder & cause wonder.
it seems so simple…& though i talk about “wonder” when describing my thesis goals, i never thought to distill [...]
sensitivity towards the inanimate.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
yes, i know it’s no surprise that my thesis work is made of stuff that i’m made of.
in my core samples course, we were asked to write about materials that we tend to collect/hoard/obsess over.
apparently, i have no trouble daydreaming…& you?
yarn
My mother is a knitter. When I was growing up, every summer she’d spend her [...]
the poetry of non-objects.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
In our Anne West seminar, we were asked to create a work based on a text that has helped to form our thesis direction. I, of course, chose Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space and did an exercise combining his use of a poetic lens turned upon our daily lives and Uta Barth’s idea of non-spaces to look [...]