through my talk with hammet last week, i was introduced to a new theoretical term that i have subconsciously & intuitively been working with…for a long, long time. The idea of “framing”. FRAMING: “It is an inevitable process of selective influence over the individual’s perception of the meanings attributed to words or phrases. A frame [...]
lastnight i went to see uta barth give a lecture at risd. she has been one of my favorite photographers for about a decade & a half now & i’ve realized that she is working with ideas that are quite similar to my thesis work thus far. in her ground series, she investigates what she [...]
& please feel free to travel here for more images of my latest microscopic adventure…
in researching the small things in the world this evening, i stumbled upon both a contemporary micro-sculptor & a powers of ten {digital intergalactic superhighway re-mix}.
i posted, to my flickr page, the images that i took of my miniature friends who started this most recent investigation into the world of miniatures…enjoy:
oh, cold & rainy sunday mornings seem to be the perfect time to sit on the dusty blue couch drinking warm coffee & reading gaston bachelard’s the poetics of space. the chapter of the day? why miniature, of course. much like the through-the-microscope photos that i’ve been taking of miniscule scraps of sea life, each [...]
i’ve been reading a lot lately about the power & intrigue of the miniature. i decided to return to the wondrous collection of fantastical relics at the museum of jurassic technology…with particular attention paid to the strand-of-hair carvings by Hagop Sandaldjian. “Inhabiting the margins between dream and reality, these figures of impossible dimensions appear at once [...]
after much confusion & general computer-shaking, i do believe that i have officially created a blog for my thesis process. if you disagree with this here belief of mine, please do let me know as i will remain quite clueless otherwise. & so in far more simpler terms, this post is a test: testing, 1llama, 2llama, [...]