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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]