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