Starting this semester I promised myself that I would continue to blog, but like most promises I couldn’t quite keep it. However, I will start this week! As my first post back, let me fill you in on what I’ve been working on:
With Digital Photography
- I have been carrying my camera everywhere with me and have gotten some nice images. My most successful have been while I’ve been in my car (don’t worry, I was sitting in traffic or at a red light when I took almost all of them . . ; ). I will be uploading my “Life in a Car” series tomorrow.
Here are some of my older photos that I took while I was in New York this past Christmas:
With Installation/Sculpture
- I have one sculpture installation at Pont-Aven’s School of Contemporary Art in France in their Mail Art exhibition. Here is an image of the sculpture:
I love using mixed media in my work and this sculpture was no exception. During my Illustration class this semester I was working with two objects for an assignment and one of those objects was a light bulb. While working and staring at the light bulb for over a couple of weeks, I started to become really interested in how they work and in how they are built. With this fascination constantly playing with my mind, I chose to use the light bulb in this exhibit.
The cartoons are famous for illustrating an idea through the imagery of the light bulb and I thought what if the light bulb actually held your great thought or any thought inside your head. Before that thought leaves your mind it must germinate somewhere . . . . So I created a place for it to grow and mature. Within this light bulb I was thinking about mail art and my recent transition back to America from France. Using an American stamp and a French stamp I wound my thought and added more texture and text. I took out the filament of the light bulb and placed my thought there. Then I reinserted the glass mount and filament into the bulb and sealed it. I have to tell you, the best part was disecting the light bulb. If you ever want to know how to do this, ask me and I’ll help you.
I haven’t lost my fascination with light bulbs and I am continuing to take them apart! I want to start working on another project with the light bulb, but we’ll see if my crazy life will let me get some of my art in!
- I am continuing to work on my books, but I will be starting a new one, hopefully tomorrow. I want to build a book out of Plexiglas: the covers, the pages – everything except the binding! I think that I will dry point etch images into the “pages” so that as you “read” the book you will be able to look at the image on that specific page while also looking at the whole image created by the pages being stacked on top of each other. I’m really excited about this book!!! Unfortunately, it is also near the end of the semester and assignments are breaking down my door! I really miss the studio and time that I had in France. . . . . .
I will continue to keep you all posted and I’m really sorry for my absence! So let us continue onto the battlefield of art itself!
