(reflective safety tape...one with flash and one without) (Please note hexagons)

Drawing

Someday maybe i'll show all the sketchbooks i went through during the three weeks i was without my studio. Someday. But for now, here are some of the drawings i've been working on in my Drawing Studio, aka, my OLD studio. The one that contains trace amounts of poison.








And of course, all those hexagons...


More soon, drawings and other. I'm actually starting to create work almost too fast to document, much less post about. I know that's a good thing, but one of the problems with installation-based work is that you work on something, and then in order to work on something else you pretty much have to destroy or at least disassemble when you've just made (maybe that was why my teachers didn't think i made any work...). I've been reading about Ree Morton, and so much of her work exists only in photographs she took in her studio...under almost every photo it says "Destroyed". So, i just have to suck it up! At least there are photos.

Coated Paper, more shiny things

Transitivity

It took a ridiculously long time to get back on track in the studio after the evacuation/cancelled education/destruction of personal property. I've moved into my new studio, and am keeping my old studio for the summer to work on drawing. It's actually working out and it helps me keep my new studio fairly minimal furniture-wise.
Right now i am having a good time experimenting with materials, and in general that whole "doing not thinking" thing that was such a struggle during the year. Or, more accurately: Making/trying, researching/thinking, and keeping those two activities from getting in each other's way.
The focus is, coming from the mirrors i was working on, reflection. Reflective surfaces (aluminum, shiny fabrics, tinfoil, mirrors, water, etc). This is leading to doubled images, directional reflection, and variations of clarity in the reflections. Also, i'm still thinking of the artist/art/viewer relationship as seen through the mirror reflection. But here are a few of the things i've been doing:









I'm also still doing hexagons, and still wondering why but i'm just doing them.

Summer reading

.. Had me a blast...
So here's where i find out if anyone is really checking in. I need some summer reading suggestions. If anyone has anything to suggest please let me know. And i'm not talkin bout some New Release, poolside-light sunshine reading. Please. My studio has no natural light. I care not for Briget Jones. That said, no suggestion is too obvious, because my theoretical reading background is less than solid. Here is what i have been reading and so should everyone else
- Susan Sontag On Photography
- Walter Benjamin Illuminations
- Henry Sayre The Object of Performance
and i also can't get my nose out of my beautiful new Eva Hesse catalogue (from her show at the Jewish Museum) AND The Art Of Richard Tuttle, the catalogue from his retrospective (I saw it last year at the Whitney...i think it's still traveling).
-Oh and Jose Saramago All the Names
Well, what have yall been reading?