photoness.

those photos are interesting but not particularly my taste...i think they're not formally beautiful enough for me. anyway, i am interested in hearing more about that crit. i think it's a little hairy when you adopt a medium like photo and then have photographers look at your work. it's a weird space. obviously, i've seen it happen, only the medium was clay.

so i am writing a proposal shortly about our potential collaboration, basically i want to work together with the hopes of generating some photos

LUKAS SAMARAS

Lukas Samaras Photo-Transformation (1973-1976)

Link to his biography

I just got suggested him in my already infamous crit.

Alek

Anne Walsh, take two.

is there a place to see her videos? i couldn't figure it out on her website.

you know what i loved, though? the part on the home page where is said

MORE?

YES.

i clicked it repeatedly. it felt strangely subversive.

worklifelove.

ann walsh...beautiful stuff but almost on the edge of being too sterile for me. but megan might love her. the colors are really lovely. i love the fact that they are freestanding objects instead of being on the wall.

okay, so i want to see that doc. i don't have netflix anymore so if you could lend me your password at some point that would be great.

i also saw a documentary at NCECA, called "who does she think she is?" it is about female artists and the balance (or lack thereof) of family and creative practice and how these things are not supported in the same manner as they are with male artists. it was a really good, cathartic experience for me, but pretty much reiterated what i already knew to be true. it's depressing, really. i resent the decisions i feel like i am being forced to make in order to have a creative life. i don't actually feel i could give my studio practice the attention it deserves and have a family at the same time. i came to this conclusion at age 12, and i still feel the same way. it makes me sad, but it's a decision that i'm mostly okay with.

Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe

Just saw "Black White Gray:  A portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe "

I think that some of the content the striking images and perhaps the subject matter could resonate with both of us--
I could really see my work addressing sexuality more... in combo with the spiritual side of things that will always be there.  Like in my newest image, you haven't seen how it normally looks.  There is this big spike in my crotch.
Mapplethorpe reminds me anything is possible.
The photos Wagstaff collected were incredible---  some so captivating.  You need to watch this documentary.  Has patti smith in it a lot (I bet you like her?).  Available for instant viewing on netflix.  Maybe I can even give you my netflix password to watch if you don't have netflix anymore.
Documentary is inspiring and haunting.  I am letting all these possibilities creep into my view of things and it is kind of scary but also kind of titillating.

Ohh I just met Anne Walsh last week (CHECK OUT HER WORK).  She has a tattoo that looks a lot like the tattoos you posted.  A student tattooed her for a project the student was doing.  It is what darwin had on his hand. A two word phrase that was actually kind of sweet even though it was something that meant humans are no more than animals.. sweet in that it was darwin being humble... something "never better"  or something like that.  Right in the area between her thumb and first finger.

skin art.

oh my god. this blew my mind. i wish i could've read the whole article on WWD, but it's subscription based. her website is here, with her whole portfolio. her MFA is in photo from U of Wash.

stage.

hey, so you should look into some info on theatre sets, lighting, etc, especially SCRIMS. have you ever seen these? you probably have if you've gone to any larger theatre productions. they are pieces of cloth that can appear solid or completely transparent depending on how you shine light on them. i am seeing potential all over that bitch.

i am really excited about that image....i really need to photograph the forms i've been making and get them to you. i have a dept crit on the 15th so i will send you what i have from that. i've been making body parts and perhaps putting them together with my own body might be an interesting tension.

i am kind of miserable here in Phoenix right now. major neck/shoulder pain right now (i threw out my neck? is that even possible?). i went for a massage today, and it made it better but not completely. plus i am in the let's get drunk and stay out til 3 room. i am sick of being made to feel that i am boring/dumb/lame for not wanting to get shitfaced all the fucking time.

i am updating i am updating i am updating

So I might eventually be nekkid in this composition.. or at least that was the original idea.
this is still a rough photo but it is getting there.

I guess I should say something about the relevance to our endeavors... 2-d and 3-d as a way to address liminal space.  Ambiguity in what you are seeing.  The blurring of edges.

Ohh my artist statement (in a previous post)-- first two paragraphs people responded to, last two, not so much.. and i get it..  I didnt actually connect all the new age shit in the last few paragraphs..  It is my first new statement really since umass.

Parkeharrison.

they were visiting artists at UMass in November. i'm not sure if the content will speak to you, but the process surely will...they spend months making "sets" to take photos of. very labor intensive. their website is here.