time away
you would think that without a full-time job, a person would be able to do all the things that she wanted to do and complained about not having the time. and yet, i still did not do most of the things i had hoped to, but i was able to focus on making art.
for months, i twisted led & resistor legs and wire. it was/is a long and gruelling process, and after i got about halfway through, i felt that my approach perhaps was not the best, but it had taken me so long to get to that point, i felt/feel compelled to finish rather than start over ( i can save that for another project ).
the process was very repetitive, but i was motivated and spent a lot of time on it. after a few months without progress, i gave myself another project or two that would have some more immediate results.
i discovered photobooth over the holidays, and decided to make something that was about "the moment" in picture-taking and the experience of not worrying about technical aspects but being in the moment. i captured images of myself with a digital video camera - one in the am & one in the pm using photobooth and a script that randomly picked an effect. with most of it automated, i let my body do what i thought would make for interesting images. i also selected and recorded from a list of adjectives a mood. I initially thought the images would be simply put up on a wall with plexi protecting them and arranged like a calendar, but as the project progressed, i decided on a less traditional presentation of a calendar, and that the images should be self-standing.
this project ( These Days ) turned out to be more involved than i initially had conceived, but i was able to finish by early May so that it would be in a show at BC space gallery. it is now set up at irvine fine arts center. opening is june 10.
at the same time, i also started a project involving squares of closeups of inches of a woman's body, and one that will have almost every inch of my own body. this is still in progress.
i was quite satisfied to have been able to complete a project in the time i alotted myself, since i am usually so terribly wrong in estimating how long something will take -- this happened with the neverending led project. after all the work and time put into These Days, i needed a break to do relaxing things.
for months, i twisted led & resistor legs and wire. it was/is a long and gruelling process, and after i got about halfway through, i felt that my approach perhaps was not the best, but it had taken me so long to get to that point, i felt/feel compelled to finish rather than start over ( i can save that for another project ).
the process was very repetitive, but i was motivated and spent a lot of time on it. after a few months without progress, i gave myself another project or two that would have some more immediate results.
i discovered photobooth over the holidays, and decided to make something that was about "the moment" in picture-taking and the experience of not worrying about technical aspects but being in the moment. i captured images of myself with a digital video camera - one in the am & one in the pm using photobooth and a script that randomly picked an effect. with most of it automated, i let my body do what i thought would make for interesting images. i also selected and recorded from a list of adjectives a mood. I initially thought the images would be simply put up on a wall with plexi protecting them and arranged like a calendar, but as the project progressed, i decided on a less traditional presentation of a calendar, and that the images should be self-standing.
this project ( These Days ) turned out to be more involved than i initially had conceived, but i was able to finish by early May so that it would be in a show at BC space gallery. it is now set up at irvine fine arts center. opening is june 10.at the same time, i also started a project involving squares of closeups of inches of a woman's body, and one that will have almost every inch of my own body. this is still in progress.
i was quite satisfied to have been able to complete a project in the time i alotted myself, since i am usually so terribly wrong in estimating how long something will take -- this happened with the neverending led project. after all the work and time put into These Days, i needed a break to do relaxing things.
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