April 28, 2008
I plan on
April 22, 2008
April 15, 2008
-Is the decision in the progress of your project based on your concept?
Are all choices and steps reflecting your concept or in the context of your direction?
Yes, I think it is very important to work in the context of the concept of the project.
For this reason I will go ahead and use the non-archival supplies my project was originally printed on, because it feels more honest, right now, to the original thought of making a billion xerox copies.
I think it is important to keep this project as simple and elegant as possible, as the idea
grew out of the simplicity and fun of playing with an old xerox machine.
April 13, 2008
*Gatorboard with large swaths of velcro on the back, to stick it to wall. (Talked to Paul Berger about this, who mentioned a ceramic artist who used velcro to successfully hold up a considerable amount of weight)
*3M sticky iron on (or push on) stuff to adhere the individual papers to the gatorboard.
*possibly spray adhesive would work for this job too (but not as well, and probably not as archival)
*Look into the specs of the ink I used- is it archival?
*re print on RAG paper, NOT the crappy stuff from staples I used (haha)
Other things Paul brought up, which are of interest:
*adding depth across the matrix to imply the time/repetition of the process (under more copied columns, have a tiny stack of paper)
*recompositing (digitally) parts of more copied sections into earlier stages, then copying those (and vice versa) to get a weird integrated effect/ give it some kind of punctuation.
(I did not get to any museums last week, but I plan on the Henry and the James Harris on tuesday afternoon.)
April 10, 2008
-gathered desert mountain images
-started photoshopping those (color correction/chopping em up into component parts)
-tried every single paint tool installed on the school computer (see what I did with the meat tool)
-decided which grass to use (and started tweaking its attributes)
-made a ground plane with rolling hills (that I’m not sure I can use anyway)
April 9, 2008
Not the best claymation, but i like the woman’s eyes, and this gives me a lot of confidence that i’ll be able to acheive a more “realistic” effect with more time put into it.
At this point claymation seems like the best option.
April 9, 2008
Music
Ben’s ipod
emeliana torrini
kate bush
cowboy junkies
ben’s french chick
joanna newsom (instrumental?)
ben’s chick that sounds like newsom
Costumes
Rental monster
Latex built monster
Tunics for girls
Image Research
-black lagoon/swamp monster/fish man/mole man
-powerful young women/sisters/witches?
-acts of destruction/creation (indian, greek, roman)
-deserts
-english/oasis/gully
-death of child/victorian post mortem/dolls/funeral/open casket
-consumption and assumption of another’s powers
-cannabalism?
-”antique”/natural/wooden crown jewels and staff
Overall change
Play—————————->Real consequences
SUBTLE environmental changes
harmless animals chasing e/o_________> coyote chasing/eating rabbit
clear gradient sky—————–>turbulence
Cannabalism?
Death of part of self and consumption/assumption of dead part into remaining part/something new
Cannabalism as passive, mourning, gracious. Stones on the body, the body opening itself up magically.
Plant grows out of chest, lifts/offers heart
From behind, view living girl as she graciously takes it in her hands, brings it to her face
CASUAL CANNABALISM (yeah, that made me laugh, but I have a point.)
Forms of destruction
maggots, worms
explosions (of gas, fire, parasites)
dry up, shrivel
catch fire
grow perversely/cancer
eat self, turn on self irrationally, self destruct
get stuck
gruesomeness
crush things
Forms of creation
touch things
bring strength, life
flourish, grow
glow
fly, run, play
flower
abundance, lusciousness, too much, decadence
watchful, peaceful, guardian
healing of destruction/wounds
birth, multiplicity
eating, morphing
April 8, 2008
1. describe your project(s) in 3 sentences
I xeroxed the female body, then fed the images through the copier over and over and over until the images desintigrated into the dust of visual compression artifacts. On the micro level, the pixels slowly morph into tiny island shapes, turning the body into some kind of strange imaginary micro landscape. On the macro level, the body is abstracted into geometric shapes, and then blurs out into nothingness.
2. describe how you are going to use the space (writing or drawing)
I will be presenting this piece on a wall. I will either take a corner and do a black-box-adult-room kind of thing, or will proudly display it on a wall in plain sight, to attract more attention to it. Not 100% sure yet.
3. describe what equipments you need
If I build a black box, I will need the black fabric from fremont, and some kind of structure to hang that on.
I will need to figure out how to mount the images on the wall. I will figure that out later this week.
4. describe any special condition you need (for example; dark room, independent sound space, unique entrance, unique use of existing structure or furniture, unique color of wall etc.)
I probably won’t really need anything special. Unless I want to paint the wall black or something, which I probably will not.
April 8, 2008
8.5×11 luster $2 x 30 = $60 (not sure glossy would look good)
8.5×11 bw $.10 x 30 =$3 (essentially duplicate what i have now)
13×19 matte $3 x 15= $45 (plus cutting time)
Not sure if luster (glossy) would look good anyway, probably prefere matte (feels more honest and true to xerox). Not sure if 13×19 matte is archival anyway, so it might not even be worth it to re print this at this time. Might just go ahead and use the prints I have now, straight from the xerox.
As far as a poster version of this (compiled from scans of the xeroxes):
DJet800ps 42×60-Poster (Heavyweight coated paper, 1200×600dpi) $20.00
DJet5500ps 42×60-Poster (Heavyweight coated paper, 1200×600dpi) $20.00
STY7500 24×36-Poster Yes (Archival semi-gloss paper, 1440×720dpi) $10.00
Stylus 9600 44×62-Poster (Enhanced matte, 1400dpi) $30.00
(non-postscript) 44×36-Poster (Enhanced matte, 1400dpi) $20.00
I might print out two or three 42×60-Poster (Heavyweight coated paper) to have at the show if that’s ok- I know I’ve invited a few people who have requested to purchase poster sized copies of this piece. Is that ok? If it’s not I can just sell them online instead. Was just thinking it’d be cool to have them there if someone was like “COOL I WANT THAT” haha
Also, link to my other research and IMAGES of the xeroxes:
April 8, 2008
Ideas from class (thank you, class):
check out: persona (by ingmar bergman sp?)
check out: sandman (neil gaiman) personalities/supernatural (specifically delerium)
check out: double life of veronique (wow that was hard to spell)
check out: tivon’s stop mo (cranks and stuff)
it’s important that the girls are touching (so few groups of people can touch like that, like young girls can)
it’s important that they are not verbally communicating, but only communicate through glances and touch
(these things make them more solid, powerful, confident, bound together)
think about: the girls as still photos, environment dynamic
think about: the motivation of land
what’s changed since class:
The new story:
2 girls sitting in an oasis in the desert, not talking, but touching in a sisterly way.
One creates and one destroys. They play with their powers, “battling” each other, showing off to each other.
Accidentally, a mole man is created, an abomination of nature (not evil, but unnatural in this world).
The girls are shocked, but self confident. The destroyer tries to destroy the mole man, and the creator tries to capture him (with vines or by summoning birds, etc)
Accidentally, one of the girls is killed, and the remaining girl is forced to take on both the powers of creation and destruction.
And then, is forced to re-balance, with the mole man (king and queen of this new altered realm).
Interpretations:
girls as yin and yang, balanced
but playing around they break apart, lose balance
and are forced to re-balance with this self created abomination of nature
king and queen. standing rigidly.
“this weird sense of guilt and beauty always remains from the act
one must move on
use what they have to their advantage”
“it reminds me of relationships
we destoryed each other but both ended up as a mixture of ourselves and the other”
“it’s like growing up
fighting against yourself, then maturing and fighting against the world… the way the two girls become one.”
