Still trying to post the last of my stuff from school, here's an update to the Demographic project, the piece is nearly complete now, though I am not sure I have the resources I need to finish it yet. Sometime soon I hope,
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Deciding what to do for bronze casting was driving me crazy over the summer, whatever I did was going to stick around for awhile so I had to do a real piece with some serious concept behind it. And that was terrifying. So I thought about it and I worried
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One of the most awesome projects we had this semester in installation was the outdoor project. We went to a horse pasture owned by a friend of Wendy and had about two hours to decide what we were doing and where and then to execute the piece. I was thinking about my grandfather who lives in California and after a little while this piece just sort
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My first attempt at setting up this piece was a disaster, it was a windy morning and by the time I got the class there to look at it it was just a bunch of cigarette butts scattered in the courtyard. This time I soaked them in a bucket of water all night so they would not blow away but even still the piece had to be smaller than I had intended
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Installation was a really fun class and I think it didn't get as much of my attention as it deserved sometimes. This project is an example of that. We had to come up with a participatory art project. I wanted to send postcards and I had an idea that had to do with hallmark and sending kind words that have nothing to do with you or your loved one
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One of the first pieces of the semester was a public intervention. I went all around campus collecting cigarette butts in a plastic bucket. The morning of the critique I showed up very early and laid the butts out in a pattern on the ground but it was windy and they immediately started blowing away and rolling. I had to clump them
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This is what I did in sculpture, I'd have posted them earlier but I lost the files and had to borrow the disk from my professor that I handed in last semester.
We have been working with plaster in 3D, it's good fun but apparently the humidity has combined with our collective ineptitude to create the disagreeable situation of everyone having wet plaster to work with that seems like it might never dry. Oh well, here's the initial sketch: