TRIP is here!

Art365KC preview on review.org!

installation test-run

built in my garage.....

and a video..... (sorry marguerite.)

new location mockups

(not quite to scale)

EXHIBITION POSTER (with DATE & NEW LOCATION)

mid semester crit/exhibition plan/summer internship!

had my mid-semester critique today. this is what i showed (please excuse the poor, hasty documentation):

my most recent statement 

along with a few of my laminated test prints

a perspective drawing of my installation plans (strips of paper with prints mounted to them; projection coming from the other side)

the floorplan for the exhibition space (prints on the west walls, viewing space for 4x6 prints, food table, and installation area)

here's a wider view of what it looked like on the wall

i also showed this video which will be projected on the installation: 

here are the notes I took:

what did i learn? Bonnie wants to know.


Gary wants to read. (include writings)


Displaced familiarity


my experience translated to continue


replication is dangerous. i'm re-structuring, re-creating


(for the writing on the back of my 4x6 prints) develop a poetic language, not pure description


need more interaction.
include smell, objects to create experience


kickstarter for donations



So what's going to be in my show?
- The video/print/sound projection installation
- Laminated/mounted on foamcore prints on the wall
- A seating area with a table covered in 4x6 prints (100+) with writing on the back, objects from NZ
- Writing from my time there & reflections on it
- Cupcakes made by Jaimie
- Smells from NZ? Not sure how to do this yet....

this will also be a benefit for the Christchurch earthquake. I will be taking donations at the exhibition and donating a portion of any profits from sold artwork.

now I just need Prospero's to give me a date!





In other news.....
I have accepted an intern position at Metro Pictures gallery in NYC this summer! YES.

poster/flyer mockup! [EDIT]

obviously, we have not settled a date yet.... but hopefully that will be taken care of soon!

so what do you think of the title? the design? comment!

-------------EDIT

here's a couple other versions

exhibition preparation schedule/thesis talk preparation

This is the schedule I've devised for myself:

02/07 – 02/20

- Select images to be printed for senior thesis exhibition

- Complete video for installation at exhibition

- Take photographs and measurements of exhibition space

- Finalize ideas for display of prints and video installation

- Consider title for exhibition/project

02/21 - 03/06

- Settle date for exhibition

- Finalize title

- Begin printing images for exhibition

- Determine logistics of how prints will be framed/mounted/displayed

- Reserve necessary equipment for installation

03/07 – 03/20

- Complete printing

- Begin framing/mounting/whatever method of display for prints

- Begin any building required for installation

- Poster/flyer designs

03/21 – 4/3

- Complete framing/mounting/etc

- Test run of installation

- Send out flyers/hang posters

4/4 – 4/30

- Exhibition will take place on one of these dates.

- Exhibition will be completely installed and shown during this time.



In the meantime, I'll also be working on my senior thesis talk, which will take place on 27 April.

I've started that... it was suggested that we organize our talk not chronologically, but by related ideas or themes. So I came up with a list of themes that commonly appear in my work, then a list of all the projects I've done. But I realized that these themes can apply to much of my work. I tried to make a flow chart illustrating this...

.... but that got a little messy.

so instead i did this:

The projects are listed on the left side, somewhat chronologically, and the themes are on the right. I gave each theme a color, then drew a line from that theme to each project it applies to.

So now I just have to work out how and in what order I'm going to talk about everything. Yay.

notes from my retrospective critique//Cory rules

yesterday I was skyped in to my retrospective review back in KC. this time I could hear everyone and could usually see people, which was great. thanks so much, fellow P/DFers, for accommodating my hemispherical handicap.

Cory very kindly took notes for me, which are awesome, which I am posting here right now:

isn't Cory amazing?

yes, she is.

but anyhow, I was pleased to hear people saying all the things I'd been thinking, and most of those things that I mentioned in my tentative proposal. basically, everything everyone said encouraged me. great job, guys.