I spent part of last Friday playing with new film forms...
Photos taken with my phone.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Looping shapes with film
I spent part of last Friday playing with new film forms...
Photos taken with my phone.
Monday, December 5, 2011
A Conspiracy of Fishes - Installation details and slideshow
Installed Friday at the Urbana Regional Library in Frederick MD, and curated by the Delaplaine.
Materials: Staples; Black and white 16mm films withdrawn from the Gettysburg College Library: a short biology film titled "Cell Division," a 2-reel documentary on Mt Athos, and short film about football, narrated by John Madden.
This is possibly the most-difficult-to-photograph piece I have ever put up - the space is amazing, but also full of architecture, books and uncontrolled lighting.
I had originally planned to hang my pieces close to the walls, using the lip of the wall as the place to anchor them. But when I arrived, I saw that the library staff had hung winter decorations in the open space between the floors - which, of course, got me thinking about installing in the middle of the space. And as it turns out, Urbana is such a recent building that the framing is all aluminum studs, and the lip was impossible to hang from.
So I built a grid out of string, and anchored it to a bit of 1x4 decorative molding - which also happened to be the most solid thing on the walls. And once the Urbana librarians saw where we planned to hang the work, they decided to move the decorations that had been hanging at the first floor level, up to the second floor level.
Overall, I'm quite happy with the installation - there's an alien, flighty, floaty, sea animal sense to the pieces, which I feel is worth pursuing. The title for the piece - A Conspiracy of Fishes - came to me after I was done putting it up, and is definitely a result of those alien, animal shapes.
The two things I'm not happy about are:
The uncontrolled lighting - After everything was hung, we discovered that the lights on the walls can not be adjusted, so I lost the element of shadows.
Hanging apparatus - After I'd hung the whole thing, I realized the string - which disappears when viewed from below - is very obvious when the piece is viewed from above.
I took video as well, but I still have to edit it before I can upload it.
Materials: Staples; Black and white 16mm films withdrawn from the Gettysburg College Library: a short biology film titled "Cell Division," a 2-reel documentary on Mt Athos, and short film about football, narrated by John Madden.
This is possibly the most-difficult-to-photograph piece I have ever put up - the space is amazing, but also full of architecture, books and uncontrolled lighting.
So I built a grid out of string, and anchored it to a bit of 1x4 decorative molding - which also happened to be the most solid thing on the walls. And once the Urbana librarians saw where we planned to hang the work, they decided to move the decorations that had been hanging at the first floor level, up to the second floor level.
Overall, I'm quite happy with the installation - there's an alien, flighty, floaty, sea animal sense to the pieces, which I feel is worth pursuing. The title for the piece - A Conspiracy of Fishes - came to me after I was done putting it up, and is definitely a result of those alien, animal shapes.
The two things I'm not happy about are:
The uncontrolled lighting - After everything was hung, we discovered that the lights on the walls can not be adjusted, so I lost the element of shadows.
Hanging apparatus - After I'd hung the whole thing, I realized the string - which disappears when viewed from below - is very obvious when the piece is viewed from above.
I took video as well, but I still have to edit it before I can upload it.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Red film strips
More work for the show I'm installing on Friday, taken with the camera on my cell phone.This is b&w film that has turned red with age.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Working towards installation at the Urbana Library
This is in my kitchen at the moment. I'll be spending much of Thanksgiving creating more of these, for the Urbana Library in Frederick, MD.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Alphabet Blocks and My Work Bench
I'm taking a bit of hiatus from new work while I focus on Library projects and attend family weddings in Spain.
So it's a good time to simply observe, and to make mental/photographic archives of things that push my subconscious buttons that may eventually evolve in sculptures.
So it's a good time to simply observe, and to make mental/photographic archives of things that push my subconscious buttons that may eventually evolve in sculptures.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Morning - in progress photos
This isn't quite done yet (we open June 10)....
Although I haven't figured out yet how to show it in a photo, one of the big changes between this and the piece at ArtSpace in February is the base - it's not solid or flat, but is coming up off the ground too. The whole thing is floating a lot more.
The finished piece in video:
Although I haven't figured out yet how to show it in a photo, one of the big changes between this and the piece at ArtSpace in February is the base - it's not solid or flat, but is coming up off the ground too. The whole thing is floating a lot more.
The finished piece in video:
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Wavelengths, June 10 - July 22 at Honfleur Gallery
I have a new show!
After several months focusing on parenting (soccer, cub scouts, homework...) and work (my web team gave a presentation at Computers In Libraries in March, and then I did a lot of training, followed by Library Legislative Day in May), I'm back to the studio/gallery.
Courtesy of microWave Project, one of my favorite curatorial duos, I'll be showing the latest evolution of my continuing coffee filter series at Honfleur Gallery in Anacostia during June and July.
The opening reception is next Friday, June 10, from 7-9 p.m. Please come!
Honfleur Gallery
1241 Good Hope Rd. SE Washington , D.C. 20020
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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