Well my graduate review is coming up very soon, and it is time to write an artist statement about what I’m doing in the studio at the moment. However, before I can do this, I must really think about what I am doing. My classmate, Virginia, has challenged all of us in the [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 21, 2007
Other Artists Using Photos as Art: Joachim Schmid
Today, I spent the first half of the day printing images on fabric to sew onto the fabric collages I did earlier. I hope to have these sewn and scanned to share with you by next week. The rest of the afternoon, I spent reading about the history of the photo album on my back [...]
October 14, 2007
Oh, yeah….my other daily task? Action – Reaction
One of my assignments for my current class was to come up with some sort of ACTION to do every day. This in turn leads to a REACTION. I also was to keep a daily journal about the experience. Well, since my day is pretty jammed packed as it is, this was [...]
October 14, 2007
Daily Photo Collages: update
Most of the fabric collages that I’ve been sharing with you, are experiments of compositions and subjects. The photo images you see with the fabric are just xeroxes of the original photos. I work this way for ideas only. Since I’ve been wanting to actually carry some of these ideas to a finished work, I’ve [...]
October 7, 2007
Studio: Collages with Fabrics
After a highly needed restful Saturday, I went to the studio all day Sunday. I seemed to kick my lethargic Saturday mood to the way side. (I think I was fighting a cold.) Today I have more energy, and I had a good studio day. I started by organizing my stack of xeroxed photos into [...]
