Category Archives: tracing

Studio: My past with my family’s past

I’ve decided to imagine my own history by bring photos of me into the collage.  I’m not trying to rewrite to forget.  I have very fond memories.  I’m only trying to connect to a history that intrigues me, the past … Continue reading

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Studio: More organizing and analyzing

It is time to finally organize all my family photos into collections that go together. My goal here is see if I can learn more information about these experiences by looking at all the photos of the same event, rather … Continue reading

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Studio: Conceptual Thoughts

It is now time to write more about what I am thinking of while I am creating this new work that I am sharing with you. Keywords: MEMORY: The need or ability to recall what has happened in the past. … Continue reading

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Studio: More Impressions

I’m not feeling a 100% today, so I’m not going to type too much.  Here are a few pictures though.  I will talk more about concept soon.  Enjoy.  Comments always welcome.

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Studio: More ink impressions

Here are some samplings of ink impressions I’ve been working on. Some of these are in progress. Instead of drawing objects, I thought I would do impressions of photo collage tracings. This is my tool. Stitching on fabric.

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Studio: Traces and Process

I’ve been trying to figure out my new process.  I’ve spent a lot of time doing samples so that I will have more control with the fabric impressions on paper.  I did wet on wet, dry on dry, wet on … Continue reading

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Studio: I’m back in the studio! Yippie!

Hey everybody! Thanks for being patient with my long break from this blog. I’m in a studio class this quarter, and I’m ready to out of my head of writing papers and excited to see what comes out in my … Continue reading

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Research: Outline

These past few weeks I’ve been collecting a lot of articles and resources on my topic idea with the ultimate goal of narrowing down my idea. I felt like I needed to see what sort of information was out there … Continue reading

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Research: Photos in Art

Below are images of artwork that have inspired me in some way. All images are scanned from the book Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980 by Charles Desmarais, copyright 1992. The book and exhibition focused on artists who … Continue reading

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Research: The struggle for a narrow topic.

I never imagined that I would struggle so much trying to figure out a topic for my research paper this quarter.  Part of the problem is that I am interested in many things, and it is hard to narrow it … Continue reading

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