Triumph then sleepy

Big jitters the night before semester-end reviews; it’s been scary and exhilarating going back to school after a 14 year hiatus from…well…everything!

I ended up having an incredible time & getting wonderful feedback from faculty. It was fun as hell staying up ‘til midnight the night before seeing everyone put the finishing touches on their spaces.

I spent a lot of this Fall season thinking about compartmentalized worlds, grids, and tiny openings into tiny spaces. As I was cleaning up details in preparation for the next day I decided to draw up a really quick schema of my exhibition space. I started getting this funny feeling like we were inside a grid of our own. Recursive labeling, exponential changes in scale, nesting spaces, da da da….

& I got to do it in style :-)

Now time for a rest. I’ve started looking into some things totally unrelated to school and I think it’s taking form like some sort of hybrid memoir-research paper about Chosŏn-Catholic syncretism and cultural hybridity in my own life. One of my Very Cool Professors has suggested reading some Wittgenstein so I’ve gotten a scrubby PDF of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and I will try my best, fingers crossed. Maybe we will go on a road trip.

Different textural mood

I’ve spent most of this Fall semester working on watercolor paper with water-soluble paints, but these past few weeks I’ve been surrounding by slick sticky stubborn acrylic and silicone. I’m excited how these separate projects are sort of starting to converge in format and inquiry.

I’m making progress on an idea I’ve had for how to collate the things I’ve worked on so far this year. I’m still unsure on how to bend the linear format of a book enough to make it serve the webbed nature of my series but I think it’s possible!

Mostly I’m just amazed every day how beautiful things can be. I had some very fantastical dreams about glass lattices and infinite holographic rainbows during a strange weekend recently.

A project about an ex-boyfriend and some hotel art

Can’t always make things about angles and gaps and colors and dust. Sometimes you have to get a little maudlin; sometimes you make some foundationally offensive hotel art.

Some day I’ll figure out what to do with him.

Preparing for a 1-on-1 with my painting advisor.

Test swatch 1

Some of my favorite studio remnants are test swatches and bits of paper collecting run-off. This one has some hand-mixed UV reactive watercolor and tacky medium tests for transfer foil.