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softer; softer yet again. artist: print, sculpture, textiles. queer. uleth instructor.
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crinkled and wallet-fed have such nice body
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when we did thanksgiving at our place this year, my in-laws had A Lot to say about my Andrew-carved spoon (primarily: where did I get it and did you take orders) ((I explained new born situation and they dropped the inquisition, for now))
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follow up: i didn’t check emails from friday afternoon until tuesday morning. i did nothing of consequence for three days. chris took the lead on planning dinners. i feel almost human.
and it’s reading week. a slower pace.
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“copy machine manifestos” looks SO GOOD i want to design assignments around that book title alone!
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i did! i make a cake as often as i can for end of term critiques (sometimes there are sensitivities that mean i cook instead of bake) and this was last semester’s print class celebration cake.
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I’m glad someone is saying it. this is about as much icing as I’m willing to do (vanilla lime sponge with thyme lime syrup and blackberry jelly between the three layers)
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i am so excited to see this deck come together. your work lends itself so nicely to tarot
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that 3rd point is SO SMART holy
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The threats aren’t gone and i’m not playing this game. Not going. Not buying american. Making sure as few of my dollars as possible go over that border
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oh these are great results! i always ended up with bad foul bite. nothing nearly as clean!
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had to revisit the exhibition for a quick talking head moment. this light was really nice of the aforementioned white on clear on transparent situation.
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glad i opened the newsletter today, and feel similarly that it’s time to be elsewhere (and quite frankly, have been missing the astro posts on blue sky so thank you for coming here)
big three: scorpio sun, cap moon, aquarius rising.
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hector is pretty good. gregory jumped into my mind.
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I’m going chaotic neutral stream of consciousness//project based 🧵s. I backed myself into such a corner on IG (partially bc of parasocial surveillance), and I’m not keen to dilute the weird again.
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I will never get over how detailed these portrait pieces are. good grief, your poor eyes!
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these textures are so freaking satisfying
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my thoughts are pretty similar. this doesn’t feel like a replacement for IG but it’s a great alternative to X. so i’m using the🧵 feature like i did there, talking about projects as they develop.
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still, it felt quieter than i thought it would. not in a bad way, the work is undeniably subtle. put a clear, textured glass structure where text on 12g white tissue is printed in white …placed on a white plinth… against a white wall. she’s a quiet exhibition folks. even with a strong blue presence.
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installation complete. the format of this gallery space makes it pretty easy to place sculpture work. still half tempted to call these pieces artists books rather than glass sculptures. half a dozen of one, six of the other.
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some cultures/medicinal practices place waking up (without reason/alarm) at a certain time as an indicator of an ailment in different areas of the body ie: 3AM is grief in the lungs. and i love that (not for me, but poetically)
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the cyanotype stained the paper in this really beautiful unpredictable way, sometimes slightly bluer sometimes with little splash marks. I traced my writing on to the square papers, then went over that with the cyanotype chemicals, creating large calligraphic market that feel like a personal hand.
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don’t mind my poor pointer finger, this is one of the book works that I finished yesterday. a run on cursive sentence that pours from page to page, an elegy to my waking habit of travelling down memory lane when I wake up at 3 am.
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there is slight warping on the cyanotype because of how it dried. but the pair of “blue prints” will be wheat pasted on the window facing into the rest of the exhibition space (a small library of art books, thus the focus on artists books I’ve been working away on)
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she is beauty, she is grace.
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i also fixed up previous solder work that needed some love and started on the displays for the book work.
another eight hours tomorrow, twelve hours on monday, tuesday too (but with a five hour studio class in the mix). thursday after installation, i plan on dissolving into a heap of blankets.
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(and there is an intense satisfaction where the registration of envelopes aligns — a printmaker remains a printmaker regardless of media)
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the paper that I’ve used for this book work is a subtle, 18g light light light blue kozo paper. I wanted a surface that would allow the pages to interact with one another if viewed in the right conditions, becoming ghostly portals to the next page (or day).
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even after the exhibition goes up. I think I’ll be working more in this vein (glass + cyanotypes + print) in the year to come. this has itched a scratch but has not satisfied it fully.
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(i abandoned that other thread about this work but will try to start again more earnestly here, separating the book pieces from the glass pieces for ease of reference)