I have been experimenting with a variety of projects since July. My strategy this semester is to make lots of work from an intuitive place without over-analyzing the formal elements or the meaning.
This project involves bodies made out of newspaper and masking tape and covered with plaster cloth. I plan to make 60 of them Eventually they will be painted, inscribed, stacked or strung together.
This is a new iteration of the silhouettes I was working on last year. I haven't finalized what will go inside the cut out bubbles yet, but I like the black fabric with text.
Here's a detail:
Starting September first I am making one embroidered square per day for 60 days. The squares will be assembled into one quilt-like piece. I stitch thoughts or images that occur to me each day.
I have been saving newspaper pictures from the Los Angeles Times newspaper since last year. I will stitch them randomly on long strips of fabric and display them in some kind of scroll-like fashion.
Last year I was experimenting with questions that have evolved into statements. This is my version of Jenny Holzer's Truisms:
After delving into Hans Haacke and institutional critique, I couldn't resist a little cynicsm of my own:
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