Revised Suburban Truisms

Work in progress September 2014

      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: