tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017957785221419232024-02-19T09:12:07.967-08:00"The Adjacent Possible" Ann Olsen's Art BlogThe adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself. Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-67805582012857758442024-01-17T19:51:00.000-08:002024-01-17T19:51:38.431-08:00New Art and exhibitions in 2019-2020<br />
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From "Women, Art and Poetry at the Lyceum Theater Gallery</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From "Again" Art Faculty exhibit at the Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College, Sept., 2019<br />
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<br />Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-88393499061613406382020-03-10T15:16:00.001-07:002020-03-10T15:16:41.669-07:00Clothes made from my Bali fabric collection<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Single ikat hand-woven fabric</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Batik fabric custom made for me.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The best experience of 2018 was my trip to Bali. Bali has an amazing cultural tradition of woven, printed and dyed textiles. The focus of this trip was visiting local artisans and observing hand-dying and weaving techniques such as ikat and double ikat, batik printing and dyeing, dying textiles with indigo, and hand painting on silk. In addition to visiting homes and art studios where these amazing textiles are created, we experienced the beautiful beaches, mountains, and food of Bali. Art and spirituality are embodied in the people and culture. These photos will show some of the unique splendor of this island and give highlights of my once in a lifetime adventure.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Single ikat fabric being woven by hand.</td></tr>
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<br />Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-47852705720752810452017-10-09T12:27:00.000-07:002017-10-09T12:27:05.810-07:00Plans for new work 2017-18I'm planning two projects for the next three to six months. The first is a quilt, or possibly a series of quilts about my mom. My mom turned 88 this year and we were reminiscing and looking at old photos. As I looked at pictures from a time that I only know from her stories, I was drawn to somehow memorialize her life through fabric and thread. I have been recording her words, scanning old photos and planning a piece that not only celebrates her life, but the world remembered by the fast disappearing "Greatest Generation". As I record her words I begin to underestand how listening is the greatest gift to give another. My mom is in good health for her age, but I don't know how much longer I have with her. This project gives me joy but also fear, for the time of loss somewhere ahead.<br />
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Here is photo from my design wall:<br />
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Here we are with a quilt that we made together. My mom made the blocks in a quilting class several years ago that was in her "UFO" drawer. I assembled it and hand embroidered imagery from documented crop circles from Wiltshire, England.<br />
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My other long-term project is the series on the Tao Te Ching. My next piece is for verse #47:<br />
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<br />Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-70913414881036324082017-10-08T14:58:00.000-07:002017-10-08T14:58:19.952-07:00More Natural Dye ExperimentsI continue to experiment with plant materials that I've gathered in my neighborhood. Ivy berries are found on hedges and banks in many yards. Abundant eucalyptus leaves, bark and pods are easy to collect. I found large fennel plants in my backyard, as well as red cabbage that was too woody to eat. The kitchen provided onion skins that I saved over a 6-month period. The range of colors I got from each dye batch varied based on the fiber. Silk organza and wool yielded the darkest hues. Other weights of silk and rayon gave lighter colors. Here are some of the results:<br />
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Ivy berries gave a rich pinkish-brown color:<br />
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Fennel gave a pale yellow color:</div>
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Onion gave a rich gold color:</div>
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Red cabbage gave pale purple and eucalyptus ranged between pale brown and a rich dark reddish brown. </div>
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More eucalyptus variations:</div>
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It took me several months to collect enough avocado pits and peels for another dye experiment. It made a warm, pale apricot color that, unfortunately, doesn't translate in this photo:</div>
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After making juice from our grapes, I used the pulp to make this dark purple color:</div>
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I was able to gather enough elderberries from a friend's tree and combine them with last year's harvest in my freezer to make this pinkish-lavender dye:<br />
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My last experiment for 2017 is with fresh indigo. The seeds took a while to germinate and grow large enough to transplant into a sunny corner of my garden. The plants are very hardy. They are still growing and blooming since July and my first experiment. </div>
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Fresh indigo dying is a simpler process than the fermented vats that create dark blue. I gathered about one pound of leaves and used an immersion blender to grind them with water in the dye pot. Then I dipped the fabrics into the pot, stirring them for about five minutes. Then laid them out on the drying rack. </div>
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Fresh indigo yieds a teal color. The greenish pieces on the rack have been previosly dyed with fennel, then over dyed with the fresh indigo.</div>
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Here are the range of colors I got with different fabrics. The darkest is silk organza and the lightest are rayon, cotton, and linen. I also got darker colors with multiple dips.</div>
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My final experiment for this year will be with Pokeberry. While I was on vacation a friend in Bonsall froze five pounds for me that she gathered on her property.</div>
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The pokeberry should yield a dark burgundy color. I also hope to harvest the more of the indigo and process it to make a traditional indigo vat, a long term project that I look forward to realizing.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After working with fiber-reactive dyes for more than ten
years, I began to think about the use of natural materials for dying fabric. In
the spirit of reuse, reduce and recycle I wanted to know if there were any
readily available locally grown plants that I could use to put color on cloth. Of
course, this simple question was hardly that. The art and craft of applying
color to surfaces has been with humanity since the time we began to seek
shelter and wear clothing.<o:p></o:p>I discovered an overwhelming amount of information about the
history dyes and pigments as well as numerous resources for the contemporary
textile artisan to explore and experiment with. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using dyes, whether synthetic or
natural, requires adherence to recipes and rules that can seem vague and
esoteric to the beginner. The correct part of the plant must be harvested in
the correct way and the dyestuff extracted and concentrated. The dye extracts
themselves must be paired with the appropriate mordants, modifiers and fibers
(silk, linen, cotton or wool) to achieve desired results. Dye recipes in the
middle-ages were family secrets passed down through families and the guild
system. In our modern era of mass produced textiles, we have forgotten how
cloth and clothing was incredibly labor and time intensive to produce.</span></div>
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more resistant to the absorption of natural dye so I did not use them in my
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As inspired by Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" each night stand in the exhibition suggests a woman, real or imagined, who sleeps next to it.</div>
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Taliban in 2012 because of her public support for the education of all girls in
Pakistan. Malala almost died from severe brain injury as a result of the
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conceived this piece as a representation of Malala’s dream for world peace and
education for all. I imagined her with a night stand full of books that she is
always studying in her pursuit of knowledge. Her love of family and her home in
the Swat Valley of Norther Pakistan are represented in the photos. The scarf is
symbolic of her words and her accomplishments. As a Muslim woman Malala is
shown wearing her <i>hijab</i> or headscarf.
I incorporated a scarf with the night stand to reference her identity and the
accomplishments of her life. I embroidered many eloquent declarations about her
determination to fight for world peace and education. One of her most famous
quotations is written and embroidered in 15 different languages: “One child, one teacher, one book, and one
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It was great to participate in this show curated by Nancy Roy-Meyer at <b>Butte College Art Gallery</b> near Chico in Northern California. I presented four pieces of my work from grad-school and a new piece that I created to emphasize the <i>Suburban Truisms </i>that have been a big part of my creative process starting in the summer of 2014.</div>
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<i> Suburban Truisms. </i>60 x 32". Hand-embroidery on cotton. 2015.</div>
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The cross-stitched words are almost two inches tall creating an oversize "sampler" that declares my version of aphorisms for twenty-first centuy suburban culture. The statments are meant to provoke thoughts about behavioral assumptions. This isn't a great photograph, but the piece was purchased at the exhibition, so I didn't have a chance to get it professionally photographed.</div>
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My Piece Locked Up was juried into "Interperetations: Celebrating 30 Years" at <b>Visions Art Museum </b>in October of 2015:</div>
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<i> Locked Up. </i>60 x 33 ". Fabric, digital photos on fabric, hand stitching. 2014.</div>
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This piece asks questions about fear hidden inside ouselves and our homes. We lock up our stuff, lock out others and let fear control us.</div>
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It's been great to see pieces from this body of work featured in various exhibtions. My work will also be in a group show titled<i> Feminism Now </i>at <b>Gallery D</b> in San Diego in May. I am working on a new faric piece that focuses on fear and the real estate market. I will continue to pursue themes of suburban life, feminism and modern domesticity.</div>
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Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-55458395186992621792015-11-18T11:51:00.000-08:002015-11-18T11:51:20.980-08:00June 19 to June 28, 2015 Final Residency and Graduation <br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> As of August 25, 2015 I am a MFA. The last two years culminating
in the Graduate Residency have been an intensely bittersweet experience. This
period of constant critique and deep personal questioning has been both
exhilarating and dispiriting. Though the experience was never what I expected,
I wouldn't change any of it. As a person who longed for much of her adult life
to be part of an art community, the residencies have been a time to be in a
world of creative ideas outside of the demands of "real life". Long
conversations about ideas, self-expression and processes over many glasses of
wine could take place without any interference from practical concerns.
Returning to studio practice after the residency was always a frustrating jerk
back to reality, and the struggle to make relevant work.</span><br />
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Grad School wanting to make art about the universal struggles of humanity.
I was making work that referenced spiritual evolution, and reflected on
alienation. It was suggested that I make work that was more personal. I made
new work that addressed these themes through my own spiritual evolution. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Since I admired artists who made work with
political and social content, I also started making work that addressed my
concerns about the social and cultural problems of American society. My
attempts to make work with a political edge, as well as about my personal
beliefs about spiritual evolution were both rated confusing, inconsequential,
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who addressed their personal experiences of racism, loss and political
atrocities was inspiring; however, my experiences as a privileged, white,
middle class female seemed petty and trivial. Why would I want to make
art about that? This period of intense questioning of my beliefs and experience
ultimately became the source for my thesis and graduate exhibition work:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Homeland Insecurity</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do this", and "I'll never be able to do this". It was the most
difficult experience of my work/school life. This is the crucible where sheer
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The most profound realization came several
months after graduation. I expected the degree to give me a certain status as
an artist in the world, and it does. Those three letters make me eligible to
teach at the college level, and demonstrate a measurable level of knowledge and
competence. But surprisingly, I realized
that it was really about me proving that to myself. This accomplishment
is not and end but a another beginning in the lifelong vocation of being an
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This is one of the final versions of the Suburban Truisms. There are four groupings: Fear, Identity, Guilt, and Belief. I will write some of the Truisms on tags and hang them on the gates of the gated community and photograph them. Journal entries will document my experience during this process as I look for ways to introduce the tags into my environment during the next two months.</div>
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Individual Truisms will be printed on t-shirts, buttons and stickers tor public distribution.</div>
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Here is a view of my critique space in Porter Hall in Cambridge.</div>
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"fake doorway with tagged domestic objects:</div>
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The large fabric stitched piece based on suburban fear:</div>
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Suburban truisms printed on t-shirts, tote bag, and as real estate fliers:</div>
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60 days of embroidery intalled as a frieze:</div>
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Two details of the 60 embroideries:</div>
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<br />Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-57184695132131144802015-01-01T16:33:00.000-08:002015-01-01T16:33:28.517-08:00Details of Work in Progress This image shows "Locked In" about 90% complete. The edges are evened up and the final stitching and writing were completed December 28th. The work was packed to ship on the 31st.before I could take a photo of the completed piece. I'll post images from the residency after January 9th.<br />
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I also finished two photographs to put behind the security sign fabric curtains to simulate a window. I'm not sure which one will be the most effective:<br />
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<br />Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-45998409302228414902014-12-07T14:47:00.003-08:002014-12-07T14:47:36.280-08:00December work in progressHere are the 60 embroideries photographed as a grid. I plan to display the piece as a frieze in my critique space in January.<br />
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Here is a mock-up of the Suburban Truisms installation. I don' have enough room in my studio to photograph all the components. The piece will include the "fake" doorway with the tagged objects, the "fake" window with the security sign fabric curtains, the bulletin board with the handwritten truisms, the apron, pot holder and tote bag, the t-shirts printed with truisms, and the sign holder with truisms. </div>
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The security sign fabric made into curtains and a pot holder. I'm looking for a casement window from an architectural salvage company to mount together with the curtain. The blue tape is a marker to show where the window would be. It could hang from the ceiling as a window that you can look through or on the wall as a window into a wall. The pot holder could be paired with an apron made out of the same fabric.<br />
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This is the prototype for the security tote bag:<br />
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This is a large textile piece (60 x 33") that is about the suburban illusion of security. It is still evolving. There will be more text written directly on the piece as well as words made with the torn fabric "font".<br />
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The 60 days of embroidery is finished. I working on mounting it on strips so that it can be displayed either as a frieze or as a rectangular grid. I'll have more pictures later this week.<br />
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I'll be finishing the 60 embroideries and assembling them this month. I planning to create a false window with curtains made of the security sign fabric, as well as an apron, pot holder, and tote bag. The objects with the tags will be hung inside a false doorway. The truisms will be printed like fliers and placed inside a real-estate flier box.</div>
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These are the photos I took of security signs in my neighborhood that I manipulated with photoshop and will have printed on fabric. I've ordered a swatch so I can make any adjustments :<br />
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Suburban truisms re-categorized:</div>
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An earlier version printed on a t-shirt and tote bag. This needs work. I am cosidering other domestic objects to print on as well as printing individual truisms on tags attached to domestic objects.</div>
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There are 16 different security companies with signs posted throughout my neighborhood. I am working on a photo-montage of these signs as well as locks and gated areas, that I want to print on fabric.</div>
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I am focusing on the use of text in my work combining words or phrases from signage or words that are significant to me. I have revised and condensed my artist statement making it more specific:<br />
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I make art about suburban idealism.
The dream of suburban bliss is a ubiquitous American value. As a white, middle
class, middle-aged female I confront this dream by looking at the paradoxes I
observe in my suburban environment. This includes the violence hidden in
peaceful neighborhoods, and the fear of “other” that leads to isolation. I also
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In this exploration I am examining and critiqueing my relationship to popular culture, the art world, and middle-class values.</div>
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Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-36518517954026367252014-09-11T21:24:00.002-07:002014-09-15T08:57:21.233-07:00Work in progress September 2014<br />
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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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. </div>
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Last year I was experimenting with questions that have evolved into statements. This is my version of Jenny Holzer's <i>Truisms: </i></div>
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After delving into Hans Haacke and institutional critique, I couldn't resist a little cynicsm of my own:<br />
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Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-74166086860532804832014-08-14T17:27:00.001-07:002014-08-14T17:27:08.236-07:00August Work in Progress <br />
I'm continuing to work on the three-dimensional figures, covering them with plaster cloth. Then they will be painted, inscribed or manipulated in different ways. I'm planning to make as many as I can.<br />
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I'm also playing with these collected strips of torn fabric:<br />
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Some other ideas I am playing around with are: a life-sized dimensional body made out of silk organza, kind of like a doll with no stuffing. Also a list of personal "truisms": "Don't apologize for being happy", Each day you are living you are also dying", "Having is not the same as owning", "Being idealistic is not a crime". I'm sure I will come up with more.Ann K. Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08139647214530170294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701795778522141923.post-37268334276035565662014-08-04T21:49:00.001-07:002014-08-04T21:49:53.978-07:00July Experiments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Trying a new approach with dimensional figures</div>
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The lighting and the surfaces are always a challenge when hanging your work at the Newbury Building in Boston. I was glad to have a grey background since my work in white disappears into a white wall.</div>
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I wish I had access to an iron to flatten out the layered pieces. However, the air movement from the fans in the room did give them an active quality.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Here are two images of the completed collaborative project that I coordinated for our group. <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Each
member was paired with another member. Each created a small piece of art
responding to this quotation by Stephen Nachmanovitch:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">“The noun of self becomes a verb. This
flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play
merge”.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The art was sent to their
partner to respond to, then sent to me to compile. A red thread wove the pieces together by wrapping around the mounting pins.</span></span><br />
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