H AP PY HOL ID AY S !
REMINDER:
The Lucid Arts Foundation Alumni Artist-in Residence On-Line Exhibit is still happening HERE.
December 1, 2020 - January 3, 2021
By Measure_1-5
Lucid Arts Foundation Alumni Artist-in-Residence On-Line Exhibit
I am pleased to announce my participation in the Lucid Arts Foundation Alumni Artist-in-Residency exhibition (Group 3) currently on line HERE.
December 1, 2020 - January 3, 2021
Five years since my residency there. I went back to the blog archives, dated November 8, 2015 to recall the experience. Fascinating to relook and see the threads in my current work from that time.
Words I wrote: I will source possibilities for methods and materials from the place—its history, language, landscapes and natural processes.
i will work towards shaping moments and finding ways and forms that express the movements “between”—looking at rocks and stones that reflect frozen moments for inspiration in a changing landscape.
Recallng some explorations there:
Deconstructing 1970s vintage development maps of Pt. Reyes Peninsula. I wondered how this exercise might influence my constructions.
Light Studies, following and tracing the changing light, discovering forms using pen and masking tape. A way to think about transient moments.
Crumpling paper—an impulse out of the blue. A way to think about natural processes and moments when this impulse might occur.
Five years later:
Still breaking apart conventional forms and discovering alternative shapes for constructions.
Crumpling in different ways and discovering how to use these processes in my constructions and artist books.
Image from the film, The Bookmakers. Yes, sitting in the audience at one of the presentations at Codex.
Listening
So if we have good communication,
I tried and now I see it’s been many months since my last post. A challenging year filled with uncertainty, living through a pandemic, fire season & evacuees, racial injustices and an election many will not forget.
I found solace entering my studio each day. Slowing down with fewer distractions revealed unexpected silver linings such as unstructured time to listen beyond the projects in front of me. To echoes from previous experiences for example, remembering a residency six years ago at Haystack in Maine, where I discovered two useful tools, a scroll saw and a laser cutter, that would enable me to further develop cuttings. I purchased a scroll saw upon my return knowing how I wanted to use it. The laser cutter was a bigger investment and one I didn’t make since I wasn’t as sure about its usefulness. I did investigate places where I might rent one, if the need became apparent.
What I didn’t expect was one coming to me during this auspicious time, from my son whose employer had two sitting around not being used. And my need had become apparent as I was working with plexiglass on a collaborative project with Catherine Richardson, Materiality Re_Mined; The Cell Phone Looking at Itself, scheduled to be exhibited at the Seager Gray Gallery in July of 2021.
Look for more on this exhibition in posts to follow in 2021. And yes, the laser cutter was invaluable.
One of our collaborative pieces to be titled (by Brooke Holve & Catherine Richardson) using a laser cutter.