tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30707269425599614722024-03-21T19:31:18.308-07:00Painter's Victory GardensA diary created for the purpose of communicating with the AIB world.molly painter, esqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696363740724132127noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070726942559961472.post-23315521224841063252016-08-01T17:40:00.001-07:002016-08-01T17:40:19.366-07:00It's been so long!In the last 3 years I've....<br />
Well...<br />
I've applied for LOTS of jobs. As in 100's, as in more than 300. And I've even gotten a few of them, but they've all been temp-y. So, at a friend who's helped edit so many cover letters request, I'm posting a smattering of them. Here's what someone who has successfully written a thesis paper spends her time on now! (All have been edited to remove the glaringly obvious potential employers, still, some of you may recognize yourself).<br />
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To Whom It May Concern:</div>
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I attended Oregon College of Art & Craft for my undergraduate studies, where the joke is that you can always tell an alumnus when you see them in a gallery because they will be more interested in how the art is attached to the wall than the art itself. I specialize in marrying one object to another in interesting and idiosyncratic ways, enough so to get me through graduate school with an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston.</div>
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I also used to run my own gallery on the Oregon Coast, and I have been recently engaged with installs and art hauling for the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw gallery in Ogden, Utah. I can’t think of a recent time that I’ve been happier than when balancing an enormous dog head made out of recycled couches and drywall screws, on top of a 20 foot lift, wearing a respirator in the sun, except maybe when I’ve finished swiftly and compactly loading a 26 foot Penske and have my convenience store coffee in hand, about to shuttle forth on a new hauling adventure across the American West.</div>
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As a sculptor and assistant to other sculptors I have found it imperative to be an organized, efficacious communicator, as well as a meticulous studio tech. I know how help to keep an antique print-shop running, find my way around a table saw, and ask questions when I feel uncomfortable. </div>
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I appreciate a well-made crate, though part of way I'm interested in this position is that I have not had enough opportunity to create my own. I'm familiar with opening crates, but couldn't tell you the difference between a stat crate and a shadow box. I'm interested in expanding my skill set, and have always been a quick study. </div>
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I’m quite comfortable standing, kneeling, bending, bowing, lifting cumbersome objects, alighting on points and sliding down handrails. I'm always at the ready for the next physical adventure. I lean into ladders with aplomb. I pay attention to detail to a fault. I'm willing to work for peanuts (or around $15-$20 an hour).</div>
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I hope you’ve enjoyed considering me for this position, and I hope to hear from you soon. Happy Holidays!</div>
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Though I have only been an amateur gardener on my personal
1.25 acre xeriscaped ancestral plot in Eastern Washington, I feel like I would
be a qualified candidate for the gardener position at the Natural History
Museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prune fruit trees as part of
my artistic endeavors, including 30-year-old apple and plum trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though I don’t have formal training in the
horticulture of Southern California, I find that I’m friendly with many of the
plants here as their close relatives are present on the dry
side of the Pacific Northwest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I
have been an urban park ranger, so I’m familiar with the joys of working
outside in all kinds of weather, including incredibly hot, windy, and freshly
reconstituted terribly dry. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m currently a volunteer over at the Natural History Museum, so
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I believe I would be an excellent candidate as an Assistant
Conservator, even though I have no formal conservation training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a degree in craft with a background in
cleaning, and have been handling objects from antique taxidermy mounts to ephemeral
artist books in a professional capacity for nearly 20 years. I have prepared my
own insect and arthropod specimens as a hobby since enjoying an entomology
class in college. I also enjoy box building, crating, packaging and
un-packaging immensely. I have worked at and created my own art gallery in the
past. I have organized databases and even
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">To Whom it May Concern</span></div>
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I have been admiring the Gallery Interpreters even before I
became an active volunteer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love their welcoming attitude and the
fully engaged role that they play in encouraging people to actively participate
with the museum.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In my past I have enjoyed being an Urban Park Ranger, which
suited my outgoing nature by allowing me to interact with park goers in
spontaneous settings, as well as during our planned interpretations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favorite moments were when I would get to
introduce people to our docile native snakes, or encourage them to observe our
colossal praying mantis’, or help them to identify the many hawks that enjoyed
the many squirrels always in the middle of some sort annual symphonic concert
or on top of one of the polished classic cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I acted as support staff to triathlons that began as early as 5:30 in
the morning, and also for street dances that lasted as late as 2:00 am. I
coordinated with boy scouts building projects, bikers show-shining Harley’s and
beautiful ladies dressed as serving wenches setting up fire-spits for
renaissance fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see a direct
correlation between the many jobs I had in the public park setting, and the various
projects the museum encourages for members and attendants. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have a tendency towards passionate autodidacticism that I
have felt encouraged by the museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Though I have very little formal background, I have an
appetite for learning more and tend to be a devoted quick study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also love story telling, and relating to an
audience through visual means, which the museum lends itself to in spades. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you for your consideration, and have a fantastic day!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Molly Painter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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molly painter, esqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696363740724132127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070726942559961472.post-34327417785911621922013-07-09T21:34:00.001-07:002016-08-01T14:51:11.018-07:00Post Graduation MishMash!Since I have now graduated (whee) I feel no need to actually do things. This blog has mostly been to document that graduate school experience that was, and as I now intend to remove most of the posts, I thought I would leave a memory of this last experience: the commencement speech to such a bitter-sweet experience:<br />
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The great David Rakoff, in a speech I did not give at commencement. As far as I know there is no video of me making the commencement speech, but here is a written copy should anyone want to imagine me in a stunning cocktail dress with my drive chain draped lovingly around my neck reading it from hastily hand written cue cards:<br />
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Oh thank goodness! It feels so good to finally be up here
admiring all of you instead of hanging out by that back door trying not to
drink all of my wine before the toast. With that in mind I will keep this
brief. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I, and I suspect possibly others, have just passed
through one of the most self-centered times of my life. I sometimes felt like I
was eating through my family, my friends, and my advisor like devouring a heart
shaped box of chocolates after a break up; asking them to read extra drafts of
my paper, help me cut out stray fish, feeding me tapioca pudding at odd hours. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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And what has surprised me is
how sympathetic everyone has been. The generosity especially of fellow students
and alumni has been overwhelming, not only for me but for Sarah, in the case of
Jeff Brown helping her learn the ins and outs of final cut, Jessica being
helped with the finer points of photoshop by Flannon Jackson, Rita being talked
back from the ledge by Rita Kohler. Rob Sullivan encouraged us on facebook, Nina
sent us timely birthday wishes, and the local folks have been fantastic about
helping with laundry emergencies and acting as hosts and hostesses. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As a group we have learned to rely on one another, in
grief, in financial disaster, in technical difficulty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have worked together pleasantly to help
hang these shows, from carpooling to Cambridge to schlepping ladders from floor
to floor. We’ve brought<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aaron flatware
to stock the trouseau for the apocalypse, then had Aaron up on a ladder rigging
poles and lights and pulleys and generally being, well, manly, in exchange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Thank you, friends, for all
being enormously generous with spirit, time, warmth, dishes, detergent, etc. And
now we would like to extend to you, future classes of LOOOO CAD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please, call us, email us, ask for our help.
We can be of use to you, honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve
gone down this rabbit hole before, and we know the way to get out through the
looking glass. It’s the least we can do for you after all that has been done for
us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our graduation is an accomplishment of this whole
community, and we are all thankful to Louise, Samantha, and lovely, wonderful,
indispensible Joel, the security guards and the faculty, the financial aid
advisors and the front desk staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank
you all. If we did this with grace it is because you have not stood in the way
of our bumbling progress, instead helping tuck in those loose threads and make
us aware of the food still attached to the side of our mouths. Thank you, again,
for your generous support. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Now let’s drink beer and
smash sharks!<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
molly painter, esqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696363740724132127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070726942559961472.post-78277229900813911102013-05-16T10:48:00.002-07:002013-05-16T10:48:10.796-07:00Slide Talk with Notes.So, we have to turn in a version of our grad school slide talk to our advisors. I figured out on Monday, when I was trying to compose my slide talk for the kiddos, that things I dragged and dropped onto the blog were better formatted than trying to drag the originals into Power Point, so really I'm using this as a formatting device as much as anything...<br />
<br />
Anyway, without much further ado, here's a slide talk with notes!<br />
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<b>"SHARK!</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>or</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>The Theoretical Probability of Life in the Heart of Something Inanimate.</b><br />
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Starting out with a dark blue screen:<br />
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As a pre-cursor to this talk I thought we'd take a little break and listen to some punch lines/// sound montage:///<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“Have you ever noticed that their stuff is SHIT and your
shit is Stuff?” George Carlin</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“Mawidge.
Mawidge is wat bwings us toogeddow today.” Peter Cook, Princess Bride.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“Noah…” “WHAT?” Bill Cosby</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“Why you crazy? The fall’ll probably kill ya.” Paul Newman,
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“ If you hadn’t nailed it to the post it would be pushing up
the daisies! This, sir, is an
Ex-parrot!” John Cleese, Parrot sketch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“But it’s not against any religion to want to dispose of a
pigeon” Tom Leher (singing)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“Bell Telephone doesn’t want your dime, sir. Bell Telephone doesn’t need your dime.”
Elaine May</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas,
half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.” “Hit It!” Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi,
Blues Brothers</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">“You can learn a lot from Lydia!” Groucho Marx (singing), At
the Circus. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span></div>
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The best jokes, to me, are the ones that after you've experienced the set up once the punchline sticks in your head forever. They are these verbal triggers, forever the answer in your head to the question posed by a situation you'll find yourself in again and again. Punchlines become a device, a tool, with which to answer the tragicomic world around us. In the face of frustration, the best comedy provide delight.</div>
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Are we all comfy? Though I would love to give a talk about the profound influence of Tim Burton, Paul Reubens, and Gary Panter on my work, this slide of Pee Wee's Big Adventure is up here because do you guys remember what they are supposed to be sitting in?<br />
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These are the Cabazon Dinosaurs, Dinny (Diney) and Mr. Rex created by Claude Bell, a retired Knott's Berry Farm sculptor, who are located just west of Palm Springs at the Cabazon exit of Interstate 10. </div>
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As you can tell this work still delights people when they come across it. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"It'll scare the dickens out of a lot of people driving up over the pass." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Bell was quoted in 1970 as saying of the 45-foot (14 m) high, 150-foot (46 m) long Dinny, who was "the first dinosaur in history, so far as I know, to be used as a building." according to Bell.</span></div>
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Dinny was built out of debris left over from the construction of Interstate 10, with a friend teaching Bell ironworking skills as he went. He traded another friend a case of Dr. Pepper to paint the exterior of the sculptures. Originally created to attract people to "Wheel Inn Cafe," the Dinosaurs are now a front to a non-denominational church and museum dedicated to Young Earth Creationism. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">And that's what I love- I love the iconoclastic
generosity and general non-sequitor nature of a good roadside attraction. I never know exactly what I’m going
to find when I go</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> in search of rumored attractions, but be they glorious or pathetically deteriorated, I’ve never been faced with a hopeless cliché. I can't always predict when or where I will find these works, or what I will find they are being used for.</span></div>
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Take, for example, The Beer Can House in Houston, Texas. This is John Milkosvitch standing in front of his creation made from over 39,000 cans of beer drunk mostly by John, his lovely wife Mary, and the couple next door. </div>
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Yes, you can get married there! The Beer Can house is now a landmark, created so that John could get away with never having to mow his lawn or paint his house, and now beloved and protected by it's community. Proceeds from the $2 admission go to supplementing art programs throughout Houston. </div>
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Part of why I think Beer Can House succeeds, is that the subject matter is culturally approachable, as are the materials used in the creation of such an obviously time and resource consuming project. We can all imagine what it takes to cover a house in cans. Or, at least we can all imagine how long it must have taken to drink the beer. </div>
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Though I love this work by Damien Hirst, I know nothing about diamonds. I would hazard a guess that Hirst also knows very little about gem stones except how much they cost. And yet when this piece is displayed in a gallery, like the Tate Modern in a major retrospective of Hirsts work 2 years ago, viewers read the placard and are duly impressed with the costly sparkliness of it all. The piece is remarkably well crafted, though not by Hirst, and craft is not generally part of the discussion of the work. Hopefully sarcastically, though his titles do tend towards the grandiose, Hirst titled this piece "For the Love of God."</div>
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This one of the skulls I made before entering graduate school, along with my collaborator Matthew Causey, which parody's Hirst's work. We call ours "For the Love of Beer," and genuinely this is how our works are appreciated. Maybe 1/100 people who have seen this series understands the parody. What viewers get excited about is that they have experience with the materials, and what brands the materials represent. We get people excited to talk about their experience of this original disposable technology, and it's amazing what associations they have to tell us about bottle caps, and collecting, and skulls, and beer. The questions we most often get are "Did you drink all that beer?" "How much does that thing weigh?" and "How long did that take you?" Never, not once, have I been asked "How much did that cost you to make?"</div>
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This is one of a flock of work that I created as my undergraduate thesis utilizing duck decoys and sequins, and was a punchy retort to the pressure I felt at the time to get out of college and into a lasting relationship. I used the symbol of a duck because there is this common misconception that ducks mate for life, when really they mate under duress and threat of drowning, and mostly for convenience. I know this because, much like Aesop, I look to observing animals for metaphorical inspiration. When I need to further my introspective understanding I examine creatures where ever I can find them. </div>
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I love zoos and Natural History Museums. I love them because they, like roadside attractions, are just waiting to surprise me with what I can observe with them. Instead of dictating "this is what you have to notice. This is how you have to appreciate. This is what you have to see," I generally find I'm seeing far more than is meant to be there, and I feel encouraged, in zoos and natural history museums, to apply this ambiguous guidance to myself and create new ideas. </div>
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This is Large Mammal Hall at the Natural History Museum in Kennsington. In this picture it's somehow splendidly lit- every time I've been it's been overcast and dark, and there are these enormous sea creatures suspended all around you as you traverse this narrow gallery. The sheer size of the daunting sculptures is ominous, but what is more disturbing is they sway, ever so gently, and seem like they could turn any moment and whomp you. </div>
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This image is of Richard Ellis working on the blue whale model that hung in the Smithsonian until 2002. You can see by the scale how unexpectedly overwhelming this piece must have been, especially before the work was surrounded by anything else, like murals or exhibits. </div>
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Hanging Dioramas, for example the blue whale pictured here, have always reminded me of something much more commonly seen at birthday parties. </div>
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Pinatas are fantastic to make. They're made mostly of cardboard, wheat paste paper mache and are covered in cheap paper. They are a fast and dirty medium, and...</div>
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They are sneaky, unexpected and funny. Pinatas are semi-sacrificial objects, built with love and attention to be smashed open to reveal presents and tokens of appreciation. You never know what is in a pinata, and its purpose is to be bashed to bits so that you can find out.</div>
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Pinata's shouldn't be confused with effigies, but often are.</div>
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This is an effigy of Lance Armstrong, meant to be lit on fire to punish the cheater in abstentia. Effigies are a very effective catharsis tool used all over the world to provide community release</div>
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But here's Elmo! Elmo wants to be smashed open just for you! Elmo wants to shower you with gifts! If you love Elmo hang him from the ceiling and hit him with a baseball bat as hard as you possibly can!</div>
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I enjoy adding purpose and function to my creations. I came up in a craft school, where always tucked neatly into our conceptual art practices there was also a clever use of hinges and hardware. </div>
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I've always had a hang up in bonding with highly conceptual art. The concepts never seem to be functional- they aren't often expanding my understanding of something, they are just continuing to repeat the set up to the joke without coming back with a zinger of a response. And yet, completed as they are they don't allow for me to expand much upon their given, television static like chatter.</div>
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Here's Mr. Hirst again!</div>
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"The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living" sounds like a very deep work of art, and maybe it is. It certainly was a very expensive piece for other people to make after Hirst had conceptualized it. But as a piece it bothers me on a couple of levels. I don't like the 3 part division, and of course it offends me on an animal conservation level. </div>
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But most of all I hate the open mouth of the shark. Tiger sharks don't swim with their mouth open. I know the shark is supposed to look like it's charging, but instead it looks like it's in dental pain for all eternity. The work is rotting within the tank, looking decrepit and pathetic. As a scientific specimen it would have been retired years ago. </div>
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Luckily, there are plenty of excellent parodies of this work</div>
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So when I came to commenting on conceptual art I didn't feel the obligation to be direct in my allusion. There are plenty of other people who have already taken care of that for me. </div>
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Parody, Puns, Wit- these are what I feel are civilized ways to deal with societal frustration. Take an oppositional idea, tinker with it until it gives way from being frustrating to being consumable and palatable. That's what comedy is for, and in my opinion this is what art is for. </div>
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And, heavens, have I found graduate school frustrating. Getting together in small groups to look at practice works hung on carpet walls, not with the attitude of building a better, more functional alternative, but instead with judgement calls on the worthiness of theoretical meaning, and the authenticity of personal expression seems like a waste of time. Basically, I have never had a critique which encouraged me as much as someone handing me a better screw or a baggie full of bottle caps. Critique encourages insecurity, especially when we then break into critical theory groups to rip on our betters for their personal foibles. </div>
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And when we often do so it's with immature name calling and pigeon holing. For example, Here's an Alcoholic Jism-flinger.</div>
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A racially clueless red pants obsessed 2nd rate painter. </div>
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Here is a kiddie rapist.</div>
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These generalizations say nothing about the artistic gifts that have been given to us by these challenged but seemingly inadvertently benevolent dead white men. We spend our time ripping on them, beating up on each other, and depreciating ourselves in a practice that I find to be extremely frustrating. </div>
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Art could be more about having fun! About getting to the punchline, and having the tension of expectations be released into the air with flying specs of sparkling debris. About spending time with strange, out of place objects, swirling around in space, making you question reality and anticipate generosity. </div>
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So, I present to you art meant to be bashed, intended to be destroyed. I present to you</div>
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ART SHARKS!</div>
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Or "the Theoretical Probability of Life in the Heart of Something Inanimate"</div>
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The installation in Room 310 is there for your, you, you art students and faculty you, this week only for your contemplative enjoyment, much like the dioramas in a natural history museum. The shark pinatas shall swirl around your head (as little blue memories of sardines circle the walls). I encourage you to spend quiet time with them, to watch as they orient themselves slowly on their hardware, like paper compasses adjusting to some artisitc magnetic field. </div>
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And then I encourage you, even more strongly, to come watch them be anihlated for your benefit, and in celebration of finally getting away from an academic paradigm that is too critical of itself, takes it's creations far too seriously, and passes judgement too often on the artists and the artists self-indulgent self-analysis rather than on the beauty and generosity of offered works.. </div>
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I present to you paper tiger leopard sharks of love! A reminder of the unpredictability of delight which will hopefully stick in your craw as a sucker-punchline memory of how awesome pinatas are and how welcoming art can be. </div>
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And now I would like to thank my Cat Shark"</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">It seemed ridiculous to be making pinatas and not have visited Mexico (especially because the Pinata District turned out to be such an unfriendly bust!), and since Mike was staying in San Diego, we decided to hop over for my last day below the 45th parallel. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Thanks to the internet (a very big thank you here) we were turned on to the Mercado Hildalgo, which is an excellent market complex. We may have been the only white folks there; we were friendly greeted, though Mike and Michelle are certain I got screwed out of two dollars when I bought cocoanut. </span></div>
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And then there were the exceptionally awesome pinatas. They were everywhere!</div>
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Happy girl.</div>
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Then we went to the rest of Tijuana, where hand-painted signs abounded. </div>
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And apparently you could easily get your hands on viagra</div>
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We didn't stay long. We headed south, down to La Fonda. Yes, Jesus' head lights up night. </div>
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Apparently, the real Bottle House is Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley. However, it isn't open to the public. </div>
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But there is another lovely homage to the Virgin made from Bottles on Lemoyne in Echo Park area, which I like to visit frequently. This particular time was on a road trip with some of the guys who work on this site: http://weburbanist.com/ </div>
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3 white kids driving up to the towers on a Wednesday afternoon in a Subaru kinda stuck out like sore thumbs. But we were welcomed by some friendly older ladies and a couple of really skinny cats. Visiting places like this makes me feel a real, genuine love for the world. I'm truly grateful to get to venture forth so frequently. </div>
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I went to Venice to visit my current mentor and look what I found!</div>
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Meeting also went fantastically. My mentor, Mr. Andy Byers, is super intimidating and wonderfully warm and friendly. Yes, I stole this image right off his new website, which folks should all check out: http://andybyersart.com/</div>
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After spending weeks by myself (along with David Attenborough) tiling, it was a difficult for me to feel like I was even close to being coherent in introductory dialog. But Andy was very encouraging, especially about remembering to actually care about what I'm working on (oh yeah, I had forgotten that I actually like to make art!). Seeing his work made me practically twitch to go home and make new things. Unfortunately hasn't started yet, but soon. Soon as this blog finishes getting updated, in fact. </div>
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pretty smacking devices.</div>
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OoH! Orca! Kinda like a Shark!</div>
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After that I ventured back into the Fashion District, where for some reason I had never been before. Truly overwhelming, how every notion I've every longed for could have its own store! Button Store! Ribbon Store! Artificial Fingernails by the pound! Rhinestone design Store! </div>
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And there were all these bolts of fur out on the corners, blowing in the wind.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">This is a collect the dots email. You find connections between all these things and you get a prize! You get to write my paper! </span></div>
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While I was in Portland I took a friend up to visit Oregon College of Art & Craft, one of my Alma Maters. Here I found this little sign, which makes me so very happy. It's like a little Wallace Stevens gratitude poem. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that my last semester's mentor wrote it. </div>
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For most of the month of February (and a good portion of March, actually) I stayed in the "Garage-Mahal" backyard garage apartment of Miss Rory Sparks, in the process of tiling her wet-room bathroom in exchange for some of the rent and an incremental amount of beer money. I did not design the mosaic, but I dutifully chipped and smashed and placed many a tesserae along with a few diligent, if short attention spanned, friends and admirers of Sparks.</div>
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After the first very, very long day of tiling parts of the walls looked like this. </div>
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Almost 4 weeks, 25 pages of thesis writing, 15 episodes of the program "Connections," "Translevania 6500" (a terrible movie),"First Eden," "Living Planet," "Attenborough's Arc," "Ways Of Seeing," some other random british television series' parts, 6 episodes of On The Media, a couple episodes of "First Life," along with exhaustible hours of Pandora country music, and most of the space had pieces of tile adhered to it!</div>
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I really like my Portland friends. They make me drawings like this, which depicts how cowboy bottle of gin or vodka gets together with vermouth to make martinis at the chalkboard honky tonk.</div>
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After my long weekend at home in Tri-cities I returned to Portland to sublet Rory's apartment. To cheer myself up I painted my nails. Only on my left. That helped me write, oh, about the first 5 pages of my initial draft. </div>
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But in order to actually get the ball rolling I had to go to the beach. Because I hadn't been before, I decided to visit the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. And look who I found! The fattest great white model I've ever seen. There were also huge megalodon jaws that I somehow forgot to take a picture of.</div>
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I've become very excited by these heavily patterned, very long, skinny sharks. I think they will work perfectly for the project, since they aesthetically challenge what people think of when they think "shark." Folks generally think great white, right? But these svelte, almost triangular creatures are just as much sharks, right? If I say so?</div>
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So, one packed weekend on the cusp between January and February started with helping Mike buy a surfboard. One thing I am really good at is helping boys buy sporting equipment. The guys I know who haven't taken advantage of this aspect of my character have truly missed out. I'm so good at convincing people it's ok to do what they want. </div>
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Not too bad at taking pictures of mountains while driving either. OHMAN! Look at that beautiful day? what people don't know about Portland, and Oregon in general, is that the really beautiful days are all in February, when you least expect them. </div>
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And this is why I was headed home. My grandfather's 90th birthday! I can not be denied- I have his nose right on my face. </div>
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Saddly, other news. I had to euthanize Bixente Liazaru, the wonder hedgehog. He had developed mouth cancer, and though he was obviously glad to see me, he was fading fast. This is the last picture I took of him while he was still his happy, fearless self.</div>
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He was my company for thousands of miles, and a fantastic friend. Here he is with Mike visiting Stonehenge in the sunshine. I miss him terribly; every time I see a toilet paper roll or a spider I get a lump in my throat. It's been hard to write my paper without his little cuddling support. </div>
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The last morning in the fridge I found Natural Bliss next to a nice firm cucumber. Wonder if I would have enjoyed my trip more if I had, er, um, utilized this combination. </div>
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<br />molly painter, esqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696363740724132127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070726942559961472.post-63899968717464311732013-03-20T21:02:00.001-07:002013-03-20T21:02:16.745-07:00Nouveau Sous L'Eau cards update...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The project that I started on the first day I cut down to size on the last day. These are the first edition of the Nouveau Sous L'Eau trading cards, on the wall for show-n-tell.</div>
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All the fronts, after being cut down.</div>
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And all the backs. Sorry that you have to enlarge the image to see any of the names, but they read like "Queen of the Whiskey Spit Take" and "Senior Generalist."</div>
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And since I had the time... I made Boxes! They are pathetic little boxes, but the cards look even odder not in boxes. </div>
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As I was making my lil boxes check out what Rory was creating:</div>
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Fancy Magic Wallet Photo Portfolio! </div>
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<br />molly painter, esqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696363740724132127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070726942559961472.post-3914836014775127192013-03-20T20:43:00.004-07:002013-03-20T20:45:51.529-07:00Last Frantic Day in Penland!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So, in that bikini I was printing these guys- twentyfourteeth.com promotional materials! Because I used woodtype I only had enough letters to spell out "twenty four" for one run, and then "teeth.com" on another. </div>
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Woodtype opportunity was shrinking, and Megan was certainly taking advantage. Check out her awesome work here: http://typothecaryletterpress.com/ Look how nice and neat she keeps her press space even on a messy day!</div>
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Yeah, here's mine at the same time...</div>
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Because I was set to print these nice, fat, pieces of type that had been hanging out over in the composition area...</div>
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We had to set up for show and tell, so I harvested parts of the school and rearranged some. </div>
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And then we cleaned up, at least a little. </div>
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<br />molly painter, esqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696363740724132127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070726942559961472.post-90578197507234003162013-03-20T20:33:00.001-07:002013-03-20T20:33:44.571-07:00Fun with Silk Screen!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Because I could I decided to take a break from Vandercooking and make a silk screen and then (in my head) I figured I'd be able to screen an all-over-print and things would go so much faster! I hand cut these stencils out of the letterpress prints I had made.</div>
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Created a layout that should have more or less worked out for all over printing.</div>
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Made a fancy screen.</div>
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And then printing on paper turned into a gooey fiasco. So instead I printed myself a tee-shirt, which was also a gooey mess, but that's ok when it's on fabric.</div>
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The tee-shirt worked out so nicely that I went into the storage closet and got a used bed sheet before I took my lunch/ dinner break.</div>
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Guess what I'm eating? Yup, sardines and beans. My favorite. </div>
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Hanging out with the Masteress Printers, Rory Sparks and Emily Arthur.</div>
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And here I am getting sunburned shoulders at my press, working my lil tail off! Temperature was PERFECT for a bikini!</div>
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I'm pretty sure that when I slipped and hit my head on the way to the studio that I had a concussion. For sure I made interesting decisions that day. I made a screen of the sardines that I couldn't get to work properly, so I decided to cut down three 60 foot rolls of butcher paper and print all the little fish on the vandercook. First of all, I tore down all the cheap paper, which in my hazy state was fascinating...</div>
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Those several hundred fish added to the school.</div>
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I'm not sure how the final install of these will go. While I was making them I was thinking that they would decorate the walls of room 301. But part of me wants to cut them all out of their enclosures laminate them and create a curtain or chandelier from the little guys. So many decisions. </div>
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People in North Carolina must like licorice almost as much as I do, because the allsorts were always very fresh, and sometimes joined at the hip.</div>
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With books featuring such awesome illustrations as this. Also a book I should have bought called "The Art of the Hand Written Note" by Margaret Shepherd, which featured suggestions for the sorts of notes which should come hand written. Amoung them was this classic (I paraphrase) "Your socks are on the windshield to remind you that your stuff is packed in your car."</div>
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When I applied to Penland I proposed this project to make replicas of traditional Chinese Joss paper (money for the ancestors), of which some types look like this:</div>
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Mine are supposed to be money for the shark ancestors, and instead look like this:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2Xw2NhCz2GgG9vgcbIIqxnWSy-3slJMxifrnDOPyn5p6b2qYsbABnBZu4JPNZyRHgGVXtXgTELbGbGP8paE0o3k5ygYPo6S6DEpXd73ucSQfLK26v9kgAsFXLLlzM8lXlLoK75QtFthA/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2Xw2NhCz2GgG9vgcbIIqxnWSy-3slJMxifrnDOPyn5p6b2qYsbABnBZu4JPNZyRHgGVXtXgTELbGbGP8paE0o3k5ygYPo6S6DEpXd73ucSQfLK26v9kgAsFXLLlzM8lXlLoK75QtFthA/s320/IMG_0001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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The major interior image is of a megalodon tooth. Here's an image of a megalodon model being moved; as you can see, they were significantly larger than even the largest sharks are today. Luckily a lot larger than the sharks I will be bringing to Boston. The Joss will be one of the many things that falls out of the broken pinatas. </div>
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Here are a couple of the papers as I prepared them for the final, dark level with the actual image</div>
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And here is a video of the process. So, after I did one print run of the red swath I would run the paper twice to print the silver square which I would then adhere the gold leaf to.</div>
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It's great to plan something simple and have it work out EXACTLY as you planned everyonceinawhile! Certainly not true of all my Penland endeavors, but this proposed one went splendidly!</div>
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I know I've been a wicked graduate student, remiss in my blogging duties! But I intend to remedy that here as I wait for the mail to bring me my copy of my second draft that has Stuart's lovely scribbles all over it. It's pathetic, I know, to be procrastinating from rewriting my paper by catching up on my blog, but there it is!</div>
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And here are 3 images of Tuna Tuesday preparations ala Penland! I took video of a snippet of the ordeal, but am too lazy to load it today. Instead you get eager Apple and Olive watching their Print Masteress Mama with love-</div>
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Rory Sparks slicing the delightful cheese...</div>
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and the table set with burnt sandwiches and Celebration Ale, which was still available the second week of January. </div>
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If you want to check out a super awesome food related blog (as opposed to my sometimes food related rantings) may I recommend http://www.looklistensmelleat.com/ Lisa Mishima's super-awesome one.</div>
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So, this is the Discovery Channel Building celebrating Shark Week, according to Wikipedia.</div>
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And this is the BonePile Grill's Filipino Great White. Love the 2x4 mounting system they have rigged up</div>
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Mike and I actually stopped at this place between Newport and Lincoln City on the 101 back in April. However, it wasn't open that day. Today it was, and I ordered a S.O.B. Sandwich (various lovely bbq things were in it, and it came with coleslaw). </div>
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I somehow managed to pass on the free range possum and hormone free beaver. If you are ever on the 101 stop on by- the bad taste, vaguely shark related memorabilia would make it worth it, even if the food wasn't as absolutely fantastic as it certainly turned out to be.<br />
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I will get back to the rest of my Penland adventure soon enough. However, it's fat Tuesday and I should be tiling...<br />
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I'm a relatively cheap, easy print maker. This block is made from a chip-board I originally meant to make a silkscreen transparency with. Instead I mounted him to a 50cent piece of particle board with spray adhesive, and then coated him with PVA.</div>
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Here's a pile of single fish.</div>
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Empty bulletin board. Well, empty except for Jori Ketten's prints (http://joriketten.flatfile.ws/)</div>
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After one On The Media episode.</div>
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Whole bulletin board. But there were still more fish!</div>
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All in all, I think there's around 600 fish... More pictures, I'm sure, soon. Also, today I should get some paper on rolls to get back to that idea of silkscreening sardines in quantity! Right? Because what this world needs is more paper fish!</div>
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Right now this could make a sizable dent in the walls of the 301, but nowhere near the impact I really desire. Still, not bad for half a days work, really.</div>
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Today's project was fueled by Hot Pimento Cheese (first ingredient on the label "artificial salad cheese") and freeze dried Okra. </div>
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This is a quick shot of a test edition I did of the front and back of some business cards/ new blog announcements. The project is one I've been kicking around for awhile; a fluxus inspired sort of group. More on that as the project progresses.</div>
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It was another sunny, lovely, perfect day. Looking forward to printing in the new dawn light. </div>
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I like these red fellas.</div>
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Lichen.</div>
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From the water towers above the dorms</div>
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