New Tool

Inspiration for this new tool: Thanksgiving with family.

New Artists

Donald Judd
Anthony CaroMacrae Semans
Jared Diamond movie "Gun Germs and Steel"
Wim Delvoy
Alexander Calder
George Rickey
Maholy Nagy
David Smith
Ricard Serra
Tony Smith
Anish Kapoor

Class Work

Artists discussed in class

Allen McCollum


Walter De Maria

Rainer Fetting

Henry Moore

Giulio Paolini

Paul McCarthy

Mark Kostabi

Donald Judd

Jun Kaneko

Charles Ray

Janine Antoni

Tom Friedman

Kiki Smith

Jared Whitman

Ryan Trecartin

Jason deCaires Taylor

Archimboldo

Robert Gober

Michael Rees

Bruce Nauman

Joe Wheelwright

Martin Puryear

Anay Gallacio

Roxy Paine

Patrick Jackson

George Kubler

Interesting website

Process and Product

Ahhh... this was a fun moment.

Change of Heart

Ok, if you couldn't tell I have sort of abandoned what I was doing before. I realized that I wasn't very interested in the subject of just recreating the side of that body. I am still interested in the placement of hands/body through photos. Also I am still exploring the relationship between those in a photograph as well as the subject and the photographer. Photos to come...

Photographer/subject relationship

The Uterus

I am currently making a these "pods" that look like a sort of womb to me. I have this idea of the pod being like a protector. I used cotton batting to lay cheese cloth and plaster on top of then took the cotton out. The structure is going to hang on the wall. It has an opening on the side where you can see a cast object hanging. Although this seems a little cliche, I am interested in the idea of this structure being womb-like because the actual womb (or rather placenta) is is part of the growing mammal but also protects it. Also, the placenta is fairly thin and fragile looking.

Below are some pictures of work dealing with the womb that I found interesting. Just to be clear, I am not interested making these pods to look like wombs, I am just interested in the parallels between them.




Gravid uterus at full term
Engraving, after drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk
From The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures,
by William Hunter (1774)