research day

Lubna Chowdhary // Artist Profile from Jamie Isbell on Vimeo.

sim but different

love & progress

on the mat

or off the mat, practice every day.

(mary oliver)

#sukhaplease

to see and seen

margaret meehan

oh alma, that's funny...

Alma Thomas, Starry Night and the Astronauts (1972)

that was fun but back to work

observe. notate. make something that points it out and explains, visually.

then, make something that causes the viewer to change.
change thoughts, change actions, begin conversations.
go!

art + math + community

...and so much new

A)

New Kintsugi, gold repair from Humade on Vimeo.

"Next to a piece of pottery’s earthen-colored clay, the kintsugi gold cuts through, providing a sporadic action that arrests the eyes. Gopnik describes it as “a tiny moment of free jazz played during a fugue by Bach.”...In a modernized twist on this tradition, designer Lotte Dekker encourages people to break pottery in her workshops. Dekker has created her own kintsugi-style repair kits..."(more)

B)  "what a cup of tea: mending our brokenness"

C) "In Kintsugi, Thomas Meyer has written an intimate elegy for his partner of nearly four decades. As Robert Kelly observes in his foreword, this is “a text written in and through the very death it mourned.” (more)

 

Hundreds more of this theme...an old idea hardly forgotten...so many latching on to an idea, a philosophy of mending...why is that?  maybe we feel that for some reason we need it.  it resonates because it awakens a very human desire...to fix, to repair, to mend, to keep, and to continue.

I Have Seen the Future

 

 Norman Bel Geddes' Costume Designs for The Miracle (1924)

 Float for a Macy's parade, Oct 12, 1926. Pencil, ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper.

"I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America" on view at the Harry Ransom Center (UT Austin) until January 6, 2013. He designed, predicted, dreamed up, and rendered some amazing things...an artist indeed.

Kim Rugg

Cool Hunting Video: Kim Rugg from Cool Hunting on Vimeo.

"bowl"

 "crespina" - Antonella Cimatti (2006)

slip cast driping, porcelain paperclay, 40cm x 40 cm x 40 cm

 "crespina" - Antonella Cimatti (2006)

slip casting mold, porcelain paperclay, 10cm x 30cm x 30cm

 "Blossom-Ruby Brilliance" - Eva Kwong (2005)

thrown, electric oxiation / painted slips, earthenware, 4.5 x 20 x 20

"Pink Greenware" - Bethany Benson (2006)

white stoneware & Adobe CS2 PS, 14 x 24 x .5

weeks 2 & 3...wait no almost 7...

some important things I've gathered from camp so far:

1. most of it is about confidence. if I am unsure, uneasy, or at all questioning my ability to lead / impart knowledge / create a happy time for all...they'll know it and we'll all suffer.  

2. some projects just don't work out...and that's all right.  sending home pretty artwork is a nice thing to do, but when it comes down to it I believe it's about the experience (so make it good.  when the kids are frustrated and nothing is working as it should, this is when it's most important to lead by staying calm, listening, and taking note not to do that project again!)

3. planning is as difficult as you make it.  aka, don't wait until the last minute...but also catch yourself when planning activities in the mindset of just filling time.  it's easy to forget that the time I have with the kids is precious, so the artists and projects and activities that I share with them should have meaning and importance!  which leads to...

4.  get inspired!  just like you can not make art without looking at art, you can not teach art without being inspired by things that you see.  I have once again dropped the ball on remembering to extensively use my eyes, but luckily it's an easy thing to resume.  with that, here's what I'm getting excited for and inspired by and thinking of sharing for camp next week...

 Sycamore leaves/stitched together with stalks/hung from a tree, Pollok Park, Glasgow (1986)

Andy Goldsworthy 

Pebbles around a hole, Kinagashima-Cho, Japan (1987)

Andy Goldsworthy

Early morning calm, Knotweed stalks, pushed into lake bottom, 

made complete by their own reflections (1988)

Andy Goldsworthy

dream

dreamtime alarm clock

Vera Wiedermann 2011/12

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