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conclusion

+ ask hard questions of yourself. answering them, you might need to sacrifice things which are hard to lose. + art production sometimes is just a labor. you work hard and think that it should be improved with practice. practice makes perfect. but, THINK more, do less sometimes is the answer. + you think that you think a lot. but the reality is that you are only an over-thinker. over-thinking means labor-thinking. no efficient result. a frustrating process. an obstacle. a hinder which prevents you from moving. + listen. think. learn. but simultaneously act. do them. do what you learned and what you heard. + trust your emotions. it is another motive existed in you. sometimes do something based on your emotion. + break the habits. forget. start.
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Who's the Joke On

While in Chattanooga Tennessee I had the opportunity to give a slide presentation of the work that I have created over the past year and a half. At the end I opened it up for questions and the only one that took the opportunity to comment was one of the art history professors. The beginning of her comment centered on Duchampian connections in my work. This is something I have been aware of for some time (two of my works have been a direct appropriation of his work) but I am finding more connections as I reflect on my work and feel I probably need to do a more thorough investigation into him (any reading suggestions would be greatly appreciated). She also asked a question that has been asked of me before but which I have failed to come up with a concrete answer for, which is "who's the joke on?" I don't feel that my work is a direct attack on the viewer and an attempt to humiliate them. However, I certainly set up a situation of uneasiness in which the viewer is unsure
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Blog Post 12/03

Finally spent time in the studio painting this past weekend. I found myself reading more and diving into theory. It paid off. I've been chewing on the words flesh and body and the dynamics of the differences in their meanings and circulations. Flesh is made into bodies through the relations it partakes. Friday I found myself wanting to paint bodies stacked on themselves wiggling and moving. First instinct was to use porn as a source material... but I've been looking at magazine collages for so long their wouldn't be enough information. I wanted that excitement of painting a body that has been encoded into visual thing.  I ordered these books to read over the break: Deleuze and Zizek  Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia  Organs without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences The Parallax View (Short Circuits)
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Shelby Fleming Word Salad

Word Salad   This week I spent sometime compiling all my notes from this semester and organizing them. I plan to, over break, do some in depth research over these topics, articles, and artist. Notes: ·          Amorphous body forms ·          Community of structures ·          Devotion to labor ·          Jason Stopa: “body as a theme to carry the weight of concepts” o    Dana Schutz “bodies provocative deformed, dark undertones, slippage ·          Link art to community engagement ·          Tension between hand and digital fabrication ·          Vertuious space/puriton view of making ·          Mirror transforming viewer ·          Process shown in work/ the process/ system that generates the work/ each unite response to the next ·          Scale and how it relates to the body ·          Viewers interation vs. how much ·          Concepts + material ·          Create own microscopic images ·          Transformation of material ·       
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