organizing thoughts

Okay...organizing thoughts... I need to do so much painting this weekend. For Elizabeth has taken so much more time than I thought it would. For this weekend, I need to finish that painting, Start the large For Henry, and start a small painting --not sure which one I want, maybe one of the more simple ones would be nice, and begin figuring out the color palette for the painted set by taking photos and painting two-dimensionally.

Short stories are being revised by an English person right now..

I need to take notes on my research, too, and begin a source sheet. I'm going to look at some example papers and at least begin laying out the format. I need to talk to Mike actually...

Okay:

1) Look at past mfa papers (mike and owen)

2) Begin recording potential sources

3) Ask Mike for a visit to talk about directions for the paper..things that are relevant:

-stories, narrative

-short stories?

-themes of dealing with reality, love, family, loss, trying to sustain an illusion of normalcy, how disparate people try to connect in a small town, sentimentality and a fear of being really human

-Cindy Sherman stills from a film/ stills from a painted set that doesn't exist....or am I going away from that and focusing on books? Shoot idk.

I need to go visit old friends for a few days. Think the cold basement is starting to get to me, so maybe in a few weekends.

Overall

Think about the things that link everything together.

Themes showing a difficulty of communication

How do I show what’s important?

Multiple layers of nuggets in observation, in intros, in book

Told to order more expensive acrylics… I can’t afford that, so making do.

Working on overshooting painted lines

I need to begin looking up exhibition proposals for after thesis.

Installation

Begin hanging work wherever I want --it doesn’t have to span the entire 74’ wall

Display characters/houses in groups

Paintings

They seem literary because they’re idealized

“I get a musty, book smell from the color palettes...place me in a time..chairs are a stand-in for figures.”

I want them to read as, this is the thing I’m imagining when I’m reading a book

Yellowed pages, like in a book for framing instead of white which comes off like a stage

The yellowed make the paintings read like text on a page

Read as sentimentality, nostalgia

The milkiness of adding white makes it seem more bleak and faded and it lessens the range, removing it from reality more

For Elizabeth

Paint a couch of a person whose life has just been disrupted. It was looking like a welcoming grandmother.

--shift in hue, temperature, imperfect pillows

--couch has now changed from burnt orange to purple to orange to blue (with more sculpting and success in a light source and value, temperature...finally)

What kind of stuff do you get rid of after a relationship?

--wooden musical frog, key, notebook and pen, ceramics dishes, baseball, picture frames

---the weird things that make you a person

Boxes tend to crumble in straight lines...and are not that sienna…

Rug pattern? No maybe texture..needs a hint of lightness in value

Annabel Olive’s Study

I’m making a sculpture of a picture of a memory of a story

Try setting 2x4s inside of the bottom floors, letting the whole piece float (wood screws to put together and take out) Making it float removes it even more from reality.

Straw needs to be clay or coated-on paint

Attempt to transform the audiences’ expectation of what the world looks like (in coffee table and bookshelf) --do they need to be beat up, growth? Less plausible reality

Josephine Halvorson moves in painted set --painting of a crack or eroding or aging

Warm light is good --more domestic

The stage set is a picture of this thing that happens to be dimensional

Small Paintings

Page #s need to wait, in order to correlate with the book of short stories. #s in warm greys