Movin'

I decided to fuse my 2 blogs together. So from now on, please go to http://caseandpoint.wordpress.com. And speak no more of this blog. It's dead to me now. Dead! You hear?!

I Was There

I know this amounts to me showing off, and, as far as showing off goes, it's really sad since it's something that happened 4 years ago. Still, I was looking through some old links for some contact info and came across this. I think this piece is the most photogenic things I've made.

"You Are Here", Sweeney Art Gallery at UC Riverside

Intersection 2008

I am trying to figure out what Facebook is good for, other than to waste time and write on people's walls like we're back in senior year of high school, yearbooks and ready phrases like "Have a great summer. K.I.T." in tow. I did a search and started becoming friends with art-minded people and organizations. One organization I discovered, as it turns out, is right in my backyard. Outpost for Contemporary Art is located in Highland Park and develops international art projects and has a residency program. They have a show right now called Installation 2008. It brings together local artists with local businesses in Eagle Rock -- various artists partnered with store owners on Eagle Rock Blvd. to create site-specific/relevant work in or around the stores. My friend and sometime-cohort Shannon and I did the art walk on opening day 2 weekends ago.

There were some hits and misses, as would be the case in any group show but one of the things that mesmerized me the most was not art but the shop itself.

Pets with Fez is an antique store/weaving studio with all these cool looms in the back. This is where Shannon and I came upon the owner and weaver extraordinaire Babajan, hard (but happy) at work on a loom. How amazing it was to see an old craft like this come alive right before my eyes! It'd be great to learn to make my own rug or even a scarf (there are intricate patterns possible with weaving that would be a nightmare, if possible at all, with knitting or crocheting) ... But who has the time for ancient traditions these days? Especially when bombarded with the all-important sitting around?

Beep, Beep! The Woodworking Bus

Side Street Projects is this awesome organization created to be a resource for artists as well as to offer art programs for kids in the L.A. area. I look a course called "Get Your Sh*t Together" that covered everything from taxes to grant-writing to portfolio cataloging for fine artists. One of the coolest things they have is a traveling school bus that houses a woodworking studio. How great it is to see all these kids so enthralled with the tactile and creative process of woodworking!

the Why Cheap Art? manifesto

Bread and Puppet: breadandpuppet.org. Nuff said.

Video Fun

My partner-in-crime Shannon and I went to see the California video show at the Getty last week. That may not sound like a big deal to you but it's a big to me/us ... I don't think I've been to the Getty in a couple of years. It's daunting to try to take in a show that's entirely made up of video work. It sort of made me feel bad for people who have to see my video work -- it's a HUGE time commitment and there isn't much in terms of pay-off at the end, which is what people normally expect when seeing something in the moving pictures vein. Not that all video art is obtuse. I definitely saw several pieces that were very accessible, whether it be on a visceral or narrative level. I don't know why I feel responsible for my audience enjoying themselves, especially when this isn't necessarily the objective when I'm making the pieces. I suppose I just want to be a good hostess. Anyway, Shannon and I are going to start working on stuff at our next meeting. Well, we're going to revisit an old piece anyway. It was finished off pretty quickly because of our then pending art show but it may need to be fleshed out a bit more. I don't have a web-friendly version of it but here are a couple of photo stills ...

Color Pencil Pal

List of things I pleasantly surprised myself by doing in the last few days:

1. Take a morning walk in Griffith Park with my roommate
2. Go to the Getty Museum to see the California Video show
3. Bake my first-ever vegan cupcakes
4. Write my resume
5. Write a poem, sort of
6. Draw

To specifically address #5 and #6, I've been working on an on-going project with a friend and the help of the US Postal Service. It goes like this: Brande started with a journal. I started with a journal. The first week, we each drew and/or wrote something on the first page. We then mailed our respective journals to the other person and we had a week to come up with something on the next page. And so on and so forth. We are 6-weeks in, and the following are images from Brande's journal (meaning the first image is by Brande). When I get "my" journal in a few days, I'll post images from that as well.

Brande

Me

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