Working out the installation of the tracking images for the installation at my next residency. I stopped into Portland Color to explore the options to print the images large and hang them on the building to effectively set the stage for the walking on the green to explain mark marking, location, and the space at work in our being in the place. I talked to the Vermont College exhibition coordinator and need to send sketches. Exciting.
I attended the Bakery Photo Collective that evening. Wow, it was awesome! I was shocked to see so much creative energy, generosity and great work in one place, forgive me, in Maine. I was bad...very bad. I purchased a few things. I attended AIPID every other year until 2005 and buy a piece, but it has been a while now since Eric, Avis, and all my North Woods activities nested me. I loved the show. I have admired the work of Laura McPhee since the nineties, both because of the subject of complex landscapes and the process of the large format. I love the process of working with the camera and thinking through your perception of space. Whenever I try to settle for a smaller format, I lust for the greater control of perception, detail and process that thinking through the shoot allows me. You will always see me with a camera; my little camera is a diary, sketches of thoughts. Not for sharing, usually. I also was introduced to Scott Peterman by this wife, the fabulous Greta, at the Bakery. I love his work, he has a MFA and studied philosophy undergrad. I have requested he mentor me next term. His piece in the Go Go show brought me to questions of tracing a place and location. It pulled me in and played with my perception of space in that magical way I love in others and I aspire to myself. I also shared after buying McPhee's print how much I would love to study with her; I never considered it. He told me to email him and he would talk more. I need someone who I can show my work to for constructive critique, question the conceptual philosophies which I'm querying, and discuss questions of perception. I have my fingers crossed.
I am printing the images of the North Woods in 8x10 and 16x20 and editing which sizes will be displayed in Vermont. I have so much more film to develop. I am working through my project's visual perception [I have conflicted notions] and the elusive character of the North Woods, the memory of place, and the complexity of man and nature where there is not an answer or binary code but a plethora of divergent visions.
Still working on the audio, but sound brings another dimension to an installation. I am not ready for such an addition. I have used these interviews to question my work and questioning. Thinking it out....
I hope I have a mentor for the next session. My fingers are crossed.
A walk is not just mechanical motion but also a space for critical thinking and creativity. My practice values narrating the geometry of my relationships. My photographs, as well as everyday items, souvenirs and interactions serve as frames that engage my life’s “open spaces” and areas of interest, including land use, domestic identity and social policy.
Moon Rise
View of White Cap Mountain
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
week seventeen: November 29 on
More shooting, recording, editing, reflecting, and thinking about what and how this collection works effectively. This is a process...
week eighteen: December 6th on
Photo a GO GO. I loved seeing all the photography from the region. I hope to have meet a mentor for next semester and I for a few pieces for my collection. Yes, I collect what I love.
Friday afternoon I stopped by Portland Color and met with Steve to discuss the printing services availble to me for my marking space project. I need to check with the school and confirm it is okay to use the front lawn. This is a very exciting installation. I hope to show it in Greenville this winter too.
Friday afternoon I stopped by Portland Color and met with Steve to discuss the printing services availble to me for my marking space project. I need to check with the school and confirm it is okay to use the front lawn. This is a very exciting installation. I hope to show it in Greenville this winter too.
week sixteen: November 22nd on
Thanksgiving. Thanks for the love of family and friends and gratitude that I escaped to the woods--Home for several days taking a break from all the activities and responsibilities of normal days. I read on my visual culture project and reflected on where these readings have taken me, some questioning. I still prefer James C. Scott to De Certeau for offering a contextual look at resistance and hidden transcripts of using space. De Certeau reads like poety; it is beautiful and thought provoting but I feel I need to read it several times to grasp the depth of his prose.
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