10 days until i leave for brooklyn, and some anxious ramblings

this is a new patterning system i am trying out on the rust prints. I was sitting somewhere the other day and started drawing some lines on a post it note and then i realized i wanted to try and recreate that pattern in rust so here goes. I will be making it in sections working my way across the paper as i go to complete the full stacked pattern.

this is the direction that my time trial stir stick piece has taken. I sort of like the continued folidng in of the work and will eventually make it meet as a big doubled over mass.

I always get this nervous when i am ten days out from starting an installation. It may sound funny but I always feel my most anxious and insecure before an exhibition. It is probably obvious that i work in the way that i do so I can create work that the viewer will experience in almost the exact same way that i experience the making of the work. I tend to favor process oriented work because the method of making the work is evident in the end result, unlike more alchemical processes of art making that “magically” convert materials or chemicals into works. Given the opportunity it always makes sense to me to build the work in situ and work right up until the opening of the show because the work presented will be unique and new existing only in that space. I give myself such specific parameters mostly to combat my own anxieties and feelings of inadequecy as an artist. I know that if the artwork is created with a set amount and type of materials, in this case 100,000 7″ rounded end birch wood stir sticks, and utilizes a specific process, again weaving with tension and no adhesive, I can focus entirely on the work itself and leave everything else alone. I had been trying in vain to make a little promo booklet, but as is always the case with me i lose interest in making promo materials and would rather use my time to create more work than to create more work for myself about the work i have already done.