Artspace Raleigh Summer Residency: WeekOne

I moved in. I drew some circles. I started most of the elements that will comprise the finished installation “To Weave. To Stack. To Stain” that opens August 3rd. From now until then I’ll just be plugging away on the following elements;

In honor of the multi-week residency format(my first gig longer than 2weeks since 2010), I’m indulging on one of my personal residency traditions: A text based drawing. This time instead of an over sized to-do list, or a map of mutual internet links and google search results I am focusing on my work. More specifically it is a timeline of how my work got to here, namely the residency at Artspace. I am trying to record every connection point of all the work and steps related to the “Have Sticks Will Travel: Tour” and the years since. What has been really interesting is literally drawing the lines that I have always connected in my head as to how my work and myself ended up here. I suppose this is also an exhaustive attempt at answering the nagging question in my mind “How exactly did I do that?”

I am assembling together my current cache of stacked sleeves, along with some new ones, and eventually will integrate the sleeves that are currently in the Flanders Gallery. Of course it wouldnt be a residency without a column to encircle.

I am also laying in two variations of the “grounds for removal” pieces, expanding on the one from Conway in January.

Finally, I was given a room with some decent corners again. This time I am testing my ability to bend circles of lids around and inside corners. With 4 weeks until the end of the residency and the opening of the installation, it is a manageable, but busy schedule. Inlcuded in this schedule is the need to be finished and secured with what I already have on site by July 21, so When the Flanders gallery show down the street closes I can integrate that material into this site. If things really keep rocking I may even bring some crate action into this show too.