Viva Los Stir Sticks!

What I am taking with me to San Jose Del Cabo. One suitcase with a weeks worth of clothes and one duffel bag with 30 jonathanbrilliant.com glow in the dark t shirts, a tripod, and some tools and things.

Tomorrow I leave for San Jose Del Cabo Mexico. I will have a week to create the Los Cabos Piece. As is my nature I use the moments before I travel to take stock of my studio and to think about what I am about to do. I guess it is the process of thinking about what I am leaving behind and what I am taking with me that keeps making the work interesting. In a very real way I can see where the work is leading me while at the same time continually being surprised by where it has taken me.

One of the things I am leaving behind is the unfinished crate for the bumbershoot festival piece. In order to maximize the time I have in Seattle this august I am crating up several panels to ship out ahead of time for the Bumbershoot piece. So that all I have to do is focus on making the component parts for the installation. I made the crate this month so I can fill it throughout the month of June and ship it mid July.

Another piece left behind is the Iced Beverage Basket. It has been slowly accumulating a nice coat of rust since it was moved outdoors in December. But When I get back it will be getting cleaned up and heading out to the powdercoater before being installed in it’s new home in an outdoor sculpture park in Georgia.

Another something I will be coming back to is a new steel stack piece. I cutup and reused a previous steel basket that never saw the light of day to begin the structure for this piece.

Related to the new steel piece is a new drawing I have been working on.

the drawing is a series of lines laid into the paper the same way i would lay material into an object or installation.It has been nice to work on the drawing in tandem to other things I have been doing and since i won’t be looking at it or working on it for the next week it will be nice to see it with fresh eyes when i return from Mexico.

For the Mexican version of the Have sticks Will Travel show I won’t be moving too far from the original idea. The only key difference will be that the gallery in Los Cabos that stocks my work will be next door to where I am doing my installation. It will be interesting for me to see a variety of  my work existing in the same context beyond my studio. The Gallery has several recent rust on paper works, as well as some older sculptures from 2005. It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on the formal qualities of the Los Cabos Piece.