Meetings this Week

This week I spoke with a few different professors. My scheduled meeting for the week was with Chinn. My focus and goal of this meeting was to conceptualize more ideas of my current art work projects. Because Chinn knows my love for Earth works artists and street artists, she gave me a few things to think about in retrospect of photographing images right onto the land and photographing THAT as a final photographic piece. The idea of manipulating the land such as those who create land art or street art. If anything, this gave me a few things to think about as well as a few artists to research. Richard Long, Robert Smithson are some classic land artists to look up, but more recently, Zander Olsen, a photographer, has picked up the idea of manipulating the land to create interesting photos. Still emphasizing the land, place, and photography but reinstating that the act of photography is mobile, and unique at that compared to the other mediums. The idea of the traveling photographer is something more to research. 

My next meeting was in Boulder with Steve Briggs, the potter who mines his own clay from the Colorado land. Steve was a wonderfully sweet guy who has connections to the areas to mine clay for myself and my work. Because the winter climate might be an issue, he will keep me posted, in a short matter of time if my going out to get clay and photograph the process is even something I could do. And this is where the ideas above might come into play. 

In all honesty, in the winter time, it is easier to bring the landscape in the darkroom than to bring it outside. Materials would be easier, and visual subject matter will be easier in any season, but the winter. I have alot of things I need to think about, and I need to stop hesitating and doubting myself in terms of creating work. Honestly, I am starting to feel wishy-washy and uncommitted because of my doubts, as I am sure we all do. But I need to push through it.