NIGEL
Last week I was able to get time with Nigel and It was excellent. She brought many fresh ideas to the table. I talked about the different ways in which my pieces can communicate with an audience. She told me about how she has too used handwriting in many of her projects. She explored the idea of a conversation that can take place in a more literal sense than the conversation of my connection with each piece that takes place. She showed me how she too writes in photographs with a mixture of different text and handwriting in order to create the idea of a dialogue happening.
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I really like this idea and I have started experimenting with it.
Nigel also talked about finding more depth in my work and showed me how it was working in some of my pieces and how it was not working in other pieces. She was critical of my use of colors and encouraged me to find new or different ways to use color in the pieces.
another idea she had for me to use layers was to tape off sections in order to leave areas where way may never touch the picture and in other parts it may be completely consumed in wax, this will help with the depth of the piece as well as creating less of a direct portrait or picture. I started working through this idea with a unsuccessful piece and I have yet to figure out how I feel about it.
CHINN
I met with Chinn this past Tuesday and we came up with some really great ideas and new ways to challenge and push the ideas of what it means to practice a memory. For the longest time I assumed my what my work was geared towards was the idea of the present memory. Not a complex concept but a thoughtful one. The idea that we all have memories but when we choose to participate in any given memory often it is a great deal of time later. I feel that having dear present memories are important choosing to remember things that are happening in your life currently, relationships that are still in your life and choosing to live within those moments while they are still there instead of when they have passed.
This idea of a present memory was one that started from my on going curiosity of my family. One that I have been very inquisitive about since I was young. I have also been very private about this curiosity and found that I am mostly reflecting and speculating about my family dynamic internally. This project has been a way for me to explore these emotions. However it has also created a non-existent dialogue between me and my grandfather. The pieces are a way for me to "practice memory" Chinn helped me to come this phrase. Through this ritual or practice of making each piece I am beginning to comment on the communication between my grandfather and I however I am doing this alone and my thoughts are mine alone. I have a very real relationship with my grandfather but through this project i have simulated this relationship to be the way I see it, or the way I understand it.
Upon realizing this Chinn encourage me to find a way to have my pieces communicate to each other, have them echo each other in one way or another in order to present this idea of communication.
here are some new finished pieces, work in progress and ready to start pieces
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