I have a small gallery in a town that neighbors mine. I found these works to be interesting. I like the idea of bringing “craft” materials in the fine art world. 

This is the first layer to my new painting that I am working on. I have incorporated bright yellow for the maze that I am currently trying to navigate. I am planing on drawing and adding more layers as I progress

After I talked with Andrea I started to think about what I was going to start to focus on for the rest of this semester and moving forward. I’m going to start to layer my artwork, but with a more personal touch. Here is just a preliminary sketch of a maze and unorganized flora over lapping. This is also going to have a house component

When posed with the idea to try a recreate what my artistic practice was, I was stuck. Like Nick, I like to visualize and put into new context what I am feeling in a way that is visually interesting, That’s why I am an artist right? His article was engaging and I really responded to the ideas of submitting both as a legitimate source of research and inquiry. Working through a medium, dare I say analytic ABR is something that I do truly find interesting. When I was younger I would always make a comic books with my friends, even now I create them to document different events in my life. For example I made a comic book that documented my boyfriend and my first year together. I describe my own artistic practice currently as a thrilling dream. Life like, but ends within a short burst. I have been so busy and stressed that finding time to commit to everything is stressful.

This week I had a lot going on and I felt like I needed to move away from the realistic components and solely move to abstract. Like I have mentioned building a future and purchasing property has been on the horizon and it has been all that I have been able to think about. However, it seems so far off and I guess subconsciously this is my response. Abstract=far off. 

Although not going backwards is important, I think the idea of combining both large and small concepts into one artwork. My ideas that are currently plaguing my thoughts-property buying etc. and the water that our earth has- dirty, polluted etc. and trying to make a world that is simple, and euphoric. 

This week I have had alot going on, and it seems like october, even though I didn’t think it was possible, is turning to be more stress inducing than September. I am still interested in pattern, and about nature. However, I have changed things up a bit for this week. I’m looking at purchasing property, and building a home with my partner on it. Doing so has been overwhelming and frustrating. I feel like this has influenced what I haven been painting, specifically the colors that I was choosing for this painting. 

In this weeks art work I started to think about the development of my life particularly in high school and how confusing life was when I was young. I thought about the colors in which I remembered most when I was living in rural Sullivan county. I was influenced by my previous work, and from the Burton article.

This week I was still interested in the ideas of the things and objects and how to make sense of it all. I have thought about my personal work this summer and how I am planning on continuing that. I found that I have been gravitating to spruce and pine trees because I have been looking at property with my partner, and the one area that we are interested is very heavily covered with evergreens. I guess because I have been so stressed that I made a makeshift world where I can dream about a simpler time and place. That everything has fallen into place and where I don’t feel as though I’m barely keeping my head above water. I don’t want to worry anyone, I’m fine, I just can’t wait until things finally calm down and every minute of my conscious day is not taken from me. Art making has been therapeutic though, and I can’t wait to see where these washes and layers of gouache, india ink, and water color go from here.

The article was a little confusing to follow, but certain points about object and things really resonated with my current work. This past summer I started a series that was involved with endangered animals, more specifically bird, that were on the top ten list of the most endangered birds in the United States. I wanted to create an images that was both abstract and realistic to draw on the idea of water, animals and ambiguity of both. Why do not treat our water systems better? What does that mean for us, and the animals on this planet? How does this relate to objects, and things and how can I move my studio work on from here? All questions that I have been dealing with and thinking about since the start of this semester. For this work that I created I tries to converge the new ideas that I was presented with, and the work that I was currently working on.