Distance Art Project

The assignment is to connect with someone that lives at least 200 miles away and collaborate on an art piece with that person.

My partner in this assignment will be Bridget Dickey, a cousin of a friend that goes to school at Columbia in Chicago for fashion design.  Our project is to create an item (haven't nailed it down just yet... doll, bag, apparel piece, etc...) made of fabric textiles.  The intent of the piece will be to show the difference in geographic space through fabric.  Her focus is high fashion, which is typically associated with large cities, like Chicago.  My part of the work will incorporate more traditional, crafty fabrics, typically associated with more rural areas, like central Illinois.

Once we have decided on the final piece, we will each work in our respective cities on our parts of the piece, then we will get together and attach them together, creating one cohesive work.

Busy busy busy..

Too busy to blog!
Working on paintings, need to come up with a concept involving a straight razor...

Working on nailing down a concept for a collaborative art piece... likely involving textiles... should be fun!

hammer time

I've created a painting with a hammer as the focus.  There are also some other tools.. a staple gun, a screwdriver, a level.

So when I presented this painting for a critique in my painting class, the assessment overall was that I was now tackling "male aggression" or "male violence".  Why is a tool box male?  It was my own tool box that I used for the painting, so why would it automatically be male oriented?  My works involving knives, cleavers and scissors (even though they were set in a sewing room scene) were never intended to be accounts of specifically female aggression.  Is it because they were staged in the kitchen?  I know men that cook.  The sewing room?  I know men that sew.  

I never intentionally place a gender on paintings, and ironically, this hammer series ends in a way that might assume female aggression, so it seems a little silly that because it's a painting of a toolbox,  that it has to belong to a man.

Girls know how to use hammers too.