"Openings" Project

Openings [titles left to right: Inception, Orifice, & Interstice]

project 1; openings

I am working on a three print series titled, Openings. This image, Opening #2, is one of the three. The three works will be joined by a large scale sculptural form created from the rusty interior of a box spring. The sculptural form is anemone-like in form...with more abstraction.

...much more aquatinting to do on this plate. There is currently too stark a contrast...making the image too rigid. ...more subtle layers of velvet blacks are needed to make the image more sensual and soft.

Normally, I plan out my plates in great detail from beginning to end... through the use of acting, photography, digital enhancement, drawing, coloring, and much lamenting. With this image...I experimented with the creative process of "play". I let my mind swell on a central concept and worked swiftly with the asphaltum - hoping for a more innate, pure visual expression.

I initially began experimenting with this image in digital photography. Since then, I have been interested in understanding this image through various abstractions and interpretations (drawing, video, intaglio, sculpture).

Re-edited "Anemone" video project

...re-edited Anemone. Anemone is a two and a half minute video project exploring the concept of victimization. I've shorted the piece...taking out some repetitive visuals, and I've increased and added some additional ones.

Representation Prints; Victimization Project

These Representation prints are single plate etchings. Each print is meant to represent individuals who have been affected by sexual victimization. After running different versions of the print...I have decided to run them as inkless embossments. I plan to use the prints in an installation about victimization and how it relates to power, gender, and sexuality. In the installation, I will place one hundred of these inkless (embossed) prints on a small table near an old rusty, gnarled bed. Participants will be asked to write any amount of words on the embossed prints in response to their personal experience with sexual victimization. The participants will then be invited to hang the print on the walls surrounding the bed.




...inking studies. I tried various viscosities and intensities of black, browned-blue, and blued-brown. I used burnt plate oil and/or gel to increase viscosity.

Video Project I: "ANEMONE"

...this video is highly compressed for streaming...so the quality of image and sound has been highly compromised by the compression.

Video Project I: ANEMONE is part of my recent exploration into the realm of victimization. This includes concepts and nuances relating to power relationships, sexuality, memory, and gender identity. Digital media was taken from HD video I shot in preparation for this video and found footage from 1950s archived films. All editing was done using Final Cut Studio and Sound Track Pro. The production of this video has been part of my printmaking and installation processes relating to sexual victimization. The installation will include a rusty bed amongst walls of small embossed/lightly inked sexual part intaglio prints. Visitors will be asked to write words on the prints in relation to their experiences with sexual victimization.

Installation & print_project...photo studies

I am working on a studio project to learn more about victimization and agency [as it applies to female sexuality & rape]. The project is a combination of installation work, video, and intaglio prints. These are preliminary photos of some of the concepts and materials I will be using in my installation and video. The prints will be a major component to the installation and will emphasize the labor intensive and repetitive processes of printmaking as being vital to human expression and representation.
....more to come.

Visual Culture Project / Studio Work

...and so it begins [semester 1...otherwise known as S1].

The semester is split into two parts; research [visual culture project], which is doing research, annotations, and analysis and studio work which is not always but can be done in conjunction with the research.

My VC [visual culture project] is centered on the following question...
How has the feminist art movement [1960's-1990's] altered perceptions of power, identity, and gender?
Bibliography for the first mailing includes: Simone de Beauvior, The Second Sex; Broude, Norma & Mary Garrard, The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, History, and Impact; Catherine Belsey, Post-Structuralism: A Very Short Introduction.

My studio work will be centered on the following themes: victimization, reclaiming power, maintaining identity. I will be experiementing with video creation as part of my printmaking process. I may incorporate both into an installation work which explores issues relating to vicimization such as rape, and reclaiming ones identity.