Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
CASTLE AND SIDEWALK
This spindly castle is ‘A’ shaped because I live in it. The sidewalk promotes pedestrian safety and encourages visitors.
VALLEY STUDY
My drawing teacher favored several techniques for creating the illusion of space in a painting. Sometimes I favor these techniques without caring whether I’ve achieved any 3-D illusion. Overlap objects. Provide more detail in the foreground. Provide more color intensity in the foreground. Make far-away objects smaller. Remember rules for perspective. Let objects near the horizon line blur a little bit. Put more marks in the foreground (use more paint pigment, or graphite, or charcoal, or pastel, etc.) How many of these tricks can you play without creating depth?
POOL SCENE
If one day I become very wealthy and self-indulgent, I’ll buy 40 acres of grassland, and dig a swimming pool whose water level is conterminous with ground level. With a diving board.
KITTY CAT HOUSES I and II
The scene I could see from my attic window at 48 Pratt. Then the same landscape, further abstracted.
CASTLE AND RAINBOW
As a girl scout, I camped once at the Koreshan State Historic Site in central Florida. The campsite is on the land once colonized by a cult called the Koreshan Unity, whose members believed that the entire universe existed within a giant, hollow sphere. I mis-understood this: I thought the earth was the bit trapped within this giant, hollow sphere. As if the sun were a sort of peach-pit suspended inside of the earth, and we lived just below the peach skin. In this world, would rainbows be upside-down?
CONFLAGRATION
When I am an old woman, I will title every one of my paintings ‘Conflagration,’ after a poem my brother wrote in the fourth grade and in order to celebrate passionate painting. I think this is a castle burning under water.
COUNTDOWN PAINTING
Walking up and down Wickenden street, I tore down all the telephone poll posters whose advertised events had already occurred. It was drizzling, and the posters’ ink ran. I chopped them up and organized them by date and price.
HOUSES MAP
On this map of Providence’s lower east side, I marked all the places I’ve lived, and listed my housemates.
PINK SHELVES
I installed these shelves in my bedroom. I was proud of them throughout my stay at the 75 Brook apartment. When I moved, I abandoned them in my basement.
CLOUD KAYAK
As I dreamed a few nights ago, I realized that I was dreaming. And so I was allowed to fly. I flew around a department store. When I realized that a flying dreamer needn’t inhabit a department store, I flew into my room. My bedside light wouldn’t turn on. Why not? As the dreamer of my dream, I was an honorary queen. Other royalty lived over the hill. They had taken my light bulb to assert their power.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
VIRTUAL REALITY FEST: in a perfect world
All of the dishes on these shelves are based on objects I carry with me from apartment to apartment. I don’t want to carry all the contents of a house with me wherever I go. But neither do I want to depend upon my friends and family to provide for me. Do you see the conflict? On the one hand, I want quality frying pans and pots with matching lids. I want sharp kitchen knives and carpets and sofas. I want ladles and can openers. Can’t I have all this and also be able to migrate from house to house, city to city. Must I own a car? Must I own a skillet? Must I schlep my skillet around in my car’s trunk?
My friend John believes that every house should be permanently furnished with the set of objects that most perfectly compliment its architecture.
LIGHTNING CLOUDS AND MULTI-COLORED SKY; WOMAN AND GREEN RIVER
These pieces of paper were color-mixing palettes before they became paintings.
HOUSE ON FIRE
Painters can imagine houses that don’t follow the rules of 3-D space. Also note the fire in this third floor window.
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