Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Some toughts Today about Craft Tommorow
I went in to the Museum today to help Carole cut up some plastic bags that she and Austin heat fussed with an iron in order to make some textile fabric. The fabric will be used to make Columbia knock off jackets. The jackets will be sewn via bike pedal power.
We talked about craft for a few hours in the museum and later that night over dinner out on Alberta. We run up there to check out the progress of said sewing machine bike. It’s a gonna be a job for those dudes, but what an opportunity. I’d be stoked if I were them.
Craft, Art Design. I’m getting a little tired of this conversation. It’s interesting for only so long, and then I just want to make some stuff. Get in the studio and turn up the music. This frustration comes from a few different reasons. My mind is full. Full. And we are on break and i’m trying to enjoy it, but it’s been hard to rest because I’m used to working all the time. Trying to wrap my head around all three notions of making at the same time in order to make a thing or a concept is overwhelming. Any combination of the three, has enough to offer insightfully, but trying to utilize all three is cause for an episode of some sort. Possibly, that is why they have been separated in the first place. Considering all three, seems to cause doubt or insecurity at times. Having said that, electronic musicians have studied rock and roll who have studied jazz and blues… I am more interested art and craft. Design, as a perspective is interesting for about a few sentences of dialog for me. Here’s one, when compared to craft – design and craft share within the object, a haptic sense of the human relationship. Design though, has a broad sense and craft has more an intimate one. The difference is between groups of people and pairs of people. I’m not sure what art does for the notion of the tactile relationship. Possibly nothing. Speaking about objects in particular here, as I am a maker of objects. I think making is rather important right now, that is why I do it. Making is about relationships through material for others to experience physically. In the advent of the all encompassing immaterial world, i.e. the virtual; reinforcing making into our social conscience is of the utmost importance today. We must sustain the haptic memory as preservation of our species. Unfortunately, commodity gets what commodity wants, to paraphrase a Fugazi song, and the immaterial will encompass all our valued and known environment. Crafts resurgence today could be seen as a conditioning notion in understanding and accepting ambiguity through the process of making. Craft materials are inherently amorphous. They never answer the question (like design strives to); they create more intriguing questions. Awareness of this thought in craft process is the main condition in craft making. This same condition of the ambiguous, never ending limit to possibility, is also the main intrigue and condition of the immaterial environment. The virtual world is not set upon the laws of our reality based world; it is endless. Just as craft is endless. What we assume is a counter revolution to the immaterial un-haptic value system of the future, by making with our hands with craft materials, is actually a mental conditioning process for our future understanding of the improbable world.
These are my thoughts, not Carole’s. But I did share them with her. So, what’s the point of discussing art craft and design today. It’s old. If this future scenario is even the slightest bit true, then we need to get into the studio and make with awareness and meaning. And lots of it. The work made in the present will be our symbols for the future of no-thing. Carole reminded me through out the day yesterday to be honest with myself. Which I thought I knew, but I believe she was referring to an ever present awareness coupled with honesty of self. There is no time for insecurity or doubt. Own up to what you own, your back ground, and who you are all the time. Meaningfulness starts with self.
We talked about craft for a few hours in the museum and later that night over dinner out on Alberta. We run up there to check out the progress of said sewing machine bike. It’s a gonna be a job for those dudes, but what an opportunity. I’d be stoked if I were them.
Craft, Art Design. I’m getting a little tired of this conversation. It’s interesting for only so long, and then I just want to make some stuff. Get in the studio and turn up the music. This frustration comes from a few different reasons. My mind is full. Full. And we are on break and i’m trying to enjoy it, but it’s been hard to rest because I’m used to working all the time. Trying to wrap my head around all three notions of making at the same time in order to make a thing or a concept is overwhelming. Any combination of the three, has enough to offer insightfully, but trying to utilize all three is cause for an episode of some sort. Possibly, that is why they have been separated in the first place. Considering all three, seems to cause doubt or insecurity at times. Having said that, electronic musicians have studied rock and roll who have studied jazz and blues… I am more interested art and craft. Design, as a perspective is interesting for about a few sentences of dialog for me. Here’s one, when compared to craft – design and craft share within the object, a haptic sense of the human relationship. Design though, has a broad sense and craft has more an intimate one. The difference is between groups of people and pairs of people. I’m not sure what art does for the notion of the tactile relationship. Possibly nothing. Speaking about objects in particular here, as I am a maker of objects. I think making is rather important right now, that is why I do it. Making is about relationships through material for others to experience physically. In the advent of the all encompassing immaterial world, i.e. the virtual; reinforcing making into our social conscience is of the utmost importance today. We must sustain the haptic memory as preservation of our species. Unfortunately, commodity gets what commodity wants, to paraphrase a Fugazi song, and the immaterial will encompass all our valued and known environment. Crafts resurgence today could be seen as a conditioning notion in understanding and accepting ambiguity through the process of making. Craft materials are inherently amorphous. They never answer the question (like design strives to); they create more intriguing questions. Awareness of this thought in craft process is the main condition in craft making. This same condition of the ambiguous, never ending limit to possibility, is also the main intrigue and condition of the immaterial environment. The virtual world is not set upon the laws of our reality based world; it is endless. Just as craft is endless. What we assume is a counter revolution to the immaterial un-haptic value system of the future, by making with our hands with craft materials, is actually a mental conditioning process for our future understanding of the improbable world.
These are my thoughts, not Carole’s. But I did share them with her. So, what’s the point of discussing art craft and design today. It’s old. If this future scenario is even the slightest bit true, then we need to get into the studio and make with awareness and meaning. And lots of it. The work made in the present will be our symbols for the future of no-thing. Carole reminded me through out the day yesterday to be honest with myself. Which I thought I knew, but I believe she was referring to an ever present awareness coupled with honesty of self. There is no time for insecurity or doubt. Own up to what you own, your back ground, and who you are all the time. Meaningfulness starts with self.
Friday, March 19, 2010
arg....
Midterms are over. I'm tired. It is officially Spring Break and I'm taking some days off - going to the coast. gonna sit in the sand and go to the hot springs and build some mud walls with friends. ha.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Outstanding Review for Departure Point / Garbageman Astronaut
The evening reception at Garbageman Astronaut I thought went well. (The gallery I co-operate at the Everett Station Lofts) Departure Point I thought made for a compelling painting show for the 1st Thursday evening here in downtown Portland. I talked with many folks and the artist's seemed pleased. I was in bed by 11pm. It was along day to a long week. I awoke twice last night. The first time was to loud music my next door neighbor decided to turn up at 2am. I lay awake for an hour with a headache. The second time i was woken up was to the sound of what i thought was something in the front room rustling around. around 6:30am. I was half wake and decided to try and sleep through it. In the morning I decided to open the front door and see if that was the place of agitation. And sure enough it was. At first I thought a homeless person had made a temporary nest in our front door alcove, but upon closer inspection I noticed that there was malicious intent of vandalization to our front door specifically. Usually when the front of the building gets hit, all the doors of the separate galleries get tagged. But our door was the only one this time. There was water based paint thrown at it, lip stick smeared in random places, trash strewn about, oddly a handful of almonds were there filling space, and the worse was dog crap smeared and thrown on our sign. which was only recently installed two nights ago due to the fact that the first was stolen a few weeks ago. Some one really does not like us or is not in favor of contemporary painting. I have no reason why someone would attack our space. I barely know anyone in this town and my partner in the gallery doesn't either. Non the less it was pretty funny, well besides the dog crap i had to wipe off the sign with my last wash towel. Anyways, bad press is better than no press I guess...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Some statements in the past few days...
I am interested in creating pottery that integrates the forms and processes of art, craft and design; the three disciplines of making, while staying true to the medium of clay, for the purpose of instilling more meaningful relationships with our everyday or objects. 03-01-2010
Experience is the awareness in the temporality of life’s repeating events during one’s time alive. 02-24-2010
Experience is the awareness in the temporality of life’s repeating events during one’s time alive. 02-24-2010
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