07 October 11

Gone Postal

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22 June 12

T H E I M P O R T A N C E O F

S H O W I N G U P . . .

I have said this before about Stephen B. MacInnis , he knows the importance of showing up.

MacInnis blogs and tweets and shows up everyday, and his efforts have paid off. He has a far-reaching network of artist collaborators most of whom he met online. That’s a very important thing when you come from a Canadian province with a total population one third the size of Cardiff’s alone!

It’s crunch time for me. I have a little over two months to pull my degree show together, and with all that I have sacrificed to be here this year, it would be easy to be feeling pressure.

I have decided instead to show up. I will be in studio Monday to Friday and if I miss a day, I will make it up on the weekend. It is my job. It is my work. All I need to do is show up.

And as an homage to Stephen, today I begin what I hope will be a series of 50+ daily studio photographs. Let’s get this party started.

Stephen B. MacInnis’ Daily Studio Posts:

http://sbmacinnis.wordpress.com/category/daily-stu…

Stephen B. MacInnis Long Series:

http://sbmacinnis.wordpress.com/category/abstract-…

My jump off point for degree show:

http://imagesinformingthought.carbonmade.com/proje…

S. O’Callaghan, because I like when she says, “It is your job. It is your work.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KF7lqrz08A

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20 June 12

T A L K ! T A L K ! T A L K !

Throughout my practice-led research I have been amazed by how often conversations have helped crystallise ideas.

You can read and read and read, and write and write and write, and work and work and work in the studio, but truthfully, without conversation – and ideally a glass of wine – you can still be pretty lost.

Most recently, I would have to thank Hywel Livingstone, Shaun James, and Florance Walkey for an afternoon focused largely on discussions regarding what is revealed and what in concealed.

I will have more to say later, but suffice to say at this point: recent ‘talk’ has left me terribly excited about my September degree show.

http://www.hywellivingstone.com/

http://florencewalkey.tumblr.com/

http://www.artcardiff.com/website.cgi?place=venues…

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11 May 12

The mechanism formulated to explore my online image archive is largely beyond my control. Commissioned participants define my direction and create new frameworks for reorganizing the original archive.

Recognition of two themes in my own archive – images involving shadows and stacks of correlated paper – began with selections made by participants in 35 weeks. In several cases, image selections seemed to be in dialogue with selections made by other participants. These incidental image dialogues made by participants accessing the original archive did not seem to require a newly-posted reply as dictated by the image-dialogue mechanism.

Recognition of the extent to which image themes involving shadows and correlated paper permeated my existing archives, led to the isolation of these image types in the original archives and experimentation with material representations of these in studio practice.

In the spirit of bottom-up project design, I am now asking anyone who can, to ‘like’ as many images as appeal to them by visiting my open album PAPER STACKS on Facebook.

Thanks in advance for your distance-curatorial work. Feel free to add your efforts to your resume. Letters of reference can be provided.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150821…

http://imagesinformingthought.carbonmade.com/

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