In the hopes of learning through making, I’ve explored a few possibilities for maps of my own. This isn’t really a map but I wanted to include it anyways because when I started writing this post I was reminded of it. My friend Betsy asked me to contribute to an exquisite corpse project she wasContinue reading “What is all this psychogeographic stuff?”
Category Archives: drawing
Continuing on the road to abstraction
I had a great and productive meeting with Michelle Hinebrook today. She’s not a thesis advisor but I thought I would benefit from her perspective so I asked her to take a look at what I’m working on. She thought I should feel comfortable to go further into abstraction and be limitless at this point.Continue reading “Continuing on the road to abstraction”
Richard Tuttle and notes from my thesis presentation
I found an artist’s work that represents the ideas floating around in my head perfectly. Richard Tuttle abstracts form in such a basic way and creates dynamic, balanced compositions. While I’m on the subject of abstraction of form, I should post the drawings I created last week. I used one image of the street inContinue reading “Richard Tuttle and notes from my thesis presentation”
Looking Up and Other Inspiration
So I found this project, Sketches from Street Level, on Flickr after I had just finished an almost identical one that I called looking up. This photographer and I definitely have the same interests! See below: I’m thinking that I can use this project as a jumping off point to transition to looking out atContinue reading “Looking Up and Other Inspiration”
Berenice Abbott/my obsession with historical images of New York
Over the last few weeks of summer, I created a project using historical images of New York City’s Lower East Side. After a few trips to the NYPL Image Library (great resource btw), I found images organized by street name and neighborhood that would work. I wanted to capture the timeless essence of the neighborhoodContinue reading “Berenice Abbott/my obsession with historical images of New York”
Observation drawings
I’m playing with the ideas of observational drawing and recording details of buildings and the inherent patterns in our surroundings. Also I started to create a personal geography of the Lower East side, so I roughly located points of interest in the area and recorded the most interesting detail I remembered from my experience. IContinue reading “Observation drawings”
Pursuit of Happiness
I feel that the last seven years of my life have been a search for the elusive ‘happiness’ that we all try to capture in a little bottle, to pull of the shelf and take a swig when we need it. Our assignment for Directed Research this week is to describe three pivotal moments ofContinue reading “Pursuit of Happiness”