getting closer

weird

I can't stop listening to this Elvis Perkings song, Doomsday. Tonight I looked up the album, and when I saw the cover, I could hardly believe my eyes.

The album cover.

my tent model.

Weird.

the latest sage advice from our friend patti

"New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city."

Here's the full post, from someone who got to go to a lecture i would have LOVED:

Find a New City

Thesis Show Invitation

1 Month Left

Well, I knew it would fly by, and it did. I have one month until I graduate. For my senior thesis project, I am building my own viewing booth for my first short video project. I don't like the art fair style booths they provide, so I am making my own. I knew it had to have a sculptural presence , and reference my research into magic and the carnival-esque.

A circus tent!

I made a small scale model to plan it out, and was helped by George to find a geodesic-Bucky Fuller building plan to create a pentagram shape...modern magic.

There will be two figures (the stars of the video) waiting outside to welcome visitors in through the triangular door. The intimate space inside will act as viewing chamber and reprieve from the cacophony of the Convention Center.

Here's one of the figures, showing a bit more (slow) progress than a couple of weeks earlier:

She's an old fashined girl, and will eventually be totally covered in a protective cloaking of colored hair extensions...braided and woven together. SHe will hold the space squarely between figure and object when she's finished. I am crazy about her, and she evokes so many things, fully spanning the scale from good to evil.

Anniverse

For our first anniversary, we went to New York. We hid out in Brooklyn with a bottle of champagne and a loaf of bread. We had our tarot read by a girl named Ariadne. I think she was a nymph. Love is good. I am lucky.

Where Have I Been? What the Hell?

Locale: Providence-Warren-Pennsylvania-Detroit-Niagara Falls-Providence-NY

Work: 3 New Sculptures: hate one, weirded out by the second, love the third one but have no time to finish it. One stop motion film in progress. COuld be something great, could be a flop.

Finale:Thesis show installation proposed and accepted.

Later: 4 Residencies applied for and rejected from.

Money Part One: 2 grants applied for and unknown

Money Part Two: bank account almost totally depleted

Summer: No Job, gotta get it together. Paint the old folks house.

Human Relations: friendships are primarily on hiatus

Text: Thesis: written, needs fine tuning.

Daily Mental State: Graduate School is swallowing me.