Life Collections

I'm so impressed by the diversity of artists and projects in this class. I've put links to everyone's blogs and I hope we'll cross linke to create a community that shares skills and resources. Our 2D introduction was a bit overwhelming, barely skimming the wide world of artists and so many materials, from beeswax to hairspray! But that's really the point! Almost anything (and everything) has artistic potential-not to mention every ONE-- if we look with new eyes and get playful. I've been compiling some link lists here to steer folks to possible resources, and have had some fun myself recently, wandering through the musty, cluttered stacks of junk at places like Urban Ore and S.C.R.A.P. My husband Jacob is creating a 3 dimensional object that represents the concept of "Misery" for his design class, and I was on the look out for anything that might speak to me, especially trunks or suitcases for the 3D section of the intermedia class . We spent a lot of time looking for a round, plastic disc for the base of his project- and I got completely sidetracked in the old film projectors...it was so much like a scavenger hunt!

Part of my process is to find a balance between having some kind of set intention, yet not being so pre-determined that I miss an opportunity to let the materials inform the work. And sometimes I just get so overwhelmed, I can't think in terms on any one project.
In seeing so much detritus of real life, left to collect cobwebs in these places, I wonder why we humans produce so much junk! Its strange, this urge to collect, create and continually consume and, let's face it- excrete. But one person's shite could make another one's art...so let's see what can come of it.
And on that note, I've also included a link list for some bay area events and exhibitions...as always, inspired by the potential and limitless capacity of human imagination.

An Experiment Begins

This afternoon marks the beginning of an 11 week adventure in the Department of Arts and Consciousness at JFK University. Together, a group of graduate, undergraduate and prospective students, will embark on an artistic process, that is, the co-creation of a course in Intermedia, aptly subtitled: "Experimental Foundations in New Practices".




My role is to facilitate an experience that allows each student to individually stretch beyond their own boundaries. My intention is to provide a grounded framework that allows flexibility, yet challenges each to push past a personal edge. In this course, and here online, I will share my own internal converstion and musings on life and art.

I continually marvel at the connection between our inner experience and the outer world, and this has transformed the way I see myself and experience so-called reality. Through art, I see a fusion of thought with material, imagination manifest, infused with something greater, perhaps simply that magic juju of the universe. Here, then, let us celebrate the exquisite lust to create, be present and know ourselves through art.