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19 October 1999
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so after my three and a half hours of sleep, i grabbed a bagel (the met had poppy seed bagels this morning, yay) and a grapefruit juice and headed down to the beb. i cleaned the piles of junk off my desk (lycra project, concrete casting project, orthographic projection model project) and worked on a couple drawings.
just before nine peter came in and told us that he was going to be a guest critic for another class in the morning and that we should use the time as a work period. with one catch: he brought with him a box of linoleum printing blocks and some ink and paper and rollers, and told us to make a print that is representative of our project.
i thought about it for a while. took a nap under my desk for a bit (it was more comfortable than i would have imagined). and then carved my block. the cropped pic to the left links to a larger version that is made up of four overlapped prints. it's representative of the area of the fabric that is essentially nullified around each deformation in space. (yes, i'm aware that probably makes no sense to anyone who wasn't present for my crit.) the printed version is actual size, and coincidentally the scanned pic is also actual size at 1152x870 on a 19" screen.
i really got into the printmaking. i almost missed lunch 'cause i was printing away, playing with different methods of inking the block or transferring the print, using different kinds of paper, different colours of ink. after lunch we had crits in groups of four, and since i didn't go until the last group, i played some more with colours and layout and such.
my crit went pretty well. i think i have a good starting point for the next part of the project. the assignment is basically to turn our membrane construction (either the latex or lycra, or something that came out of those parts) into a structural, self-supporting object. i'm definitely going to use this idea of the nullified ring of the deformed planar structure, the implied aperture (although they're likely to become real apertures).
after dinner i felt like i should go back to the studio. so i did, and worked on my orthographic model for a while. technical difficulties there. didn't stay too long. and now it's eleven and i bid you a good night.
just before nine peter came in and told us that he was going to be a guest critic for another class in the morning and that we should use the time as a work period. with one catch: he brought with him a box of linoleum printing blocks and some ink and paper and rollers, and told us to make a print that is representative of our project.
i thought about it for a while. took a nap under my desk for a bit (it was more comfortable than i would have imagined). and then carved my block. the cropped pic to the left links to a larger version that is made up of four overlapped prints. it's representative of the area of the fabric that is essentially nullified around each deformation in space. (yes, i'm aware that probably makes no sense to anyone who wasn't present for my crit.) the printed version is actual size, and coincidentally the scanned pic is also actual size at 1152x870 on a 19" screen.
i really got into the printmaking. i almost missed lunch 'cause i was printing away, playing with different methods of inking the block or transferring the print, using different kinds of paper, different colours of ink. after lunch we had crits in groups of four, and since i didn't go until the last group, i played some more with colours and layout and such.
my crit went pretty well. i think i have a good starting point for the next part of the project. the assignment is basically to turn our membrane construction (either the latex or lycra, or something that came out of those parts) into a structural, self-supporting object. i'm definitely going to use this idea of the nullified ring of the deformed planar structure, the implied aperture (although they're likely to become real apertures).
after dinner i felt like i should go back to the studio. so i did, and worked on my orthographic model for a while. technical difficulties there. didn't stay too long. and now it's eleven and i bid you a good night.