Its a beautiful day for the Triad Health Project and Dining for Friend's annual community party! I'm so excited to be a part of such a healing and celebratory event. I created two interactive art memorials: a quilt, and The Letter Project. I'll update my site soon with photos from this evening! In the mean time, here is a glimpse of what I've been working on....
I've passed my Oral Defense! I've submitted my thesis paper! I've turned in the signatures! I install my work on Thursday!
A huge thank you to my committee, Chris Cassidy, Barbara Campbell Thomas, Nancy Doll, Mariam Aziza Stephan, and Lee Walton. Thank you for the feedback, support, questions, critiques, conversations, and for pushing me to be better.
I received good feedback on my thesis work, and especially on my written thesis paper. As strange as it sounds, I loved writing my thesis paper. I love writing. I plan on posting it to my other blog soon.
It feels unexplainably good to have accomplished this. I’ve gained confidence in myself, my ideas, and my work. I needed these two years; I needed the time, space, people, and experiences to allow my work to unfold.
I'll post installation shots as soon as I've got 'em.
Oral Defense with bow shoes on
A post-graduation project! YES!
After my thesis show, I’ll be doing another version of the project, The Things I Cannot Say, but on a larger scale.
This new version will be called The Letter Project. I’ll be making handmade envelopes and setting up a letter writing station for those who have lost loved ones to AIDS, and for those who are affected by the disease whether they have it themselves, or they know someone who does. Throughout the event, the letters, sealed shut, will pile up and accumulate on the table speaking to the sheer mass of people who have been affected. Over 700 people in the Greensboro community alone have lost their lives to AIDS; these names will be recited softly from a hidden speaker in a wooden keepsake box placed on the table. (The Dining For Friends of the Triad Health Project of Greensboro, NC are sponsoring this installation at the Weatherspoon Art Museum).
I'll post photos soon! For now, I'm busy making envelopes...!
My thesis show is right around the corner!
The thesis show is weeks away....Finally, it seems as though all of my recent preoccupations are starting to reveal themselves to me in clarity. What a happy discovery.
Here's some recent experiments along with some final, thought-out things:
