2009/10/31

Exhibition: Works In Progress

Here are some installation shots of my work in the MFA II Works In Progress Exhibition.

These pieces are a series of actions that call upon repetitive processes, limitations of material, and explorations of maintaining an acute awareness of my surroundings.



Action #1: Cut into 3 x 25 inch strips two pieces of 25 x 38 inch Neenah’s Eames Architectural paper; accordion fold into 3/8 inch sections; refold and piece together to create forms resembling honeycombs.

Status: Complete

Date started: 9/12/2009

Date finished: 10/23/2009



Action # 2: Copy all notations by an unknown owner of J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country and Foe onto tracing paper using a Micron 02 pen. Books found on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia, summer 2009.

Status: In the Heart of the Country complete

Date started: 9/13/2009

Date finished: In the Heart of the Country - 10/10/2009



Action # 3: Stitch in straight lines 500 yards of 100% white cotton no. 40 quilting thread onto 1 square yard of cotton organdy.

Status: Complete

Date started: 9/24/2009

Date finished: 10/18/2009



Action # 4: Type onto a roll of Mohawk Superfine paper, 2 inches in width, every seven-letter word in English (24,029 words), using an IBM Selectric Model 71 typewriter. List of words compiled by students in the math department at the University of Toronto; typewriter purchased at a yard sale in the fall of 2000 in “as is condition”; type ball capable of typing no more than seven characters in a line.

Status: Letters A-F complete (8,270 words)

Date started: 9/22/2009

Date finished:



Action # 5: Photograph in one session every step of my route from home to studio using a Cannon Powershot SD800 IS Digital Elph and a 2 gigabyte memory card. Distance between my home and my studio, according to Google Maps, is 3.6 miles, resulting in 7,480 steps. Images displayed on a TV in video format using Boinx iStopMotion and iDVD software, created on a PowerBook G4.

Status: Complete

Date started: Walk - 10/11/2009

Date finished: Video – 10/20/2009




2009/10/20

Pages of Pandemonium: MFA II Works In Progress


Our 2nd year WIP show is coming up! We install this weekend and there is a reception October 30 from 5-8 at Gallery 224, Anderson Hall 333 S. Broad St.

2009/10/07

Updates: Fall 2009

So, a lot has happened.

My internship at the Wagner was amazing.


all the books i conserved

I was in a show about birds.


linoleum print of an ivory billed woodpecker drawn from a specimen at the wagner


I was in a show about bike parts.


nest made from spokes and tubes

Justin and I sold a bunch of stuff at SPX.


justin's 1st edition of truant with silkscreen covers, my 2 linoleum prints of ghost birds, and dedication:life and love minicomics

Now it is time to get crackin' on the fall semester work load. I've got a Works In Progress show coming up, but I'll post more about that later.

2009/05/22

Updates: Summer 2009

I am about to start one incredible summer after one incredible fall/spring.

I plan on spending a majority of my time hashing out ideas for my thesis and finishing up some loose ends on projects started this spring.

I will be interning here a couple days a week and am so looking forward to being around the awesome collection of insects.

So, yeah, that's about it for now.

2009/05/03

Updates: Bird & Bee Press

I'm finished with my first two books as bird & bee press.

The first is a trio of chapbooks about the mandrake, dragonfly, and hummingbird. They were offset printed by Lori Spencer in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at UArts and hand colored with pouchoir
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The second is a guide book to insects, printed in palladium with letterpressed text.

2009/04/11

That's What She Said





Here's photos from the WIP show.

2009/02/25

Show: That's What She Said

Our first Works in Progress show opens March 20th!!