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Ok, the pieces are almost done. I'm so stir-crazy...but I've got to finish.This is the last day to work on them. Got to finish the last marker work, wire them, repaint the edges, touch ups.
*deep breath* I've got a mini bottle of wine open now to hopefully help me relax enough to have my next cup of coffee. Brilliant, no? Don't answer.
SO here are some detail pics for you all of the madness I've been creating . All dealing in some way with suburban/mass desires and emerging architecures in cyberspace:
First one is called 'Private Waterfronts'. There are a bunch of those house/sparklegrass points throughout the piece.

Next we have 'Paradise Landing'

This is 'Rearranging Spaces', I think. I'm not sure of the title yet because I'm thinking of it more as a swirling biological process...akin to evolution in the primordial ooze;) but with our memories and desires taking form in cyberspace.

Detail of that piece, showing the lil 3D labyrinths..

And finally a shot one of the houses in 'Neighbors'. Here I'm getting a little wacky with detail. I'm not sure where to stop. This house is only partially 'furnished' right now..I still have to do the kitchen and other areas...but when I started adding tv sets and teddy bears in the other ones I got a weird not well feeling.;)The 3D effect is wokring quite well on this one with the layers. Wish i had time for another layer, but I don't.

In case someone new is reading, these are all done with layers of resin, paint, nails on wood.(and some glitter in the magic lawn areas).
*deep breath* I've got a mini bottle of wine open now to hopefully help me relax enough to have my next cup of coffee. Brilliant, no? Don't answer.
SO here are some detail pics for you all of the madness I've been creating . All dealing in some way with suburban/mass desires and emerging architecures in cyberspace:
First one is called 'Private Waterfronts'. There are a bunch of those house/sparklegrass points throughout the piece.

Next we have 'Paradise Landing'

This is 'Rearranging Spaces', I think. I'm not sure of the title yet because I'm thinking of it more as a swirling biological process...akin to evolution in the primordial ooze;) but with our memories and desires taking form in cyberspace.

Detail of that piece, showing the lil 3D labyrinths..

And finally a shot one of the houses in 'Neighbors'. Here I'm getting a little wacky with detail. I'm not sure where to stop. This house is only partially 'furnished' right now..I still have to do the kitchen and other areas...but when I started adding tv sets and teddy bears in the other ones I got a weird not well feeling.;)The 3D effect is wokring quite well on this one with the layers. Wish i had time for another layer, but I don't.

In case someone new is reading, these are all done with layers of resin, paint, nails on wood.(and some glitter in the magic lawn areas).
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Date: 2004-03-11 05:00 pm (UTC)Do you visualize thse landscapes as being populated, or are these what the population sees when they move around? Or am I reading too much into this?
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Date: 2004-03-11 05:48 pm (UTC)The green room also has the basics, and an adjoining bathroom with the basic bathroom features. Living room has only couches,rug and lamp so far..lots of empty space. The yellow room is the kitchen which will get kitchen usuals, the grey room is the garage and I may keep it blank/empty, the other small white room is another bathroom, which will get fixtures.
It's in the vien of The Sims, which I think is a bizarre and telling game phenomena. But it's also reflecting ideas I'm exploring about information organizing itself as objects and spaces in cyberspace. There's a fascinating discussion of the concept of 'memory palaces' in the book 'Envisioning Cyberspace' that I think you might enjoy. In lieu of that for now,here's a brief passage I found on the web:memory palaces (http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/terms/memory.html)
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Date: 2004-03-18 09:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-18 10:57 am (UTC)that icon of yours- so strange...my father did a pen and ink drawing so similar long ago...when I was a child...and he got it printed (It was the only time he did multiples)...so we had a box of them...and gave them as gifts to much of the family....
Brings back memories..:)
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Date: 2004-03-18 11:09 am (UTC)I would love to have seen your father's work...
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Date: 2004-03-18 12:09 pm (UTC)Re: How Wonderful
Date: 2004-03-18 03:43 pm (UTC)Maybe some photo's will come to light one day of his carvings and beadwork and the rest. If so then I will load them online.
Things are changing in my family. My mother, at my father's wife's request, stays and is looked after by Eslinda (Dad's 4th Wife) and, since this has begun my mother remembers and speaks of many characteristics my father had which she has never ever referred to before - his patience and kindness and intuition. The circle is closing or, if you prefer, the connections are being made and creating further connections. I think we saw things - and perhaps still use a different model to explain and share these things but I think we approach the same goal ...
Love and Inspiration bless you.
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Date: 2004-03-18 03:51 pm (UTC)On animals. All that divides us from communication with animals is our human tendency a) to fear, b) our self-conscious and self centred homocentric view of the world C0 our sentimentalising of them. Keep a search in some are of your mind for your power animal or guardian - but for all I know you already know it.
So nice to be back in touch - to coin an understatement.
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Date: 2004-03-11 05:58 pm (UTC)how many layers are there?
are you going to display them flat?
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Date: 2004-03-11 06:10 pm (UTC)three layers on most. I'd like to do even more layers, but on the other hand I don't want to work all the time with resin. Stuff is too toxic.
It's a strange show...the galleries rent out hotel rooms..and things are placed around.
I would like them to be able to be handled, so people could turn them and look at them from all different angles. They'll be wired so they CAN be hung on a wall vertically, but it's really up to the viewer for me. As you can see from my pics, I tend to look at them flat.
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Date: 2004-03-11 08:33 pm (UTC)Now you've reminded me of another wish-list project I'd almost forgotten: I used to dream about a table that had no compression elements at all, it was suspended from the ceiling, and tied to the floor with cables as well. When not in use, it would get pulled up flush with the ceiling.
But now with your flat pieces, I'm thinking about having 3 or 4 of them stacked in series, with the viewer able to raise and lower them at will. The cables would then loop down to the floor.
...or maybe not...
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Date: 2004-03-13 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-11 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-11 08:08 pm (UTC)-Mozart, from the play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
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Date: 2004-03-14 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-11 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-11 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-12 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-13 01:37 pm (UTC)The biological drives it all...what we see as the technological is just a variation of endless growth patterns...:)
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Date: 2004-03-12 09:42 am (UTC)I had a dream about you the other nght but now it's really foggy. We were talking for most of the dream and you were really calming me down from something. Fiddle faddle. that's all I can remember now...
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Date: 2004-03-13 02:20 pm (UTC)I'm not sure what type of paper you use, but if it's absorbent at all, it will darken and will need to be held in place first since the resin is liquid. Be warned also that many resins yellow with age and UV exposure. I use something called Crystal Clear that is more expensive but does not yellow. It's a 'Smooth-On' product. The other problem is bubbles sometimes...and lint/dust always. ergh. But other than that, it's pretty great and really clear.
And here's to hanging out in dreamland!;) I try to do that purposely, but I usually can't remember where I've been. Come to think of it, I think YOU were actually in one of my dreams about a week or so ago...snowball fights/silliness in a parking lot or some such. no lie. Anyway, I thought it was you. You were with a younger girlfriend I didn't know.
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Date: 2004-03-12 09:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-13 02:23 pm (UTC)I think now I've got to concentrate on making more of the art. I realize I just don't have enough new pieces- that if I DO get any additional opportunities, I'm so not ready for them!.
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Date: 2004-03-13 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-13 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-15 03:02 am (UTC)I love these. :)
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Date: 2004-03-15 09:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-16 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-16 04:11 pm (UTC)as for 'friending', of course I'd be honored.
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Date: 2004-03-18 03:56 pm (UTC)Sleep well and dream creatively.