Almost

[avad]

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).

Comments

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

For the last picture, I'm wondering how much like a doll house you really want to take this? Teddy bears and TVs are one thing, what about beds and furniture?

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?

[avad.livejournal.com]

I'm working on that last one as we speak. In the pic, the pink room already has a bed, two nighttables and a dresser.There's a dining room table...and a patio table outside on the patio...
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)

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

I rather like itas it is. It is something I would love to look out on in the courtyard we have directly beneath this window and outside the reading room. A Long Time since I viewed your work and a very happy and refreshing view I am getting.

[avad.livejournal.com]

thanks.
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..:)

How Wonderful

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

I chose it through assciations stirred by my last entry on 'Kindred Spirits' (of which I never thought would lead to my father) That in turn caused me to remember how the good parts were with him - and his remarkable empathy with animals. After he left he lived in a caravan, completely self sufficient, and I can remember how he could bring a fox - of which, alongside Deer, there were still many in Kent,now all gone along with the woods) right up to us and talk to it until it sat down and appeared to understand completely. He was quite remarkable with animals and hopeless with people; a trait I am finding more and more of in myself.

I would love to have seen your father's work...

X

Re: How Wonderful

[avad.livejournal.com]

wow. friending and truly communicating with wild animals was my DREAM as a child. I would have been in absolute awe.

Re: How Wonderful

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

Hmmm So would I - but it is all in memory which is life's core. My brother has a fe things as does my sister but he sold everything to go to Germany to meet (who was to become) his 4th wife.
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.

Re: 'I would love to have seen your father's work

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

I mistook these words as yours hence my answer. Apols - tired and time for bed! But let it stand.

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.

X

[ididntso.livejournal.com]

oh my god, you're amazing!
how many layers are there?
are you going to display them flat?

[avad.livejournal.com]

:)
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.

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

I've been to small galleries that had sliding walls full of art, kind of like those sliding closet doors, only sturdier.

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...

[avad.livejournal.com]

hee. I am planning table top pieces, but no complex cable system. Sounds like a neat concept, though...

[lorigami.livejournal.com]

I am really diggin these, especially the one with the "memories". Can't wait to see the finished product!!!

[seppuku-files.livejournal.com]

I bet you that's how God hears the world. Millions of sounds ascending at once and mixing in His ear to become an unending music, unimaginable to us!



-Mozart, from the play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

[avad.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmmmm:)

[hopeevey.livejournal.com]

Ooooooo!!! I like!!!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Amazing stuff. I "like" paradise landing best because it reminds me of a map of lakes. But the cyberspace idea is most evident and intriguing to me in the first and last ones. I love labyrinths, too. Some of my first colour drawins were mazes.

[sibyllam.livejournal.com]

"Rearranging Spaces" makes me think of a mix of biological and technological. I like it a lot. Kind of a feeling that they two are merging and evolving together, but that the biological is still stronger. That the technological can not survive without it.

[avad.livejournal.com]

yay. yes,yes!
The biological drives it all...what we see as the technological is just a variation of endless growth patterns...:)

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind but you've given me a great idea with your layers of resin! I make paper puppet people from time to time and hinge them with wire and frame them in a scene together flat. I think it would look MUCH better if they could be done in layers like you work so that their arms could look like they're to their sides etc. I've looked into doing this with layers of glass or plexi but there is still the sliding factor and I just couldn't figure out how to get around it. Resin! It occurred to me before but I thought then you couldn't take the people out to play with ever. But if I'm not happy enough with the presentation to make more then maybe I should just try it. I know. DUH. Why would I have not tried this before but I had never seen such clear layers on anything so I didn't know if it would work. I would say that my pieces would go with yours if I tried it but I do fruity alice in wonderland type stuff and your work is so wonderfully peaceful and (to make a pun I guess)spaceous. Some day I'll make something you'll want to trade for a small piece OR I'll have money. I just love your work. SOMEthing's gotta give! ;)

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...

[avad.livejournal.com]

ooh, can I see a pic of your paper peoples??!!
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.

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

oh and jsut in case I didn't mention it. THOSE ARE LOVELY!!! I really want to see them in person someday. I should find out the names of the local galleries and you should try to get a show. My area is small but it's much bigger than Bloomington so maybe it's not too small after all.

[avad.livejournal.com]

aw,thanks! You're too sweet.
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!.

[rokkitz.livejournal.com]

rofl lolfl orf orf WOW! can i eat it, too?

[avad.livejournal.com]

and just for you, why YES of course they are all made of lollipop candy! In dreamland. Visit if you dare.;)

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I love these. :)

[avad.livejournal.com]

thank ya!:)

[nivekogre.livejournal.com]

wow.. this stuff is really interesting. you are talented. may i add you to my friend's list?

[avad.livejournal.com]

thanks:) I guess you can see now why my mind couldn't help but see the aerial in those textures of yours- I guess I'm a wee bit obsessed.;)
as for 'friending', of course I'd be honored.

[ljreader-liz.livejournal.com]

You obsessed - never.

Sleep well and dream creatively.