studies

A working study, i.e. bad collage. I'm working on trying to integrate different materials, and working at a faster more intuitive pace. It started with an automatic drawing, then I was tracing some screenprints I made.

notes

Maurizio Anzeri. Embroidering on top of old found photos. I love these. Apparently his work is in the collection of Alexander Mcqueen :o

Perhaps similar is the work of this collage artist, John Stezaker.

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I love the clarity and decisive, yet ambiguous nature of this series. This piece is called Mask IV. It's such a decisive act, plastering a rigid landscape directly on top of a man's face, yet the affect is one, again, of instability and ambiguity

I'm officially obsessed with Fellini, and his wife for that matter. There's a great documentary that came with the criterion collection of La Strada. Included are some great Fellini interviews, where you see him at his most poetic, clever, witty, etc.:

"Perhaps the attempt to recapture, to hear once more an utterance that's been interrupted, repeated each time with a weaker and weaker voice, until I could no longer hear it. This feeling of grasping at the frayed ends of a broken string...straining to hear, with my ears and my heart, something that's been nearly forgotten."

Anch'io, Federico!

Discovered this artist, Shary Boyle. The way she's incorporating fibers into her work, in both her sculptures/ceramics and her drawings, is especially interesting to me:

I love the simplicity of the last one; I think it is how the crazy ex-wife in Jane Eyre's attic looked.

photo series, "representatives"

A portrait series of billboards, taken in MT (Billings and Sidney) and in OR (Eugene).