Studio Journal- Entry #3

Well, I thought I was busy busy busy in the studio this past weekend and early this week- but there isn't that much work to show for it.  Oh man oh man.
It's hours... minutes... seconds that I need to spend physically in the studio, at school, working hard to make my art.  These are hours, minutes, seconds that are insanely precious right now.  With not one- but two- little ones at home, I need my time management skills to be extra sharp.  Every chance I get to be in the studio, I need to be making the most of it.
Although this do or die, work my ass off the moment I walk into the studio mentality is ensuring production, that pressure of create, and create now is kinda freaking me out.  Only because eventually, somewhere in the next couple of weeks, I want to start thinking about my thesis exhibition.  And I don't think I want to think about that until I really get into the creative groove.



My Work- So far.....

This past week I have been thinking about the BFA open.

The one painting that I have completed embraces chance in the found material.  The leather jackets are deconstructed along the seams.  I was left with a collection of fabric forms that then suggested how they might be reassembled.  The shapes that appear in the painting are thus arrived at by chance.  In this particular artwork, instead of trying to force these shapes together to form a rectangle, I would let the process of destruction and reconstruction of found shapes dictate the highly irregular shape of the painting.
I'll have a photo of it later this week....