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Newer Genres Project Number Three: Time

making knots out of yarn, around 50 feet of rope at the least- i need to measure!

Muslin

Muslin can be used as a cheap pattern maker before one uses expensive fabric. Marie Antoinette wore simple muslin dresses and my association with the material is sexualization through simplification. The material shrinks when painted and diffuses light nicely from its transparent quality.

Newer Genres: Linen

Linen:

It's two or three times stronger than cotton but when ironed or creased holes and breaks can form in the fiber from wear and tends to wrinkle. Linen can hold up to 20% moisture without becoming damp and is quickly absorbent to remove perspiration from skin. Linen resists dirt and stains, doesn't produce lint and can be machine or hand washed, it is a work friendly textile but is relatively expensive.

The ring the curtain is hanging from is the type of ring I will use when hanging my linen curtain. for the space assignment.

Freezing Life: Rest In Peace

Freezing Life:

While driving on 136 in Harford County, MD, I realized how beautiful the form of a dying tree, standing still and at around 11 feet tall was, especially when thinking about the contrast of the dark form against a sun lit, snow covered field. My goal is to cast a tree (generally trees without branches, dying, dark, etc.) in iron or bronze (expensive) and freezing the form in fields in Harford County Maryland. I may need to create the form from wax, using tools to recreate the form of a tree. The act of immortalizing something is a kind of delicate desperation i'm interested in right now.

I miss Harford, trees, summer, everything natural that I cannot find in Baltimore. Please melt the snow and make my days manageable.

Rest In Peace:

I'd like to create resting places made of organic material, chairs of dead tree limbs and apple cores. I'm not sure yet how i'll address this idea.

February 22: Proposals

New Genres Proposal: Project # 3

These performances are aimed to deal with anxiety between an outside group of people and myself. I would lack control in the situation (to some extent) and they would be asked to do something they may not feel comfortable doing.

Performance to Evoke Anxiety A

Possible Locations: My apartment, a field in the snow, one of the performance/installation spaces that are available through mica.

Props: A table of objects (10 gallons of water, one gallon of vodka, a tray of glass, blindfold, cigarettes, lighter, paper, pen, black drape, medical supplies, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a disposable camera.

A group of people would come one by one to interact with the space anonymously, no one would know how I would start the performance or what the previous person did to alter the space/me. This performance could take place on a friday or saturday to avoid the limitations involved with working in a classroom.

Performance to Evoke Anxiety B

Invitations are sent to a group of 25 people. When they arrive at my apartment, I am not there and they are invited to rifle through my apartment anonymously for 5 minutes. The guests would be given cameras. The object of this is to test or develop a trust and anxiety by the odd task at hand for the classmates combined with my lack of control in what they discover.