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From the school newspaper The Towerlight concerning a show called "Art for the Earth," where I hung a piece:
"Junior art major, sculpture track Savanna Leigh built “What Goes Up...” to make use of something personal to her. About a year ago, she had a major fall while rock-climbing. She taped her x-rays to her old boots and tied them to her retired rock-climbing gear, hanging the piece from an easel at the show. “It was a really traumatic event for me, so it’s about the healing process and the pain I went through,” she said."
It was a really good show, there were a few experimental bands and Shelly Blake-Plock did an awesome performance involving broken bottles and bare feet.
a poem i wrote about a year ago
On a cold rainy day in the heat of last May,
A crowd gathered round on the lawn.
Their heads were hung heavy, their breathing was steady,
Their faces were long, red, and drawn.
Among them a teacher, a wise learned preacher,
Stepped up to the hole in the ground.
His face weakly showing the tears that kept flowing,
He said, "Friends, let us gather round:
Here lies my clear conscience,
A martyr of its circumstance,
A traitor to my dissonance
To whom it denied appeal.
In eleventh grade it ran away
In light of some sick display
Of Hope once held but then betrayed
In search of something real;
It took with it my empathy
But it survived such apathy
Whose children weep the entropy
Of their, now late, ideal."
So now I pray for resurrection
To grant me peace of clear correction
Of my perceived good intention
That I will chase with zeal.
A few weeks ago, I helped Ellen out with her MFA Thesis show called "Blindheaded." She presented her large-scale drawings and forged-steel dresses. I love Ellen's work, and I was really glad that I was able to assist with her show. Se has taught me so much about sculpting; I dunno where I would be without her help. Anyway, some pictures of the exhibit just turned up:
For the opening and reception, Ellen had nude models stand in her gowns as the audience walked around the room. Our jobs as assistants was to help the ladies in and out of the complicated dresses, and to stand by them while they held their 45 minute pose. It all went pretty well, except that the woman in the center dress passed out about 30 minutes in. It was really scary to see her sort of melt through the self-supported steel, her limbs limp and her eyes still open. It took about eight people to support her and remove her from the dress, but she recovered fully.
There was a videographer taping the pre-show, so whenever I find the video he made I'll post it here (I'll be in it!) Ellen's show will be up till the end of the month in the Towson MFA Gallery... Definitely go see it!
it needs a ton more work....
someday this sugar skull will be fired and painted with the Our Father in Spanish.
feliz dia del muerte
My resin didn't set in the mold for my bust. Damnit. I had to peel up wet Bondo and fiberglass, and now my mold needs some serious cleaning before my next casting attempt. Ugh.
My next project focuses on painting- well, experimental painting. Alzaruba prompted me with the question "What is painterly?" and I answered "Carved strokes." So, I'll be painting with a chisel. I've got a rectangle mold ready to pour- I'm mixing plaster with powder pigment and iron oxide to marbleize the color. When I carve into the block, colors and shapes will be revealed like veins through an organ. It's gonna kick ass (if it all works out...)
Wish me luck
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