cone trio seen while on training walk
"doctor's hours"
sometimes nyfa (new york foundation for the arts) brings together artists with curators/critics/gallerists for one-on-one portfolio review sessions. i've been a "patient" a few times and have gotten some valuable advice. i'm here tonight in between appointments.
http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=532&fid=1&sid=76
sometimes, of course, since you can talk with different people, you get conflicting opinions. one person told me she thinks a lot of commercial galleries would be very interested in my work (because she hasn't seen much like it), and asked if i have approached any, while another said that i should keep trying to show in non-profit spaces.
i hope they are both correct. i want to be able to keep creating new work and to share what i make.
wilting, stapling, painting
last night i thought one of the flowers was bending over a bit too much. i don't want them to escape the picture frame. i'm also nervous about the petals falling off. so i stapled it a few more times, where it will continue to age hopefully a bit more securely.
here's a view from last night after making the second painting and moving the camera back so that it's time lapse videoing the flowers until tonight:
this morning another flower looked like it might bend or fall off the frame, so i stapled it as well.
using the staple gun has reminded me of a project i wanted to do years ago experimenting with tools and paint - maybe this summer i'll give it a try.
still life without stillness
taking a break from the first improvisation. plan on getting back to it in a couple of weeks or so. decided might be better to focus on something a little more concrete with some time pressure built into it - instead of working more and more on "still life without stillness," i'll be forced to move on to each next step regardless of whether i think any given piece can be improved. this is good for me; i don't believe in perfection and i want to keep going.
here's the overview of the project:
http://eriksanner.com/random/2010/still_life_without_stillness/100514_still_life_without_stillness.pdf
i'm working on the installation version with images. here's what i've done so far.
bought flowers:
traced a panel and hung it on my easel:
stapled flowers inside the outline:
set up a video camera and painted the flowers on the panel:
after painting, set up the time lapse device:
and positioned the video camera so that it is recording the wilting/drying of the flowers until i make the next painting tonight:
that picture was taken a few minutes ago, you can see they've already started wilting (the light one top-left is most visible. some of them came with supporting wire wrapped around the stems, i removed the wire on that one. i used to have a florist friend (now a horticultural therapist); she said that it's bad when the flower shops keep the flowers in a cooler, they'll wilt quickly. i want them to wilt quickly. i chose all of these flowers from the refrigerated ones.
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