proposal
still have a few days to refine my clarification of spring planting. each proposal needs a webpage, got that up today.
http://www.eriksanner.com/applications/spring_planting_rh.html
test
what am i doing? trying to figure out if a picture posted on my blog can be coaxed to show up automatically on my facebook page.
at vineel's, he's explaining a bit about how people use facebook and what it's for, setting up an rss feed so when i post something here, it shows up on my facebook page, so i don't have to double-post every blog entry.
vineel is awesome. thank you vineel.
it's a tough town
for traffic cones.
yesterday evening:
this morning:
and then a few days ago, i got a cone alert from steph, finally witnessed it myself tonight. see it?
(behind a discarded fridge, in pieces, near the freight elevator at laumont)
some of my most memorable traffic cone encounters have come from hot tips. thank you steph!
the issue with this one is similar to that day-and-night one last week - which is more pathetic, glare-of-light or ensconced in the shadow world?
statement
everything we know about is changing all the time. paintings fade and crack. trees fall, new growth springs up. technology is evolving at an accelerating pace. and each of us is a constant work in progress, either developing ourselves or lapsing into decay, but never static, never still.
in my work, i use computer processing to montage painted and filmed images which are in a constant state of flux. i create “moving paintings” which give the viewer a unique experience every time they are seen. i avoid video loops in favor of non-linear projection onto prepared surfaces such as painted canvas. my new media installations are simultaneously filmic and painterly.
i aspire to continually explore the expanding possibilities of art. this is both my goal and my method of artmaking. by striving to create something new, perhaps i can help shed light onto who we are becoming.
blue and yellow
trying to better understand the new palette. decided to do a limited color study, using only two colors instead of a full palette, and still images instead of video.
painted a square canvas half yellow, half blue (this is a digital photograph):
cropped, duped, and rotated a digital image of that canvas (this is a screengrab):
projected the digital yellow and blue back onto the canvas (this is a digital photograph). the studio light is on. top left is just yellow oil paint, top right is just blue oil paint. middle left is blue projected onto yellow, middle right is yellow projected onto blue. bottom left is yellow projected onto yellow, bottom right is blue projected onto blue. think the colors look a lot more intense when you're projecting a color onto the same color.
here's a different one (also a digital photograph), just rotated the digital image of the canvas. studio light is off. top left is yellow on yellow, bottom left is blue projected onto yellow. top right is yellow projected onto blue, bottom right is blue on blue. it's subtle, but there's definitely a difference between bottom left (blue on yellow) and top right (yellow on blue).
was surprised both by the intensity of the color-on-same-color and by the similarity between yellow-on-blue and blue-on-yellow.
schedule
for the past few years i've tried to go to every single art fair in nyc. it's worth the energy. you see work from all over the world you might not encounter otherwise. ultimately i think it's really efficient. it takes a lot more effort to go to several galleries in chelsea any day, waiting for elevators and walking from building to building. a lot of people complain about the art fair experience, the simplification of what a gallery could offer, the relative uniformity of the spaces, the crowds, the "vulgar" emphasis on selling, and sure, there's a lot to bash if you want to critique the blossoming of art fairs over the past several years. but i really enjoy them. part of it surely since i'm not a collector or a gallerist or an exhibiting artist, there's no pressure for me, no quota to meet, no demands to be met. really, though, it's getting to see so much in such a short period of time, and not having to worry about museum guards stopping me from taking pictures. just once a year, too, so easy to surrender to it, like thanksgiving. if i stick to my schedule, should be able to see them all this year too.
http://www.eriksanner.com/2008_for_blog/080329_artfair_schedule.pdf
pause
on the way from diva to bridge, john and i stopped to take pictures of shadows, i liked the geometric linear architectural ones over/under/against the tree
reminded me of a project i put aside, it came tangentially from working on winter branches, never quite finalized how to get away from linearity, may work on that a bit today. pretty straightforward to create, showing a little bit of the breadth of the shadow world.
functional
articulated color study a bit
http://www.eriksanner.com/2008_for_blog/080327_color_study_v5.pdf
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