Well folks, I have had a week littered with issues.  Above is the graphic for this years RED SHOW.  Tomorrow night is the opening- you should come!  Banana Factory third floor artists (we so rock!)- from 6:30 to 9:30.  Food!  Lots of it!  and really all you have to know is that I’m bringing brownies.  Brownies.
Brownies.
Brownies.

(yum)

But in preparing my piece for the Red Show- what I thought was completely clear became a horrible disaster of video footage that suggestive of fetishism and sexual ludeness.  Not really what I was going for….. With this new genre for video (for me), I am finding it tough to record myself without help or being able to really see what is being filmed.  I’m going to have to come up with a better system.

So to salvage from the footage I took (which was of me with a clump of twine in my mouth) I found a two minute segment that I would be able to work with.  I camped out last night (really late in my office) and edited my brains out.  I think I have something really beautiful! 

One of the lessons I have been trying to learn, remind myself, instill in my molecular structure- is to breathe.  Now you all know I breathe- I’m alive, aren’t I?? But I decided that some of the things I love about the video footage from both the Architect’s Daughter installation and the “string gone wrong” was when I manipulated the footage that fundamental body functions became the most apparent- there is nothing else in this footage- it’s slow, my eyes blink, and I inhale/exhale.  It’s all I have to focus on visually and the imagery becomes about the reminder.  I’m calling the piece “Breathing Lessons.”  And of course, there will be a small installation on the wall that accompanies the footage.

Pulling the late night in the office, I don’t have much to show you.  The finished footage still sits on my computer desktop.  WHat I do have to show is the ridiculous pants I bought at the school store when I was freezing in my office….. totally obnoxious! (And yes, I spared you the entire pant- no body needs that much pant!)