The Art of Found:
mmm… this tangle of stuff just hits my aesthetic tastebuds in the right place.
I had a few helpers at the RE-aRT studio last OdD SaTUrdAy, and got them to take some Art of Found pictures, too:
Batman is fighting the scary purple tentacles, and dodging the dangerous metal spirals! (photo by Jennifer Jarding)
And here we have an obelisk with a face: the personality of the tree coming through, contradicting the squareness with a deep story… (photo by Shane Roach)
Gang of 6: The Wreck Center Does Its Thang
Grady Roper, Enoch Rios, Michael White, Holly Brown and myself. Mike’s piece was an interactive sound collage. February 2012…
We had fun hanging the show til 3 in the morning. We found ways to connect the bodies of work at their meeting points, like Enoch’s photo of the mermaid arms connects to Holly’s photo of the arms + ice cream on dirt. Etcetera…
On the theme of House, Home, Habitat
Another thing I did in May was create some new artwork for an art show at the Walkers’ Gallery in San Marcos. I submit art to the Activity Center shows every once in a while, and this theme particularly spoke to me. The show, which is up through the first week of July, features a good percentage of work from the Art from the Streets (AFTS) program in Austin (which hosts a drop-in studio for homeless artists), plus nine pieces from Chad (6 of them World Salads), eight from me, a couple of very interesting national artists, and of course plenty more contributions from the San Marcos area.
At the opening reception last week, an AFTS representative presented a feature-length documentary on the Art from the Streets program, which revealed both the incredibly awesome art that is created by the homeless participants in the program, and the cruel hardships in their lives that we maybe take too much for granted.
Here are some of my favorite pieces from the show:
Growin' Home by Timothy Baker (AFTS)
S. African Weaver Bird, 1-3 by Susan Winters Cook
Terreform Tree Habitat by Mitchell Joachim
another by Mitchell Joachim
Cathedral of Junk collage by Vince Hanneman
World Salad by Chad Hopper
And here are my own submissions ~~ some new, some old…
Home = a variety of attachments, c. 2004
Home = HARD + soft, c. 2011
Harmony and Spice, c. 2011
House of Divisibles, c. 2011
House Plan, c. 2011
House for Ideas, c. 2011
Balls Dining, c. 2011
Welcome, c. 2011
“STUFF”
Chad has instituted a new system of rating little sentimental “STUFF” + things on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being RED HOT, CAN’T POSSIBLY PART WITH. This is to help us pare down our wild collections to more manageable menageries of bric a brac, by eliminating anything under a “6” on the new scale.
Meanwhile, I’m just going around taking pictures again. “Oo, look how pretty it all is together!”
Like so.
Kan you see the kangaroo theme?
Speaking of Experimentation…
There are, of course, countless piles containing past experiments which have not yet been placed in OUTGOING flow-paths. (Such as the boxes of photos and collage material, but hey, that’s normal!)
Plucked from the random piles, here is a batch of photos that were shot on some slide film which went undeveloped for about 2 years, during which it was exposed to Texas heat extremes and who knows what else. Plus, it looks like I had the camera on the wrong ASA. But they turned out neat!
Synaesthetic Breakfast 