How do you fill your days?
You may well ask.
What are your long term goals?
To become a better artist.
Stick Pile #1
For the last 3 or so years I have been trying to reconcile my identity as a graphic designer with my identity as an artist. The process has been interesting and the outcome, a complete surprise.
Stick Pile #3
This journey began with my first
life drawing class in over 20 years in 2013. Drawing and
painting got me back into thinking about art making. I read somewhere that you should never think about the why of art making when you are making it. They are two different activities and should not get mixed up together. That used to catch-me-up and stop me dead.
Looking south on the east perimeter. Piles are 20ft apart.
Now I see things in simpler terms. After 20yrs, my time on this property is likely limited and so I want to immerse myself in it while I can. It made sense that my statement would involve this place.
The first 3 piles run south from the north east corner of my property.
People are starved for nature. It's being destroyed but it's everywhere too. Growing up between the cracks in sidewalks, sprouting in gutters. Art is there too, waiting to be called upon.
I caught a snippit of a headline that an
eco conscious art curator I
know commented on, and it made me re-visit the stick piles I began making when I first moved here. And there it was, an idea I had had long ago resurfacing and the right moment. I have been waiting and watching, biding my time.
Forest selfie with cedar debris.
My plan for the next 2 years, (I picked 2 because that marks a major
milestone in my life as a parent) is to create a series of these stick
piles around the perimeter of my 5 acre property. I am not going to think about why. I am going to pile things up and see where it goes.
Stay tuned.
